Peptide party

Is It Safe to Inject Gray-Market Chinese Peptides?

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/peptides-china-safety

Tech bros love this shit

I started getting ads a few months ago for the "Wolverine" peptide stack - https://www.healthymale.org.au/health-article/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-wolverine-stack

Actually a pretty good read by the algorithm - my knees are bad and there's maybe some nascent arthritis in my hands - but I figure if any of this was particularly effective a pharmaceutical company would have rammed some variation through FDA approval regardless of the rate of tumor growth.

Disappointed to learn this isn't about Tide pods with caffeine, taurine, ginseng...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ltbBby9FU

Last year, at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival, in Las Vegas, two women received peptide injections at a conference booth; shortly thereafter, they developed elevated heart rates, swollen tongues, and trouble breathing. By the time they reached the hospital, one of them had lost control of her neck muscles, and the other had been intubated. Both were ultimately connected to ventilators. (The peptides involved have not been disclosed.) The doctor who administered the injections defended himself by citing an A.I.-generated report, telling ProPublica that it “basically says that it is impossible it was the peptides.”

from the new yorker

here for this

Last year, at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival, in Las Vegas, two women received peptide injections at a conference booth; shortly thereafter, they developed elevated heart rates, swollen tongues, and trouble breathing. By the time they reached the hospital, one of them had lost control of her neck muscles, and the other had been intubated. Both were ultimately connected to ventilators. (The peptides involved have not been disclosed.) The doctor who administered the injections defended himself by citing an A.I.-generated report, telling ProPublica that it “basically says that it is impossible it was the peptides.”

from the new yorker

That actually sounds like anaphylactic shock.

it does

asked my wife (who is a primary care doctor) a couple of days ago after reading this article if she gets questions about peptides and she said all the time. we are cooked

reminds me that one of the things I love about working exclusively in the hospital is that I rarely encounter such ridiculous requests, ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic the rare exception

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