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Dr. Abud Bakri

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Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

And they're going to like check out and they're going to be a doctor somewhere in a room that's going to stamp the prescription.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

But it's just, you know, e-commerce.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

It supplements with the stamp of a doctor, which is not good medical care at all.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

Okay.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

Yep.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

So eventually, they actually got payment processors.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

Like, this market evolved with the design.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

Because there's maybe, I'd say, $5 to $10 billion on gray market peptides being spent in the United States in 2025.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

And that's going to grow this year.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

So here's my question.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

So the API for all these active pharmaceutical ingredients comes from China.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

There are no such thing as American-made peptides.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

It gets finished here.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

So the API- They're all from China.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

Everything's from China.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

The raw materials?

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

The raw materials, like the semaglutide you're getting from a compounding pharmacy or a research peptide website, ratatouille included, comes from China.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

And then gets either the raw material gets, you know, packaged here.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

The synthesized semaglutide gets made in China.

Huberman Lab
Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

It'd be very expensive to make it here.