Sports medicine group finally asking the peptide questions most of us have been asking
Posted by runner_aaron in Healing & Recovery - 7 points, 6 comments.
This one is from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, and it is basically doctors admitting they keep getting asked about BPC, TB-500, growth hormone secretagogues, the whole lot, and they do not really have clean answers yet. A paediatric case apparently kicked off the discussion too, which tells you this stuff is leaking out of adult sport into younger people, and that worries me more than anything.
What I like is that they are not dismissing it, they are just saying the evidence is thin and the safety data is worse. That matches how it feels using these things in the real world. You see results, but you have no idea what you are not seeing. Has anyone here actually had a proper conversation with a sports doc about their stack, or do most of you just keep it off the table?
Comments
- grinder265: Yeah this tracks. The AOSSM thing reads like the field finally catching up to what people in gyms and on trails have been doing for years. Them owning that the evidence is thin and the safety data is even thinner is honestly more useful than another review paper handwaving it away. Ngl i have never brought it up with my sports med guy. He knows i run dumb distances and i have brought up random aches, but the actual stack stays in my notes app. Part of it is i do not want it in my chart, part of
- tiredmira: Yeah this is the exact problem. If your doc does not even know the dose range or what to watch on bloodwork, the conversation goes nowhere. I started bringing up one compound at a time and framing it around what i wanted to track, not what i was taking. Made it less awkward honestly.
- nerdydiego: I get that, mate. Keeping it out of the chart is a real consideration, especially if anything ever needs referencing later for insurance or referrals. Most of us in the clinic see the same quiet gap, people self-experimenting and only mentioning the half they are comfortable saying out loud. The "we do not know" answer is honest though, it is genuinely where the evidence sits.
- runner_aaron: Howzit. Yeah the chart thing is exactly why I keep quiet tbh, one referral and suddenly some orthopaedic surgeon is reading my notes sideways. Did you find the docs you work with land more on the cautious side or the "just tell me what you took" side when patients actually do mention it?
- runner_aaron: Tried that once with my GP, the framing around "what should we be tracking" angle, and it worked better than just blurting out the stack. He still got weird about the BPC mention though. Which compound did you lead with first, or did you just pick whatever was bugging you most at the time?
- runner_aaron: Yeah the "not in my chart" thing is exactly where I'm sitting too. It's one thing to chat to a mate about it, another to have it on file when you've got a kid at home and you're the one paying the medical aid. I have brought it up obliquely with a biokineticist I trust, more around recovery load than the actual compounds, and he just shrugged and said most of his runners are on something. Felt both reassuring and a bit bleak tbh. You said you run dumb distances, how far are we talking and have
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