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Anyone out there running retatrutide and androgens?
I been on low dose reta for 2 months and dropped 10 pounds already. Currently 6' Tall and 183lbs .. best product I've spent money on in a long time. It does dig into muscle tissue as part of the weight loss so I was thinking of adding some S4 I have laying around to spare as much tissue as possible.
I'm not sure if it makes sense to add an injectable while on the reta? I'm thinking if I can torch the fat and get down to 175 then get off the reta and cycle back up to 185 with 100/100 of Prop and NPP, I'd look fucking good.
I know some people out there are cycling with reta and injectables.
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I've been running reta and successfully cutting BF in a pretty solid caloric deficit while still adding about 1.5% weight to each work out cycle across the board (more or less). To be fair, I'm high teens BF, so I have that extra energy storage to draw from, so it may not be possible to pull off if you are leaner.
Reta has been beautiful. I'm not a fan of the few extra beats per minute on my heart, as testosterone already raised that by 10 beats or so. But a little less BF and extra cardio will make up for the difference.
Are we sure it actually impacts muscle? I actually am noticing more consistent vascularity that would usually come and go at random. Now I go to the bathroom at night and see veins more prominent. If anything I feel it helps with muscle growth, but I’m on 500mg test and 4.5iu growth so idk
I think in theory improved insulin sensitivity could help with that right? Better carb/water/nutrient uptake into the muscle cells? I have been back on Reta for 1 fucking week and I am already seeing more definition and dropped a couple lbs. I was plateaued at 225+ for weeks and suddenly I am waking up around 221-223. Strength and energy is unchanged so far.
Yea I’ve noticed this really quick. I feel like my body is working better
My personal experience with retatrutide has been phenomenal. I ran 2.5mg a week split in two doses and didn’t experienced any sides until I decided to increase it to 4mg. I felt bloated and have some digestive issues for a few days.
2.5mg made me lose fat fairly easily. I don’t experience the appetite suppression people describe but the best effect I got was bloodwork wise. Glucose and cholesterol was always in check and I used to struggle a bit with that before.
If someone says they’re only on Reta here… c’mon, we both know this temple doesn’t have a single “natty priest.”
Eroids = AAS users, period. No such thing as a pure soul in this church.
Btw I’m on 7mg a week of Reta right now, microdosed daily.
Honestly? Feeling like I cracked the cheat code … steady energy, appetite in check, no rollercoaster sides. Running it with some test, mast, DHB, tossing in the odd little oral here and there… nothing extreme.
Just smooth sailing, feeling sharp and blessed.
Yep. Up to 7.5mg a week, breaking it down to m/w/f. I initially had good success with microdosing daily as well. PEDs are test and mast.
Reta at 6mgs and test 500mg a week. Lost 17 fat pounds in 10 weeks and put on a solid amount of muscle. Running reta for the forseable future as it crushed my unbearable food noise. Changed my damn life. Probably run 3mgs for maintenance on cruises once I get to 12% bf. Lowered my glucose from 94 to 70 and LDL cholesterol 122 to 92. .
Any issues with nausea, appetite suppression or bloating? Thinking to add this to cut stack late Spring.
If you titrate up correctly, not too fast, and don't pig out on cheat meals filled with greasy, sugary, bad fats in large amounts. No. Everyone is different. If I have junk food on high doses, I'll be up all night feeling like a demon is tearing out my insides. I get wild appetite suppression and have to remember to eat all my meals and get full too quickly above 6mgs.
Right here with you. Currently running 4.5mg/wk M/W/F split and I just don’t see a reason to ever come off. Bulk? Taper down 1-2mg/wk. Cut? Up it to wherever. Cruise? Same as bulk.
I just don’t see the cons of completely coming off in the foreseeable future…
Same, I bought a 5 year supply and no plans to stop at the moment. It's significantly lowered my LDL into the 80s and stays there regardless of the amount of gear I take and keeps glucose low. I'll run 3-4mgs on blasts so I can get my calories in and 6-8mgs when I need to shed some pounds.
I feel like the biggest benifit to reta for me has been Cholesterol. Even at very low dose around 1mg - 1.5mg I ace my cholesterol.
Thanks for the insight! I just started it yesterday at 1mg. Not really looking to go crazy with it.
That's about the dose I run. 2mg when I want to cut hard then I'll cruise on .5
Yep Im the same. I never go above 2mg. As Ive said other times I never understand bumping up to 4mg or 8mg if you have results at 2mg.
