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@Soccerdoc111 Many people in the elevate community seem happy with their findings. The reduced hunger aggression compared to 677 seems to be what people like the most.

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Why I always recommend MK-777 over classic MK-677

MK-677 works. Solid GH and IGF-1 elevation, better sleep quality, and real recovery support. It’s been the standard for years for a reason.

The problem for a lot of people long-term is the two biggest drawbacks: the relentless hunger and the water retention.

Those sides are consistent and they add up.
MK-777 (Acetamoren) hits the same GHS-R1a pathway but with a cleaner overall profile.

Same useful GH pulse in the research that’s available, significantly less of the “eat everything in sight” effect, and noticeably less fluid retention in most of the early data and community observations. It just feels more refined.

That’s why it’s become my default recommendation when the goal is sustained GH support without fighting the classic MK-677 baggage every day.

Still early-stage compared to the mountain of data on 677, so treat it accordingly. Bloodwork on the markers that matter remains non-negotiable either way.

Anyone else made the switch? What differences are you seeing on hunger or fluid retention?

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@ROLESU_721 Grossly underrated

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@thetradingbro @bowtiedmeathead @drmarlonperalta @BowTiedHRT @CoffeeBlackMD @AntiDoc @AJA_Cortes @schober222 @anymanfitness @MarcLobliner @Tommy__Roth @BowTiedBeest @BowTiedYukon @daniwao @DigitalFringed1 @BowtiedPeak @iamhaleyshane @labs_vanguard @brentlajeunesse I’m not one, but everyone there has been cool as fuck. ER and Kimera are top tier.

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Not always. Exogenous testosterone can lower SHBG in some people, especially at higher doses, but it’s definitely not a given. SHBG is influenced by a ton of other variables, genetics, insulin sensitivity, thyroid function, liver function, body composition, androgens, estrogen and other medications…. Two people can be on the exact same TRT protocol and have completely different SHBG levels.

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**Why week six of TRT doesn’t feel like week two**

The vial didn’t change. The binding proteins and the estrogen did.

**Week two**
Testosterone just showed up. SHBG is still wearing the old setpoint from when you were low. A bigger slice of that new T is **free**. Estradiol is rising, but it hasn’t found its new number yet. Brain and tissue see a sudden androgen spike with a still-friendly E2. That mix is why week two can feel like a movie.

**What SHBG does next**
SHBG is the sponge. Give the liver more androgen and it often makes more sponge. More SHBG means more T locked up, less free fraction than the first fortnight implied. The total on the lab can look great while the “I feel it” sliver is quieter. That is not failure. That is the sponge catching up.

**What E2 does next**
Aromatase keeps working. By week six estradiol has usually climbed into the range that matches the new T. Some of that is good -- joints, mood, libido need a little E2. Some of it is noisy -- water, nipples, mood swings -- if the ratio overshoots. Week two was T-forward. Week six is T-plus-a-new-estrogen-floor.

**Why it feels like a different drug**
Free T drifted. E2 arrived. Hematocrit and water are waking up. Sleep and training didn’t stay frozen either. People chase anastrozole or more oil because the fireworks changed color. Most of the time you needed labs, not a second compound.

Simple version: week two is unbound T on an empty sponge. Week six is a new SHBG and a new E2 sharing the room. Same therapy. Different chemistry.

Not a protocol. Not medical advice. SHBG and estradiol belong on the panel with a clinician.

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**HGH COAs -- does dimer matter?**

Yes. It is not the only line. It is not a rumor either.

**What a dimer is**
Somatropin likes to hold hands. Two 22 kDa monomers stick -- sometimes loosely, sometimes with a disulfide -- and you get a bigger blob. Size-exclusion HPLC is the test that sees it. Higher-order aggregates are the next blob after that. Pharmacopeia methods were built around monomer vs dimer vs junk for a reason.

**Why the percentage is not trivia**
The monomer is the working hormone. Dimers and bigger piles generally **hit the receptor worse** and can look more “foreign” to an immune system than a clean monomer. That is the immunogenicity conversation in the protein-drug world -- anti-drug antibodies, clearance, a vial that assays pretty and behaves less pretty. Light, heat, and sloppy reconstitution grow high-molecular-weight species. A COA that hides SEC is a COA that skipped the size story.

**How to read it**
You want **monomer high**, dimer and aggregates **low**, plus the rest of the adult panel: identity (the 22 kDa species), concentration, endotoxin, and not just a pretty HPLC of something vaguely peptide-shaped. A trace dimer is normal manufacturing noise. A fat dimer peak with no method listed is a shrug in a PDF.

Simple version: dimer is leftover twins. GH works as a single. If the COA won’t show SEC, you don’t have a size answer.

Educational. Research-use framing. Not a brand review. Not a protocol.

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**Hemoglobin vs hematocrit -- look at both**

One number is a vibe. Two numbers are a check.

