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Jasmine Sun

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

People also now have so much money, which means that they can really realize every one of their crazy dreams to its fullest extent.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

Like, I'm going to construct a brand new city from scratch in California.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

I'm going to go to space.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

I'm going to hire a

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

transfer their young blood to mine and see if that makes me live forever right like it's not just people with crazy ideas now but also with the resources to realize them and i just feel like as a writer that's like the most interesting thing in the world

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

Yeah.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

A peptide is a short chain of amino acids.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

So you can think of it like a mini protein.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

So they have very simple structures.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

A lot of peptides are naturally occurring in the body.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

So insulin, oxytocin, et cetera.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

Some peptides are modified by pharmaceutical manufacturers to behave a little bit differently.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

There are also synthetic peptides.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

So it's actually a very broad class of drug and class of compound.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

But when we start talking about like peptides as a

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

biohacking or health trend, people are usually referring to particular experimental peptides that are not tested or run through a clinical trial process, that people are purchasing from peptide pharmacies, sometimes drug manufacturers in other countries like China, and testing on themselves.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

And so they can do anything from like oxytocin is the love hormone.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

There's also growth hormone adjacent peptides.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

There are copper peptides that supposedly help with skin, peptides that supposedly help with sleep like epitalon, peptides like melanotan that promise to make your skin better.

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How Peptides Conquered the Internet

And like,