Jasmine Sun

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Marketplace All-in-One · The 'biohacking' trend that has tech workers experimenting on themselves · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

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?

So there certainly are a lot of health risks that people are taking when they choose to experiment.

I think tech culture and San Francisco culture is in an interesting place where people are really embracing the cyberpunk and the biopunk.

I think there's this notion among a lot of folks that, sure, maybe the rest of the world is caught up in these slow and bureaucratic institutions like the FDA.

But us here in San Francisco, because we are pioneers and we're hackers, we can do our own research and we can be on the frontier of medicine and health.

And so I think there is this kind of anti-establishment attitude where folks believe that they and their own communities can experiment much faster and much better than the FDA can.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I definitely think that this sort of optimization culture is another big part of it.

It was really interesting how many of the tech founders I spoke to who are doing peptides, they would analogize it to the experiments that they run on their software products.

So like one woman said,

It's another thing I can tweak just like my SEO.

She's like, just try whatever, see if the number goes up, see if I feel better.

A lot of folks also said when I asked them, are you worried about the risk?

They would say, yes, it is risky, but I'm a risk tolerant person.

I'm the kind of person who would start a company.

I'm the kind of person who is willing to try anything to hunt for the big upside, even if there is some downside risk.

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