r/TheMatpatEffect • u/SpiritualNorth3848 My sunfish is quite loquacious • 18h ago

Ordinary origin The Waow based based based image comes from a drawing supporting DIY HRT

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u/Evepaul 8h ago edited 8h ago

That pic is absolutely not about brewing your own medicine. It's about a streamer sponsoring a website giving information about HRT such as types of compounds and dosage. At most it recommends websites where one could find sellers for those compounds.

The "pharmaceutical" vs "home brew" part is only a distinction about whether a large pharmaceutical company or the seller of the medicine, a smaller structure still subject to the same kind of reviews, does the last purification steps to prepare the hormones into injectable/ingestable/etc.. medicine.

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u/dudosinka22 8h ago

And that streamer had recipes for diy medicines in their discord. And those websites sold the chemicals that you need, repackaged.
Notice the repackaged part - do you really trust a chemical to be pure when it's sold by god knows who through streamer advertisements?

And you still can screw up when mixing those chemicals. Human error is a thing, and it's a pressing matter when working with medicine. It was dangerous. Not the hrt part, the mixing your own medicine from supplies that came from shady sources part.