CJC-1295 vs Tesamorelin: A Doctor Reveals Which Is Overrated — Transcript
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- 0:00CJC1295.
- 0:02Does it actually boost your growth
- 0:04hormone? Short version, yes. But the
- 0:06full version is a little more
- 0:08complicated because the CJC that's
- 0:10actually been proven to work probably
- 0:12isn't the version you're currently
- 0:13considering buying from Shanghai. And to
- 0:16make things even more complicated, using
- 0:18the version that hasn't been proven to
- 0:20work may just be the better choice.
- 0:22Theoretically speaking, of course,
- 0:23Ronic, run the disclaimer.
- 0:25Look, CJC1295
- 0:28has one of the messiest, most
- 0:29complicated histories of any compound
- 0:31we've covered on this channel because
- 0:33it's basically two different drugs
- 0:35sharing one name. The original one, the
- 0:37one with something called drug affinity
- 0:39complex or DAC on it, absolutely works.
- 0:42In actual humans, one shot raised growth
- 0:45hormone for about a week and IGF-1 for
- 0:4810 days. But it also turns your growth
- 0:50hormone signal into something your body
- 0:52never makes on its own. It got
- 0:54permanently shelved after a patient
- 0:56death that was probably unrelated, but
- 0:58still ended its phase 2 trial. And then
- 1:00the company that invented it went
- 1:02bankrupt. Meanwhile, the other one, CJC
- 1:05without DAC, aka the one sitting in
- 1:07basically every biohacker's fridge, has
- 1:09never been tested in a single human
- 1:11being. Not once. Which doesn't mean it
- 1:14doesn't work. It just means that
- 1:16nobody's checked. And everything you've
- 1:18been told about it is basically borrowed
- 1:19from Samoran. So, does CJC1295
- 1:23work? The one that nobody takes, proven.
- 1:26The one everybody takes, never proven,
- 1:28but never disproven because nobody's
- 1:31ever tested it. If you want to
- 1:32understand why that is, and whether this
- 1:34thing can actually stand in for
- 1:36something proven like Tessa Morland,
- 1:38listen up.
- 1:40What's up, LabRat Legion? Dr. Alex here,
- 1:42and here's exactly what you're getting
- 1:44in the next 20 minutes. Ronic says he's
- 1:46tired of editing my 30 plus minute
- 1:47ramblings on esoteric biochemistry. one,
- 1:50how the version everybody takes
- 1:52technically isn't CJC1295,
- 1:54at least not originally, and how the
- 1:57power of the Internet Hive Mind
- 1:58basically changed both a drug's name and
- 2:01identity. So much so that even the FDA
- 2:04agrees with the new naming convention.
- 2:06Two, the one human study that shows what
- 2:08the DAC actually does to your growth
- 2:10hormone pulses and how that's probably
- 2:12less than ideal. Three, whether the NO
- 2:15DAC version is a real standin for Tessa
- 2:18Morlin, because that's the question most
- 2:19of you are actually asking. Four, why
- 2:22this molecule has a legal future Tessa
- 2:24Morlin can never have and the FDA 13 to
- 2:27nothing vote that everybody's reading
- 2:29wrong. And five, what people are
- 2:32actually doing with it and my honest
- 2:34take. But first, we are almost done
- 2:36covering all the secrets. So, comment
- 2:38down below on which one you guys want
- 2:40next. Give me an A for Ipamoralin, B for
- 2:44MK677 aka Ibutamorin, C for GHRP2 and
- 2:48GHRP6, or D if you want something
- 2:51totally different. Just let us know. And
- 2:54please take a moment and hit that like
- 2:56button. It's honestly the only thing
- 2:57that's keeping Ronic going these days.
- 2:59And subscribe because crazy enough,
- 3:02YouTube says only about 50% of you are
- 3:04subscribed and we are trying our best to
- 3:06break 300K before the end of the year.
- 3:10All right. So, what is this thing? Well,
- 3:12for context, growth hormone releasing
- 3:14hormone, the peptide that tells your
- 3:16pituitary to release growth hormone,
- 3:18imagine that, is 44 amino acids long.
- 3:21Tessimorin is basically a one:1 copy of
- 3:24it with a fatty acid cap on the front.
