N=1 After 40

Experiment ledger

Experiments

A running record of what I am testing, what worked, what did not, and what I decided not to run. Personal observations and research decisions, not protocols or instructions to copy.

Current Experiments

Current

ApoB / LDL / HDL / triglycerides

September 2026

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At 15 mg every morning while fasted, do the lipid effects reported in human Cardarine trials show up in my bloodwork?

Why it matters: The first Cardarine run produced no meaningful endurance, training-feel, or recovery benefit. This new run asks a different question: whether ApoB, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides change. The earlier no-signal result remains a separate completed record.

Current

Visual fat loss / body composition

September 2026

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At 5 mg every morning while fasted, does the clear visual body-fat reduction from the earlier run repeat, including the stronger response during the first two weeks?

Why it matters: The first run was helpful: body fat visibly decreased without an acute training effect. This repeat records the early response and whether it slows again, using visual comparisons, waist, and weight trend while the current metabolic routine remains part of the context.

Current

Energy / training output / recovery

September 2026

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Does 1,000 mg every other day post-workout help maintain energy and training output alongside ATX-304, SANA, and BAM15?

Why it matters: Carnitine participates in mitochondrial fatty-acid transport. The experiment asks whether greater availability helps in this routine, with usable energy and subsequent training performance as the main readout. It replaces the earlier oral L-tartrate fat-loss proposal.

Current

Vigilant attention / mental clarity / cognitive fatigue

September 1, 2026 (dosing September 15)

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After a 14-day measurement baseline, does 2.5 mg/day of oral TAK-653 add a repeatable improvement in vigilant attention, mental clarity, sustained engagement, or cognitive fatigue on top of stable Bromantane use without worsening sleep, blood pressure, anxiety, activation, or headache?

Why it matters: TAK-653 is a selective AMPA-receptor positive allosteric modulator with demonstrated human target engagement and a positive Phase 2 depression signal, but little direct evidence of cognitive enhancement in healthy people. This experiment uses one fixed pre-dose three-minute morning vigilance test, evening subjective ratings, WHOOP sleep, and blood pressure while excluding Modafiendz and other new cognitive interventions.

Current

Metabolic rate / body composition / training economy

August 26, 2026

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At the current 400 mg/day exposure, split into two 200 mg oral doses, does ATX-304 produce a meaningful change in body composition or metabolic markers, and what happens to exercise energy, training quality, temperature, heart rate, and recovery?

Why it matters: ATX-304 combines broad peripheral AMPK activation with increased mitochondrial proton leak. Early human research reported changes in resting metabolic rate, liver fat, visceral fat, triglycerides, and adiponectin, but it did not establish weight-loss efficacy or athletic performance in healthy trained people. This experiment records whether that metabolic signal becomes personally observable while the overlap with other active metabolic compounds remains explicit.

Current

Vesugen / Lys-Glu-Asp

Vascular function / circulation

August 24, 2026

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Across a 30-day run at 1 mg per day by subcutaneous injection, does Vesugen produce a repeatable change in blood pressure, resting heart rate, circulation, erectile function, exercise tolerance, or general well-being?

Why it matters: Small oral studies reported changes in arterial blood flow and lipid markers, while subcutaneous use comes from community protocols rather than a validated clinical regimen. This experiment tests whether the selected exposure produces a meaningful personal signal while objective vascular measures and tolerability are tracked.

Current

Fat loss / body composition

August 24, 2026

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Does 1,500 mg/day of oral BAM15, split between post-workout, after the daily large meal, and before sleep, produce a meaningful fat-loss or body-composition result without an unacceptable change in temperature, resting heart rate, training performance, or recovery?

Why it matters: BAM15 directly reduces mitochondrial calorie-to-ATP efficiency and produced a strong, repeatable fat-loss signal in mouse models. The exposure was titrated upward to pursue greater benefit, and the first dose moved from after waking to post-workout after the earlier timing produced low training energy.

Current

NP Thyroid

Daily energy / weight-loss rate

August 2026

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Does prescribed NP Thyroid at 15 mg daily produce a repeatable change in daily energy or alter the rate of weight loss?

