have you ever tried HGH? I went to tesa because HGH gave me unwanted sides.
Also what time of day to you workout and why IPA post workout?
Sorry for the delayed responses! The last few weeks got away from me.
-I did not measure my baseline, unfortunately. I am tall at 6'5", but I don't have acromegaly or something so I've thought it reasonable to assume I don't have abnormally high or low baseline igf-1. I just didn't grab that data point. My b.
-Ive seen lots of protocols in the experimental space that suggest tesa in the morning at 1mg, but the instructions I read for Egrifta (the fda approved version/intended purpose of tesa) said before bed. Mechanistically, this aligns with the body's biggest pulse of gh. But ghoul be correct because tesa acts primarily on the overall amplitude and production of gh, not necessarily just triggering peaks. Night time, about 30 min to 1 hour before bed works better for me.
-I have not tried straight GH and I'm still on thr fence about it. I appreciate the stimulation of the HPT rather than bypassing it and possibly shutting it down. My reading of the literature is more that tesa and ipa work synergistically to increase the amplitude of endogenous GH pulses. Tesa doing the heavy lifting, presumably. I understand it's not like test, and the feedback loop shutdown from exogenous likely doesn't need any kind of pct to self-resolve, especially at my age, but I was being more cautious about entirely bypassing my body's natural balancing mechanisms when I decided to play with it.
-I typically start a workout anytime between 11am-1pm. Workouts usually last around 1.5 hours.
-This is mostly based on extrapolation and mechanistic reasoning, but I do ipa after a workout to increase the peak of gh during the (hotly debated) anabolic window. I will pin immediately after a workout, then have my biggest meal about 30-40 minutes after. Ipa has a short half life, but by 30-40 minutes I imagine it's done what it needs to and triggered a larger spike in gh and subsequent igf-1
-I'd love to see other's bloodwork! I think that it is still very relevant to get bloodwork done even without the initial data point because we do have reference ranges based on age, and we can get an idea of where we are compared to the norm. Anything above the norm will be an indicator of increased hpt output and subsequent effects.
-Im going for 60 days straight in this protocol, letting it clear, and then getting post bloodwork. After that, I'll be planning the next cycle for a few months later. Im currently cutting, so I think starting it during a late winter bulk will be really interesting in terms of mass gains.
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