Jasmine Sun

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Search Engine · How Peptides Conquered the Internet · 13 Feb 2026 podcast

And even if you are getting peptides from a lot of American companies, they are getting their raw materials from Chinese factories and then, you know,

testing and processing and like putting them into the, say the insulin pens or the syringes or things like that.

But people realized basically that if they wanted to cut out the middleman and do their own injection and do their own mixing of the peptides, they could go straight to the Chinese factories and buy them.

I don't think so.

I mean, to be clear, like I didn't like go to China for the reporting, but I asked some family friends who are in China.

I have some other friends in China who have been poking around and they seem to think the Americans are freaking crazy.

You guys are insane.

I don't know why you're doing this, but you know, China manufactures a lot of fentanyl and they're not doing that either.

So if we really go back to the early, early adopters, the earliest adopters are actually like the bodybuilding and fitness community.

And so this is like pretty separate from tech world.

It's like guys doing steroids and bodybuilding gyms together.

So when I was like in the very early stages of my research and I was looking up peptide guides, I would just end up on these like crazy bodybuilding forums and like weird subreddits and discords.

And, you know, one of the guys I talked to, Jaden Clark, who has popularized sort of the peptides and

San Francisco, he also is a bodybuilder and kind of a self-described gym bro.

And so he said that like back in Australia where he's from, all of the gym guys are constantly recommending each other peptides because it's sort of a spinoff of the interest in steroids and in growth hormone and things like that.

So bodybuilding has this big overlap with the biohacker community broadly, where there is a common practice of experimenting on yourself like a lab rat and importing research chemicals.

Non-FDA approved drugs are under the banner of research chemicals to then self-inject and just frankly see what happens, share with your buddies at the gym, tell them what works.

And so biohacking is sort of the way that that crosses into the tech mainstream, since a lot of tech folks are also very interested in body hacking, can new forms of science, like improve my fitness, my productivity, whatever.

And I think because Ozempic was such a craze and has worked really well to help a lot of people lose a lot of weight, people think, oh, if there's this magic shot I can take for weight loss, maybe there's a magic shot for everything else.

And so I think the Ozempic boom and the GLP boom is what has precipitated all of this interest in other experimental peptides.

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