I been on reta for 6mo now. It has exceeded my expectations. From 260lb to 215lb. I shed nearly 20% body fat. Maintained and gained muscle as well. I am on my last dosages. I been doing 2mg and have 4-3mg left. I am going to titrate down to 1mg next week and the last two weeks will be 500mcgs. I believe my foundation is good and have more than enough to support and tune as I go outside of peptides.
My goal is to see what it takes to come off Reta. If I succeed awesome. If I dont I can continue to taper longer with smaller dosages. But I am going to commit two week or more without it. If I relapse then I hope there is a Reta reset for more weight loss and get shredded. lol

6'1", 55yo here with a shoulder replacement and a recovering knee (bpc+tb). I will spare you my trial and errors along my 5 month journey of health and body recomposition. As of now this is what I am taking. I am still researching and dailing the stacks below. So far these have been my sweet spot.

M-F AM:
Reta - 2-3mg (Once a week).
Mots-c - 1mg
NAD+ - 10-20mg
SS-31 1mg (Daily or every other day)
Wolverine - 1mg
Semax-100-250mcg (nasal)
Selank- 100-250mcg (nasal)

M-F PM:
Anavar 10mg (pills) or Testoprime (two capsules)
5-Amino-1mg - 1mg
Slu-pp-332 200-500 mcg or Cardarine 10mg (pills) Epithalon- 1mg
LL-37 - 1mg

Weekends I give it a break. I supplement Co Q10 and Methylene Blue to keep the mitochondria idled. I also focus on my kidney and liver support to flush all them endotoxins and bad spirits away.

Best tips I heard.

1. Foundation first. Diet, exercise and a good attitude.
2. Optimize your mitochondria first and all other peptides will work accordingly.
3. Find the least and most effective dose. More is not always better.
4. All peptides have a sweet spot, find yours. You can always titrate up or down.
5. "Pinch, pin and play"
6. Correct your gut and detox.
7. You are the rat. You are the research.
8. "Eating, trainning with intensity, recovery"

"The three metabolic failures

1. Insulin resistance
2. Systemic inflammation
3. ATP bankrupt"
   Dr Backmeyer

Dr Trevor Backmeyer is the one who really moved the needle. And without a black card.

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I remember I use to remember without semax and selank.

@Nuncles the Wolverine has bpc and tb only. GLOW has bpc, tb, and GHK-Cu. KLOW has BPC, TB, GHK-Cu and KPV.

Just to play it safe. Time to stock up.

@jimmy4407th Dial tesa down and be patient. The stuff is is strong even at 1mg. Well for me it is. Water retention, inflammation, tingling... That's you body telling you to chill.
Your body has your best interest. It is constantly keeping you alive regardless what you do to it. Be patient and listen to it.

@vpeptides minor peptide side effects only rats get.

What they constantly leave out is if you stop eating the poisoned 'slop and correct you leaky gut. Most deceases will be prevented. GLPs are just metabolic damage control.

@ResearchCat I cannot stress that enough. All men should be on trt or some kind of resistance training. Move beyond your confort zone. The muscles are not static. Muscle metabolism is always a mix of both catabolic (breaking down) and anabolic (building up) processes at the same time, meaning there is a continuous middle ground of turnover. The more the better. If you dont use your muscle you catabolize. The reason you are the way you are is because you are maintaining that way. It starts by stop eating the 'slop it is killing you slowly. The main reason glps are helping is because it is keeping you from eating the 'slop and what it does to your entire metabolism. You are just a mind set away.

@Stones67 Another inspiring post. Thanks for sharing. You look good as is. But if you want to bump up your test and want to fill up nicely. You dontnneed much. Just find a good none prescription test booster. From experience I recommend D-Aspartic Acid (DAA) and DIM (Diindolylmethane) and it will not break the bank.

@Stan-Douglas It is a matter of time before Big Pharma or FDA puts out a bad batch to demonize peptides if they cant control them. It could happen.

Today is the day. Instead of 1mg I went for .5mg, the tapering starts. I was talking to a friend and she said after a couple of months of 1-1.5mg she was off for over a month and didn't have a hunger attack. She has been getting off the slop before reta, as I. If there is a rebound I want to feel it. Bring it!

Lately I been trying to figure out a way to reduce hitting a nerve while pinning. Example- The skin of an average human has 1000+ sensory nerves per square inch. I reduced my chances from pinning a nerve by first avoiding the obvious. I first avoid the hair follicles because at the base called The Root Hair Plexus has sensory nerve fibers wrap around each hair bulb. The other is called Free Nerve Endings that are close to the surface and through out our entire skin. This is how we feel pain. You cannot see them but you can definitely feel them. Those are the ones to look out for. What I do is use the pen tip and lightly pin the surface of my skin until I feel the least sensitive spot. Lightly pin without breaking skin. If you are lucky you will feel nothing. Most likely it is a spot where there are less to no free nerve endings. That is the sweet spot. As for the nerve and blood vessels, "Pinch pin and pray".

@Nuncles Thank you my brother. Since my shoulder replacement I did splurged a little too much and it caught up to me. Before the peps I was hurting. I too was having conversations about ache, knees, inflammations and how some foods were putting me in a coma. Soon I figure the triggers. Refined carbs and specially anything with veg and seed oils. My brother (diabetic now) kept suggesting a diabetes test. But why should I test for something I shouldn't be eating in the first place. No one should. Shoulder surgery recovered and was back at the gym. Started trt and later I was introduced to Reta. From there the peps snowballed. For what it took to do in a year or two I am doing it in months. I don't think I ever been this conscious about my health in my life. Amazing stuff, worth looking into no matter how deep the hole is. I am big on videos channels, specially on YouTube. I just listen to them on the background and note when there is anything interesting to research later. Never in history have we ever gotten this level of control to our bodies. All the sudden that biology class make a lot of sense.

Check this video out. There is a lot of info.
https://youtu.be/Hy8eYlUZlQI?is=icgW5JX4t3R4jK7p

@Newenough We are all stupid to somebody.

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