Sometimes life gets in the way of perfect sleep hygiene. Yesterday I wanted to squeeze in some more of Texas before heading back home to Denver, so I made my way over to Fort Worth to explore. Between some work, yapping, food, and sightseeing… I managed a solid 4.5 hours of sleep. But here's the thing — check out the screenshot below. A full hour of deep sleep, which is right around what I typically average even on a full night. That's the part that actually matters for recovery. Am I feeling 100%? Absolutely not. But I'm sitting at a solid 80%, which on less than 5 hours is pretty remarkable. The moral of the story: you're not always going to be able to control how much sleep you get. Life happens. Travel happens. But when you only have a few hours to work with, peptides can help you make the most of that window and optimize the sleep you DO get. I actually wrote about this exact topic — check out the post below for how to maximize shorter sleep windows 👇 🔗 If You Only Get 6 Hours of Sleep, Here's How to Make Them Count Also fair warning — I don't get back to Denver until 1am so tomorrow morning's posts might be slightly delayed 🤣

This weight is absolutely melting off of me and i need it to slow down lol. I’ve gotta focus on my eating more cuz i weighed in at 184 today and started 220 in november.

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Started Tirz 11/17/25 @202.2lb Currently Tirz 7.5 @189lb Lowest 185.6lb Not sure what is going on. Start date above - pretty immediately reduction in appetite. Went up to 5mg beccause food noise was still loud. Kept losing maybe 2 lbs a week which seemed slow. Upped to 7.5mg on 1/12/26 and completely stopped losing. Have actually gained back about 4 pounds now. Some days there is no appetite or food noise - other days it coming screaming back and the food plan goes out the window. Mind you - no fast food - no soda - no alcohol. I am very aware of not feeling hungry at all and have tried to maintain eating (I have absolutely no nausea) - eggs - shrimp - plain burgers - etc. Have I just bottomed out my metabolism? I have purchased quite the quantity of 60mg vials because I assumed (before I learned and found this group) that I would be going up every 4 weeks on dosing so the 60mg vials would be great because they would last me 6 weeks. But now I don't know what to do? Should I go up to 10mg and see what happens? Thanks

A lot of you have been following the debate about whether research-grade tesamorelin should be refrigerated or stored at room temperature after reconstitution. For those just catching up: most peptides go in the fridge after you mix them. But tesamorelin might be an exception. The FDA-approved version (EGRIFTA WR) specifically says room temperature storage. Josh Holyfield, a creator in this space, argues that research-grade tesamorelin follows the same rules because the molecule itself has properties that cause it to clump together when cold. His position is that standard purity testing won't even catch this because the issue is physical aggregation — molecules binding to each other — not chemical breakdown of the amino acid chain. Fair argument. But I'd rather have data than debate. So I called Kris at Freedom Diagnostics. We're doing the study. Here's the plan: we're taking reconstituted tesamorelin and splitting it into two samples. One stored at room temperature, one refrigerated. Then we test both over time. I also asked Kris to get input from other chemists on the theory that cold temperatures cause the amino acids to aggregate and make tesamorelin ineffective. His initial take was interesting — if physical aggregation is happening, we should see a measurable difference in overall mass over time and likely some shift in purity as well. That's not a final answer. That's a starting point. We'll let the results speak. What I want you to take away from this: This community has always been about transparency. I'm not a chemist. I'm not going to pretend I know more than people who study this for a living. What I can is get the testing done, and bring you the results. If the data shows refrigeration is a problem, I'll say so. If it shows room temp is better, I'll say that too. If it's somewhere in the middle, you'll see that as well. I'm also hoping to get Kris on a Podcast after the study wraps so we can walk through the findings together and answer your questions live.