Sara Ashley O'Brien

Now, under the Trump administration, they have moved a lot of these peptides into this regulatory limbo area where they may soon become available for compounders to create again.

There will be a hearing in July where they'll discuss the status of a number of these peptides

And many are hoping that this will become the beginning of making these widely available through compounding pharmacies again, which people see as safer because these are drugs that you're injecting into your body.

So they need to be sterile and the ingredients need to be known and vouched for.

Who's buying them is a great question, and it's a broad range of people at this point.

I just did a story talking to teenagers and young men who are buying these peptides as young as 18 and even younger, and then all the way up to senior citizens and people that have physical ailments maybe, and they want their muscles and joints to repair more quickly.

And right now, because they are unapproved, they're in this legal gray area, and many people are turning to

online sellers.

They're buying them from various websites that they're finding on places like Reddit or TikTok, and they're being sold largely and labeled as for research use only, which is a legal loophole that sellers are using because they're

They very well know that these are not approved drugs and that you cannot sell a drug without a prescription from a doctor on the internet.

But because of the way that everybody else is buying them and talking about them, people know that this is how you get the peptide.

They would be perhaps safer if they're produced from compounding pharmacies, although we still don't have the answers to the safety effectiveness questions.

Yeah, it can cost anywhere from like tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars per vial of peptide.

And then some of them are sold individually.

And then there's also like peptide stacks, which is maybe a combination of three different peptides that is sold as things like a Glow stack and Wolverine stack to kind of like brand them in an appealing way.

And those might carry a higher price tag because they have multiple ones within a vial.

So they might do some of the things that they're promised, but they also might have unintended side effects as well.

And that's kind of the scarier part, right?

So there is one called MT2, which is known as the tanning peptide.

And years ago, it actually popped up because people were calling it the Barbie peptide because it really just...