Sara Ashley O'Brien

increases the pigmentation of your skin so you just have this like natural glow and you look a lot darker and it's the sort of promise that people always want like you want to not get the sun exposure but you want to look tan and glowing but because it increases the melanin in your skin you might grow a lot more moles your moles become more prominent

And there have been some warnings about case studies that have shown that it has increased the risk of melanoma.

Now these studies are limited, but that's certainly concerning, right?

So a lot of times people might be taking a certain peptide and yeah, they're feeling good, they're looking good.

And that's what you're seeing on TikTok, but you don't know what might come with that too.

Not to fear monger, but there are some very real scary consequences to some of them and others we don't know yet what we don't know.

There's always a risk when you don't know much about who you're buying from, right?

There's a lot to be said about the process that a pharmaceutical goes through to get to market, and that includes the safety and the manufacturing process.

So certainly at the baseline level, you don't even know what the ingredients are in what you're buying.

They might say that they have a certificate of analysis or certificate of ingredients, but do you trust that, right?

Do you trust that this company that you probably never heard of before is...

selling you what they say they're selling you.

So not knowing what you're injecting could have all sorts of things, contaminants in it that could be harmful to you.

The other thing is a lot of people are stacking peptides.

They're not consulting with a doctor and they're sort of doing it on their own.

And do you know what

The stacking of certain peptides can do.

Maybe one is fine for you, but maybe the combination of several is not great for you.

There's so many unknowns.

And because people are sort of DIYing this, you know, it could lead to very scary health outcomes.