Dear Davidal:
I doubt Great White Peptides is serious about adipotide. Just because they can make and sell peptides does not mean they can sell therapeutic doses of bioactive adipotide. If you understand peptide chemistry and take the time to read the papers and patents on adipotide, you will realize that:
1) the peptide must be modified to make it bioactive. Unless GWP understands what this modification is and makes it, the peptide will be useless.
2) The estimated therapeutic dose in humans is 280 micrograms per kg per day (see supplemental figure S8 of the Science paper published on November 9th, 2011). This is based on the the experimentally determined therapeutic doses in mice and monkeys. In Rhesus monkeys the therapeutic dose is 430 micrograms per kg per day. Taking trace amounts of the peptide will be a waste of time, and 5 mg is only 18% of one day's dose for a 100 kg person. You will probably need to take it 30 days to get a significant effect (10% loss of body mass) so you will have to buy about 150 of a 5 mg dose if you are 100 kg and want to take it 30 days.
3) Adipotide is covered by US patent 7,452,964. Anyone making, using, buying, or selling this peptide in the US must have a license from the University of Texas to do so, otherwise they can sue you.
-Dan Brown