How dosing actually works, and what the levels mean
People get confused here because there are three different numbers and
they all sound like "the dose". There is only one you ever actually act on.
1You buy milligrams of powder.
A vial says 5 mg or 10 mg. That is the whole vial, not one dose.
2You add millilitres of bacteriostatic water.
This does not change how much drug you have — only how dilute it is.
Same powder in 1 ml or 3 ml is the same drug, at three times or one third the
concentration.
3You draw units on an insulin syringe.
A U-100 syringe is 100 units to 1 ml. This is the number you act on, and it is the
only one that changes when you reconstitute differently.
4You repeat it on a schedule.
A GLP-1 is once a week because it lasts a week. BPC-157 is daily because it does not.
Frequency is half-life, not preference.
So when the table says 14 units, once a week,
that is step 3 and step 4 — what you would actually do. The mg underneath is what it
amounts to. Change the water and the units change; the milligrams do not.
Our reconstitution calculator does this arithmetic for a real vial. It is worth
understanding before anyone draws anything: the most alarming post we read this year was
somebody who injected from a vial they had never reconstituted at all.
off not running
low 0.6× the effect, 1× the cost
med 1× the effect, 2× the cost
high 1.1× the effect, 3× the cost
The levels are a game scale, not a protocol. Note what they do:
med to high triples what you spend for a tenth more effect, and
side-effect risk rises with the level. The mg figures are set so the weekly costs land near
what people report paying. They are not a dose and nobody should copy them.