If you have no stake in the product then don’t do your research off social media posts. Consult actual physicians whose job is to provide treatments safely. And ask them about the history of these treatments you purport to be brand new.
Ok I’m glad you realized and now glossed over that
-You were wrong about the treatment not being new
-You were wrong about the company actually leading development of the therapy
-You linked to a laughably irrelevant article about some other thing as proof
The original twitter thread is from a doctor who isn’t affiliated with the Minicircle company whatsoever. I’ve also done way more research than you on this subject.
I can’t see how you can look at an advertisement like this and believe it. To my eye it’s very tabloid-esque.
Is it possible what they’re selling “works” and you will gain more lean muscle over a placebo? Sure that’s believable.
However, you’re telling me that guy in the picture was only 4 months and it’s all credited to what they’re selling? Not a chance. I don’t even think taking the liver king’s gear would get you to look like that in 4 months.
The other thing is that is more likely is the “Instagram-ification” of the photos.
The point of my post is simply that at this price point, ease of administration, and purported effectiveness, athletes are gonna start getting in on it to get an edge in the immediate future and that’s also gonna rock the athletic landscape.
But yeah, it’s fair to be skeptical of a single Twitter thread and totally looks too good to be true.
Here’s a blog post about someone who participated in the original Minicircle study:
Minicircle is working towards the upregulation of follistatin, an inhibitor of myostatin and thus an interesting target for improved muscle growth and treatment of sarcopenia. Follistatin and myostatin are well studied genes in this context, and there are any number of animal studies, as well as...
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Here’s a post by Brian Johnson, an eccentric (yes weirdo) multimillionaire who very publicly has a whole team of doctors analyzing every single bit of possible data from his body and prescribing everything possible to help him extended his life span as far as a human can go. After analyzing all the data, they deemed it totally safe for him, and he announced his follistatin levels are now consistently at the level needed to elicit extreme results like that transformation.
@ben should also note he clearly cited Minicircle here.
Here’s also an image of a special breed of cow that lacks myostatin, which is what caps muscle growth, and what follistatin actively reduces in the body. Obviously, this cow does not have a more intense gym routine or diet compared to the average cow:
So yeah as crazy and easy to dismiss as it seems, it’s not, and what Minicircle has done is figure out how manipulate a known pathway to trigger tons of muscle growth using a *temporary* genetic therapy that is cheap and seemingly safe and effective (granted after only a couple hundred human trials).
Minicircle also secured a large undisclosed funding recently, with involvement from folks like Peter Thiel. They are as legit as it comes.
IMO this is going to be picking up lots of steam in the coming years.
