The gentlest way to raise your own growth hormone. It gives you a clean GH pulse for deeper sleep, faster recovery, and lean muscle, without the hunger, cortisol, or prolactin spike of harsher GH compounds. The easiest first step into GH optimization.
Your starting dose
5 to 10units
500 to 1000 mcg
Once a day
Your insulin syringe is marked 0 to 100. That whole line is 1 mL. Draw to the 5 to 10 mark.
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The protocolHow to mix it, how much to draw, and how long a vial lasts.
The numbers
Vial10 mg
Mix with1 mL BAC water → makes 100 mcg = 1 unit
Dose5 to 10 units (500 to 1000 mcg)
FrequencyOnce a day
TimingPM before bed, fasted (empty stomach), under the skin
Cycle8 weeks on / 4 weeks off
Units made simple: your insulin syringe is marked 0 to 100. That whole line = 1 mL. Just draw to the 5 mark, that's 500 mcg, your starting dose. Want the full pulse? Draw to 10 (1000 mcg). No math.
How long one bottle lasts
At 500 mcg 5u~20 days
At 1000 mcg 10u~10 days
One 10 mg vial = 100 units total (10,000 mcg). It's dosed daily, so at the 500 mcg starting dose a bottle runs about 20 days, plan on 4 to 8 bottles for a full 8-week cycle.
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What it doesWhat you get, how it does it, and what to know before you run it.
What it does
The clean pulseIts headline edge, it raises your GH with zero cortisol, zero prolactin, and zero hunger spike. It's the most selective GH peptide ever made, which is why it's the one to reach for in a fat-loss phase where hunger matters.
Deeper sleepAround 70% of your GH releases in deep sleep, restoring that nightly pulse deepens it. Almost always the first thing people feel.
Lean recompIGF-1 drives protein synthesis and better nutrient partitioning, lean muscle plus fat loss, without going near steroids or HGH.
Skin and anti-agingThe GH→IGF-1 collagen halo, better skin quality and firmness. The "looks good, not just jacked" lane.
Your own GHIt asks your pituitary to pulse naturally, no shutdown, no PCT, the opposite of injecting HGH.
How it works
Ipamorelin is a highly selective ghrelin-receptor mimic (GHSR1A). It tells your pituitary to release a pulse of your own growth hormone, while barely touching prolactin or cortisol, and with none of the ravenous hunger of harsher GH agents. It also releases somatostatin, your body's GH "off-switch", so it doesn't just fire GH, it lifts the brake, which is why it multiplies the pulse when stacked with a GHRH. Because it's a secretagogue (your own GH) and not injected HGH, it actually improves insulin sensitivity instead of hurting it. Think of it as the clean, precise pulse, a sniper, not a grenade.
What to know before you run it
It's the "clean" one on purpose. Older GH peptides (GHRP-2/6) drag up cortisol and make you ravenous. Ipamorelin was the first selective GH secretagogue, it fires GH cleanly even at doses far past what's needed, without spiking those.
It's a ghrelin mimic that doesn't make you hungry. Ghrelin is your hunger hormone, but Ipamorelin is selective enough to skip the appetite cascade entirely. That's a big deal on a cut.
Your pituitary stays in charge. It fires a discrete pulse your body can regulate, so you can't "flood" yourself the way injected HGH does. Injected HGH shuts your own production down ~89% in a month; this does the opposite.
Why it's usually paired. Ipamorelin is the "valve", pair it with a GHRH (CJC-1295, Sermorelin, or Tesamorelin) for the "pressure," and the two receptors fired at once give a much bigger pulse than either alone.
Weak alone, strong stacked: pair it with CJC-1295 or Tesamorelin (a separate GHRH receptor) for roughly 40% more GH than Ipamorelin by itself, complementary, not overlapping.
Run it fasted, PM before bed, it rides your natural overnight GH surge for the deepest sleep and recovery.
If you retain water, the dose is too high. Drop it and titrate back up slowly, more is not better here.
Priming with BPC-157 raises GH-receptor expression, so your tissue responds better to the same pulse.
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How to run itMixing, injecting, what to eat, and what to take alongside it.
Mixing and injecting
Mix: add the 1 mL of BAC water slowly down the side. Swirl gently, never shake.
Store: in the fridge after mixing.
Inject: into belly fat, ~2 inches from your belly button. Pinch, go straight in, push slow. Rotate the spot, fresh pin every time.