I've ran up to 8mg a week while on test/primo/mast/tren, ive tried daily injecitons, every 5 days, every 3 days, once a day, all the options. Here's a breakdown of reta for me. It's a fantastic peptide when it comes to your lipids and glucose, it is a moderate fat burner, moderate at quieting food noise, low to moderate appetite suppression compared to all the other GLPS. It has a very tricky sweet spot when it comes to appetite. It can make you feel extremely tired as you increase the dose about 24hours later. You can really feel the reta appetite button activate, you take about 6 bites of your meal, and bam you feel like you just ate a pound of rice, and that's where it stops. You can eat through it, the feeling doesnt keep increasing, its a switch, and as soon as you hit that switch, you feel like that for about 6 hours. If you double the dose, you double the feeling but it does not double the hunger suppression. You can be hungry asf, but the second you eat a few bites of food your stomach has a brick in it, but you're still hungry. You feel very uncomfortable. When I tried 8mg in one shot, I couldnt even drink water without feeling like I was going to blow up. But I was hungry. How the stomach felt vs my hunger felt was not equal. And androgens make you incredibly hungry. In comes Tirzepatide, moderate fat burning, excellent appetite suppression, does nothing for lipids and glucose. On just 2mg of Tirz by iteself, I was not hungry at all, and the moment I ate a meal, I felt completely normal, I didn't feel like a block was in my stomach like reta. The perfect combo I've found is 1mg reta 1mg Tirz MWF. This made me have no appetite all day from Tirz, enjoy each meal once I started eating, feel full as soon that Reta button is activated, and reap the benefits of both. I was trying to use Reta for appetite suppression and it wasn't working because the more I increased the dose the larger the concrete block got in my stomach but I was still hungry, I tried to use Tirz but as soon as I ate a meal it didnt give me that full feeling, combine the two and it was perfect. No appetite, feel full whether I had 1 bite or finish the meal. If I'm having dinner with family I can eat through the Reta feeling without thinking my stomach was going to explode. Since androgens make you hungry asf, and if you try to use reta to manage that hunger you will run into the problem I did. Tren makes me devour everything, reta couldn't tackle the tren hunger but a glass of water made me want to die, Tirz couldnt handle Tren because even though I wasn't hungry we still need our meals and the second I started eating I could eat an entire kitchen I never felt full. Combine the two and the hunger from androgens was silenced. And the low dose made it cheap for me to run. I've dropped calories as low as 1600 each week, 400g carbs 0protein 0fat, and the fat loss shined. You're not going to lose muscle on a tren/mast/primo/test stack, you definitely wont build any muscle, but the fat just melts off daily and the muscle you spent all year bulking just pops out like magic. You don't need 24 weeks of cutting with this combo, 4 weeks and you're there. Just be prepared for the rebound, manage your thyroid, all that jazz.
Good shit. I just get fatigued so much on 2mg of reta that it's hard to workout so I feel like I'm wasting oils if I inject. Maybe I should do .5-1 on cycle and 2mg off cycle
Nick walker does it
What dose reta you running. Been thinking of adding it just to try my self
2mg when I want to go hard... then ill cruise in .5 when I want to take a break. 2+ MG fatigue starts and makes it really hard to work out but weight comes off fast af. This is why I'm not sure running an injectable is worth it but dude above is doing it.
It has a long list of benefits even at a low dose since it's a tripple agonist. It's improving insulin sensitivty, glucose management, lipids improve, so for bulking you can do 1mg every 5 days and it shouldn't cause any fatigue or hunger or appetite suppression. I think .5mg was the lowest dose you need for lipid improvement and 1mg for improving insulin sensitivty. But the tests were done on people with diabetes who already had insulin sensitivity issues so it could be different for someone who is healthy.
Ya the reta fatigue is no joke. It went away for me when I switched to 1mg twice or three times a week instead of 3mg once a week.
You didn't feel it was a waste of oils and did you get any panels done on this stack? The closer I get to my target weight the more likely I'll be to jump back on cycle.
If I can't go to the gym then that's a waste to me. I haven't experienced that yet, I just felt fatigued and anoyed but if that ever happened for sure I'm stopping the GLP.
Apparently a lot of BBers do it to stay lean even into off season.
I am on reta and cycling with test, deca, and tren after tren in a few weeks I will switch to Primo. Been on reta for a month, I notice I am losing weight and leaning up and I am still building muscle because every time I eat I eat protein. That is the key to not losing muscle on reta, the little bit you eat you need to be eating a protein. I boil eggs, tuna, chicken, nuts, some seafood, mix of peanut butter and protein with a banana and I will try to put in some carbs here and there.
X2 what dose of reta? I get fatigued on 2+MG to the point it's hard to get a good work out. That's why I might wait until after to run some oils.
Try breaking it up to twice a week but in my experience being on Test/gear, I have plenty of energy to hit the gym and all while on reta. I do crash hard when I sleep though.
Gunna have to try that. Needs some adjusting.
What dose of reta?
I run 2.5mg of reta a week, it works perfect.