Hair loss stack — GHK-Cu + AHK-Cu + zinc thymulin. Anyone actually doing all three?

Been running GHK-Cu + zinc thymulin for a year. Skipped AHK-Cu because I've never seen convincing comparison data — it's structurally similar and almost all the 'AHK is better for hair' claims trace back to one supplier's white paper. I'd pick GHK-Cu.

I layer min (5% + tret 0.025% combined) in the morning, GHK-Cu 0.2% at night. Zinc thymulin goes on nights I skip tret. 8 months in, hairline hasn't moved and I'm getting vellus on the temples. Can't isolate which is doing what.

AHK-Cu has some in-vitro dermal papilla work but the human topical evidence is much thinner than GHK-Cu. Run GHK-Cu and zinc thymulin, drop AHK unless you have money to burn.

@hexaclinic this is the kind of detail I needed. Thank you.

Important: don't apply copper peptides at the same time as minoxidil. The minoxidil vehicle (prop glycol, ethanol) wrecks the copper complex. Space them by 4+ hours or apply on opposite schedules.

Stay on the min/fin. The copper peptides are at best additive, not replacements. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.

Is the zinc thymulin the stuff that has to be freshly compounded each time? I keep reading it's unstable.

@wanderlite yes, it's notoriously unstable in solution. Either you buy single-use vials or you reconstitute small batches and use within a couple weeks refrigerated. That's the real barrier to running it.

Reading. 3 years on fin, considering copper peptides. Useful thread.

The original Pickart hair work on GHK-Cu is worth reading before you commit. Small trials, reasonable effect size, much less hype than the modern social media version.

Can women run this stack? Asking because most hair loss threads default to male pattern.

@petal_push GHK-Cu and zinc thymulin are fine for women topically. Finasteride is where the conversation changes. The copper peptides don't have the same hormone pathway concerns.