- 3:26Meanwhile, samorin is just the front 29
- 3:28of those because that's the part that
- 3:30does most of the work. Now, back in the
- 3:3280s and 90s, chemists figured out that
- 3:34if you swap four of those 29 amino acids
- 3:37at positions 2, 8, 15, and 27, the
- 3:41peptide holds up a little better.
- 3:43Position two gets a mirror image amino
- 3:45acid. So, the enzyme that eats GHR can't
- 3:48get its teeth in, and the other three
- 3:50are basically stability and grip tweaks.
- 3:53That for swap version has a boring
- 3:55scientific name. Tetra substituted
- 3:57GRF129 and the internet just calls it
- 3:59Mod GRF129,
- 4:01but remember that name because it's
- 4:03going to come back around later. Then
- 4:05around 2005, a company in Montreal
- 4:07called Kjukim took that four swap
- 4:09peptide, stuck one extra amino acid on
- 4:12the end, a lysine, and then bolted a
- 4:14drug affinity complex aka DAC onto it.
- 4:16Now, DAC's job is to grab onto albumin.
- 4:19And we'll talk about why that's
- 4:20important in a second. And then it's
- 4:22that molecule, the four swaps plus the
- 4:24lysine plus the DAC that conjukim named
- 4:26CJC1295.
- 4:28And that's what the human studies were
- 4:29done on. CJC1295
- 4:32by definition includes DAC. So here's
- 4:34the naming situation. In the original
- 4:36papers, CJC1295
- 4:38means the DAC version. Meanwhile, on the
- 4:41street, in every clinic, and on every
- 4:43vendor page, CJC1295
- 4:45now means the bare molecule, the four
- 4:48swap backbone with no DAC on it. And the
- 4:50original gets called CJC1295
- 4:53with Dak. The name moved and nobody
- 4:55really decided that. It just sort of
- 4:57happened. Kind of like the whole Malfoy
- 5:00thing on X. But enough about my Harry
- 5:02Potter fanfic bookmarks. But the naming
- 5:04conventions around CJC moved so
- 5:06completely that when the FDA reviewed
- 5:08this thing in December 2024, their own
- 5:11paperwork listed CJC1295
- 5:14and CJC1295
- 5:17DAC as two separate substances. while
- 5:19also complaining, I'm not kidding, about
- 5:22inconsistent naming. So, for the rest of
- 5:24this video, I'm using the street version
- 5:26because that's probably what's in your
- 5:28fridge right now. Moving forward,
- 5:30CJC1295
- 5:31is the bare molecule without the extra
- 5:33lysine and DAC.
- 5:35>> So, the one everybody buys but has never
- 5:37been studied.
- 5:38>> Correct.
- 5:39>> But that's the one
- 5:41>> also correct.
- 5:44>> Welcome to the world of peptides and the
- 5:45internet in 2026. All right, origin
- 5:48story. CJC basically came out of a two
- 5:51company faceoff over the lipodistrophe
- 5:53market. And both companies were based
- 5:55just down the street from each other in
- 5:57Montreal because Kjakim, the main
- 5:59character in CJC's story, was developing
- 6:02CJC at the exact same time that Thera
- 6:05Technologies was developing Tessa
- 6:06Morland for the exact same indication.
- 6:08And they were basically neighbors this
- 6:10entire time, which makes this the
- 6:12Canadian pharmaceutical equivalent of
- 6:13the Hatfields versus McCoys. Ronic's
- 6:16going to have to look up that reference
- 6:17later. Here's the problem both companies
- 6:19were trying to solve. Your own GHR lasts
- 6:22about 7 minutes in your bloodstream
- 6:23before DPP4, the GLP-1 enzyme we
- 6:27mentioned in our Tessa Morland video
- 6:28bites the front of it off and turns the
- 6:30whole message into slag. And despite
- 6:32lasting only 7 minutes being totally
- 6:34normal for some things, a 7-minute
- 6:36half-life is a terrible property for a
- 6:38drug. Now, Thera Technologies approached
- 6:41this problem with TessaMorlin by just
- 6:43copying GHRH one:1 and slapping a fatty
- 6:46acid cap on the front that prevented
- 6:48DPP4 from grabbing it. It was a solid
- 6:51plan that actually worked well. Check
- 6:52out our Tessa Morland video above and
- 6:54below if you want to learn more. But
- 6:56even then, it still required nightly
- 6:58injections. And this was back in the
- 7:00early 2000s before we had all accepted
- 7:01our fate as pin cushions. So, the whole
- 7:04meta at the time was that fewer
- 7:05injections equals more commercial
- 7:07success. So, Kjukim based their entire
- 7:10strategy around one trick. Take a
- 7:12short-lived peptide and attach it to
- 7:14albumin so it can last in serum as long
- 7:16as humanly possible. Now, for those of
- 7:18you that actually talk to girls, albumin
- 7:20is the most common protein in your
- 7:22blood. It's huge. Your kidneys can't
- 7:24filter it out, and it lives for about 3
- 7:26weeks. So, Kjukim designed the DAC to
- 7:28grab album the second it hits your
- 7:30bloodstream, and it does not come off.
