r/BodyHackGuide: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

Who posts here

Regulars write in shorthand like reta, tesa, cjc and ipa, and quote doses in mcg without explaining any of it. There is also a Beginner Help flair, and first-timer questions about a single compound stay up and get answered. A basic question gets a few short replies rather than a telling off.

• People losing weight on GLP-1 compounds, mostly retatrutide, posting progress photos and scan results.
• Men in their 30s to 50s combining TRT with growth hormone peptides for body composition.
• Gym-goers asking how to keep muscle while cutting.
• Newcomers to injectable peptides asking about side effects, stacking and skin or recovery compounds.
• Science readers who post summaries of new trials and studies.

Karma and account requirements

What it takes to get a post through in r/BodyHackGuide.

What you can post

What happens to a new post

Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.

• Stayed up80%
• Removed by Reddit's filters10%
• Removed by moderators9%
• Deleted by the author<1%

Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.

The culture

r/BodyHackGuide calls itself a biohacking and performance community, but in practice it is a peptide room, and much of that is about weight loss. It is young, created in early 2025, and already moves at around 35 posts a day. Retatrutide is the most talked-about compound by a distance, followed by growth hormone peptides, healing blends and copper peptides for skin.

The posts that do best are personal results. Before and after photos, dexa scans and blood panels with age, height, starting weight, months elapsed and the full stack listed are the top of the subreddit. A progress post showing over 80 pounds lost in about a year, with scan numbers and blood pressure before and after, did far better than most. The other staple is the short question: whether two compounds can be combined, whether a side effect is normal, what someone's experience was after a few months.

The fault line is sourcing. Plenty of posters ask whether a seller is any good, and the rules forbid it. Meanwhile AutoModerator points members to an approved vendor list linked from the sidebar. Expect any post that edges toward where to buy to be judged by that standard, not by how useful it is.

What lands

• Progress posts with real numbers: age, height, weight before and after, time on the protocol, and scan or bloodwork results.
• Honest write-ups of a self-experiment over weeks or months, such as a documented three month trial for hair loss.
• Side effect reports with detail, like a resting heart rate jump seen on a wearable, asked as a question rather than a complaint.
• Plain summaries of a newly published trial, with the key table and the caveats.
• Questions that ask the room to share experience, such as what has actually changed since people started peptides.

What gets removed or ignored

• Requests for suppliers, in any country, and posts asking whether a named seller is legit.
• Seller announcements, wholesale offers and "DM me for info" posts.
• Promotion for outside groups, surveys and apps.
• Long posts that read as a pitch for a newer compound, even when they cite trials.
• Some dosing questions for prescription drugs and some posts about bad reactions. Our data shows the removal, not the reason.

The unwritten rules

• Lead with your stats. Age, sex, height, weight and how long you have been on something are expected, and replies ask for them if you leave them out.
• Talk about what happened to you. Comments that tell someone what to take read worse than ones that say what someone tried.
• Comments are short and casual, about 16 words, and almost never carry a link. A link in a comment stands out.
• Weight loss posts get encouragement. People here are mostly supportive about bodies and progress, and mockery is rare.
• Do not ask about sellers in the comments either. The rules for the daily thread repeat the sourcing ban.

Self-promotion

The sidebar bans buying, selling and sourcing talk and the rules ban spam. There is no published self-promotion ratio. In practice seller posts, outside group invites, surveys and app plugs are among the posts moderators remove, and an app offer in a comment reads as spam to regulars. The only brand-adjacent content that does well is a documented personal result or a plain research summary with nothing to buy at the end.

How people write here

Typical post length

68 words

Typical title length

5 words

Titles phrased as a question

27%

Typical comment length

16 words

Comments that include a link

2%

Posts that carry a flair

28%

The regulars

The accounts that showed up most in our sample. Worth reading before you post: they set the tone, and they are usually the first to reply.

Top keywords

The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/BodyHackGuide.

• reta 83 posts
• peptides 35 posts
• ipa 24 posts
• unsafe practices 12 posts
• sourcing buying 12 posts
• requesting dm 12 posts
• relevant rules 12 posts
• promote unsafe 12 posts
• dm sourcing 12 posts
• discuss sourcing 12 posts
• daily forum 12 posts
• daily ask 12 posts
• biohacking thread 12 posts
• biohacking performance 12 posts
• cjc 23 posts
• trt 20 posts
• feedback related 12 posts
• tesamorelin 19 posts
• hgh 17 posts
• solicit 12 posts
• provide medical 12 posts
• experience levels 12 posts
• spread misinformation 12 posts
• ask away 12 posts
• performance optimization 12 posts
• peptide 25 posts
• klow 17 posts
• toxicity 12 posts
• ipamorelin 15 posts
• tesa 17 posts
• retatrutide 19 posts
• mcg 17 posts
• ghk 14 posts
• dosing 21 posts
• dac 12 posts
• harassment 12 posts
• cycle 23 posts
• respectful 12 posts
• levels 20 posts
• ghk-cu 14 posts

Posts that did well

• a few months on Reta683 upvotes · 97 comments · 📊 Results / Progress
• M/49/5'7" [227lbs > 141lbs = 86 lbs] (13 Months) Before/After244 upvotes · 41 comments
• 212 —> 187228 upvotes · 9 comments · 📊 Results / Progress
• Recomp -(40M) Reta + TRT192 upvotes · 28 comments · 📊 Results / Progress
• GLP+TRT Changed My Live!189 upvotes · 115 comments · 🧪 Stack Breakdown
• Preserving mass184 upvotes · 28 comments · 💬 Discussion
• AHK-CU Injection Trial Run178 upvotes · 112 comments · 🔍 Research Only
• Almost 3 months on Reta174 upvotes · 23 comments

Common questions