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CJC-1295 vs Tesamorelin: A Doctor Reveals Which Is Overrated — Transcript

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  1. 0:00CJC1295.
  2. 0:02Does it actually boost your growth
  3. 0:04hormone? Short version, yes. But the
  4. 0:06full version is a little more
  5. 0:08complicated because the CJC that's
  6. 0:10actually been proven to work probably
  7. 0:12isn't the version you're currently
  8. 0:13considering buying from Shanghai. And to
  9. 0:16make things even more complicated, using
  10. 0:18the version that hasn't been proven to
  11. 0:20work may just be the better choice.
  12. 0:22Theoretically speaking, of course,
  13. 0:23Ronic, run the disclaimer.
  14. 0:25Look, CJC1295
  15. 0:28has one of the messiest, most
  16. 0:29complicated histories of any compound
  17. 0:31we've covered on this channel because
  18. 0:33it's basically two different drugs
  19. 0:35sharing one name. The original one, the
  20. 0:37one with something called drug affinity
  21. 0:39complex or DAC on it, absolutely works.
  22. 0:42In actual humans, one shot raised growth
  23. 0:45hormone for about a week and IGF-1 for
  24. 0:4810 days. But it also turns your growth
  25. 0:50hormone signal into something your body
  26. 0:52never makes on its own. It got
  27. 0:54permanently shelved after a patient
  28. 0:56death that was probably unrelated, but
  29. 0:58still ended its phase 2 trial. And then
  30. 1:00the company that invented it went
  31. 1:02bankrupt. Meanwhile, the other one, CJC
  32. 1:05without DAC, aka the one sitting in
  33. 1:07basically every biohacker's fridge, has
  34. 1:09never been tested in a single human
  35. 1:11being. Not once. Which doesn't mean it
  36. 1:14doesn't work. It just means that
  37. 1:16nobody's checked. And everything you've
  38. 1:18been told about it is basically borrowed
  39. 1:19from Samoran. So, does CJC1295
  40. 1:23work? The one that nobody takes, proven.
  41. 1:26The one everybody takes, never proven,
  42. 1:28but never disproven because nobody's
  43. 1:31ever tested it. If you want to
  44. 1:32understand why that is, and whether this
  45. 1:34thing can actually stand in for
  46. 1:36something proven like Tessa Morland,
  47. 1:38listen up.
  48. 1:40What's up, LabRat Legion? Dr. Alex here,
  49. 1:42and here's exactly what you're getting
  50. 1:44in the next 20 minutes. Ronic says he's
  51. 1:46tired of editing my 30 plus minute
  52. 1:47ramblings on esoteric biochemistry. one,
  53. 1:50how the version everybody takes
  54. 1:52technically isn't CJC1295,
  55. 1:54at least not originally, and how the
  56. 1:57power of the Internet Hive Mind
  57. 1:58basically changed both a drug's name and
  58. 2:01identity. So much so that even the FDA
  59. 2:04agrees with the new naming convention.
  60. 2:06Two, the one human study that shows what
  61. 2:08the DAC actually does to your growth
  62. 2:10hormone pulses and how that's probably
  63. 2:12less than ideal. Three, whether the NO
  64. 2:15DAC version is a real standin for Tessa
  65. 2:18Morlin, because that's the question most
  66. 2:19of you are actually asking. Four, why
  67. 2:22this molecule has a legal future Tessa
  68. 2:24Morlin can never have and the FDA 13 to
  69. 2:27nothing vote that everybody's reading
  70. 2:29wrong. And five, what people are
  71. 2:32actually doing with it and my honest
  72. 2:34take. But first, we are almost done
  73. 2:36covering all the secrets. So, comment
  74. 2:38down below on which one you guys want
  75. 2:40next. Give me an A for Ipamoralin, B for
  76. 2:44MK677 aka Ibutamorin, C for GHRP2 and
  77. 2:48GHRP6, or D if you want something
  78. 2:51totally different. Just let us know. And
  79. 2:54please take a moment and hit that like
  80. 2:56button. It's honestly the only thing
  81. 2:57that's keeping Ronic going these days.
  82. 2:59And subscribe because crazy enough,
  83. 3:02YouTube says only about 50% of you are
  84. 3:04subscribed and we are trying our best to
  85. 3:06break 300K before the end of the year.