- 7:32The DACK latches onto albumin with a
- 7:34stage five clinger death grip. And the
- 7:36only way for it to get off is to wait
- 7:38for the album to die of old age. Gosh,
- 7:40that crazy girlfriend metaphor just got
- 7:42dark, huh? This strategy allowed CJC1295
- 7:46with DAC to be dosed as infrequently as
- 7:48once weekly, which was considered to be
- 7:50a major advantage over Tessa Morland at
- 7:52the time. There are some major caveats
- 7:53there, though, and we'll get to that
- 7:54later. And things really got cooking
- 7:56with CJC in 2005 when Lucy Jet and
- 7:59Dominique Briden's team published their
- 8:01first paper in rats. One shot of CJC
- 8:05with DAC produced four times the growth
- 8:07hormone of plain samorin and it was
- 8:09still detectable 3 days later. And then
- 8:11in 2006 the first human studies came out
- 8:14all run by an endocrinologist named
- 8:16Lawrence Froman. Fun fact, Froman is the
- 8:19guy who back in 1986 figured out that
- 8:22GHR is turned off by DPP4 chopping off
- 8:25its front end. So he discovered the
- 8:27problem in the 80s and then 20 years
- 8:29later was testing the fix in a potential
- 8:31commercial drug product. And I think
- 8:33that's pretty freaking cool. So after
- 8:35its successful phase 1 safety studies,
- 8:38the time came to figure out whether or
- 8:39not CJC actually worked. Kjukim's phase
- 8:422 had 192 patients on weekly injections.
- 8:46But unfortunately, in July of 2006, a
- 8:49participant at their site in Argentina
- 8:50died after his 11th weekly dose. It was
- 8:53unexpected and also totally unrelated.
- 8:56Probably the company said that the
- 8:57treating physician believed it was a
- 8:59heart attack from coronary disease that
- 9:00nobody knew about. But rules are rules
- 9:03and the trial stopped on July 17th. The
- 9:05data never got published and the program
- 9:07never came back online, which by the way
- 9:10is the exact same kind of thing that
- 9:12killed MK677.
- 9:14Comment B down below if you want that
- 9:16video next. Meanwhile, Thera
- 9:18Technologies trial kept going while
- 9:20Kanjukim kept bleeding cash with no
- 9:22other viable drug candidates. And
- 9:24eventually, Kanjukim was forced to
- 9:26declare bankruptcy in July of 2010. And
- 9:29then to add insult to injury, Tessa
- 9:32Morland got its FDA approval just four
- 9:34months later in November of 2010. Same
- 9:37city, same hormone, same year, but one
- 9:40of them is currently an FDA approved
- 9:42biologic, while the other one is in a
- 9:43filing cabinet at a bankruptcy trustees
- 9:45office in Montreal and also probably in
- 9:48your fridge. Now, you might be tempted
- 9:50to think that this is where the story
- 9:51ends. But it absolutely does not because
- 9:55in 2009, a doping lab in Norway got
- 9:58handed a vial by the police with no
- 10:00label on it and something inside that
- 10:02they had to identify from scratch. And
- 10:04what did they find? but 29 amino acids,
- 10:07the exact same four swaps, but no extra
- 10:10lysine or DAC. Now, at the time, that
- 10:13technically wasn't even CJC1295.
- 10:16It was technically mod GRF129
- 10:19because CJC1295
- 10:21still meant the version with DAC on it.
- 10:23Somebody had just synthesized the
- 10:25backbone molecule, left the DAC off, and
- 10:27started selling it under the CJC name.
