Dr Karl

It's good.

I'm so peachy keen.

Zempic.

So that drug came to us from the Giller Monster nearly 50 years ago in 1980.

We first started working on it and it took nearly 45 years for it to come to market and we've discovered that it has all sorts of other effects.

What?

It's a creature that is a short, fat reptile, maybe half a metre long, moves slowly, spends 95% of the time underground.

That checks out.

Hardly eats any food.

Oh.

And that ties in with the ability of it to make a chemical in its venom that

that can, in humans, ultimately end up leading to treating diabetes and insulin.

This little creature is bottom right-hand corner of the USA and just in Mexico on the other side, and it comes out with a chemical called a peptide, which is about 30 or 40 amino acids long.

I've been getting a little bit worried about people cheerfully saying, oh, I'm taking peptides, and so now my boob muscles are terrific and my arm muscles are terrific and I'm look-maxing.

And if you're looking even at just...

10 peptides, 10 amino acids in a row.

So a peptide is made of amino acids.

And if you're just looking at a short one with only 10 amino acids, the number of different possible combinations are greater than a number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Whoa.

And the stuff that they're manufacturing is not made to medical standards.