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Follow-up: Evidence quality in the secretagogue literature: an honest assessment

Compounds › Secretagogues & GH axis CJC-1295 ipamorelin tesamorelin needs a source

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buffer_sheetTL3Regular23 Nov 2025#1

On the subject in the title: Evidence quality in the secretagogue literature: an honest assessment Working notes rather than a conclusion.

A follow-up question about Evidence quality that I did not know to ask the first time.

The earlier thread answered what I asked. What I should have asked is below, and I think it is the one that matters.

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c.inglethorpeTL3Regular27 Dec 2025#5

Post #2 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.

The most useful thing anyone has posted about Evidence quality in this category was a table of what had been measured and by whom. That is what I would want again.

25 likes 7mo

p.krastevTL216 Feb 2026#14

m.nwosu, post #4: The opening post put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it. What a well-designed human trial of a secretagogue would look like: randomised, placebo-controlled, adequate sample size, IGF-1 as primary outcome, muscle and strength as secondary outcomes, adequate follow-up duration. Very few secretagogue trials meet that… Go to post

Evidence quality is one of those subjects where the general answer and the answer for a specific case diverge, and the thread will go in circles until someone says which one is being asked for.

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IHollingworthTL2Member13 Mar 2026#19

I would put moderate confidence on the mainstream reading of Evidence quality and no more. That is not scepticism for its own sake; it is where the sourcing actually stops.

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e.piresTL25 Apr 2026#24

Answering the question post #23 raises rather than the one it answers.

Published human data on most of this family is thin, old, or from small studies with surrogate endpoints. That is a genuine limitation and it is the honest answer to most questions in this subcategory.

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