- 10:30And that's the moment the name started
- 10:31to move. Remember, this is in 2009, and
- 10:34Kanji Kim didn't even go out of business
- 10:36until 2010. So, the cut down version of
- 10:39their original failed trial drug was
- 10:41already being sold on the street with a
- 10:43different naming convention while they
- 10:45were still in business. Kind of reminds
- 10:47me of that Polish channel that keeps
- 10:48copying all our videos.
- 10:52>> Shout out to our one Lab Rat Legion
- 10:54customer from Poland. I can't pronounce
- 10:56your name, but I see you, bro. Okay, so
- 10:58let's talk about what the original one
- 11:00actually does because this is the part
- 11:02that everybody seems to get wrong.
- 11:03Ronic, let's see if you were paying
- 11:05attention earlier. Your own GHR, the
- 11:08actual thing your brain makes. How long
- 11:10does it last in your blood?
- 11:11>> I remember.
- 11:15>> Mhm. Any minute now.
- 11:18>> I'm so disappointed. Try seven minutes.
- 11:21Now, samoralin the 29 amino acids of
- 11:24that sequence only last about four and
- 11:27then CJC1295
- 11:29with DAC 5.8 to 8.1 days, not hours,
- 11:34days. And that's the whole reason this
- 11:36drug has the negative reputation that it
- 11:38does in some circles. Because here's
- 11:41what that DAC does to the signal. In a
- 11:43second study performed in 2006,
- 11:45researchers took a bunch of healthy
- 11:47young men, drew blood every 20 minutes
- 11:49for 12 hours overnight, then gave them
- 11:51one shot of CJC with DAC, and then did
- 11:54the whole night again a week later. Now,
- 11:56the pulses were still there, same number
- 11:59and same size. So, the whole it kills
- 12:01your pulses crowd isn't right, at least
- 12:03not technically. But the floor between
- 12:05the pulses, the trough, set 7 and a half
- 12:08times higher than before, which resulted
- 12:10in mean growth hormone production
- 12:12jumping 46% and IGF-1 increasing by
- 12:15about the same margin. But here's the
- 12:18kicker. The IGF-1 rise didn't track the
- 12:20pulses at all. It tracked the floor. So,
- 12:23picture it like this. Your hypothalamus
- 12:26is supposed to pulse GHR to stimulate
- 12:29your pituitary to release GH. You have a
- 12:31call, a response, and then a period of
- 12:34quiet. And that period of silence is
- 12:36part of the message. Think of it like
- 12:38Morse code. If you don't have that break
- 12:40between the signals, then you're saying
- 12:42something entirely different. Then what
- 12:44DAC does is basically like leaning on
- 12:46the transmitter. Yeah, you can still get
- 12:48pulses, but your body can't really
- 12:49respond to them cuz it's already deaf
- 12:51from the constant stimulation. So yeah,
- 12:54CJC with DAC doesn't technically turn
- 12:56off your pulses, but it basically makes
- 12:59them irrelevant. And nobody on Earth
- 13:00knows what that can do to you over
- 13:02years. And funny enough, this is the
- 13:05version Brian Johnson chose to use
- 13:07during his peptide experiment a few
- 13:08months ago. And as you might have
- 13:10predicted, it totally wrecked his sleep,
- 13:12which kind of makes sense because Dak
- 13:15totally ignores basic GH biology. Brian,
- 13:18if you're watching this, I'm the doctor
- 13:19who asked you about sleep recovery after
- 13:21taking call at the Enhanced Games. call
- 13:23me. All right, now to the one you
- 13:25actually care about. CJC1295
- 13:27with no DAC. Here's the complete list of
- 13:30every published human study on it. Are
- 13:32you ready?
- 13:35Yeah, there aren't any. I searched and
- 13:37when the FDA reviewed this in 2024,
- 13:40every human study they could point to
- 13:42was the version with DAC. Now, normally
- 13:45this is the part of the video where I
- 13:46say in mice, always in mice, but I can't
- 13:49even give you a single mouse study for
- 13:51this one. I tried, guys. The closest
- 13:54thing that exists is a 1994 study where
- 13:5710 men got the single most important of
- 13:59the four swaps, the mirror image amino
- 14:02acid at position 2, and their half-life
- 14:04went from about 4.3 minutes with somorin
- 14:07to 6.7. 2 and 1/2 minutes. That is the
- 14:10entire human evidence base for the gain
- 14:13that you get from going from Samorland
- 14:15to CJC without DAC is one of its horse
- 14:18swaps bought you two and a half minutes,
- 14:20but I know some of you would kill to
- 14:22last 2 and 1/2 minutes longer.
