Bill Maher

Our regulatory bodies here are much stricter

on certain things than anywhere else.

But I mean, if you're dying, what do you have to lose?

Yeah, well, there's this weird inverse stringency.

So when it comes to like sunscreen, we'll talk about sunscreen, for instance, you know, or food additives, Europe bans certain things that we allow very readily here.

Yeah, and certain pesticides.

In Europe, alcohol, no diss, is classified as a... No diss.

A World Health Organization classifies it as a classifying carcinogen.

Do as you like, but know what you're doing.

Here, we don't classify it as a carcinogen, even though we know it increases cancer risk.

You're fine.

You're healthy in other ways.

I wasn't freaking out about it.

You're very calm.

But on the other side, when you think about which drugs we allow doctors to provide or what's allowed over the counter, here there's a lot more stringency.

For instance, right now there's a huge battle over peptides, which I'm happy to talk about because the GLPs are so popular.

which are peptides.

What are peptides?

Peptides are small chains of amino acids that have a biological function.

Insulin's a peptide.