lessthanhalf
GLP-1 Enthusiast
I guess that at some point in the not too distant future China will crack down on it internally. Won't happen for a few years, but once they have several home grown peptides on the market locally, I imagine these new potentially highly profitable companies will not be happy with the competition that did not have to pay for the research. And I would guess that China will want to market them worldwide, especially to the less rich countries. The possible amounts of money involved are insane, maybe even a trillion dollars, even if they end up selling them for a quarter or a tenth the price of current glp's. Probably not for 3 to 5 years is my guess, but it makes stockpiling hard to work out, probably need 8 to ten years worth to be safeish, until there is a lot of competition and generics. There are about 200 obesity related medications currently in drug development, so there will be better and cheaper ones eventually.