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Functional medicine insights, treatment guides, and health education from the Med Matrix team.
The standard tirzepatide dose chart climbs from 2.5 mg to 15 mg in six steps, about four weeks apart. What each dose actually does, why the starter dose barely moves the scale, and how to convert mg to units if you are drawing from a compounded vial.
The semaglutide chart climbs from 0.25 mg to 2.4 mg in five steps, about four weeks apart. What each dose is actually for, why the starter dose barely moves the scale, and how to convert mg to units if you are drawing from a compounded vial.
Sermorelin has no approved label, so every protocol you find is a pharmacy's own. What the published ranges are, why they disagree with each other, and how to work out the micrograms sitting in each unit mark after you reconstitute a vial.
A pellet is inserted in a short office procedure and releases hormone steadily as it dissolves. The trade nobody leads with is that once it is in, the dose cannot be adjusted until it wears off. What that means in practice.
No state issues a license called hormone therapist. Here are the credentials that do exist, the ten questions worth asking on a first call, and the answers that tell you to keep looking.
Premenopause is not one of the stages clinicians actually name, and the loose version sends women home to wait. What actually moves you from one stage to the next.
Prescriptions are easier to get than they were. A baseline panel is not automatic. Here is what belongs on one, and what to ask for if you already started.
Most creatine research was done in young men. Here is what the women's research actually shows, and why we will not publish a dose in a blog post.
Pharmacists have listed estradiol patches as short since January. The FDA has not. Here is what is actually going on and what to do before you run out.
Most people regain about a kilogram a month after their last dose. The newest data shows how fast it happens and what actually changes the outcome.
Retatrutide outperformed tirzepatide in trials. It is also unapproved, unavailable, and openly sold online anyway. Here is how the two actually compare.
Semaglutide weighs 4,113 daltons. Nicotine, the classic patch drug, weighs 162. That size gap is the entire reason a GLP-1 patch cannot work, plus what does.
Fluid, a slower metabolic rate, less movement, and lost muscle. That's what an underactive thyroid does to your middle, and a TSH test alone won't show it.
