Jasmine Sun

So I think that's probably my best like steel man of the place that people are coming from.

I've been tempted, but I haven't done it.

So that's the short answer is I haven't tried any gray market peptides, though I am interested because I think that most people, when they're telling you a story about how taking BPC-157 or Ritatrutide or Epitalin changed their life, they're not actually trying to sell you something most of the time.

They're telling what is a real experience that they believe that they had and it did something for them.

You know, now the doctor part of my brain says, I mean, I'm not a doctor, but the doctors I've talked to says N of 1 is not a good experiment just because it worked for somebody else in a particular context.

Maybe it's a placebo.

Maybe it only worked for them.

Maybe if you have different health conditions, you're going to experience something very different.

And so as this stuff goes mainstream, that's something that does concern me just because there's a lot of young girls with eating disorders, young men trying to look better.

And I don't know that everyone has the ability or will do their research.

And so there is this sort of like the thing about do your own research is it offloads responsibility from the person chilling to the person doing the drug.

And I think a lot of people are going to

make mistakes.

But I think one of the things that this reporting experience did was it did make me more sympathetic to actually the existence of a gray market, or it made me think about why gray markets exist, i.e.

things that are not illegal, but things that are not being endorsed, right?

I am a little sympathetic to the idea that people

Adults who are aware of the risks can run experiments on themselves, not telling everyone else to do it, just like doing what they do and writing up a blog post about how that went or even just in some cases solving a health problem that they had struggled with for many years.

And if that's what solves your health problem, like power to you.

So I think overall, I understood why you might want spaces of...

freedom or spaces of experimentation that shouldn't hit the mainstream.