**What each one is**
**Hemoglobin** is the protein that actually carries oxygen. Mass of cargo.
**Hematocrit** is how much of the tube is red cells. Packing fraction.
In a boring sample they travel together. Rule of thumb people use: hematocrit sits near **three times** hemoglobin. 15 and 45 get along. 15 and 54 do not.

**When they disagree**
Iron-poor cells can drop hemoglobin harder than the pack. Thalassemia-type stories shrink the cells. A sloppy draw, a lipemic tube, a giant white-cell count, or a machine having a day can knock one number off the other. Dehydration shoves hematocrit up first. That’s the plasma trick from the last post.

**Why TRT people need both**
Androgen grows red-cell mass. Both numbers should drift **up together** if the factory is the story. If hematocrit explodes and hemoglobin shrugs, you are probably looking at water, the draw, or a lab quirk -- not a sudden extra pint of cells. If both climb in step, that’s inventory.

Simple version: hemoglobin is the cargo. Hematocrit is how tight you packed the truck. Read the pair or you’re guessing.

Not a protocol. Not medical advice.

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#Hemoglobin #Hematocrit #CBC #TRT #EvidenceBased

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**Plasma volume vs red-cell mass**

Hematocrit is a **ratio**. People treat it like a headcount. That’s how you panic over a number that moved for the wrong reason.

**The two piles**
**Red-cell mass** is how many erythrocytes you actually have. Androgen → EPO → marrow. That pile grows slowly.
**Plasma volume** is the water the cells float in. It can jump or shrink in days -- salt, heat, training, the first weeks of T, a dry fast before the draw.

Hematocrit is pile A divided by (A+B). Grow the cells, the percent goes up. Shrink the plasma, the percent also goes up. Same lab box. Different story.

**Why one CBC lies**
Donate or sweat and plasma drops first. Hematocrit looks “high.” Rehydrate and it calms down without a single red cell dying. Early TRT can expand plasma and hide a rising red-cell factory. Later the factory wins and the percent finally climbs. Reading week-two and week-ten as the same object is how forums invent a crisis.

**How to read it like an adult**
Look at hemoglobin and hematocrit together. Ask if the patient was dry. Ask about apnea and altitude. If you really need the truth, that’s when clinics talk **red-cell mass** studies -- not a random Thursday fingerstick. Until then, remember the denominator.

Simple version: hematocrit is concentration. Concentration is not inventory. Don’t manage a ratio like it’s a body count.

Not a protocol. Not medical advice.

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#Hematocrit #PlasmaVolume #TRT #CBC #EvidenceBased

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**Hematocrit -- the week-eight plot twist**

Week two was mood. Week six was SHBG and E2. Week eight is the blood getting thicker.

**Why it shows up late**
Testosterone tells the kidney to talk **EPO**. Bone marrow starts making more red cells. Those cells take weeks to pile up. Early TRT can even look “thinner” for a minute because plasma volume moves first. Then the red-cell mass catches the bus. That’s why the first CBC can look calm and the next one doesn’t.

**What hematocrit actually is**
Percent of blood that is red cells. Higher number, thicker traffic. Some of that is the therapy doing a documented androgen job -- men on T make more erythrocytes. Some of that is dose, sleep apnea, smoking, altitude, extra androgens in the stack. The plot twist is timing, not a mystery gene.

**What not to do first**
Don’t jump to a donation chair because one reading twitched. Fix the obvious: hydration on draw day, injection timing vs the lab, apnea, and whether the protocol is a peak-and-trough circus. Donation is a last-resort tool, not a lifestyle. A clinician owns the number.

Simple version: androgen turns on the red-cell factory. Factories are slow. Week eight is when the inventory shows up on the CBC.

Not a protocol. Not medical advice. Hematocrit belongs on the panel.

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#TRT #Hematocrit #EPO #CBC #EvidenceBased

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**The TRT “honeymoon”**

First couple of months can feel like somebody turned the lights back on. Then month four shows up and people think the vial died. It didn’t.

**What that window actually is**

You went from a low-androgen baseline to a sudden flood at the receptor. Mood, libido, pumps, sleep, “I like my life again” -- a lot of that is real. The brain and muscle had been running lean. Give them testosterone and estradiol starts climbing with it. For a minute everything is loud in a good way. Novelty does some of the work too. That combo is the honeymoon. It is not a secret extra ester.

**Why it cools off**

Receptors and binding proteins catch up. SHBG moves. Aromatization finds a new set point. Hematocrit and water settle into the long-term picture. The nervous system stops treating every good day like a miracle. You are not “immune to testosterone.” You adapted. The first eight to twelve weeks were a jump off the floor. After that you are living on the new floor.

**What people get wrong**

They stack more oil because the magic faded. They blame the brand. They confuse feeling normal-on-treatment with feeling deficient again. Some of the drop is protocol noise -- peaks and valleys, E2 drift, sleep, calories -- and some of it is just the nervous system getting used to having androgen around.