  86. 3:10All right. So, what is this thing? Well,
  87. 3:12for context, growth hormone releasing
  88. 3:14hormone, the peptide that tells your
  89. 3:16pituitary to release growth hormone,
  90. 3:18imagine that, is 44 amino acids long.
  91. 3:21Tessimorin is basically a one:1 copy of
  92. 3:24it with a fatty acid cap on the front.
  93. 3:26Meanwhile, samorin is just the front 29
  94. 3:28of those because that's the part that
  95. 3:30does most of the work. Now, back in the
  96. 3:3280s and 90s, chemists figured out that
  97. 3:34if you swap four of those 29 amino acids
  98. 3:37at positions 2, 8, 15, and 27, the
  99. 3:41peptide holds up a little better.
  100. 3:43Position two gets a mirror image amino
  101. 3:45acid. So, the enzyme that eats GHR can't
  102. 3:48get its teeth in, and the other three
  103. 3:50are basically stability and grip tweaks.
  104. 3:53That for swap version has a boring
  105. 3:55scientific name. Tetra substituted
  106. 3:57GRF129 and the internet just calls it
  107. 3:59Mod GRF129,
  108. 4:01but remember that name because it's
  109. 4:03going to come back around later. Then
  110. 4:05around 2005, a company in Montreal
  111. 4:07called Kjukim took that four swap
  112. 4:09peptide, stuck one extra amino acid on
  113. 4:12the end, a lysine, and then bolted a
  114. 4:14drug affinity complex aka DAC onto it.
  115. 4:16Now, DAC's job is to grab onto albumin.
  116. 4:19And we'll talk about why that's
  117. 4:20important in a second. And then it's
  118. 4:22that molecule, the four swaps plus the
  119. 4:24lysine plus the DAC that conjukim named
  120. 4:26CJC1295.
  121. 4:28And that's what the human studies were
  122. 4:29done on. CJC1295
  123. 4:32by definition includes DAC. So here's
  124. 4:34the naming situation. In the original
  125. 4:36papers, CJC1295
  126. 4:38means the DAC version. Meanwhile, on the
  127. 4:41street, in every clinic, and on every
  128. 4:43vendor page, CJC1295
  129. 4:45now means the bare molecule, the four
  130. 4:48swap backbone with no DAC on it. And the
  131. 4:50original gets called CJC1295
  132. 4:53with Dak. The name moved and nobody
  133. 4:55really decided that. It just sort of
  134. 4:57happened. Kind of like the whole Malfoy
  135. 5:00thing on X. But enough about my Harry
  136. 5:02Potter fanfic bookmarks. But the naming
  137. 5:04conventions around CJC moved so
  138. 5:06completely that when the FDA reviewed
  139. 5:08this thing in December 2024, their own
  140. 5:11paperwork listed CJC1295
  141. 5:14and CJC1295
  142. 5:17DAC as two separate substances. while
  143. 5:19also complaining, I'm not kidding, about
  144. 5:22inconsistent naming. So, for the rest of
  145. 5:24this video, I'm using the street version
  146. 5:26because that's probably what's in your
  147. 5:28fridge right now. Moving forward,
  148. 5:30CJC1295
  149. 5:31is the bare molecule without the extra
  150. 5:33lysine and DAC.
  151. 5:35>> So, the one everybody buys but has never
  152. 5:37been studied.
  153. 5:38>> Correct.
  154. 5:39>> But that's the one
  155. 5:41>> also correct.
  156. 5:44>> Welcome to the world of peptides and the
  157. 5:45internet in 2026. All right, origin
  158. 5:48story. CJC basically came out of a two
  159. 5:51company faceoff over the lipodistrophe
  160. 5:53market. And both companies were based
  161. 5:55just down the street from each other in
  162. 5:57Montreal because Kjakim, the main
  163. 5:59character in CJC's story, was developing
  164. 6:02CJC at the exact same time that Thera
  165. 6:05Technologies was developing Tessa
  166. 6:06Morland for the exact same indication.
