I placed an order about a week ago and paid for it the same day and I'm wondering how long it usually takes before the order is actually shipped out?
I understand international orders are going to take a number of weeks to get to me and that's fine I'm just curious how long before they stick it in the mail.
This is a long one, buckle in. It's worth a read I promise.
This is my personal experience only — not medical advice. Consult your own doctors, get labs, etc. Results vary wildly.
My Background
I was 35, married, and had 3 young children. I had suffered from uncontrollable year round allergies my entire life. I also had severe asthma that was poorly controlled even with Advair 50/500. I was severely depressed, had crippling anxiety, and was suffering from restless leg syndrome making restful sleep impossible. Doc put me on Klonopin to control the RLS, but that induced sleep apnea, so I started CPAP. My weight had exploded up to 265lbs. I felt like I was dying. I wanted to die. Everything was awful. Late one night I was debating which path I wanted to go down. One to end it abruptly, leaving my wife and 3 kids without me. One to try anything else, no matter how unconventional. I chose the latter.
I found a book called "The Optimal Dose" by Dr. Somerville. The book saved my life, quite literally. The book is about the importance of vitamin D and how "mega" dosing can cure or greatly improve many conditions. I quickly started on 30,000 IU D3 + 300mcg K2 MK7 daily (30,000IU sounds like a big scary dose but it's only 0.75mg so relax haha). Within a month my allergies and asthma were basically gone. My depression was starting to lift.
I stopped my allergy meds (Claritin & Flonase) and my allergies remained gone. When I say I had severe allergies I mean I tested positive for every environmental allergen they could test me for and nearly died due to anaphylactic reaction to the damn allergy tests! I had cured myself of asthma and allergies, something that my doctors told me was not possible.
With renewed motivation to heal myself I continued researching and started watching Dr. Eric Burg's YouTube channel. I learned about the keto diet & magnesium and decided to start supplementing and eliminate carbs from my diet. I ordered Calm brand magnesium powder and had a single serving (~330mg magnesium). Within a few minutes my entire body began to tingle and I felt a little euphoric. I can only assume I was extremely deficient and my body was thanking me. I sat on the sofa for an hour or two just buzzing all over. It was like a mild electric current was passing through my entire body in a very pleasant way.
I continued taking magnesium daily and noticed my sleep was improving. I started tapering off Klonopin (withdrawal was horrific and lasted for months in my case) and eventually got off of it entirely. A followup sleep study proved I no longer had sleep apnea. Goodbye CPAP! I had healed myself of a disease that was once again incurable.
So some vitamin D & magnesium cured me from severe allergies, asthma, restless leg syndrome, depression, and greatly improved my anxiety. So easy...in hindsight.
I spent the next few years learning more about diet, nutrition, supplements, reading and absorbing as much as I could.
My wife never suffered from any chronic health problems like I had, but she did have the unfortunate experience of having surgically induced menopause at age 38 and did not start HRT. This caused her weight to spiral, her mood, energy, and libido all went to hell.
Fast forward to today, my wife and I are both 43 and ready to unlock the next level of optimizing our health, together.
TRT/HRT and journey to peptides
Wife and I are both 43 and were sick and tired of being fat and exhausted. I’m 6' and started at 235 lbs; she’s 5'4" and started at 250 lbs. Four months ago we started TRT/HRT together, and WOW — what a difference it’s made. Mood, energy, mental clarity, libido — everything is rapidly moving into what we consider optimal territory for us.
I’m running 100mg testosterone cypionate every 3.5 days + 5mg Cialis daily. She has titrated up to a 0.075mg estrogen patch + 100mg progesterone nightly.
Despite feeling so much better we were both still fat and hungry all the time, so 2 months ago we both started tirzepatide.
Since then we've added in Klow, Motsc, Tesa & Ipa and are feeling the benefits. Better sleep, better energy, body aches less (especially my fucked lower back [diagnosed DDD in l5-s1]). I've also added 10mg Anavar to help boost free testosterone without increasing E2. I'm planning on adding Masteron to my TRT for 10 weeks , and then switching to Primo for 10 weeks some time later to see how my body responds (getting labs along the way of course).
A few weeks ago we talked and both felt that our sleep was still pretty fucked (definitely less fucked than it had been but still not "good"). We both also had experienced lingering brain fog (again it is much better after several months of TRT/HRT but not yet "good").
We start Semax next week, and have Glutathione, NAD, DSIP on the way and will both be following the same protocol for the foreseeable future.
*Yea I know its silly to use Glutathione 600 but my vendor was out of 1500 when I placed my last order, will switch over to 1500 vials in the future.