Why it matters: The experiment tracks the response to beginning a fixed, prescriber-directed dose rather than testing dose escalation. Energy is the primary subjective outcome, while the established weight trend will show whether the rate of weight loss changes after NP Thyroid is introduced.

Current

Exercise energy / cardio capacity / training output

August 20, 2026

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Does 20 mg of oral SLU-PP-915 after waking produce a repeatable improvement in exercise energy, cardio capacity, or training output, with weight loss as a secondary result?

Why it matters: SLU-PP-915 is an orally active pan-ERR agonist that increased aerobic exercise capacity and mitochondrial exercise-response markers in mice. The experiment tests whether that preclinical energy story becomes a repeatable training result, while also watching weight and body composition.

Current

Fat loss / body composition

August 14, 2026

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After titrating through lower exposures, does 400 mg/day of SANA (MVD1), split between after waking and before sleep, produce a visible fat-loss or body-composition result?

Why it matters: CL-316243 produced a helpful visual fat-loss result through a beta-3 adrenergic approach. SANA tests a different thermogenic mechanism built around creatine-dependent energy expenditure rather than a perceptible stimulant effect or appetite suppression.

Current

Vilon / Lys-Glu

Recovery / immune resilience / sleep

August 6, 2026

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During a seven-day run at 10 mg per day, does it produce a repeatable change in recovery, immune resilience, inflammation, sleep, or general well-being?

Why it matters: This is a short thymic-peptide experiment built around claims involving immune aging, T-cell signaling, and gene-expression changes. The useful test is whether anything measurable or consistently noticeable changes during the run.

Current

Hair retention / shedding

August 2026

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Can a topical androgen-receptor blocker slow visible shedding or improve hair retention without scalp irritation or signs of systemic antiandrogen exposure?

Why it matters: It avoids the specific 5-alpha-reductase issue created by finasteride or dutasteride alongside nandrolone. It earns value only if standardized comparisons show better hair retention without scalp irritation or a systemic antiandrogen signal.

Paused Experiments

Paused

Thermogenic response / fat loss

August 22, 2026

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The evening six-capsule Cyclean AM exposure produced a pronounced thermogenic response, but it also left me feeling cold and made sleep difficult. That made the before-sleep timing unsuitable.

Question still open: Can rauwolscine produce a useful thermogenic and fat-loss result in a time slot that does not interfere with sleep?

Next step: Rauwolscine is off the Daily Stack for now. The one-month weight and fat-loss question remains unanswered, and I may resume the experiment after choosing a different time slot.

Completed Experiments

Experiment Outcome Tested For Completed
Cerebrolysin Helpful Mental clarity / energy / emotional regulation September 2026
SLU-PP-332 No signal Cardio efficiency / training capacity / recovery August 2026
PQQ + Ubiquinol Mixed Energy / recovery / cardio efficiency August 2026
Astaxanthin No signal Screen-related eye fatigue / eye comfort August 2026
NAD+ No signal Energy / fatigue / recovery / mental clarity August 2026
Seltorexant / JNJ-42847922 Helpful Sleep continuity / total sleep duration August 2026
CL-316243 Helpful Fat loss / body composition August 2026
Cartalax Helpful Joint movement / knee clicking July 2026
Bromantane Helpful Mood stability / stress tolerance August 2026
MOTS-C No signal Training energy / output August 2026
Nicotinic Acid Not effective Lp(a) reduction July 2026
AOD-9604 No signal Fat loss / body composition July 2026
Beetroot Nitrate Not effective Training blood flow / pump July 2026
Mirodenafil Helpful Training blood flow July 2026
SS-31 / Elamipretide Inconclusive Mitochondrial repair / fatigue July 2026
Cardarine (GW501516) No signal Endurance / fuel use June 2026
Tadalafil Intolerable Blood flow / longevity June 2026
Epicatechin No signal Muscle / myostatin June 2026
Plant Sterols Improved ApoB / LDL-C / total cholesterol January 2026
Green Tea Extract Supportive Lipids / glucose January 2026
Artichoke Extract Mixed ApoB / LDL-C / liver markers January 2026
Multivitamin Improved Folate / vitamin B12 November 2022
Omega-3 Supportive hsCRP / inflammation November 2022
How outcome labels are used
Helpful
Clear enough personal benefit to keep or revisit.
Improved
An objective marker moved in the intended direction.
Supportive
The result supports a benefit within a larger stack or pattern.
Mixed
Benefits and tradeoffs coexisted, or results were inconsistent.
No signal
An adequate test found no detectable meaningful change.
Not effective
The primary outcome was measured but did not improve.
Inconclusive
The trial could not answer the question with confidence.
Intolerable
A side effect or tradeoff ended the experiment.
Stopped
Ended before a more specific outcome could be assigned.

