I had an MRI last year, because I hurt my shoulder badly. The MRI showed the following in very brief detail: MRI reading last year: Severe tendinopathy in the long head distal portion of the biceps; labrum was diffusely torn; superspinatus, infraspinatus, and subscapularis all had mild to moderate tendinopathy with edema. ————————— My shoulder was unbelievably painful. It healed a bit over the next 2 months… but after the two months, it was never really the same. My shoulder would do weird shit in the morning, during the day and at night. I couldn’t bench or overhead press anymore, or at least the way that I wanted to. I was limited to just back work, and very, very limited at tricep work due to the bicep tendon. I had to be very careful on my bicep work, because if I did hammer curls, I would out of commission for like a week, that bicep tendon would be so angry with me. It was bad. And even some of the back work I had to be careful with. My training was very limited upper body wise. My body still looked good despite my size, but I was grossly weak…and I fucking hated it About a year in, I threw in the towel. At this point, I had chronic shoulder pain, and I wanted to do something about it because I was tired of being in pain, and my upper body training being mundane and boring. The following was my protocol: Injections with insulin needle: BPC-157: 1000 mcg/1 mg - 5 weeks TB-500: 1000 mcg/1mg - 5 weeks Cartalax: 1000 mcg/1 mg - 5 weeks Oral: Sigumir: 2 capsules a day: 30 days The Result: My shoulder healed nearly 90%….I still have very mild discomfort every so often… but it is almost unnoticeable. I was finally able to bench again. And as a sidenote, every time I benched either with dumbbells or a barbell my affected side would severely lag towards the last few reps and my bicep tendon would be incredibly inflamed and painful thereafter. Now, I have either zero or very minimal lag when I bench. And zero or very minimal discomfort residual post benching pain. I am approaching a 455 bench hopefully by the end of July.

I now take 20mg before bed 4 times a week but still the sluggishness and desiring to sleep mid day is still there. Yesterday after 8 hours of good sleep I took a nap 7 hours later lol of 2 hours with a vivid dream. Anything I can take to combat this and whats the cause? I am taking all the vitamins like vit d, zinc, magnesium creatine etc .

Is it safe to stack NAD+ to increase my energy levels whilst on Reta?.

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One thing I keep running into with clients is hematocrit creeping up… What's the highest hematocrit you've ever seen on your own labs? And what actually worked to bring it down? Therapeutic phlebotomy? Donation? Changed your protocol? Real data saves lives. Drop your number and what you did.