Putting it together in order
Every chapter in this course is a variation on one foundation; building your own protocol is just applying them in sequence. The order is fixed, and it never changes regardless of which compound you're running.
- Set the goal and the calorie level. Fat loss = a deficit sized to your body fat (0.5–1% of bodyweight per week, slower the leaner you are). Lean gain = a small surplus. Recomp = around maintenance, and only if you're a novice, returning, or higher body fat.
- Set protein first. 1.6–2.2 g/kg total bodyweight for general fat loss, climbing toward 2.3–3.1 g/kg lean mass as you get lean and diet hard. This is the number you defend hardest.
- Set the fat floor. Keep fat above ~20–25% of calories (a practical ~0.6–0.8 g/kg) for hormone support — and mind its composition (more mono/omega-3, less saturated) if you're on orals.
- Fill the rest with carbohydrate, biased around training.
- Layer the compound-specific timing on top — only now, after the foundation is set.
How the compound modifies the foundation
The protocol doesn't replace the plan above; it adjusts it:
- GLP-1: the drug sets the deficit — don't add a voluntary one. Protein-first against a suppressed appetite, resistance training mandatory, and plan the exit reverse-diet.
- GH-peptides: win a low-insulin dose window (the physiology is real; the exact clock is practitioner practice), and watch fasting insulin/HOMA-IR drift.
- TRT / androgens: push protein and carbohydrate into the raised ceiling, keep fat composition lipid-aware, and pre-commit your intake against an elevated appetite.
- Healing peptides: eat at maintenance or above during repair, time collagen + vitamin C pre-rehab, and run an anti-inflammatory base.
The labs that tell you it's working
Nutrition is a hypothesis; bloodwork is the test. The same panel the Bloodwork Interpretation course teaches is how you grade your diet, not just your protocol:
- Fasting insulin and HOMA-IR — the leading markers of whether your carbohydrate and energy intake are improving or eroding insulin sensitivity (and the ones a GH protocol can quietly worsen).
- Lipids, anchored on ApoB — whether your fat choices and any oral compounds are protecting or damaging your cardiovascular markers.
- HbA1c — the lagging confirmation of glycemic control.
- Hematocrit — the hard safety line on androgen protocols, sensitive to hydration.
If the diet is right and the protocol is working, these move in the right direction over the retest window. If they don't, the plan changes — because the markers, not the scale or the mirror alone, are the honest scorecard.
The whole course in one line
Energy balance still rules, protein is the macro you set first and defend hardest, the compound adjusts the timing and the partitioning but never the rules — and the bloodwork tells you the truth about all of it.
Educational only; not medical or dosing advice. Targets vary by individual, training status, goal, and protocol.