Not Run

Candidates researched and ruled out before testing.

Candidate Considered For Decision Date
LL-37 Wound healing / recovery Not run August 2026
Meldonium / Mildronate Body recomposition / performance Not run August 2026
Chlodantane Mood / stress tolerance Not run August 2026
FOXO4-DRI Longevity / senolytic Not run August 2026
DIHEXA Cognition / neuroplasticity Not run August 2026

Research Queue

Queued

YM-178 / Mirabegron

Thermogenesis / body composition / glucose regulation

September 2026

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An oral beta-3 adrenergic receptor agonist with human evidence of brown-fat activation and improved glucose handling. A four-week study at 100 mg per day reported increased brown-fat activity and insulin sensitivity, but no change in weight or body composition. The distinction between thermogenesis and a visible fat-loss result is what makes this worth investigating.

Why it is interesting: My planned experiment is 100 mg per day for four weeks, after the CL-316243 experiment finishes, with no overlap between the two. It remains queued, with no start date or results yet. The matching human study used extended-release tablets; 100 mg is above the approved adult maximum of 50 mg, and increased heart rate and blood pressure were reported. Dose, formulation, and monitoring need prescriber review before starting.

Queued

Actovegin

Mental clarity / sustained focus / cognitive fatigue

September 2026

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An oral deproteinized calf-blood preparation discussed in nootropic communities for mental energy and reduced brain fog. The proposed tablet course comes from community-guide dosing, while the larger cognitive trials studied people with neurological impairment.

Why it is interesting: The planned experiment is 1,200 mg per day orally, divided into 400 mg three times daily using 200 mg tablets, for 4–6 weeks. The useful question is whether it improves mental clarity, sustained reading or work capacity, and cognitive fatigue against a stable surrounding routine. This remains a queued personal nootropic experiment, with no start date or results yet; the proposed course is not an established protocol for healthy cognitive enhancement.

Queued

Attention / working memory / mental clarity

August 2026

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MemoProve is the oral N-PEP-12 peptide-and-amino-acid preparation derived from the same development lineage as Cerebrolysin. A 2026 randomized, double-blind trial in 276 adults with subjective cognitive complaints reported exploratory day-90 advantages in attention and working-memory outcomes at 45 mg and 90 mg, although the combined model did not show an overall treatment-arm main effect. The commercial tablet contains 90 mg of N-PEP-12; the 425 mg figure in some catalog listings is the tablet weight, not the active amount.

Why it is interesting: The proposed experiment is one 90 mg tablet at the same time daily for 90 days, preceded by a 14-day stable baseline and followed by 28 days off-product. With the Cerebrolysin experiment now closed, it can begin after the surrounding cognitive routine is stable. The useful result must extend beyond a vague feeling: at least one fixed attention or working-memory measure should improve beyond baseline variability, remain improved through most of the final four weeks, and agree with a practical change in focus, cognitive fatigue, or work output without a meaningful sleep, anxiety, mood, or tolerability penalty.

Queued

Oxiracetam

Memory / learning

August 2026

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A long-studied racetam with substantial human exposure and plausible cholinergic-glutamatergic activity. Older trials reported mixed cognitive results in dementia, while a small healthy-volunteer study found that it partially reversed scopolamine-induced memory impairment. That establishes possible anti-amnesic activity, not enhancement of normal cognition.

Why it is interesting: This is a memory-and-learning candidate rather than a conventional stimulant. The useful question is whether ordinary oxiracetam can produce a repeatable signal in an unimpaired person instead of merely counteracting cognitive dysfunction. The caution is that direct healthy-cognition evidence is limited to a 12-person induced-amnesia study, a recent 500-person post-stroke trial was negative, and newer traumatic-brain-injury evidence primarily favored the isolated active enantiomer over conventional oxiracetam. Its predominantly renal elimination and poorly characterized stack interactions also matter.

