The trend of unproven peptides is spreading through influencers and RFK Jr. allies

[geoguy78]

The trend of unproven peptides is spreading through influencers and RFK Jr. allies

More Americans are turning to peptides for muscle building, skin rejuvenation, and to try and live longer even though the substances aren’t FDA approved.

apnews.com

Peptides in the news again. Seems to be a common topic these days!

 

[50ShadesGreyMarket]

Not FDA Approved?!?!?! Oh Noes!!!! 🤯

 

[byefatlicia]

I think peptides are popular because medicine has failed us. Docs would've kept giving me insulin and BP meds until my untimely death. All the while, telling me I need to get my weight under control. Insulin caused me to gain weight... The more weight I gained, the more insulin dependent I became. This is some kind of crazy.

 

[50ShadesGreyMarket]

I think peptides are popular because medicine has failed us. Docs would've kept giving me insulin and BP meds until my untimely death. All the while, telling me I need to get my weight under control. Insulin caused me to gain weight... The more weight I gained, the more insulin dependent I became. This is some kind of crazy.

And I bet your doctor didn’t even call you “Dear”

 

[byefatlicia]

And I bet your doctor didn’t even call you “Dear”

Or send me heart hands🙂 And was more expensive by far

 

[Chili777]

Yet they don't even mention what's driving people to use peptides and take their chances. It's because they offer health benefits and not staying healthy is the #1 way to go bankrupt in the US. Costs are out of control so who can blame anyone for doing their best to stay away from organized "health care" unless they simply can't avoid it. My RS is down 23 lbs, his BP, LDL, triglycerides and liver enzymes are all significantly lower. So hell yeah, he'll take it.

 

[Foggy-Hollow]

I think peptides are popular because medicine has failed us. Docs would've kept giving me insulin and BP meds until my untimely death. All the while, telling me I need to get my weight under control. Insulin caused me to gain weight... The more weight I gained, the more insulin dependent I became. This is some kind of crazy.

My first big clue to the brokenness was running across Dr Jason Fung. He is a Canadian nephrologist, and saw the same thing. He saw the standard medicine, insulin, made his patients sicker. He concluded T2 is a disease of too much insulin, and he is pro-keto.

The last 3.5 years of my life has been learning to work the system to not accept what “standard” practice wants me to: I am aging but I am NOT old. I am middle aged, I should not be decrepit or losing my thinking ability.

Don’t want to listen to me enough to find root cause? I’ll solve it myself as safely reasonably as I can but don’t gripe about us going outside a broken system that ignores us.

 

[byefatlicia]

My first big clue to the brokenness was running across Dr Jason Fung. He is a Canadian nephrologist, and saw the same thing. He saw the standard medicine, insulin, made his patients sicker. He concluded T2 is a disease of too much insulin, and he is pro-keto

I would agree about Keto. I just couldn't stick to it. And really think it works if you can keep with it.

 

[Foggy-Hollow]

I would agree about Keto. I just couldn't stick to it. And really think it works if you can keep with it.

No judgement! I did keto for a couple months with a lot of prepackaged stuff… glad it works for folks but I couldn’t do it long term either.

My brain likes carbs. Really really likes them.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

No judgement! I did keto for a couple months with a lot of prepackaged stuff… glad it works for folks but I couldn’t do it long term either.

My brain likes carbs. Really really likes them.

The best (healthy) diet, just like exercise plan, is the one that you can actually stick to long term. People are so individually different that they need to actively try and find out what works and is sustainable for them. What's a fad to some might be sustainable for others and vice versa.

 

[Gr33dyOctopus]

And I bet your doctor didn’t even call you “Dear”

Or Honey! 😅🤣

 

[miss-sanne]

I almost never call my patients Dear or Honey. Or give them Telegram links to Grey ;-)
But I agree, it's been very traditional medicine with T2D for many many years. Not a lot to do.
It's a delight to be able to really help people now.
And SGLT2 has really done a lot too.
In Denmark we still mostly prescribe semaglutide, I think partly because of Novo, but also because Mounjaro is so crazy expensive.
Most of my patients are very happy.

 

[Not_Your_Dad]

I think it's very American to look at the FDA that's approved something or not and decide that is the end-all be-all of it. And also to view so many physicians as infallible gods no matter what they say or do.

I watched my wife struggle with a few medical conditions for DECADES, all the while being ignored by her doctors as "just another fatass" -- and look, she started Tirz and lost 110 pounds with almost no change to her diet. Qualifying with almost because she tightened up her calories a little bit since starting, but we're talking 100-200 a day, not 1,000+ / I was diagnosed with not having sleep apnea because my doctor cocked his head to the side and looked at me for 3 seconds. Guess who has severe sleep apnea that was diagnosed when I had insurance that didn't require a referral to sleep medicine?

People are turning to peptides because they work, and they are affordable. They are breaking the stranglehold modern medicine has over many of us -- not really getting us well, but well enough to not complain.