The growth-hormone peptide debate is two dashboards I can't join

I keep seeing IGF-1 LR3 and HGH compared like they belong in the same slot, and my brain wants a definition before it will accept the graph. Here’s my actual tracking: a 1.5-mile after-dinner loop, a 1–5 breathing score, and whether I wake up before my alarm. That’s it. Those data points tell me more about my GLP-1 week than any acronym fight. The two compounds seem to live in a different optimization layer — repair, recovery, maybe scale-adjacent stuff — while my current layer is appetite, sleep, and whether the loop feels like a chore. So when someone asks which is “better,” I can’t even form the question. Better for what metric, measured how, against what baseline? If you’ve figured out a non-hype way to decide when either belongs in the same conversation as weight-loss meds, I’d read that. Otherwise I’m muting the thread and logging my loop.