Peptides craze: Why people should not be risking their health for untested benefits | 60 Minutes Australia

[kugelblitz]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dit7EV8Coew


Another alarmist bit of coverage, but the key takeaway is...

DO NOT TALK TO THE MEDIA, AND MOST CERTAINLY DON'T LET THEM FILM YOU PIN.

People are just so stupid...

 

[spanky2026]

This stuff drives me crazy. How about you do some actual journalism instead of just some interviews? Buy the top 5 best selling peptides from a good source (not Tiktok, not Instagram, have Peter at Janoshik tell you who is good to buy from) and then get them tested. Be a journalist and not a sensationalist. This type of fluff piece benefits exactly no one.

They all also ignore the elephant in the room in particular when it comes to GLP's, which is access. You think people are taking chances with compounded and grey GLPs for kicks? They're doing it because they can't access it otherwise, because insurance says no and Lily says hand me the equivalent of your mortgage payment each month, then you can have it.

There's so much to the story here that just gets glossed over because of lazy fucking "journalism" and it drives me crazy.

Rant over.

 

[BBA1969]

These days, most car manufacturer manuals say you shouldn't drink the battery fluid. Unfortunately, the people who need that kind of warning have also discovered peptides.

The vendors threw in a basic IQ test to head off the worst: crypto payment.
Sadly, there are still plenty of backdoors for the simpletons to score some peptides.

I guess we will have to accept that we can't save them all.

 

[Chili777]

These days, most car manufacturer manuals say you shouldn't drink the battery fluid. Unfortunately, the people who need that kind of warning have also discovered peptides.

The vendors threw in a basic IQ test to head off the worst: crypto payment.
Sadly, there are still plenty of backdoors for the simpletons to score some peptides.

I guess we will have to accept that we can't save them all.

And don't use a hair dryer in the bathtub. Those people are the peptide backbone of Reddit and TikTok.

 

[kugelblitz]

This stuff drives me crazy. How about you do some actual journalism instead of just some interviews? Buy the top 5 best selling peptides from a good source (not Tiktok, not Instagram, have Peter at Janoshik tell you who is good to buy from) and then get them tested. Be a journalist and not a sensationalist. This type of fluff piece benefits exactly no one.

They all also ignore the elephant in the room in particular when it comes to GLP's, which is access. You think people are taking chances with compounded and grey GLPs for kicks? They're doing it because they can't access it otherwise, because insurance says no and Lily says hand me the equivalent of your mortgage payment each month, then you can have it.

There's so much to the story here that just gets glossed over because of lazy fucking "journalism" and it drives me crazy.

Rant over.

Yeah, this is the core issue. I wouldn't actually have a problem with some truly neutral coverage, but they keep insisting that the peps are untested, as if places like Jano don't exist, and implying that people are doing them for purely vanity reasons, which some are, but suggesting that everyone using peps is doing a biochemical version of elective backyard plastic surgery is simply disingenuous.

If my government tomorrow repealed medical patents laws keeping the prices high, and ensured that the vetted sellers charge us only cost + modest profits, then I'd be dissuading others from buying mystery powders from Chinese vendors. But, they've left us no other choice but to inject mystery powders, and then they clutch their pears in the media.

 

[maokai]

The reality is a lot of people really shouldn't. Seeing some posts across forums and comments across TG and DC it's clear a lot of people are just jumping in blind without the slightest idea on how to approach it safely or diligently.

My opinion is your body is yours to test with and all that but approach it with high amount of risk mitigation and proper education. People can't even take the time to learn simple math for reconstitution or basic procedure to minimize contamination for recon and injection. Struggle to take the time to learn safe crypto handling. Treating vendors with the same expectations of an Amazon delivery. It's wild.

My favorite are the people jumping into chats and immediately "how do I order??" despite there being a channel called "How to Order" 🫩, "I texted vendor 30 minutes ago and he hasn't replied is this a scam??".