Queued

Cortexin

Mental clarity / alertness / focus

August 2026

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A cattle-cerebral-cortex polypeptide preparation used as a prescription neurological drug in Russia. Its neuroprotective and neuroplasticity rationale overlaps with Cerebrolysin, while the smaller-volume 10 mg intramuscular course creates a practical way to test whether the two preparations produce meaningfully different personal cognitive signals.

Why it is interesting: The planned experiment is the labeled adult course: 10 mg by intramuscular injection once daily for 10 days. The useful question is whether it produces a clear, repeatable improvement in morning alertness, mental clarity, sustained focus, cognitive fatigue, mood stability, or stress tolerance, and whether that signal differs meaningfully from the current Cerebrolysin experiment. The human evidence comes primarily from people with neurological impairment rather than healthy adults, so general neuroprotection is not the outcome claim; this experiment would be judged by observable cognitive changes against a stable surrounding routine.

Queued

Low-Dose Naltrexone

Inflammation / pain / recovery

June 2026

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LDN keeps coming up as a possible immune, inflammation, pain, mood, and recovery lever.

Why it is interesting: The possible upside is not direct muscle growth. The interesting angle is whether reducing inflammatory drag could improve recovery quality, pain tolerance, sleep stability, training consistency, and how well the rest of the stack feels.

Queued

Doxepin 3 mg

Sleep maintenance / duration

August 2026

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A prescription low-dose insomnia treatment aimed specifically at sleep maintenance. It fits the current pattern: falling asleep reliably, then waking after roughly five hours, with the goal of extending total sleep toward six to seven hours rather than adding more help at sleep onset.

Why it is interesting: This would be a future, prescriber-guided single-variable sleep experiment. The useful question is whether 3 mg reduces early-morning waking and extends sleep without next-day grogginess or impaired alertness. I would judge it by sleep-onset-to-final-waking time, wake time after sleep onset, total sleep, and how I feel the next morning. It would be evaluated as an isolated switch, not stacked with seltorexant or another sleep medication.

Queued

L-Theanine

Sleep onset / continuity

August 2026

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A non-sedating amino acid associated with relaxed wakefulness and modest improvements in subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, and daytime function in human trials. It is a plausible way to test whether lowering pre-sleep mental arousal improves sleep without using another sleep medication, although the clearest sleep evidence generally uses lower amounts than the planned experiment.

Why it is interesting: This would be a future single-variable sleep experiment starting at 500 mg before sleep, with the option to increase to 1 g as a separate dose phase. The useful question is whether either amount produces a repeatable improvement in sleep onset, continuity, total sleep, or next-morning recovery without grogginess, headache, dizziness, unusually vivid dreams, or worse sleep. The 1 g ceiling is an experimental dose-response test rather than an evidence-backed sleep protocol, so the surrounding bedtime stack would remain stable and the two dose phases would be evaluated separately.

Queued

Localized muscle growth

July 2026

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A retro-inverso D-peptide myostatin inhibitor that maps directly to the muscle-growth brake side of the problem. Small mouse studies found substantial growth in the specific muscle receiving MID-35, and the 2026 follow-up found that the local hypertrophy remained measurable 12 weeks after one injection.

Why it is interesting: The proposed future experiment is 2.5 mg delivered locally by intramuscular injection into lagging body parts twice per week, with the specific goal of increasing size in the treated muscle rather than producing whole-body growth. That planned exposure is a personal hypothesis, not a human regimen derived from the research: MID-35 has never been studied in people, and 2.5 mg is about 1,063 nmol, roughly 532 times the absolute 2 nmol used in the 2026 local mouse study. There is no validated way to scale that tissue dose to a person. The allocation of the 2.5 mg across multiple body parts, experiment duration, and stopping rules remain to be defined before the experiment starts.

Queued

GSK-2881078

Lean mass / strength

July 2026

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A pharma-developed, nonsteroidal selective androgen receptor modulator with controlled human data showing lean-mass increases and a disease-population strength signal. Among the anabolic candidates, it stands out because the evidence base is cleaner than gray-market SARM marketing and stronger than cell-only or mouse-only mechanisms.