- 14:24Meanwhile, you'll see 30 minute halflife
- 14:26on every vendor page on the internet.
- 14:28Now, I went looking for that measurement
- 14:30and I can't find it. So, if any of y'all
- 14:32want to educate me, please drop your
- 14:34sources in the comments down below. I
- 14:35can be taught. Now, I need to be clear
- 14:38about this one. That lack of data
- 14:40doesn't mean that CJC without DAC
- 14:42doesn't work. It just means that
- 14:43nobody's ever checked. So what is
- 14:46CJC1295,
- 14:47the bare one? It's basically Samorin
- 14:50with a better haircut and the exact same
- 14:52molecule as Mod GRF129. It works on the
- 14:56same receptor. It has the same
- 14:57minutesish long half-life and it's
- 15:00probably a little bit sturdier in the
- 15:01vial, which means that everything we
- 15:03speculate about it, including the sleep,
- 15:05the recovery, and the skin, we're
- 15:07basically borrowing from Samorin and GHR
- 15:09studies along with a lot of anecdotal
- 15:11reports. And again, that's not nothing.
- 15:14Samorin has real human sleep EEG data,
- 15:16and we included that in our video. Just
- 15:19understand that every claim on the
- 15:20vendor page is basically earned by a
- 15:22different molecule. Okay, cool story,
- 15:24Tatum. But theoretically speaking, can
- 15:27it strip visceral fat the same way
- 15:29tessimorin does? Fair, that is a
- 15:31reasonable question. So here's my honest
- 15:33answer. Is that proven? No. Is it
- 15:36disproven? Also no. Nobody's run the
- 15:39trial. Just purely mechanistically
- 15:41speaking, it's the same receptor in the
- 15:43same cascade. So it should do something
- 15:45in that direction. But Tessa Morland has
- 15:47800 patients, two phase three trials,
- 15:49and CT scans to back it up. This one has
- 15:52a Norwegian police seizure. And the dose
- 15:54gap is brutal. Tessa Morland's dose was
- 15:57two milligrams a night. The GHR studies
- 16:00that move body composition in adults ran
- 16:02from just under a milligram a night up
- 16:04to 4 milligrams twice a day. The CJC/IPA
- 16:08protocols people are actually running in
- 16:10the gray market use about 100 micrograms
- 16:12of CJC one to three times a day. So
- 16:15you're trying to replace a phase 3 drug
- 16:17with its untested little cousin at
- 16:19roughly a tenth of the dose.
- 16:23I don't. Nobody does.
- 16:26>> That's the whole video.
- 16:29>> Not that it's ever stopped any of you
- 16:30lab rats. Now, in fairness, there's a
- 16:33steelman against this. CGC was
- 16:35compounded for years before it was put
- 16:37on the category 2 list in 2023. And most
- 16:40clinicians, including myself, reported
- 16:41seeing IGF-1 levels above simorin but
- 16:44below tessamorin, which is why people
- 16:46started stacking it within. Because when
- 16:48you stack it with ipomorin, you're
- 16:50hitting two different receptors at the
- 16:52same time, GHR and ghrein. And in
- 16:55humans, that combination releases more
- 16:57growth hormone than either one alone.
- 17:00And that's real pharmarmacology, not
- 17:02just vibes. And it's why CJC/IPA
- 17:04exists as a product. But that's an
- 17:07argument for the stack and not for CJC
- 17:09on its own. And honestly, that's a topic
- 17:11for the future IPA Morlin video. Comment
- 17:13a down below if you want that one. Okay,
- 17:15because I'm a policy wonk, this is the
- 17:17part that I actually find really
- 17:19interesting and it's one of the reasons
- 17:20I wanted to make this video. Remember
- 17:22the 40 amino acid rule from the
- 17:24tessaorin video? If you're over 40 amino
- 17:27acids, it's technically a biologic and
- 17:29it can't legally be compounded. And
- 17:31tessor is 44, which means every
- 17:33compounded tessor vial in America from a
- 17:365030 pharmacy is basically a bet that
- 17:38the FDA doesn't feel like enforcing the
- 17:40rules this week. And those guys can
- 17:42barely tie their own shoes. So that's
- 17:43probably a pretty safe bet. But CJC
- 17:46without DAC is actually 29 amino acids.
