Sharing this as one person's story, not a recommendation for anyone. After months of reading this category I went down the rabbit hole convinced there was a peptide shortcut for the last bit of body fat I wanted to lose.
What actually changed my thinking was reading the evidence threads here and realizing how thin the human data is for most of the fat-loss-specific peptides. AOD-9604 didn't deliver in the human obesity trials, MOTS-c is mostly mouse data, Tesamorelin's evidence is in a specific patient population. When I lined that up against the cost, the injection burden, and the genuine uncertainty, I ended up spending my energy on the boring stuff — a sustained calorie deficit, protein, sleep, and lifting — and got the recomposition I was chasing.
I'm not saying the science isn't interesting; I read this whole category for fun now. I'm saying that for me personally the honest evidence picture talked me out of it, and I wanted to offer that as a counterweight to the excitement. Curious whether others landed somewhere similar.