Simple version: the honeymoon is the climb. What comes after is the altitude. Don’t judge the whole therapy by the first month’s fireworks.

Not a protocol. Not medical advice. TRT belongs with a clinician and labs.

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#TRT #Testosterone #HoneymoonPhase #Endocrinology #EvidenceBased

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@CoffeeBlackMD @bowtiedmeathead @7_investor @BowTiedHRT @AntiDoc @AJA_Cortes @schober222 @anymanfitness @MarcLobliner @drmarlonperalta @Tommy__Roth @BowTiedBeest @BowTiedYukon @daniwao @DigitalFringed1 @BowtiedPeak @iamhaleyshane @labs_vanguard @brentlajeunesse I really appreciate this, i honestly didn’t think many people actually read my shit

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@lockematt Agreed, i have a few people doing the same

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**Hypothetical product: 915 / SANA in a capsule**

If you were building an expenditure research product that is *not* a GLP-1, you would not put two keys on one lock. You would put two rooms in one cap.

**What the hypothetical is**
**SLU-PP-915** -- pan-ERR. Writes the exercise-mimetic gene program. Oral scaffold. That’s why a capsule even makes sense.

**SANA (MVD1)** -- nitroalkene salicylate. Futile creatine cycle in fat. Heat without needing UCP1 or AMPK.

One capsule. Two nodes. Transcription plus substrate cycling. Same question on the whiteboard: raise spend without an incretin.

**What it is not**
Not a published combo. Not proof they add. Not a diet label. The SANA half still cares about creatine. The 915 half still cares about ERR and actual oral exposure. A shared gelatin shell does not merge two papers.

If that product ever exists, the only honest print on the bottle is **research-use**, both identities on the COA, capsules not magic.

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**GHRP-6 vs GHRP-2 and the hunger**

Both knock on the same door as ghrelin. Hunger is not a side quest. It is the receptor.

**The door**
**GHS-R1a**. Stomach hormone’s receptor in the brain and the pituitary. Open it and you get two jobs at once: a GH pulse from the somatotroph, and a “go eat” signal from the hypothalamus. That’s why these are not ipamorelin. Ipamorelin was built to keep more of the GH knock and less of the snack knock.

**Why 6 is the loud one**
**GHRP-6** is the classic “I need food now” ligand in the old research and bodybuilding file. Same receptor family, dirtier extra chatter, hunger that people actually plan around.
**GHRP-2** still sits on GHS-R1a so appetite can move -- it just isn’t always the same circus. Stronger GH story in a lot of comparisons. Cortisol / prolactin notes show up more often in that column. Hunger is possible. It is not the mascot.

**What that is not**
Not a GHRH analog. Not HGH. Not a dry “increase hunger” protocol. You are turning a ghrelin receptor. Eat-signal and GH-signal come off the same hinge. If the assay is appetite, say that. If the assay is GH, don’t pretend the hinge only swings one way.

Simple version: 6 is the hungry GHRP. 2 still can be. Both are ghrelin-receptor keys, not magic stomach sprays.

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@Clavicular0 Long ass sleeves

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@Prime_Asthetic The black dials with sticks are just amazing. The black looks super nice.

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A SLU-PP-915/SANA (MVD1) blend would at least be a much cooler concept because you’re pairing compounds intended to hit different metabolic levers, rather than stacking two closely related ERR agonists. 915 is a pan-ERR agonist tied to mitochondrial biogenesis, oxidative metabolism, fatty-acid oxidation, and the aerobic-exercise transcriptional program.

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@Pep_Scout @AderaState @DisguisedAlpha @KimeraChems Can, absolutely but the point of it would be the issue. it mostly makes it impossible to tell which one is doing what. On top of that, 915 is interesting largely because it’s supposed to improve on some of 332’s limitations, so blending it back with 332 kind of defeats the point.

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**How citrulline shows up in pump products**

It isn’t magic. It’s a workaround.

**The door everyone wanted**
Nitric oxide in the vessel wall comes from **eNOS** turning **arginine** into NO plus citrulline. More NO, smooth muscle relaxes, the pump looks like a pump. So the first idea was “just swallow arginine.” A lot of that arginine never makes the trip -- gut and liver chew it, **arginase** turns it into ornithine, and you’re left with expensive urea.

**Why citrulline is the sneaky precursor**
Swallow citrulline. Kidney **ASS / ASL** convert it back to arginine in the blood. You skipped the arginase ambush in the gut. Plasma arginine goes up *because* you didn’t feed arginase breakfast. That’s the whole trick.

**The extra footnote**
Citrulline can also lean on the **ADMA** story -- less junk competing at NOS -- in some papers. Still not a nitrate. Still not citrulline malate as a separate religion; malate is the other half of that salt and a different homework set.

Simple version: arginine is the NOS fuel. Citrulline is how you deliver the fuel without feeding the enzyme that steals it.

Not a protocol. Not medical advice.

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#Citrulline #NOS #Arginine #Pump #NitricOxide #EvidenceBased