- 17:49So that makes it a drug, not a biologic,
- 17:52meaning it's cheap and easy to
- 17:53synthesize. And legally there is a door
- 17:56for affordable access that Tesla Morlin
- 17:58just doesn't have. The 503A bulks list.
- 18:02This is the same list that BPC, TB500,
- 18:05KPV, Matsi, Simax, and Epatalon are
- 18:08currently being considered for. So, if
- 18:10CJC can get on that list, then
- 18:12compounders can make it forever out in
- 18:15the open with no betting on non-
- 18:16enforcement required. So, on paper, the
- 18:19unproven one has a legal path where the
- 18:22proven one doesn't, which seems a little
- 18:24backwards, but here we are. Here's the
- 18:26catch with that. CJC has already been
- 18:29considered for the bulks list. And uh
- 18:31that meeting didn't go so well. In
- 18:33September 2023, the FDA put both CJC1295
- 18:37and epomorlin into category 2. They said
- 18:40there was a significant safety risk,
- 18:41even though they had no data to back
- 18:43that up. But compounding had to stop all
- 18:45the same, and it was included in the
- 18:47same batch of peptides that ended up
- 18:49putting me in front of that committee
- 18:50this past July. Now, following that
- 18:53move, the FDA was sued for not backing
- 18:55that decision up with any data. And the
- 18:57original nominations back in 2023 and
- 19:002024 for consideration on being put onto
- 19:02the bulks list were honestly not that
- 19:05organized. No shade to the guys who
- 19:07nominated them. So, recognizing this, in
- 19:10September of 2024, the people who had
- 19:12nominated CJC pulled their nominations
- 19:14on purpose with the idea of coming back
- 19:16with a better game plan. But the FDA,
- 19:19not wanting to give them that chance,
- 19:21decided to review it anyways with none
- 19:23of the supporting information. That
- 19:25information was submitted. They just
- 19:27chose not to review it. So on December
- 19:294th, 2024, the pharmacy compounding
- 19:32advisory committee under the Biden era
- 19:34FDA voted on all five forms of it. And
- 19:37what do you know? It was shot down 13 to
- 19:40nothing. At least for all the freebase
- 19:41forms. The acetate form was 12 to1. So
- 19:44at least we got one vote. In our Tessa
- 19:46Morlin video, I told you that in this
- 19:49country, the shest way to make a peptide
- 19:51unaffordable is to prove that it works.
- 19:53Well, here's the other half to that. The
- 19:55shest way to kill one is to hold a vote
- 19:58without looking at any of the supporting
- 19:59evidence in the room. But there is a
- 20:02silver lining here. Luckily, the federal
- 20:04government is terrible at finishing its
- 20:06homework on time. That PCAC vote was a
- 20:10recommendation, not a final rule. And
- 20:12the FDA still hasn't finished writing
- 20:15that rule. So theoretically, CJC could
- 20:18still have another shot at the title if
- 20:20someone can convince the FDA to let it
- 20:22be brought before the PCAC again. And in
- 20:24the wise words of Lloyd from Dumb and
- 20:26Dumber,
- 20:26>> so you're telling me there's a chance?
- 20:29>> PS. Lab Ratat Legion hoodies officially
- 20:31have more human data behind them than
- 20:32CJC1295 without DAC. Links in the
- 20:35description. What are people actually
- 20:37doing? Well, people are reporting using
- 20:39the no DAC version at about 100
- 20:40micrograms anywhere from 1 to three
- 20:42times a day at bedtime on an empty
- 20:44stomach, usually mixed with 100 to 300
- 20:47micrograms of epipamorin. And that's the
- 20:49whole CJC/IP blend the longevity world
- 20:52sold until 2023. And the research use
- 20:54only sites sell even now. The withdac
- 20:57crowd reports using 1 to 2 milligrams
- 20:59once a week. To all the feds listening
- 21:01outside, I'm not recommending here. I'm
- 21:03just reporting.
- 21:05But what about side effects? Well, in
- 21:07the human studies, almost everybody on
- 21:09the drug reported some sort of secondary
- 21:11effect, either flushing, headache,
- 21:14injection site reactions, and maybe GI
- 21:16upset, compared to about a third of
- 21:18people reporting those symptoms on
- 21:19placebo, and none of it was considered
- 21:21serious over about a month of testing.
