Dusa

Mediterranean supremacist. Polytard. Fan of Kalashnikov and Khavinson. Collector of obscure knowledge and objects

[Dusa @androstanediol]

Some of the greatest inventions came out of Soviet Russia. Happy Sunday.

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@TheDrMAWZ TA1?

[Brian @MogLifeLabs]

steroid twitter gets mad at steroid twitter for using steroids on steroid twitter

[Dusa @androstanediol]

Russian cortexin and Ukrainian thymalin, funding both sides

[Dusa @androstanediol]

Establishment of the federal reserve

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

When did everything in America start going downhill?

Can you name the exact moment?

I think it's when Barack Hussein Obama was elected.

[T.Pieper @Tri_Stanisaurus]

you know this applies to you

[Dusa @androstanediol]

how I imagined the blood brain barrier vs how it actually looks

[PepMariner @PepMariner]

THE OPERATOR STACK: A Working Man’s Guide to Performance, Preservation and Recovery https://t.co/vKmjgmn3GO

[PepMariner @PepMariner]

Cortexin may make more sense as an “operator” peptide than a general performance peptide.

The Russian aerospace research is what changed how I look at its timing.

In Cheprasov’s work, Cortexin was investigated prophylactically before hypoxic and vestibular stress with the interesting signal being preservation of operator/cognitive performance.

Under hypoxia, the researchers actually differentiated:

Cortexin → operator performance

Thymalin → physical work capacity

Cortexin was also tested before a vestibular challenge, where 5 mg reportedly increased maximum tolerated exposure by 89% vs baseline in that experimental paradigm.

So historically, Cortexin wasn’t viewed only as something for neurological recovery. It was being investigated as a way of reducing functional degradation when an operator was about to enter a stressful environment.

That makes the research question relevant to my work:

Cortexin before occupational stress → less degradation of attention, reaction time and decision-making?

But that’s very different from saying:

Cortexin before a hot industrial shift is proven to improve performance or safety.

It isn’t.

And there’s another wrinkle: the same research program also studied Cortexin as a multi-day course for sleep disturbances in aerospace operators.

So the literature doesn’t support the simplistic idea that Cortexin is a stimulant that has to be taken immediately before work.

For someone doing a zero-error job in heat, the endpoints I’d actually want measured are:

PVT/reaction time → attention lapses → errors → subjective fatigue → HR/core temperature → recovery + sleep.

The historical data make pre-stressor Cortexin an interesting occupational-research hypothesis.

They don’t make it permission to push through heat, fatigue or exposure limits.

Source: Cheprasov V.Yu., Military Medical Academy, 1997 — aerospace functional-state/performance dissertation.

[Dusa @androstanediol]

@revenant_MMXX

[Dusa @androstanediol]

Saying someone is “on peptides” tells you almost nothing, unlike “on steroids,” which at least implies a broadly anabolic/androgenic outcome.

Could be a chick using GHK for skin, or a guy running a 10-compound HGH/mitochondrial/GLP stack hitting completely different systems

[S̸k̸o̸u̸t̸ @AK74respecter]

A Croatian HVO fighter in Mostar, 1993.

[Dusa @androstanediol]

@PepMariner @MAC_Arms Their 101s and 102s look nice. I'm just too much of a snob to get AKs from outside Russia/Bulgaria though lmao

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@ItsPeptime Epithalon

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What the Lone Juror heard on the way to the courthouse this morning

[Dusa @androstanediol]

pregnenolone + PEA is a nice combo

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Allopregnenalone

[Raena Health @raenahealth]

Progesterone for postpartum depression

[ZZermos🔼 @ZZermos]

"Big Breasts"
"No Black People"

[Lei Feng @dhfzvbj11050]

Chinese nuclear cavalry