Lauren Gardner

Week three update, and I think it's an obsession at this point.

You guys, I am aging backwards.

Truly, I feel 15 years younger than I did a year ago.

As of now, the United States government is generally not on board.

But this is for specific peptides, the kind that I'm sure you were talking about with Ezra.

So essentially what happened is the FDA reclassified a little more than a dozen of these peptides.

basically saying we don't have enough safety information to confidently allow these things to be made for American consumers without stepping in here.

So what this did was it moved several of these peptides to this agency list that refers to them as bulk drug substances that may present significant safety risks.

Now, the thing about that is that in some cases, FDA really doesn't know whether they're safe or unsafe.

They truly just don't have or they say they don't have enough data to make that call.

According to several of these wellness influencers, compounding pharmacists who are big in this space, to them, they said this made their market essentially dry up.

A lot of these online platforms, you know, there's a wellness clinic side to it, and then they might be tied to a specific compounding pharmacy.

So the compounding pharmacy being the entity that, you know, has a lab and they make these concoctions for people if they can get a prescription for them.

By this action happening, the compounding pharmacies couldn't legally make them anymore.

So instead, people who had been getting them from providers

you know, wherever in the United States, turned to kind of black and gray corners of the web.

Yes.

So if you listen to Secretary Kennedy in some of his many podcast appearances, particularly on Joe Rogan.

He recently referred to what the FDA did a few years ago.

He called it illegal.