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Alex Ossola

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WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

Right.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

And just to clarify what unapproved means, there's off-label use for many drugs, and then there's using a straight-up illegal drug, and there's a lot of stuff in between.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

Where does this fall?

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

Who is primarily buying these drugs and who's selling them?

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

How much does it typically cost to buy these drugs off social media?

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

Coming up, the risks that unapproved peptides bring and where they go from here.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

That's after the break.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

I know that you said that the FDA hasn't approved these drugs for some of the things that people are taking them for.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

But that doesn't mean they don't do that.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

Do we actually know that any of these peptides as ingredients do some of the things that are promised?

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

Unattended side effects is a pretty big negative consequence of some of this.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

But are there possible other negative consequences that come with how people are acquiring these drugs?

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

I want to zoom back out now for a minute because...

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

This is a particular moment in the sort of pursuit of beauty, the pursuit of perfection.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

But I would say pretty confidently that this is not the first, right?

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

I mean, the rise of social media led to like this whole new revolution in the way that people are thinking about their physical appearance.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

And that includes GLP-1s, but it also includes stuff like Botox and all kinds of other aesthetic treatments.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

Is this different than some of that other stuff?

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

You mentioned that there's a hearing in July.

WSJ What’s News
Why Everyone Is Talking About Peptides

What is the hearing for and what are you going to be watching to come out of it?