Dr Norman Swan

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ABC News Daily · The renewed obsession with living longer · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

These are the building blocks of proteins.

And there are already peptides on the market, the GLP-1s, insulin, growth hormone, things like that.

So legitimate medications.

But then there's all these other peptides.

And it's really easy to get them.

There's an enormous black market.

So we, through another organization, put out a call for people to send in their mail-order black market peptides.

And then we got them tested in a lab in Melbourne.

What we found was in one sample, the dose was only 40% of what you thought you'd bought.

In the other one, it was 70%.

And then in the third one, there was none at all.

None of the peptide at all.

And what they've found is that in some of these samples, there's 7% free copper.

And what it's there for, they think, is as a marketing gimmick, because it turns the peptide blue.

So you're buying a blue peptide, which presumably you think is more effective, and copper is blue when it's in a chemical form.

And you're taking this toxic copper and injecting it into your body.

And none of these peptides are proven in humans.

None of them have a safety profile.

Some of them might do the job.

They say there's a tanning one called melanotan, which does induce the chemical messenger, which induces tanning pigmentation.

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