  167. 6:08And they were basically neighbors this
  168. 6:10entire time, which makes this the
  169. 6:12Canadian pharmaceutical equivalent of
  170. 6:13the Hatfields versus McCoys. Ronic's
  171. 6:16going to have to look up that reference
  172. 6:17later. Here's the problem both companies
  173. 6:19were trying to solve. Your own GHR lasts
  174. 6:22about 7 minutes in your bloodstream
  175. 6:23before DPP4, the GLP-1 enzyme we
  176. 6:27mentioned in our Tessa Morland video
  177. 6:28bites the front of it off and turns the
  178. 6:30whole message into slag. And despite
  179. 6:32lasting only 7 minutes being totally
  180. 6:34normal for some things, a 7-minute
  181. 6:36half-life is a terrible property for a
  182. 6:38drug. Now, Thera Technologies approached
  183. 6:41this problem with TessaMorlin by just
  184. 6:43copying GHRH one:1 and slapping a fatty
  185. 6:46acid cap on the front that prevented
  186. 6:48DPP4 from grabbing it. It was a solid
  187. 6:51plan that actually worked well. Check
  188. 6:52out our Tessa Morland video above and
  189. 6:54below if you want to learn more. But
  190. 6:56even then, it still required nightly
  191. 6:58injections. And this was back in the
  192. 7:00early 2000s before we had all accepted
  193. 7:01our fate as pin cushions. So, the whole
  194. 7:04meta at the time was that fewer
  195. 7:05injections equals more commercial
  196. 7:07success. So, Kjukim based their entire
  197. 7:10strategy around one trick. Take a
  198. 7:12short-lived peptide and attach it to
  199. 7:14albumin so it can last in serum as long
  200. 7:16as humanly possible. Now, for those of
  201. 7:18you that actually talk to girls, albumin
  202. 7:20is the most common protein in your
  203. 7:22blood. It's huge. Your kidneys can't
  204. 7:24filter it out, and it lives for about 3
  205. 7:26weeks. So, Kjukim designed the DAC to
  206. 7:28grab album the second it hits your
  207. 7:30bloodstream, and it does not come off.
  208. 7:32The DACK latches onto albumin with a
  209. 7:34stage five clinger death grip. And the
  210. 7:36only way for it to get off is to wait
  211. 7:38for the album to die of old age. Gosh,
  212. 7:40that crazy girlfriend metaphor just got
  213. 7:42dark, huh? This strategy allowed CJC1295
  214. 7:46with DAC to be dosed as infrequently as
  215. 7:48once weekly, which was considered to be
  216. 7:50a major advantage over Tessa Morland at
  217. 7:52the time. There are some major caveats
  218. 7:53there, though, and we'll get to that
  219. 7:54later. And things really got cooking
  220. 7:56with CJC in 2005 when Lucy Jet and
  221. 7:59Dominique Briden's team published their
  222. 8:01first paper in rats. One shot of CJC
  223. 8:05with DAC produced four times the growth
  224. 8:07hormone of plain samorin and it was
  225. 8:09still detectable 3 days later. And then
  226. 8:11in 2006 the first human studies came out
  227. 8:14all run by an endocrinologist named
  228. 8:16Lawrence Froman. Fun fact, Froman is the
  229. 8:19guy who back in 1986 figured out that
  230. 8:22GHR is turned off by DPP4 chopping off
  231. 8:25its front end. So he discovered the
  232. 8:27problem in the 80s and then 20 years
  233. 8:29later was testing the fix in a potential
  234. 8:31commercial drug product. And I think
  235. 8:33that's pretty freaking cool. So after
  236. 8:35its successful phase 1 safety studies,
  237. 8:38the time came to figure out whether or
  238. 8:39not CJC actually worked. Kjukim's phase
  239. 8:422 had 192 patients on weekly injections.
  240. 8:46But unfortunately, in July of 2006, a
  241. 8:49participant at their site in Argentina
  242. 8:50died after his 11th weekly dose. It was
  243. 8:53unexpected and also totally unrelated.
  244. 8:56Probably the company said that the
  245. 8:57treating physician believed it was a
  246. 8:59heart attack from coronary disease that
  247. 9:00nobody knew about. But rules are rules
  248. 9:03and the trial stopped on July 17th. The
  249. 9:05data never got published and the program
  250. 9:07never came back online, which by the way
  251. 9:10is the exact same kind of thing that
  252. 9:12killed MK677.
