Sean Ramos

And so we're talking about everyone from like,

you know, Maha, like Life Extension, RFK types of influencers.

I've used them myself.

I was talking to a pro football player who pulled his hamstring.

He's like, dude, I shot that shit right into my hamstring for two weeks and I was right back on the field.

Wow.

I was like, that's nuts.

To just like straightforward beauty influencers, to gym bros.

It's almost every sector of people talking about how to optimize your life at some point dipped their toes into the peptide hype cycle over the last year or so.

When you want to take peptides, there are a few doors you can open.

Let's talk about the door that you chose to open.

Where did your journey begin?

Yeah, so when I was researching this, I was talking to people, and I was sort of coming across, like you said, a variety of—

entry points for the consumer.

And I explored two different ones, the sort of aboveboard way and the gray market way.

And the aboveboard way is just you go to any number of wellness clinic, you know, med spa, whatever.

And all of them sell peptides now.

And I basically just went to one in the city, made an appointment, talked to the nurse.

I said, you know, I'm a reporter working on a story about peptides, but I'm also curious about trying one

What do you got for me?