Jasmine Sun

You need these like podcasters to teach you what peptides to take to get healthy.

So I think COVID is a weird time for online information.

Yeah, I mean, I think so.

You know, like...

A lot of it comes from this sort of idea that people should do their own research.

And rather than having the paternalistic institutions decide what the boundaries of your action are, as an individual, you should be empowered to research your own shit coins and to research your own peptides.

And they shouldn't be making these risk trade-offs for you, you know?

And so, yeah, the big pharma stuff was a big complaint that I heard from a lot of peptide users was like,

Especially with the people who started off with the GLPs, the way they'd put it is like, I'm spending over $1,000 a month to be on prescription GLPs.

And then I find out that you can get literally the same substance for $100 to $200 a month from a gray market Chinese source.

And then they start to go, wait, like that doesn't make any sense.

Like why is Eli Lilly making me pay 10 times what I could be paying for the exact same thing?

And so first of all, I think like a lot of anger with just like healthcare costs makes people go like there's something bad going on.

Or even when you ask like why haven't most peptides been used?

Why haven't they had any clinical trials done, right?

Like, why are there no clinical trials for BPC-157?

It's basically because it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to run clinical trials and get something FDA-approved.

And unless a drug is targeting a disease and it's easily patentable and you're going to have a moat as a pharma company, most pharma companies are not going to invest in extremely, extremely expensive clinical trials anymore.

And that is like a reality of the incentive.

So when people hear that, they sort of feel like it is rigged and the FDA, by requiring this $100 million process, is not going to allow me to take the things that I want.