  253. 9:14Comment B down below if you want that
  254. 9:16video next. Meanwhile, Thera
  255. 9:18Technologies trial kept going while
  256. 9:20Kanjukim kept bleeding cash with no
  257. 9:22other viable drug candidates. And
  258. 9:24eventually, Kanjukim was forced to
  259. 9:26declare bankruptcy in July of 2010. And
  260. 9:29then to add insult to injury, Tessa
  261. 9:32Morland got its FDA approval just four
  262. 9:34months later in November of 2010. Same
  263. 9:37city, same hormone, same year, but one
  264. 9:40of them is currently an FDA approved
  265. 9:42biologic, while the other one is in a
  266. 9:43filing cabinet at a bankruptcy trustees
  267. 9:45office in Montreal and also probably in
  268. 9:48your fridge. Now, you might be tempted
  269. 9:50to think that this is where the story
  270. 9:51ends. But it absolutely does not because
  271. 9:55in 2009, a doping lab in Norway got
  272. 9:58handed a vial by the police with no
  273. 10:00label on it and something inside that
  274. 10:02they had to identify from scratch. And
  275. 10:04what did they find? but 29 amino acids,
  276. 10:07the exact same four swaps, but no extra
  277. 10:10lysine or DAC. Now, at the time, that
  278. 10:13technically wasn't even CJC1295.
  279. 10:16It was technically mod GRF129
  280. 10:19because CJC1295
  281. 10:21still meant the version with DAC on it.
  282. 10:23Somebody had just synthesized the
  283. 10:25backbone molecule, left the DAC off, and
  284. 10:27started selling it under the CJC name.
  285. 10:30And that's the moment the name started
  286. 10:31to move. Remember, this is in 2009, and
  287. 10:34Kanji Kim didn't even go out of business
  288. 10:36until 2010. So, the cut down version of
  289. 10:39their original failed trial drug was
  290. 10:41already being sold on the street with a
  291. 10:43different naming convention while they
  292. 10:45were still in business. Kind of reminds
  293. 10:47me of that Polish channel that keeps
  294. 10:48copying all our videos.
  295. 10:52>> Shout out to our one Lab Rat Legion
  296. 10:54customer from Poland. I can't pronounce
  297. 10:56your name, but I see you, bro. Okay, so
  298. 10:58let's talk about what the original one
  299. 11:00actually does because this is the part
  300. 11:02that everybody seems to get wrong.
  301. 11:03Ronic, let's see if you were paying
  302. 11:05attention earlier. Your own GHR, the
  303. 11:08actual thing your brain makes. How long
  304. 11:10does it last in your blood?
  305. 11:11>> I remember.
  306. 11:15>> Mhm. Any minute now.
  307. 11:18>> I'm so disappointed. Try seven minutes.
  308. 11:21Now, samoralin the 29 amino acids of
  309. 11:24that sequence only last about four and
  310. 11:27then CJC1295
  311. 11:29with DAC 5.8 to 8.1 days, not hours,
  312. 11:34days. And that's the whole reason this
  313. 11:36drug has the negative reputation that it
  314. 11:38does in some circles. Because here's
  315. 11:41what that DAC does to the signal. In a
  316. 11:43second study performed in 2006,
  317. 11:45researchers took a bunch of healthy
  318. 11:47young men, drew blood every 20 minutes
  319. 11:49for 12 hours overnight, then gave them
  320. 11:51one shot of CJC with DAC, and then did
  321. 11:54the whole night again a week later. Now,
  322. 11:56the pulses were still there, same number
  323. 11:59and same size. So, the whole it kills
  324. 12:01your pulses crowd isn't right, at least
  325. 12:03not technically. But the floor between
  326. 12:05the pulses, the trough, set 7 and a half
  327. 12:08times higher than before, which resulted
  328. 12:10in mean growth hormone production
  329. 12:12jumping 46% and IGF-1 increasing by
  330. 12:15about the same margin. But here's the
  331. 12:18kicker. The IGF-1 rise didn't track the
