Jasmine Sun

So when I looked at the U.S.

customs data, we saw the imports of hormone and peptide compounds from China specifically roughly doubled to $328 million in the first three quarters of 2025, up from $164 million in 2024.

So it's more than doubled.

I would say the majority of this is those GLPs being used in either compounding pharmacies or gray market suppliers.

But it also includes some other peptides like melanotan, which promises to make you tanner.

Yeah, I would definitely say that most doctors I spoke to are not advocates of using peptides because of the health risks that they pose.

So some folks who use them did experience some mild negative side effects.

This can be because of misdosing.

So one woman I spoke with accidentally doubled her dose one day and

her heart rate sped up and her hair started falling out and things like that.

I hadn't heard of catastrophic side effects in most cases, but we did see a case where two women at a sort of health and longevity festival in Las Vegas

took a unknown blend of peptides and ended up being hospitalized due to breathing issues.

So I do think that there are a lot of risks, mainly because one is from the supply chain itself.

When you are buying from a gray market supplier or research factory, they're not held to the same standards as an FDA approved factory.

And you don't really know what is in that vial when you get it.

And then the second thing is most of these peptides don't have any clinical trials run on them, right?

And so maybe BPC-157 has been tested in rats, but we don't know how it works in humans.

Sure, one person might have a great anecdote of it working, but we don't know what if you're younger?

What if you have a preexisting health condition?

What if you stack it with these five other peptides as a lot of these people are doing?