Why it is interesting: This is the best pharma-grade human signal in the current anabolic backlog. The hypothesis is not myostatin-brake removal; it is whether a more clinically studied androgen-receptor signal could add lean-mass leverage without unacceptable tradeoffs. The known concern set is exactly why it stays in future status: HDL suppression, transient liver enzyme elevations, testosterone and SHBG changes, no approval for human use, and unclear long-term risk in a trained healthy person.

Queued

Oxandrolone / Anavar — 25 mg

Lean mass / strength

August 2026

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An oral anabolic steroid with a much more direct human muscle signal than the investigational candidates in this queue. Controlled studies at 20 mg per day reported meaningful lean-mass gains in older men and additional lean-mass and strength gains during resistance training in men with HIV-associated weight loss. That is clinical-population evidence, not proof of the result in a healthy trained person, and I found no controlled evidence validating 25 mg per day specifically.

Why it is interesting: The proposed personal exposure is 25 mg per day for a future muscle-building cycle. The useful question is whether that androgen-receptor signal adds objectively measured lean tissue or strength beyond training alone, but the dose is a hypothesis rather than an evidence-backed protocol: it is above the former U.S. labeled adult maximum of 20 mg per day. The tradeoff is not mild. Human trial data include a substantial HDL drop and a discontinuation for elevated liver tests, while the former label warns about adverse LDL/HDL changes, cholestatic hepatitis, liver tumors and peliosis hepatis, and suppression of testosterone and sperm production. FDA later determined that Oxandrin was withdrawn for safety or effectiveness reasons and would not be considered safe and effective if reintroduced without new studies. That combination keeps this in research status and sets a much higher bar than the nickname Anavar implies.

Queued

Small-fiber nerve repair / neuropathic symptoms

June 2026

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An 11-amino-acid, erythropoietin-derived peptide with randomized human evidence in sarcoidosis- and diabetes-associated small-fiber neuropathy. The strongest Phase 2 trial found that 4 mg per day for 28 days increased corneal nerve-fiber area and regenerating GAP-43-positive skin fibers, giving this a more credible nerve-repair signal than a generic tissue-recovery claim. Pain relief was less consistent, and the 1 mg and 8 mg groups did not reproduce the significant corneal result seen at 4 mg.

Why it is interesting: The experiment will use 4 mg per day by subcutaneous injection for 28 days, matching the most studied human regimen. The strongest human endpoints—corneal microscopy, skin biopsy, and formal sensory testing—are not practical at-home measures. Generic recovery, soreness, or wearable data will not show whether nerve repair occurred, but the randomized human nerve-regeneration signal still makes the exposure worth running even if nothing is noticeable. The record can document tolerability and subjective changes while acknowledging that an unnoticed biological effect would remain unmeasured. There is no completed Phase 3 program, and the published human safety record is limited mainly to four-week exposure, with only eight participants completing the longer 12-week study.

Queued

5-Amino-1MQ

Metabolic flexibility / body composition

June 2026

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A nicotinamide N-methyltransferase inhibitor discussed as a way to reduce NAD+ drain and shift metabolic signaling, mostly from preclinical obesity and metabolism work.

Why it is interesting: This is the NAD+ efficiency-multiplier idea. If the mechanism matters, the relevant outcomes would be body composition, metabolic flexibility, nutrient partitioning, and keeping energy metabolism cleaner while training hard.

Queued

SR-9011

Circadian metabolism / body composition

July 2026

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A synthetic REV-ERB-alpha/beta agonist, not a SARM, used in research around circadian-clock regulation, energy expenditure, lipid metabolism, inflammation, immune-cell metabolism, cancer-cell autophagy, and senescence. That mechanism explains why it gets marketed around fat loss, endurance, and recomp, but the useful evidence is mainly preclinical and mechanistic rather than approved human-use data.

Why it is interesting: Mechanistically, this sits in the recomp neighborhood because REV-ERB signaling touches circadian metabolism, fuel use, and energy expenditure. My interpretation is much more cautious than with ATX-304: it is an interesting research chemical, not a clean body-recomp tool. The concerns are the weak human-use footing, possible circadian disruption, broad effects on core clock biology, and WADA-prohibited status. If it ever became relevant, it would need a high bar and objective markers, not fat-loss marketing claims.