Dr. Kavita Patel

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47 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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Here's the Scoop · The Costs of the U.S. War with Iran and Congress Races Toward August Recess · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

They're also looking at things like insomnia, diabetes.

obesity, osteoporosis.

So the FDA, again, their job, just to remind everyone, is to determine what is safe and effective for use by Americans.

What every listener and every viewer might be saying is, why are they doing this?

I can get a peptide right now by just going online.

All of those uses of peptides technically are not sanctioned by any health professionals, and they are technically not allowed, meaning they're not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.

So everything that you're seeing in BPC-157, some of these other substances, are being done without any guidance from the FDA.

That's exactly, like, one of the core questions is that if the FDA determines for them to be safe and effective.

I have a newsflash, though.

I read through the hundreds of pages on what the scientists said during their internal review.

Yeah.

There was...

unanimous across the board to do not recommend to move forward with these use cases.

So across the board, the science was not sufficient to say that any of these peptides were safe and effective.

And in fact, three of them had some very troubling flags for potentially being linked to cancer, potentially being linked to worse outcomes.

So there's going to be some very interesting conversations, Yasmin.

But yes, in theory, the FDA could move to approve or at

The commissioner would ultimately then have to sign off on it.

And then you could see a chain of events where insurance would cover it.

And you would actually start seeing prescriptions for this.

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