I'm also tired of looking like Casper the ghost so I'm also going to add in some Melanotan 1.
Peptide Doses & Schedule
Labs
Before TRT or Tesa+Ipa my baseline levels for some of my key markers:
Total Testosterone 500 ng/dl
Free Testosterone 70 pg/ml
E2 35 pg/mL
hsCRP 4.2 mg/L
IGF1 206 ng/ml
Z-Score 0.8 SD
at 10 weeks after TRT:
Total Testosterone 1200 ng/dl
Free Testosterone 270 pg/ml
Estrogen 70 pg/mL
Estrogen is little high and my bp has increased from 120/80 > 140/90. I'm hoping that as the fat comes off that estrogen drops as does my BP. I've got a follow up with my urologist in a few weeks and will chat with him about it.
I get some more followup labs in another week including my IGF1 to see how I'm responding to the Tesa+Ipa
Diet
I'm focused on hitting 150-200g protein a day, while wife is targeting closer to 100g a day. We eat very little other than meat, dairy, eggs, and whey protein. Rarely any carbs, occasionally some non-starchy veggies.
My morning coffee ritual has evolved to the following:
1 shot espresso
1/8 tsp pink salt
1/4 potassium citrate
1/4 tsp TMG
5g creatine
1 Tbsp psyllium husk
20g whey
Supplements
AM
multivitamin (sports research advanced)
magnesium glycinate 200mg
10,000 IU D3
100mcg K2 MK7
5-10 drops 2% lugols iodine
600mg liposomal vitamin C
1g fish oil
3mg boron
* I also take 5mg Cialis & a nitric oxide booster (hopefully will help a little with BP)
PM
magnesium taurate 200mg
L-theanine 200mg
*Occasionally 5mg melatonin and/or full spectrum CBD oil and/or THC depending on our mood
Summary
Overall we are both doing significantly better than we were 4 months ago before we started on this journey. Both of us have drastically improved mood, energy, libido, and sleep! We are both down in weight as well. Me: 235 > 220lb, Her: 250>238lb. We are starting to feel optimized and excited to live again. I'm stoked to see how this journey unfolds and what the coming months and years look and feel like for us. I'm blessed to have a partner who wanted to join me on this journey.
I'm curious to know about any other comprehensive stacks you all are following, why you are following them, and how you are doing? I'd love to hear feedback about our approach, if there are gaps we could fill, or if there are things you think we could drop.
Bigme, what are you doing!?!? Who is ask for this?
Just give us a hibreak pro 2 with a single eInk display and better internals and maybe upgraded eInk panels!
We love your devices because they are eINK. We do NOT want LCD or OLED displays.
I LOVE the Hibreak Pro Black and White , but the software is a little lacking and the internals (SOC, Ram, Storage, are a a little slow).
PLEASE give us android 16 on the existing hibreak pro devices and refine the software!
If you are having issues with Hey Google, Google Maps, or Android auto try out the versions below. As per Bigme support they are the latest versions that are stable on this device
Google : 17.10.61.ve (arm64-v8a + arm-v7a) (480dpi) (Android 12L+)
Google Maps: 26.09.03.873668274 (120-640dpi) (Android 12L+)
Android Auto: 16.4.661014-release (arm64-v8a) (120-640dpi) (Android 12L+)
You can unsintall the current versions from the play store. Then tap the 3 dots on the top right and turn off auto update. Finally head over to https://www.apkmirror.com and download the versions you need and install.
Hopefully Bigme starts listing the stable versions of these and other critical apps on their website soon or finds some other solution.
For context, I'm 43m, 6' 231 lbs 31% body fat (yeah I'm working on it and this is already quite an improvement for me).
I've been cooking food for several years almost exclusively in butter and my cholesterol markers were looking pretty horrible in January. Early march I decided to try just cutting out butter and moving to cooking exclusively in olive oil, and holy crap! What a HUGE improvement!
| Marker | January | Latest | Change | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Cholesterol | 261 mg/dL | 195 | ↓ 66 mg/dL | In Range |
| LDL-Cholesterol | 189 mg/dL | 130 | ↓ 59 mg/dL | Improved |
| Non-HDL Cholesterol | 213 mg/dL | 146 | ↓ 67 mg/dL | Improved |
| Triglycerides | 112 mg/dL | 68 | ↓ 44 mg/dL | Optimal |
| Total Cholesterol / HDL | 5.4 | 4.0 | ↓ 1.4 | Normal |
| HDL-Cholesterol | 48 mg/dL | 49 | ↑ 1 mg/dL | Normal |
Maybe this is already common knowledge, but it was news to me! Supper excited I found a tool to help correct these markers without resorting to RX meds.