  332. 12:20pulses at all. It tracked the floor. So,
  333. 12:23picture it like this. Your hypothalamus
  334. 12:26is supposed to pulse GHR to stimulate
  335. 12:29your pituitary to release GH. You have a
  336. 12:31call, a response, and then a period of
  337. 12:34quiet. And that period of silence is
  338. 12:36part of the message. Think of it like
  339. 12:38Morse code. If you don't have that break
  340. 12:40between the signals, then you're saying
  341. 12:42something entirely different. Then what
  342. 12:44DAC does is basically like leaning on
  343. 12:46the transmitter. Yeah, you can still get
  344. 12:48pulses, but your body can't really
  345. 12:49respond to them cuz it's already deaf
  346. 12:51from the constant stimulation. So yeah,
  347. 12:54CJC with DAC doesn't technically turn
  348. 12:56off your pulses, but it basically makes
  349. 12:59them irrelevant. And nobody on Earth
  350. 13:00knows what that can do to you over
  351. 13:02years. And funny enough, this is the
  352. 13:05version Brian Johnson chose to use
  353. 13:07during his peptide experiment a few
  354. 13:08months ago. And as you might have
  355. 13:10predicted, it totally wrecked his sleep,
  356. 13:12which kind of makes sense because Dak
  357. 13:15totally ignores basic GH biology. Brian,
  358. 13:18if you're watching this, I'm the doctor
  359. 13:19who asked you about sleep recovery after
  360. 13:21taking call at the Enhanced Games. call
  361. 13:23me. All right, now to the one you
  362. 13:25actually care about. CJC1295
  363. 13:27with no DAC. Here's the complete list of
  364. 13:30every published human study on it. Are
  365. 13:32you ready?
  366. 13:35Yeah, there aren't any. I searched and
  367. 13:37when the FDA reviewed this in 2024,
  368. 13:40every human study they could point to
  369. 13:42was the version with DAC. Now, normally
  370. 13:45this is the part of the video where I
  371. 13:46say in mice, always in mice, but I can't
  372. 13:49even give you a single mouse study for
  373. 13:51this one. I tried, guys. The closest
  374. 13:54thing that exists is a 1994 study where
  375. 13:5710 men got the single most important of
  376. 13:59the four swaps, the mirror image amino
  377. 14:02acid at position 2, and their half-life
  378. 14:04went from about 4.3 minutes with somorin
  379. 14:07to 6.7. 2 and 1/2 minutes. That is the
  380. 14:10entire human evidence base for the gain
  381. 14:13that you get from going from Samorland
  382. 14:15to CJC without DAC is one of its horse
  383. 14:18swaps bought you two and a half minutes,
  384. 14:20but I know some of you would kill to
  385. 14:22last 2 and 1/2 minutes longer.
  386. 14:24Meanwhile, you'll see 30 minute halflife
  387. 14:26on every vendor page on the internet.
  388. 14:28Now, I went looking for that measurement
  389. 14:30and I can't find it. So, if any of y'all
  390. 14:32want to educate me, please drop your
  391. 14:34sources in the comments down below. I
  392. 14:35can be taught. Now, I need to be clear
  393. 14:38about this one. That lack of data
  394. 14:40doesn't mean that CJC without DAC
  395. 14:42doesn't work. It just means that
  396. 14:43nobody's ever checked. So what is
  397. 14:46CJC1295,
  398. 14:47the bare one? It's basically Samorin
  399. 14:50with a better haircut and the exact same
  400. 14:52molecule as Mod GRF129. It works on the
  401. 14:56same receptor. It has the same
  402. 14:57minutesish long half-life and it's
  403. 15:00probably a little bit sturdier in the
  404. 15:01vial, which means that everything we
  405. 15:03speculate about it, including the sleep,
  406. 15:05the recovery, and the skin, we're
  407. 15:07basically borrowing from Samorin and GHR
  408. 15:09studies along with a lot of anecdotal
  409. 15:11reports. And again, that's not nothing.
