How many people do you think are going gray for their supply?

[Hichewgoddess]

I’ve been interested in gray market peptides for a minute and have been actively participating (just placed my first order and received!) for the last few weeks. Just as a curiosity I’ve been wondering how many people are actually getting their GLPs and other peptides from the gray market space. I know it’s something not many people will freely admit so it’s hard to put a number on it. If you were to guess?

 

[yrrdead]

Depends. If you consider all the single vial,coincerge,health spas, etc. That are just slapping a nice label on the same stuff we are all getting?? It's a whole lot. People probably don't think of what they are doing a grey.

In fact I know a couple guys that were getting bpc/tb stack and were 100% in that camp. No idea where the stuff was actually coming from.

I think the pep market is overwhelmingly grey. Glps , less so.

 

[MsGizmo]

I’ve been interested in gray market peptides for a minute and have been actively participating (just placed my first order and received!) for the last few weeks. Just as a curiosity I’ve been wondering how many people are actually getting their GLPs and other peptides from the gray market space. I know it’s something not many people will freely admit so it’s hard to put a number on it. If you were to guess?

Multi millions. Just in the US.

 

[Calm Logic]

Agreed about millions:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/health/peptides-unregulated-influencers

Kennedy has vowed to end “FDA’s war” on peptides and other alternative treatments that are embraced by many in his Make America Healthy Again movement...

Some of Kennedy’s friends and associates are among the biggest proponents, including self-described “biohacker” and “longevity expert” Gary Brecka, who sells peptide injectables, patches and nasal sprays through his website for $350 to $600 each...

Joe Rogan, for example, has repeatedly praised BPC-157, a peptide derived from acids found in the gut.

 

[littledragon25]

Well it's a small enough world that I ran a group buy on my fairly small test server, and discovered one of the participants was an old school friend of mine when they sent me their address.

 

[Chili777]

There are 38,000 people in just one buyers group in NJ. I know of another one with ~24,000 in CA. So lots.

 

[MsGizmo]

Well it's a small enough world that I ran a group buy on my fairly small test server, and discovered one of the participants was an old school friend of mine when they sent me their address.

The situation in the UK is very different than what is going on in the US. You have a much smaller population overall and GLP1 drugs are MASSIVELY cheaper for you. To top it all off you are much more likely to get insurance coverage for it. Add that all together you end up with a much smaller pool of people feeling the need for the grey market.

Here in the US our limited access to a GLP1 has driven us to the grey market in droves.

 

[Js351]

Most people I've encountered coming from the GLP1 side of things seem to be very hesitant of compounded GLP's let alone grey's. If you're coming from non-glp's I think it's much easier to make the switch since they are pretty much all "grey". Even for GLP people though, once you open your eyes to what is actually going on with grey's and the incredible cost savings, it's pretty hard to ignore. There is some risk there going grey but it's really nowhere near what the media is making it out to be. There is definitely a lot of anti-grey media stories right now though, and people are paying attention to it. I think anyone who continues to dig on what the grey market is, will make the determination that it's worth pursuing, but how many people will actually dig?

I went from trying to justify spending $500/month, and had mostly justified it, to dropping that to $100 with compounded, to now having a near 10 year stockpile of this stuff at my current dose due to purchasing greys. And also now considering that maybe I need 10 years at max dose lol. It's seriously so cheap I don't want to kick myself if I still need it in 10 years and realize I should have just spent another $1k in 2025.

But anyway, I think for a huge part of the population they will not ever consider something that doesn't come from their local pharmacy and won't even get to the point of knowing how much cheaper it is for essentially the same thing.

 

[d0se1]

Not as many as you think. The general public is still using pharma or Doc in a box

 

[Calm Logic]

I don't know, but there are different segments that add up. And TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook make grey seem like no big deal. Type "reta vial" into Google and you get Google legitimizing grey through sponsored product listings. Facebook is even worse, with even more advertising.

As mentioned before, the med spa people are a huge percentage. And it's true that many/most people don't even know they are going grey by getting some things from a med spa.

You've got steroid users using peptides, including HGH. And some guys start doing TRT legally but then want higher dosing. The whole grey market really started with steroid users, is my understanding. And some Chinese vendors make more selling steroids than peptides.

Then you've got the beauty crowd that doesn't want to donate money to med spas, even doing Botox at home thanks to YouTube videos and shipments from Korea. Korea is the best source for glutathione, btw.