Eric Topol
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For the peptides.
Interesting.
That's really what they are, right?
They have no data.
They mostly come from China.
You don't even know what you're getting when they've sent them to independent labs.
Sometimes they're not even the peptide that they say they are.
Sometimes basically there's nothing there or sometimes they're contaminated.
They aren't necessarily sterile.
People are injecting these into their bloodstream.
So these have no track record, except in some animal studies.
There are no good human studies that show placebo-controlled.
These are very expensive, usually $250 to $300.
Often they're taken in stacks or multiple.
Isn't that what people say?
It's incredible.
This is just
completely out of control.
We even have the HHS secretary, RFK Jr., who is a big advocate of these peptides and is trying to take them off from being banned from compounding facilities throughout the country.
So this is a mess.