25% Owner of @TrustPointe. Chemist, Engineer, Business Owner, Corporate Veep. Interests include Finance, Science, Entrepreneurship. Views are my own.

Grand Rapids, MI
Joined August 2022
I asked 30 Japanese 12-year-olds one question. "What do you think of when you hear 'America'?" (My nephew's teacher let me visit his class. I was not prepared.) "Hamburgers the size of my head." "Everything is big. Even the milk." "Cowboys." Then a boy asked me, "Do cowboys still exist?" I said yes. The whole class cheered. "They went to the moon." I told them only Americans have ever walked on it. The room went completely silent. Respect. "The best baseball in the world. Even Ohtani had to go there." "Superheroes. They all live in New York." Then a quiet girl in the back raised her hand. "My grandma says when the tsunami came, American soldiers came to help her town. She still has a photo with them on her fridge." Nobody said anything for a while. Then the teacher asked, "Who wants to go to America someday?" Every hand went up. Including the teacher's.
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Bought a 100mg GHK-Cu vial but it only fits 2–3mL of BAC water? Easy fix: 1. Order sterile empty vials (5 or 10mL) from Amazon 2. Reconstitute the GHK-Cu in its original vial with 2–3mL BAC 3. Transfer it to the larger vial with a fresh syringe 4. Add more BAC water to dilute to your target concentration Done ✅
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Replying to @JoshInProgress
I was unaware of your appetite for spice, sir. We'll go Thai hot the next time you're in town.
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Proof Point Analytical offers "identity testing" for your peptides. We had to identity-test the lab itself. Domain registered June 2026. Freedom Diagnostics’ testimonials with the names changed. A hospital pathology address. Full report: peptidecritic.com/lab-report…
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Josh retweeted
Excited to be collaborating with some of the best in the industry. Our goal is to keep raising standards and increasing trust
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We are excited to partner with the Res Labs team to bring better COA control and traceability to the peptide space! If you have any questions about how this works or how TrustPointe can help your business provide this new level of COA security, don’t hesitate to reach out.
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Introducing TrustPointe Quality+ Before you commit to a long-term peptide supplier, find out if they can actually hold spec. We send an auditor on-site during production, pull 30 vials off the line, and test them in our lab with fully validated methods. You get an FDA cGMP-based audit, ranked risks, and real capability data. Not just a COA. Details: trustpointeanalytics.com/pag…
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Replying to @JoshInProgress
Process capability on the fill line is the underrated ask. One COA vial is a snapshot; 20–30 assays from the same run is how you learn the range the line actually produces. Most retail buyers never see that dataset. Research context only.
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Replying to @JoshInProgress
Agree on the relative-response point. Pharma still reports area-% knowing response factors aren't 1.0 — the issue is when a vendor treats that single HPLC slice as the whole safety story. Identity + assay + endotoxin are still three different questions. Appreciate the chemist lens.
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Replying to @TrustPointe
30% off testing for a week…
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They both can be true. Sounds like it was a big bulk buy (and a group buy whatever the difference is) and I’d bet there are 2 or more production runs in the set of vials.
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You aren’t owed anything actually. The Supreme Court ruled in Flemming v. Nestor (1960) that you aren’t entitled to anything just because you paid into social security.
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Replying to @migs_sr
Millennial here. I’m willing to continue paying in to cover your generation. But in return I want it ended before my children start paying in.
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Replying to @JoshInProgress
i think none of these calculators take into account the effect pre-diabetes insulin resistance has on essentially slowing down metabolism in the obese. i can eat half of my TDEE and barely lose weight. but add in a GLP-1 which lowers blood sugar and cures IR and i actually do
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Josh’s 10 reported results span 108.6–138.6% of label claim. A one-vial result could have made this order look very different, depending on which vial was picked.
Replying to @JoshInProgress
I know someone asked for the raw assay values that went into content uniformity: 132.16% 133.22% 108.60% 132.23% 134.40% 134.58% 134.61% 138.63% 135.30% 132.33% Based on this data, the 108 looks like a special cause (although not that special since the vial used for the assay result was 107%)
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Replying to @JoshInProgress
it's really a problem of people not having cash to spend and wanting to finance almost every purchase, so they need to use credit cards. which is a payment system that is fundamentally incompatible with crypto because of the huge risks of chargebacks and stolen card info fraud
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Replying to @JoshInProgress
Seize these nuts
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Replying to @JoshInProgress
Don't forget about the people who are just putting API powder into vials under their $1500 flow hood in a garage.
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going to recommend you check out @AvaBRose33 for overseas direct... zero worries about bad items... good friend of mine.
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I’m not big on celebrating, but I like round numbers. So the first 5 people to respond will get a free 5-pack of your choice
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