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Melanotan I

Healing142 cited mentionsAliases: MT-1, Melanotan I, Melanotan 1, MT1, melanotan 1
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Educational synthesis of three independent practitioners. Dosing references are research-context only.

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Reset Biology suggests asking the practitioner to consider Melanotan-1 over Melanotan-2 as the safer melanocortin choice for cosmetic tanning, photoprotection, neuroimmune modulation, and (per Taylor) female anxiety/PMS support: Hunter email threadId 1961c9375d1784dd (2025-04-09): "I strongly prefer MT-1 over MT-2" and "Melanotan 1 injections at 250-500 mcg, 2-3 times weekly, should be your peptide of choice." We'd ask the prescribing physician to weigh dose to skin type and exposure goal because Hunter (0TyW-wlJMxo 00:38:30.880): "That's a pretty low dose. This is also dependent on the amount of melanin you have in your skin. Darker skin people need less. More pale people lighter skin people usually need a little bit more depending on your sun exposure," and to confirm route is subcutaneous because Hunter email threadId 19799acedca21a49 (2025-06-22): "injected subcutaneously (just under the skin, typically in the belly)."

Where they agree

Both Hunter and Taylor land on 250 micrograms subcutaneous as the standard starting dose. Hunter 2023 baseline_protocol lists "Dose" "250 mcg," "Timing" "AM," "Frequency" "2 days per week," "Duration" "8 weeks on, 8 weeks off." Hunter (0TyW-wlJMxo 00:38:27.520): "I would start with 250 micrograms. That's a pretty low dose." Taylor (V87f6GRxZLM 00:16:47.399): "continue with our um 250 micrograms of melanotan 1." Taylor (7wdbHq4R33Y 00:18:18.320): "again the dosing amount is 250 microgram." Both also describe MT-1 as MT-2's safer cousin: Hunter (0TyW-wlJMxo 00:39:25.120): "I would personally start with Melanotan I if you've never done it before." Taylor (GP0EG8UyvJo 00:05:20.440): "melanotan 1 is different from melanotan 2 melanotan 2 has some really awful negative side effects of people feeling nauseous sick." Both surface non-cosmetic benefits beyond tanning: Hunter email threadId 19b0fb03adaf2453 (2025-12-11): "Mechanistically closer to an anti-inflammatory analgesic peptide than a cosmetic drug." Taylor (p948IlTbY7c 00:08:00.319 ctx): "Melantan one is going to um increase activity of dopamine and serotonin pathways. Therefore, that is going to contribute to being in overall better mood."

Where they differ

Hunter and Taylor differ on chronic-frequency intent and on the upper end of the dose envelope. Hunter's 2023 baseline_protocol lists "Frequency" "2 days per week," but newer Hunter (0TyW-wlJMxo 00:38:27.520, 2026-03-28): "Since your first time, just do it once a week. You can go up to two to three times per week and then as you go from there, you can scale up the dose." Hunter (0TyW-wlJMxo 00:38:27.520 ctx, 2026-03-28, in same answer): "if I'm in the beach in the summer, I would do 1 mg per day. But I would build up to that." Taylor instead anchors on a higher single-purpose dose for women's anxiety/PMS — Taylor (15uJlcypPSA 00:09:54.720, 2024-12-27): "my dosing mouth that I like to do with this is 300 micrograms um subcutaneously um once a day I've had people tell me that they've used it twice a day personally for me I think using it once a day is enough for me." Taylor (V87f6GRxZLM 00:16:47.399, 2024-08-20): "continue with our um 250 micrograms of melanotan 1." The newer Hunter content (2026-03-28) supersedes the 2023 cheat-sheet "2 days per week" framing and explicitly allows scaling up to 1 mg per day for tanning goals; Taylor's 2024-12-27 300 mcg daily-for-anxiety frame is preserved alongside, not averaged. Hunter also offers a non-tanning microdose protocol that Taylor does not echo: Hunter email threadId 19b0fb03adaf2453 (2025-12-11): "250 mcg 1-2x per week — NO loading phase — NO daily injections — NO tanning protocols." Trevor Bachmeyer has no MT-1 coverage in corpus, so a third opinion is unavailable.

Hunter Williams

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Baseline (2023 Cheat Sheet)

Dose
250 mcg
Frequency
2 days per week
Timing
AM
Duration
8 weeks on, 8 weeks off
Reconstitution
10 mg vial + 3 mL BAC
Insulin units (1 mL)
7.5

Top doses cited

  • 250 micrograms36×
  • 1 mg32×
  • 300 mg9×
  • 10 mg7×
  • 250 mcg7×
  • 500 mcg6×

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Taylor Williams

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Female-focused HRT + peptides

Taylor Williams Coaching focuses on female-specific HRT/peptide guidance. Per-peptide notes here often emphasize female dosing, fertility, hormone interactions.

Top doses cited

  • 1 mg39×
  • 250 micrograms33×
  • 200 milligrams12×
  • 200 micrograms10×
  • 125 micrograms9×
  • 10 mg9×

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