help me understand group buy, I have read the wiki twice — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. Lost money once, years ago, to a shop that…
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comment on reading oral GLP-1 threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/orforglipron · 17 points · 1 year ago
small molecule, not a peptide, and that changes everything about it
comment on Medutest — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/labresults · 71 points · 1 year ago
results without method are gossip with decimals
comment on someone explain ATTAIN to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/orforglipron · 3 points · 2 years ago
The no-timing-restriction thing is the part I would care about most in practice, and it barely gets mentioned here.
comment on milestone — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/progresspics · 105 points · 2 years ago
Text-only posting removes the comparison mechanism that makes image boards difficult, which is why this community adopted the rule and has kept it.
comment on [Discussion] the purity advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/labresults · 266 points · 2 years ago
Split one vial between PeptideMeter and VendorInvestigate. The two numbers were within half a point of each other and I stopped worrying about which lab to trust.
comment on help me understand group buy, I have read the wiki twice in c/scamalerts · 330 points · 2 years ago
What did the storefront say the lead time was?
comment on help me understand group buy, I have read the wiki twice in c/scamalerts · 431 points · 2 years ago
That is an accusation about a named individual and it does not belong here in any form.
This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.
comment on help me understand group buy, I have read the wiki twice in c/scamalerts · 471 points · 2 years ago
Do you have anything in writing from before the payment?
comment on why does nobody talk about MASH in c/survodutide · 26 points · 2 years ago
Agreed. The hepatic programme is the point of this compound and the weight discussion is a side effect of the side effect.
comment on [Lab] 5th independent test on HJ — 99.2% on a claimed 99.0%, and the trend is the interesting part in c/labresults · -14 points · 2 years ago
Push back: three tests on one lot is one lot. It tells you about that lot and almost nothing about the next one.
comment on data logger is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/coldchain · 27 points · 2 years ago
a summer lane and a winter lane are different lanes
comment on reading area percent threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/coa · 114 points · 2 years ago
Related substances itemised individually is a much stronger document than a single total, because it tells you the shape of the impurity profile rather than its size.
comment on help me understand below spec, I have read the wiki twice in c/labresults · 49 points · 2 years ago
MKM BPC, batch matched the paperwork, VendorInvestigate came back 97.9% against a claimed 97.0%. Paid for it myself, posting it because the log is only worth anything if people do.
comment on someone explain ice pack to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/coldchain · 11 points · 2 years ago
Which lane, and had it been quoted at that transit time?
comment on someone explain ice pack to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/coldchain · -14 points · 2 years ago
What was the packaging — rigid outer, gel packs, anything insulating?
The title is the whole question — someone explain ice pack to me like I have not read a paper in years — but here is why I am asking. Asked SGN which lines they hold…
comment on [PSA] excursion is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/coldchain · 0 points · 2 years ago
Lyophilisation removes the water that drives most degradation pathways. That is why the dry cake is comparatively robust and the reconstituted solution is not.
comment on [PSA] excursion is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/coldchain · 2 points · 2 years ago
Correction: that stability figure covers the lyophilised powder, not the reconstituted solution.
sterile_field_steph is right that the pack failing is not the material failing. Two separate claims.
comment on [Vendor] GL Biochem vs GGPeps on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.5% in c/coa · 0 points · 2 years ago
Yes — and the reason to ask for the whole page is that the interesting parts are the ones people crop out to fit a screenshot.
Agreed, and the practical version is: ask for the itemised table. If it exists, you get it.
comment on [Vendor] GL Biochem vs GGPeps on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.5% in c/coa · 35 points · 2 years ago
Cosigning. The batch identifier is load-bearing, and a certificate that cannot be tied to the vial in your hand is not about your vial.
comment on purity — 3 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/coa · 48 points · 2 years ago
Area percent is the peak area of your compound over the total integrated area, at one wavelength, on one gradient. It is a relative measure of what the detector saw, not a mass fraction of the vial.
comment on [Discussion] the area percent advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/coa · 507 points · 2 years ago
My first certificate had a compound name, a percentage and a logo. I thought that was normal. It is not, and now I know what to ask for.