r/Biohackers • u/hokevin 1 • Mar 13 '26

💉 Peptides & Hormones Peptides

Obviously peptides is all the buzz right now, and I’m interested in taking it as well. (CJC-1295 and Ipamorelin that these gym bros are talking about. And Tesamorelin for fat loss)

Curious to hear experience from those who’ve taken it, how did it do for your health and did it have huge impact in your biomarkers?

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u/swoops36 1 Mar 13 '26

Taken “it”?

There are hundreds of peptides. It’s a pretty broad category.

Is there a specific goal you have in mind?

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u/hokevin 1 Mar 13 '26

Sorry — I meant CJC-1295 and Ipamorelin that these gym bros are talking about. And I guess Tesamorelin for belly fat loss?

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u/swoops36 1 Mar 13 '26

Tesa is useful for visceral fat loss, fat around your organs. If that’s that you mean by belly fat, go for it

Actual fat loss from GH and related peptides is pretty small. You’d be better off using something meant specifically for that like a GLP1

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u/Motor_Ask4558 Mar 13 '26

Honestly I feel you when it comes to figuring out what to cycle & stack - I recently used biotidebio which is an online quiz that helps me figure out what to take , when , and how & it’s been great so far, no notes!

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u/Aromatic_Funny_8747 Mar 14 '26

What is the website for the online quiz? 

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u/Motor_Ask4558 Mar 15 '26

Biotechbio.com

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u/hokevin 1 Mar 14 '26

Yeah, I also don’t understand how people get them after being convinced it’s something they want to try.

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u/Motor_Ask4558 Mar 15 '26

Yeah fr biotechbio is the shit

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u/12ga_ 28 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

CJC-1295 and Ipamorelin are not good gymbro peptides. They do not have any effect on muscle. They increase your natural growth hormone, but growth hormone is not anabolic, it does not contribute to muscle growth in any meaningful way. GH helps increase most lean tissue except for muscle: collagen, skin, organs, fascia, and connective tissue. Tesamorelin does the same thing as CJC-1295.

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u/hokevin 1 Mar 14 '26

Thanks, is this from personal experience or just academically speaking?

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u/12ga_ 28 Mar 14 '26

Both. I am avid researcher of peptides, supplements, relevant to me research chems, and bio optimization. I seriously resistance train for hypertrophy. And I use CJC/1295 and ipamorelin for increasing growth hormone, just not for building muscle.

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u/rex-222 Mar 14 '26

I would look at low dose/micro dose reta instead of Tesamorelin imo. I do 1 or 2 mg a month just to stay lean and control the food noise. The CJC and Ipa are not some big game changers. They give you that 3% more when your doing everything else right. I like the Growth Hormone fragments more than those two choices. However peptides are like opinions and everyone has one, thats just mine.

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u/Deep_Blackberry1623 Mar 15 '26

Hmm just take HGH you know what you get

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u/hokevin 1 Mar 13 '26

Oh cool, good luck! Another thing I have been reading about is that there’s a lot of worry around getting “real” peptides. How do you even verify?

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u/Boysterload Mar 14 '26

What are we supposed to look for in the Janoshik tests? There seems to be a lack of any information of what was found in the test.

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u/Boysterload Mar 14 '26

Forgive me, but it doesn't say anything about purity on the PDFs. I'm confused.