Gemma Mullins
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But there's a whole range of different people that are taking them at the moment.
And I really want to talk to...
the lifestyle things that are going to help that range of people so they don't just get stuck.
I also wanted to dive into, because I feel like this new wave of like peptides and kind of like assistance with fat loss and things like that.
Like I personally feel like these things are here to stay and they probably will go from being unregulated to regulated over the next, like whatever amount of years.
And like you said, you can get things online from somewhere quote unquote dodgy, or you can go to like a compounding chemist is like, there's a, uh,
spectrum of like how things can be attained.
But the issue that I have is when we have this marketing, which is really pushy, we're not talking about like when you go to a doctor's or if something's researched and
It's not advertised because there's advertising guidelines, like even with cosmetics and things like injectables, right?
Like in Australia, there's all of these guidelines around how you can market that.
And the reason I want to use that example is because that's there from the ethical point of view of like you can't post testimonials of.
cosmetics because you don't want to bias people as not showing the risks.
And that's the point I want to make with peptides is, yes, there could be all of this upside.
We're not denying that, but we're also not giving the fair weight of the risk.
And when I hear about risk, personally, I've heard people say gallbladder removal is a really common thing.
So I just think that what my issue is, like the same way with marketing other things that are more heavily regulated and we have to show the full spectrum of risk.
I think that that is what is really missing at the moment.
And no, not everyone's going to have to get their gallbladder removed.
Not everyone's going to have negative side effects, but we really need to have that fair weight of that.