Jasmine Sun
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People also now have so much money, which means that they can really realize every one of their crazy dreams to its fullest extent.
Like, I'm going to construct a brand new city from scratch in California.
I'm going to go to space.
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
A peptide is a short chain of amino acids.
So you can think of it like a mini protein.
So they have very simple structures.
A lot of peptides are naturally occurring in the body.
So insulin, oxytocin, et cetera.
Some peptides are modified by pharmaceutical manufacturers to behave a little bit differently.
There are also synthetic peptides.
So it's actually a very broad class of drug and class of compound.
But when we start talking about like peptides as a
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.
And so they can do anything from like oxytocin is the love hormone.
There's also growth hormone adjacent peptides.
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.