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This is incorrect.

Tirzepatide is $400-450 (depending on dose) per month directly from Eli Lilly.

https://www.lilly.com/lillydirect/medicines/zepbound

Novo Nordisk's drugs can be had as low as $250/month through third party (which is weird), though they'll probably honor those prices in direct sales before long.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/novo-nordisk-wegovy-subscrip...

These are all cash pay prices, no insurance.

I'm paying $400/month currently, directly from Eli Lilly.

They drop ship a box containing cold packs and the meds.

You dont need the idiocy of trumprx to get these prices, just go directly to Eli Lilly or Novo Nordisk.

That is so dangerous, buying grey market replicas of pharmaceuticals.

Unless you have a research lab built out in your house, you have zero way of knowing what it is that you're actually getting. Whether the dosing matches the claimed dose. Whether there are bacterial growth, or other manufacturing chemical left in by bottom-of-the-barrel chinese manufacturer.

I understand your risk profile may be different than others, but when you can get the real thing officially, I'm not sure why anyone would risk this.

Please be careful here, as Retatritude is not actually commercially available in most of the world, outside of research labs. And is not FDA approved to buy or use in the US (where most of HN readers are).

I fear this kind of post will encourage gullible people to go chasing reta on the grey market, where they might as well be getting a placebo, as there's no mechanism for your typical person to verify that they're getting what they think they're getting.

And given it's an injectable, and bacterial growth, or a variety of other toxins that can remain in poorly manufactured pharmaceuticals, can do a great deal of harm.

Note that there is research showing that whey protein powder has exactly the same effects as collagen, for much lower price.

Mechanistically it makes sense, as I understand the ingredients in Collagen are largely a subset of the ingredients in whey powder, albeit at different ratios.

Keep in mind that a big part of the configuration complexity of CAS is because of how it's used and customized in the real world.

These kinds of infrastructure systems its very common to replace a bunch of the built in functionality with your own classes, and so there's alot of effort put into supporting that use case.

I helped build a large open source enterprise financial systems, and most of the deploying orgs used CAS for authN. Both CAS and the financial system was built with similar approach to extensibility.