  410. 15:14Samorin has real human sleep EEG data,
  411. 15:16and we included that in our video. Just
  412. 15:19understand that every claim on the
  413. 15:20vendor page is basically earned by a
  414. 15:22different molecule. Okay, cool story,
  415. 15:24Tatum. But theoretically speaking, can
  416. 15:27it strip visceral fat the same way
  417. 15:29tessimorin does? Fair, that is a
  418. 15:31reasonable question. So here's my honest
  419. 15:33answer. Is that proven? No. Is it
  420. 15:36disproven? Also no. Nobody's run the
  421. 15:39trial. Just purely mechanistically
  422. 15:41speaking, it's the same receptor in the
  423. 15:43same cascade. So it should do something
  424. 15:45in that direction. But Tessa Morland has
  425. 15:47800 patients, two phase three trials,
  426. 15:49and CT scans to back it up. This one has
  427. 15:52a Norwegian police seizure. And the dose
  428. 15:54gap is brutal. Tessa Morland's dose was
  429. 15:57two milligrams a night. The GHR studies
  430. 16:00that move body composition in adults ran
  431. 16:02from just under a milligram a night up
  432. 16:04to 4 milligrams twice a day. The CJC/IPA
  433. 16:08protocols people are actually running in
  434. 16:10the gray market use about 100 micrograms
  435. 16:12of CJC one to three times a day. So
  436. 16:15you're trying to replace a phase 3 drug
  437. 16:17with its untested little cousin at
  438. 16:19roughly a tenth of the dose.
  439. 16:23I don't. Nobody does.
  440. 16:26>> That's the whole video.
  441. 16:29>> Not that it's ever stopped any of you
  442. 16:30lab rats. Now, in fairness, there's a
  443. 16:33steelman against this. CGC was
  444. 16:35compounded for years before it was put
  445. 16:37on the category 2 list in 2023. And most
  446. 16:40clinicians, including myself, reported
  447. 16:41seeing IGF-1 levels above simorin but
  448. 16:44below tessamorin, which is why people
  449. 16:46started stacking it within. Because when
  450. 16:48you stack it with ipomorin, you're
  451. 16:50hitting two different receptors at the
  452. 16:52same time, GHR and ghrein. And in
  453. 16:55humans, that combination releases more
  454. 16:57growth hormone than either one alone.
  455. 17:00And that's real pharmarmacology, not
  456. 17:02just vibes. And it's why CJC/IPA
  457. 17:04exists as a product. But that's an
  458. 17:07argument for the stack and not for CJC
  459. 17:09on its own. And honestly, that's a topic
  460. 17:11for the future IPA Morlin video. Comment
  461. 17:13a down below if you want that one. Okay,
  462. 17:15because I'm a policy wonk, this is the
  463. 17:17part that I actually find really
  464. 17:19interesting and it's one of the reasons
  465. 17:20I wanted to make this video. Remember
  466. 17:22the 40 amino acid rule from the
  467. 17:24tessaorin video? If you're over 40 amino
  468. 17:27acids, it's technically a biologic and
  469. 17:29it can't legally be compounded. And
  470. 17:31tessor is 44, which means every
  471. 17:33compounded tessor vial in America from a
  472. 17:365030 pharmacy is basically a bet that
  473. 17:38the FDA doesn't feel like enforcing the
  474. 17:40rules this week. And those guys can
  475. 17:42barely tie their own shoes. So that's
  476. 17:43probably a pretty safe bet. But CJC
  477. 17:46without DAC is actually 29 amino acids.
  478. 17:49So that makes it a drug, not a biologic,
  479. 17:52meaning it's cheap and easy to
  480. 17:53synthesize. And legally there is a door
  481. 17:56for affordable access that Tesla Morlin
  482. 17:58just doesn't have. The 503A bulks list.
