The reason I said this is because I, like you, “[didnt want] to fuck with my natural gh levels yet.” I did both pharma and ugl peptides, and I’d bet huge sums of money the compounding pharmacies are buying their peptides directly from the same Chinese manufacturers as the ugl.
There is no evidence that gh secretagogue peptides don’t have long term implications on your natural gh levels. There just simply aren’t any long term medical studies on humans showing no change to your pituitary. All the combined medical research into all gh secretagogue peptides altogether likely amount to like 2-3% the amount or medical research into gh. Imo you are taking a bigger gamble with secretagogue peptides in comparison to rhGH just simply because there has been so much more study of rhGH, which is shown to be relatively safe even when used at surprisingly large doses (serostim testing was done at 16 or 18iu a day and approved by the fda iirc).
The impact of gh secretagogues on your body goals will just simply pale in comparison to good old rhGH. I tried ipa and mod grf for 7 months, and saw significantly better results in under 2 months of gh use. Gh peptides can also be pricy as hell unless you’re going through the manufacture (especially compared to a compounding pharmacy which is highway robbery).
GH will cost you less over the long haul and get you further safer imo.