Jasmine Sun

The idea is like, oh, the FDA is so slow.

It takes like 10 years to do all these studies.

They're really risk averse because they're really worried about the downsides.

But

These folks might think, well, I'm a pretty smart person.

I have a computer science degree.

I'm good at using ChatGPT to do research.

I've built a company from scratch in a field where no one told me I could do it before.

So like, why couldn't I also take my health into my own hands?

And so I think also the very risk tolerant culture, the very I'm a frontiersman, like I can figure out stuff before the institutions can culture also makes people a lot more comfortable with exploring, you know, these unregulated drugs.

I think several founders who I spoke to who are using these peptides are

literally compared their risk tolerance around health to their risk tolerance around their companies.

They said, you know, I know there are downsides.

I know it could go wrong, but I'm somebody who is willing to take the risk because sometimes the upside is worth it.

Coming up.

They see technology not just as a way to make their human lives more efficient, but actually as a way to transcend the limitations of the human body to sort of merge with the machine and become more than our, you know, fleshy selves.

I think this might be an opportunity to think about for some of the more radical peptide users, which to be clear is not all of them.

Plenty of people are just looking for the efficiency or the weight loss benefits or whatever.

But there are some folks like one of the women I interviewed who are more on the quote unquote transhumanist side of things where they see technology not just as a way to make their

human lives more efficient, but actually as a way to transcend the limitations of the human body to sort of merge with the machine and become more than our, you know, fleshy selves.