Case studies · updated October 12, 2026
What I actually ran, and why.
Every grade on this site is built to be checked against the evidence. These pages are the other half: the calls I made with my own body, the reasoning behind them, and what happened, including the ones I stopped.
One person is an anecdote. Nothing here moves a grade, and nothing here is advice. Read each story next to the compound's graded profile, and talk to a licensed clinician before you act on any of it.
The stack, as of today
| Compound | Status | For |
|---|---|---|
| SS-31 | Running | Mitochondrial support for training and recovery. |
| Retatrutide | Running | Better glucose handling, not weight loss. |
| GHK-Cu | Running | Faster skin healing after a CO2 laser treatment. |
| Pinealon | Just starting | More REM sleep without giving up deep sleep. |
| Tesamorelin + Ipamorelin | Paused | Better deep sleep, recovery and body composition through my own growth hormone. |
| BPC-157 + TB-500 | Paused | Gut, joint and tissue healing while training hard. |
| Thymosin Alpha-1 | Paused | Immune support during a heavy training and recovery stretch. |
| MOTS-c | Stopped | Insulin sensitivity and endurance, timed around training. |
How I run it
- One change at a time, on its own day, so when something goes wrong there is one suspect.
- Every dose is logged with the date, the amount and how I felt. These pages are built from that log.
- I decide how I will judge a compound before I start it, not after.
- When a compound has no marker I can test, I run it for a job and then stop.
SS-31: the vial I kept too long
The compound was fine. My handling of it was not. A mixed vial sat in the fridge for two and a half months.
Read the case →Retatrutide: the low dose, on purpose
Most people run this for big weight loss. I run a fraction of the trial doses for glucose handling, and I adjust it week to week.
Read the case →GHK-Cu: I inject it, and our own grade says the evidence is for skin
I run the injectable for one reason, healing after a skin laser, and I watch the copper because of it.
Read the case →Pinealon: a sleep experiment, written down before the result
I am publishing the setup before I know the answer, so I cannot quietly rewrite the question later.
Read the case →Tesamorelin and ipamorelin: water was the ceiling
I ran the growth-hormone pair with strict timing, cut the dose when the water came, and stopped when it would not leave.
Read the case →BPC-157 and TB-500: why I stopped the two I trusted most
They were my first two. They carried me through a hernia and a laser recovery. Then I stopped, because nothing I could measure said keep going.
Read the case →Thymosin alpha-1: a block, not a habit
An immune peptide with real human data, run as a defined block and then stopped cleanly.
Read the case →MOTS-c: the one my body voted against
Three starts, three stops. The last one ended after a second reaction, and that is the end of the experiment.
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