Ella Mills

Because we were talking about peptides and this kind of unregulated market and how there's all of these doctors coming out, you know, the American Medical Association, like everyone coming out saying, please be careful.

There's no research behind this.

This is quite a social media push versus evidence.

And the headline that ran in that paper was amputations, heart attacks, days of vomiting, the horror of

toll of backyard peptides.

And essentially, just to summarize the article, what the emergency room doctors who were being interviewed were saying was that they're having all these people arrive in the emergency department suffering these really severe side effects as a result of these illegal peptides, vomiting, abdominal cramping, chest pain, things that mirror heart attacks,

And what they're saying is that they're also seeing serious skin infections that have even required skin grafts, amputations.

And there was one doctor that they interviewed, Dr. Mark Putland, and he said they're getting these patients coming in and the doctors are initially sort of assuming or presuming, working on the idea that they're suffering heart attacks because of the symptoms.

And then after these extensive tests and monitoring, what they're finding is that it's this complication of

or it's an overdose of these black market peptides.

They were talking about patients as young as 14, wanting to look a certain way and taking them.

They said they've treated people who've taken up to 10 times the recommended dosage of this.

But they said also the biggest issue, and I think this is such an important point, which is one reason I wanted to bring this to the show, is that he said one of the biggest issues for them is the fact that because these things are not regulated and

and therefore they're not available from, you know, licensed regulated providers, as a result, there's a huge issue with contamination.

What's even inside it, Ella?

There's a huge issue of you don't know what you're buying.

That's it.

And it's the kind of complications of the contamination that are causing so many of the issues.

And I just think it's a really, not to be like too depressing or sombre this morning, but I do think it's a really important point that like,

If you want to be more, I'm just saying sort of out there with wellness trends and you are wanting to explore these things, which I'm not recommending you doing, you've got to go to doctors.