Why Did You Start Your Research Journey π§¬
I saw another post in the community sharing why they started their research journey, and it inspired me to share mine β and I'd love to hear yours too. For those of you who are new here, here's my story: I lost all my weight naturally β no peptides β going from 250 lbs to 175 lbs over the course of about 2-3 years. Pure discipline, diet, and consistency. But then came the hard part. For about two years after that, I struggled with maintenance. I couldn't find a steady place where I was eating whole, clean foods that actually kept me satiated and kept the food noise quiet. I found myself stuck in a brutal cycle of binging and restricting, and it got bad β to the point where my mental health was seriously suffering. I pushed through all of it, but being in college at the time made everything harder. I had heard about semaglutide, and some compounding pharmacies carried it, but the newer option at the time was tirzepatide at a microdose β which is what compounding pharmacies were offering. After three years of struggling with binge eating, I finally took the leap and got on a microdose of tirz from a compounding pharmacy, where I paid over $1,000 for just 10mg. Even at a low dose of 1mg, it completely changed my life. The food noise? Gone. Silenced entirely. But here's the thing β even making decent money as a software engineer, I knew I wanted to save for my future, and there was no way I'd be able to afford that long-term. So I started researching. I found the most popular research companies, did deep dives, compared prices across four or five different sites, constantly flipped back and forth, managed coupon codes β the whole nine yards β just trying to find the best deals. And then one random day, after doing all of that yet again, I thought: "Let me just build a tool for this." Instead of making a spreadsheet just for myself... Peptide Price was born. I documented that entire journey on TikTok, and fast-forward about eight months β here we are. This community, this platform, all of the resources β it all started because I was just a guy trying to not overpay for something that genuinely changed my quality of life.