Recalibration Day
Day 6 of the protocol. Sunday is empty on purpose — the bridge between the old Tuesday-anchored week and the new Monday-anchored cadence. Plus NAD+ splits from one weekly pulse to two.
Day 6 of the protocol. Sunday. Zero injections.
Not because rest is the hero — because tomorrow the cadence flips, and a one-time empty Sunday is the cleanest way to land on the new structure. Two changes go live with Monday's reset: the weekly anchor moves from Tue to Mon, and NAD+ splits from a single 500 mg shot to two 250 mg shots.
Today is empty on purpose
Under the original Tue-anchored cadence, today (Sun) would have been the final CJC + Ipa pulse of week one. Under the new Mon-anchored cadence, Sun is the rest day. The transition between the two costs exactly two skipped pulses — that's the bridge fee.
It's worth paying. Going forward the calendar week, the kids' school week, the gym week, the keto week, and the protocol week all start Monday. One rhythm. No mental cost converting between two week-models for the rest of the year.
Why NAD+ splits to 2 × 250 mg
The single 500 mg pulse delivered the full NAD+ rush — methylation stress, vasodilation, sympathetic spike, the works. Useful as a once-a-week experience. Less useful as a recurring scheduling problem when training and meetings collide with the 90-minute post-injection window.
The pharmacology favors the split:
Cellular benefit is driven by the weekly area-under-the-curve, not by peak concentration. Two 250 mg pulses three days apart deliver roughly the same total tissue NAD+ replenishment as one 500 mg pulse — possibly slightly better, since smaller boluses don't saturate the extracellular degradation pathway.
Acute side-effect load is roughly linear with dose. 250 mg gives about half the rush per shot. Over the week the total side-effect load is similar, but it's distributed instead of concentrated.
Operational — splitting decouples NAD+ from training. Single 500 mg always landed on Tue and Tue training had to navigate the rush. Split lets each pulse get scheduled around training windows independently.
First split-dose pulse: Tue May 5. Second: Fri May 8. Three-day spacing both directions.
The new weekly schedule
Effective Monday May 4. 22 injections per week across 6 active days, with Sunday clean.
AM injections happen in a single morning session. PM injections (CJC-1295 + Ipamorelin) are the pre-bed pulse, 22:00 to 22:30 — close enough to sleep onset that the GH peptide activation phase overlaps with deep sleep, far enough that the alertness bump doesn't push bedtime.
Quadrant rotation runs week-to-week. Each compound takes a different abdomen quadrant on the day, and assignments shift one quadrant clockwise the following week. Skin gets full recovery between repeat sites.
Where this fits
This is week 2 of a 24-week protocol. Week 1 was the rocket leaving the pad — covered in Just Warming Up and Veins, Dreams, Half-Meals. The NAD+ rush experience from Day 2 is what motivated the split. From Panel to Protocol and From Protocol to Practice cover how the original schedule was built.
The protocol stops being a script and starts being a system once you start refining it from inside. This is the first refinement that originated from running the protocol, not from designing it.
