Hi all, I’m new to this peptide/small molecule stuff. Little history. I’m 50 years old and have been training since I was about 12. I learned from all sorts of lifters and athletes in the beginning. Read a lot as my lifting moved forward. Never competed in anything. Just wanted to get stronger for sports. In December I started working with a PHENOMENAL coach who helped with nutrition/supplementation to help me get started on this journey. I was at 243 at the beginning of the journey. With better nutrition, an increase in zone 2 cardio a few times a week, HIIT one time a week and better weight training principles, worked my way down to 203 pounds (+/-2). Also included with supplements are peptides/small molecules. At this time I am incorporating 300mcg/week of retatrutide, 500mcg of SLU-PPP-332 pre-training, 50mg BAM-15 on non-training days, and 10mg of methylene blue 3x per week, 1g taurine and 200mg of glutathione once per week. I have had no ill effects with anything new that was incorporated. My main goal is body recomp while maintaining strength. Strength has been progressing during this phase. Alertness has been better, energy level has increased, and sleep quality has improved. I have been reading the posts in the community about maintaining cellular balance with cycling peptides/small molecules. I was looking into possibly adding in SS-31 on non-training days for repair function but am not sure where to start. I am not one to jump into these kind of things head first. With dialing in nutrition more, incorporating breathing drills, changing mindsets and trying to live with nature by sharing energy more and more daily for the last 6 years, I figured this could be the next step/path of the journey. The major question is with cycling SLU and starting point for SS-31, or any other suggestions that you all may have. I am not one who posts anything. I have only 1 social media account (Instagram - which I follow people in the fitness/health community). This is really out of my comfort zone.

Okay so you want to know what a migraine actually is. Not the "take a pill and lie down" version. The real version, what's happening inside the cells. Give me the length of this line and I'll walk you through the whole thing, top to bottom. And here's the punchline up front so you know where we're headed: a migraine is an energy crisis. That's it. Everything weird about it makes sense once you see that. Let me build it for you. Start with this pictureThink of your brain like a city that makes no electricity of its own and barely stores any. Power comes in on a wire, second to second. If that wire dims for even a minute, the lights start going out, and they go out in order of who's pulling the most current. That's your brain. It can't really store fuel, so it runs on just-in-time delivery of glucose and oxygen through your blood. Now, where does all that power go? You'd think it goes to thinking, right? Mostly it goes to one unglamorous job. There's a pump in every neuron, the sodium-potassium pump, and it burns something like half the cell's entire energy budget just holding the resting voltage steady. It shoves sodium out and drags potassium back in, all day, forever, against the current. So picture your neuron as a charged battery. Every thought, every flash of sensation, that's the battery discharging in a controlled way. And that pump is the charger. Keep that in your head, because a migraine is basically that battery going flat faster than the charger can keep up. The migraine brain starts closer to the edge Here's the thing most people miss. The migraine brain is different even when nothing hurts. Even on a good day.Two things are going on. First, the power plants, the mitochondria, run with less reserve. If you scan a migraine brain you see a thinner energy buffer than a normal brain, and these folks tend to run low on magnesium too. Think of it like a phone that always sits at 40 percent instead of 90. It works fine. It just has way less margin when something demands a sprint.