Ezra Klein

I will say before I make this next point that I think injecting yourself or taking poorly studied peptides is a stupid idea and people shouldn't do it.

So I really want to say this very clearly.

But in preparing this episode and reading what some of the peptide booster types are saying, their argument is, look, people have a right to do this.

It is their body.

They are doing it.

And it would be better if we let them buy them from domestic compounders whose processes we could regulate and oversee rather than these fly-by-night Chinese companies that we can't trust.

But how do you think about balancing this argument?

Like, look, people are doing this.

It's their right.

We should allow them to get things that are safely made against this.

Like the government doesn't want you doing this and we're going to try to make it hard to get them and increase the, you know, the risk so more people don't try.

Which way does the supplement argument actually point?

You walk into Whole Foods or you walk into CVS and there's a lot of supplements.

And I don't think we see it as like a national tragedy.

And a lot of those supplements have names I don't even know.

And it doesn't seem like they do that much when I look into it, but maybe.

And some people seem to think so.

So is that a bad thing or a good thing, right?

Am I upset people can create these supplement snacks?

I mean, not really.