  483. 18:02This is the same list that BPC, TB500,
  484. 18:05KPV, Matsi, Simax, and Epatalon are
  485. 18:08currently being considered for. So, if
  486. 18:10CJC can get on that list, then
  487. 18:12compounders can make it forever out in
  488. 18:15the open with no betting on non-
  489. 18:16enforcement required. So, on paper, the
  490. 18:19unproven one has a legal path where the
  491. 18:22proven one doesn't, which seems a little
  492. 18:24backwards, but here we are. Here's the
  493. 18:26catch with that. CJC has already been
  494. 18:29considered for the bulks list. And uh
  495. 18:31that meeting didn't go so well. In
  496. 18:33September 2023, the FDA put both CJC1295
  497. 18:37and epomorlin into category 2. They said
  498. 18:40there was a significant safety risk,
  499. 18:41even though they had no data to back
  500. 18:43that up. But compounding had to stop all
  501. 18:45the same, and it was included in the
  502. 18:47same batch of peptides that ended up
  503. 18:49putting me in front of that committee
  504. 18:50this past July. Now, following that
  505. 18:53move, the FDA was sued for not backing
  506. 18:55that decision up with any data. And the
  507. 18:57original nominations back in 2023 and
  508. 19:002024 for consideration on being put onto
  509. 19:02the bulks list were honestly not that
  510. 19:05organized. No shade to the guys who
  511. 19:07nominated them. So, recognizing this, in
  512. 19:10September of 2024, the people who had
  513. 19:12nominated CJC pulled their nominations
  514. 19:14on purpose with the idea of coming back
  515. 19:16with a better game plan. But the FDA,
  516. 19:19not wanting to give them that chance,
  517. 19:21decided to review it anyways with none
  518. 19:23of the supporting information. That
  519. 19:25information was submitted. They just
  520. 19:27chose not to review it. So on December
  521. 19:294th, 2024, the pharmacy compounding
  522. 19:32advisory committee under the Biden era
  523. 19:34FDA voted on all five forms of it. And
  524. 19:37what do you know? It was shot down 13 to
  525. 19:40nothing. At least for all the freebase
  526. 19:41forms. The acetate form was 12 to1. So
  527. 19:44at least we got one vote. In our Tessa
  528. 19:46Morlin video, I told you that in this
  529. 19:49country, the shest way to make a peptide
  530. 19:51unaffordable is to prove that it works.
  531. 19:53Well, here's the other half to that. The
  532. 19:55shest way to kill one is to hold a vote
  533. 19:58without looking at any of the supporting
  534. 19:59evidence in the room. But there is a
  535. 20:02silver lining here. Luckily, the federal
  536. 20:04government is terrible at finishing its
  537. 20:06homework on time. That PCAC vote was a
  538. 20:10recommendation, not a final rule. And
  539. 20:12the FDA still hasn't finished writing
  540. 20:15that rule. So theoretically, CJC could
  541. 20:18still have another shot at the title if
  542. 20:20someone can convince the FDA to let it
  543. 20:22be brought before the PCAC again. And in
  544. 20:24the wise words of Lloyd from Dumb and
  545. 20:26Dumber,
  546. 20:26>> so you're telling me there's a chance?
  547. 20:29>> PS. Lab Ratat Legion hoodies officially
  548. 20:31have more human data behind them than
  549. 20:32CJC1295 without DAC. Links in the
  550. 20:35description. What are people actually
  551. 20:37doing? Well, people are reporting using
  552. 20:39the no DAC version at about 100
  553. 20:40micrograms anywhere from 1 to three
  554. 20:42times a day at bedtime on an empty
  555. 20:44stomach, usually mixed with 100 to 300
  556. 20:47micrograms of epipamorin. And that's the
  557. 20:49whole CJC/IP blend the longevity world
  558. 20:52sold until 2023. And the research use
  559. 20:54only sites sell even now. The withdac
  560. 20:57crowd reports using 1 to 2 milligrams
  561. 20:59once a week. To all the feds listening
  562. 21:01outside, I'm not recommending here. I'm
  563. 21:03just reporting.
  564. 21:05But what about side effects? Well, in
  565. 21:07the human studies, almost everybody on
  566. 21:09the drug reported some sort of secondary
  567. 21:11effect, either flushing, headache,
  568. 21:14injection site reactions, and maybe GI
  569. 21:16upset, compared to about a third of
  570. 21:18people reporting those symptoms on
  571. 21:19placebo, and none of it was considered
  572. 21:21serious over about a month of testing.
  573. 21:23Then you have all the other growth
  574. 21:24hormone access stuff from our other
  575. 21:26videos. We're talking fluid, joint
  576. 21:28issues, and drifts in sugar. But the one
  577. 21:30thing that's unique to the DAC version
  578. 21:32is that you can't just uningject a week.
