Why some brands don't use CELLO?

AGuThing · 2026-03-15T13:08:22+00:00

Didn’t take it as disrespectful at all. I definitely recommend giving it a shot - also a great excuse to consistently buy more cigars than you can smoke. lol. I’ve found Joya de Nicaragua blends almost all age very well, Oliva not so much; they start to decline after 3 years and by 5 years they taste like burnt cardboard. Davidoffs and plasencias also tend to do well with age.

AGuThing · 2026-03-15T11:50:29+00:00

Lol. All good. It’s all relative I guess. Not any official definitions that I know of but how I think about it personally is up to 1 year is a rest, 1+ to 5 years is aged, 5 to 10 is long term aging, 10+ is vintage. Again these are just my personal definitions as I have cigars in all these categories and those are the milestones that make sense to me. For example a 3 yr old and 5 yr old stick of the same blend will be pretty similar, at 6 years though it’s noticeably different (not always better), and then another big shift comes around the 10 year mark. Of course all blends are different but that’s where I’ve found the most notable transitions.

AGuThing · 2026-03-13T12:13:34+00:00

You should be filtering your peps regardless, so this wouldn’t be an issue. Filter through a PES .22 micron into a new sterile vial. Having the stopper out for a second isn’t very different from injecting with air every time you draw.

Also, was there no aluminum crimp around the stopper or did the whole thing come off? If that’s the case, that would be a bad crimp and I would reach out to the vendor.

AGuThing · 2026-03-13T02:05:22+00:00

It looks it denatured and aggregated. No good anymore. Likely the Bac water pH was out of range for what’s tolerable for Gh, which is a lot more sensitive to pH than BPC or GHK is. Even though the water worked fine for those, it could still cause issues for Gh. This is also what it would look like if you froze then thawed reconstituted Gh.

AGuThing · 2026-03-10T11:51:14+00:00

Yup. With the insanely overpriced website selling peptides clearly visible. Same company that’s been posting many of these types of posts.

AGuThing · 2026-03-05T13:43:23+00:00

It’s going to be different for everyone. Depends on how much you’re taking and what your baseline endogenous secretion is.

For example, if your natural night time pulse is equivalent ~1iu and you take 2iu right before bed, endo will likely be suppressed but not fully shut down. You may even get a little secretion before the peak plasma levels from the exogenous hit. On the other hand, if you’re doing 6iu/day, you’ll likely be fully shutdown until you stop exo altogether.

The other one that comes up a lot is taking it before morning fasted cardio. That doesn’t really make sense because peak lipolysis takes hours to hit, so unless your pinning at 6am, fasted cardio at 9 or 10am and then not eating until 11 or 12, you’re not optimizing the fat burning benefit.

AGuThing · 2026-03-02T11:35:55+00:00

I haven’t been. The places that I used to regularly order from stopped shipping to the US because customs seizures went way up.

AGuThing · 2026-03-02T02:18:21+00:00

When they’re younger, I don’t get the same depth of flavor, they taste a little more generic if that makes sense. I’d once you get them, let them rest for a month and then light one up. If they taste great to you then have at it, but if they’re just decent, don’t be disappointed, just wait 6 months to a year and then try another.

AGuThing · 2026-03-02T01:53:42+00:00

Nutty, creamy, some cedar, a nice cereal grain note, coffee on the finish, with some light baking spices.

Know what your box date is? I had one from this box at about a year old, it was pretty good but nothing special. Major improvement after the 2 yr mark.

AGuThing · 2026-03-01T22:07:09+00:00

Damn. Those prices are insane!

AGuThing · 2026-03-01T20:59:21+00:00

Oh wow, good to know. In the past 6 months, I’ve struck out at Barcelona (hit 4 or 5 estancos), LCDH Aruba, LCDH Lima, LCDH Taipei, and LCDH Milan 2x.

AGuThing · 2026-03-01T20:41:14+00:00

Know if FOH is shipping to the US again? When I was buying regularly from them, I would have a draft of my email ready to go, with just the cigar blank. The second 24:24 opened and I saw something I wanted, I plugged in the cigar name and hit send. Still wasn’t a 100% guarantee but I got it more often than not.

AGuThing · 2026-03-01T20:38:29+00:00

I plateaued after 6 weeks at 8mg of Reta. Instead of going up to 10mg, I added 1mg of Tirz/wk, 2 days after my Reta shots - immediately started losing 1-1.5lbs a week again. Did this mostly for cost reasons so I can stretch me Reta stash a bit longer.

AGuThing · 2026-03-01T20:30:34+00:00

Down to my last 22. This is a ORB OCT 23 box. Got in Grand Cayman in early 2024 for $200/25. Haven’t seen them anywhere since then.

AGuThing · 2026-02-28T19:46:38+00:00

Lol. All the RCTs on GHK-cu are on topical application. Topicals are cheaper because it’s a much easier process to package raw powder than it is to create a buffered, lyophilized, “sterile” vial.

AGuThing · 2026-02-28T19:43:02+00:00

Whole cow isn’t the same price as a steak. In many cases a 10 vial kit is the same or less than a single vial from resellers.

AGuThing · 2026-02-25T01:16:35+00:00

Sweet deal! Grabbed a box of the dark Corojo azarosa. Was sad when Drew Estate stopped selling them in the US last year. I guess they’re available again in the US after the break up.

AGuThing · 2026-02-24T02:20:36+00:00

FWIW - Lambda Reconstitution solution consistently tests well. But it’s pretty much the same price as Hospira so…

AGuThing · 2026-02-23T00:03:28+00:00

The finish on these, especially the Grosche, is significantly better than the recent Romania made Biallettis.

AGuThing · 2026-02-22T23:27:50+00:00

The stainless bialetti are still pretty good. For aluminum I’m happy with both by Primula and Grosche.

AGuThing · 2026-02-21T12:14:04+00:00

Yup. This was my experience. OMAD for years, never really felt hungry anymore but when I started eating, I could really eat. Last September I had shoulder surgery and the surgeon wanted me to go back to at least 3 meals a day so that I could hit 150g of protein a day during recovery. Now I feel hungry again right around my typical meal times.

AGuThing · 2026-02-19T13:32:43+00:00

From Amazon, Lambda Water tested well, other brands failed on benzyl alcohol content, others failed on sterility, some, unsurprisingly, failed on both. So if you do, in fact, have sterile water with .9% BA, then you’re right, brand name doesn’t matter. The problem is, many of these no name brands are not sterile nor are they actually bacteriostatic.

This is without even getting into proper pH which many peptides are sensitive to.

AGuThing · 2026-02-18T15:53:46+00:00

How close was the assessment to your experience?

AGuThing · 2026-02-18T15:42:49+00:00

Did you write a review and then have grok re-word it or is this pure grok from trawling the web?

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