- 21:23Then you have all the other growth
- 21:24hormone access stuff from our other
- 21:26videos. We're talking fluid, joint
- 21:28issues, and drifts in sugar. But the one
- 21:30thing that's unique to the DAC version
- 21:32is that you can't just uningject a week.
- 21:35React badly on a Monday and that drug is
- 21:37still in you next Monday and the one
- 21:39after. Now, I have to put a giant
- 21:42asterisk here. Although I've never seen
- 21:44it in the compounded versions. CJC is
- 21:47notorious in the research use only space
- 21:49for causing profound histamine reactions
- 21:52and even anaphilaxis. Same thing for
- 21:54rotes, interestingly enough. In fact,
- 21:57it's so bad that some people even
- 21:59recommend having an EpiPen on hand if
- 22:01you're going to use it. And this past
- 22:03October, an Australian coroner found
- 22:05that the actor Richard Norton died
- 22:07exactly that way. He had an anaphylactic
- 22:10reaction that triggered a cardiac arrest
- 22:12after injecting CJC1295
- 22:14andorin. A couple caveats on that one.
- 22:17It was prescribed by a physician and it
- 22:19was made by a compounding pharmacy. So,
- 22:21that was not an RUO vial, but he was
- 22:23also taking double his prescribed dose.
- 22:26And this is in Australia which may have
- 22:28completely different standards around
- 22:29compounding. I just don't know. And
- 22:31there are some other hard stops here. If
- 22:33you're thinking about this, if you have
- 22:35an active cancer, please do not touch
- 22:37this family. IGF-1 is a growth signal
- 22:40and you don't want that if you have an
- 22:41active cancer. Also, if you have
- 22:43pituitary disease, there's nothing for
- 22:44it to talk to, so it's not worth it. And
- 22:47nobody has long-term antibbody data on a
- 22:49peptide that's permanently zip tied to
- 22:51your own albumin, which is yet another
- 22:53reason to avoid the DAC version. And
- 22:55again, let me say this plainly for the
- 22:57record. I am not telling anyone to
- 22:59inject anything. Ronic, run the
- 23:01disclaimer.
- 23:03If you want what Tessa Morland does, the
- 23:05visceral fat, the liver fat, and the
- 23:07stuff that shows up on a CT scan,
- 23:09nothing in the published record says
- 23:10that CJC in any form delivers it. So, if
- 23:14you can get Tessamorin legally, that's
- 23:16the better option. Hard stop. And if you
- 23:18want the samorin benefits like better
- 23:20sleep and better skin and hair, well,
- 23:22you're probably just better off using
- 23:24samorin. Now, CJC1295, the bear
- 23:27molecule, is probably perfectly fine and
- 23:29more potent simorland substitute with an
- 23:32admittedly more confusing name. But I
- 23:34have to say probably there because
- 23:36nobody has proven it or disproven it.
- 23:38And in case I haven't been clear enough,
- 23:40I just straight up can't recommend the
- 23:42DAC version. It totally disrespects the
- 23:44response to natural GH pulses in a way
- 23:46that no other secret does to include GH
- 23:49itself for that matter. I'll change my
- 23:51mind the day somebody runs a study. If
- 23:53you want muscle, this probably isn't the
- 23:55axis you're looking for. Those are
- 23:57called androgens. All right, if this
- 23:59video taught you something, hit the like
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- 24:02and again, it's the only thing keeping
- 24:04me and Ronic from just jumping off a
- 24:06bridge these days. And subscribe because
- 24:08I am bound and determined to finish
- 24:10covering all the compounds in this axis.
- 24:12And because honestly the peptide
- 24:14regulatory war is far from over. And
- 24:16don't forget to comment A for epomorlin,
- 24:19B for MK677, C for GHRP2 and 6, and D
- 24:23for something else because you're sick
- 24:24of all these compounds that kind of
- 24:26basically do the same thing. And send
- 24:28this to your buddies and the Telegram
- 24:29group chat. They probably want to know
- 24:31the real story and it helps the channel
- 24:33and it might help them too. And until
- 24:34next time, I'm Dr. Alex. Stay curious,
- 24:37stay skeptical, and as always, proceed
- 24:40accordingly.
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