  579. 21:35React badly on a Monday and that drug is
  580. 21:37still in you next Monday and the one
  581. 21:39after. Now, I have to put a giant
  582. 21:42asterisk here. Although I've never seen
  583. 21:44it in the compounded versions. CJC is
  584. 21:47notorious in the research use only space
  585. 21:49for causing profound histamine reactions
  586. 21:52and even anaphilaxis. Same thing for
  587. 21:54rotes, interestingly enough. In fact,
  588. 21:57it's so bad that some people even
  589. 21:59recommend having an EpiPen on hand if
  590. 22:01you're going to use it. And this past
  591. 22:03October, an Australian coroner found
  592. 22:05that the actor Richard Norton died
  593. 22:07exactly that way. He had an anaphylactic
  594. 22:10reaction that triggered a cardiac arrest
  595. 22:12after injecting CJC1295
  596. 22:14andorin. A couple caveats on that one.
  597. 22:17It was prescribed by a physician and it
  598. 22:19was made by a compounding pharmacy. So,
  599. 22:21that was not an RUO vial, but he was
  600. 22:23also taking double his prescribed dose.
  601. 22:26And this is in Australia which may have
  602. 22:28completely different standards around
  603. 22:29compounding. I just don't know. And
  604. 22:31there are some other hard stops here. If
  605. 22:33you're thinking about this, if you have
  606. 22:35an active cancer, please do not touch
  607. 22:37this family. IGF-1 is a growth signal
  608. 22:40and you don't want that if you have an
  609. 22:41active cancer. Also, if you have
  610. 22:43pituitary disease, there's nothing for
  611. 22:44it to talk to, so it's not worth it. And
  612. 22:47nobody has long-term antibbody data on a
  613. 22:49peptide that's permanently zip tied to
  614. 22:51your own albumin, which is yet another
  615. 22:53reason to avoid the DAC version. And
  616. 22:55again, let me say this plainly for the
  617. 22:57record. I am not telling anyone to
  618. 22:59inject anything. Ronic, run the
  619. 23:01disclaimer.
  620. 23:03If you want what Tessa Morland does, the
  621. 23:05visceral fat, the liver fat, and the
  622. 23:07stuff that shows up on a CT scan,
  623. 23:09nothing in the published record says
  624. 23:10that CJC in any form delivers it. So, if
  625. 23:14you can get Tessamorin legally, that's
  626. 23:16the better option. Hard stop. And if you
  627. 23:18want the samorin benefits like better
  628. 23:20sleep and better skin and hair, well,
  629. 23:22you're probably just better off using
  630. 23:24samorin. Now, CJC1295, the bear
  631. 23:27molecule, is probably perfectly fine and
  632. 23:29more potent simorland substitute with an
  633. 23:32admittedly more confusing name. But I
  634. 23:34have to say probably there because
  635. 23:36nobody has proven it or disproven it.
  636. 23:38And in case I haven't been clear enough,
  637. 23:40I just straight up can't recommend the
  638. 23:42DAC version. It totally disrespects the
  639. 23:44response to natural GH pulses in a way
  640. 23:46that no other secret does to include GH
  641. 23:49itself for that matter. I'll change my
  642. 23:51mind the day somebody runs a study. If
  643. 23:53you want muscle, this probably isn't the
  644. 23:55axis you're looking for. Those are
  645. 23:57called androgens. All right, if this
  646. 23:59video taught you something, hit the like
  647. 24:00button. It's free, only takes a second,
  648. 24:02and again, it's the only thing keeping
  649. 24:04me and Ronic from just jumping off a
  650. 24:06bridge these days. And subscribe because
  651. 24:08I am bound and determined to finish
  652. 24:10covering all the compounds in this axis.
  653. 24:12And because honestly the peptide
  654. 24:14regulatory war is far from over. And
  655. 24:16don't forget to comment A for epomorlin,
  656. 24:19B for MK677, C for GHRP2 and 6, and D
  657. 24:23for something else because you're sick
  658. 24:24of all these compounds that kind of
  659. 24:26basically do the same thing. And send
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  661. 24:29group chat. They probably want to know
  662. 24:31the real story and it helps the channel
  663. 24:33and it might help them too. And until
  664. 24:34next time, I'm Dr. Alex. Stay curious,
  665. 24:37stay skeptical, and as always, proceed
  666. 24:40accordingly.

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