Tim Piotrkowski

Just one example of, I guess, some of the peptides I've used in the past was BPC-157 probably 13, 14 years ago.

But it took until 2023 to put it on the schedule for poisons list.

And so if you can imagine, there's a lot of these that are popular at the moment.

Some of them just haven't made it to even be scheduled.

But I suppose...

Again, part of this responsibility falls on our regulatory bodies, but a large proportion falls on our ARPA-registered friends.

Yes.

And so I think, well, let's break this up even more, Norman.

One, you've got people who are not seeking a prescription or even bothering with that pathway.

They're just going to, you know, peptide.com.au, not a real site, by the way, and ordering, you know, whatever they'd like.

And it's shipped to their door within, you know, a couple of days and then using it based on social information from there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Influencers, mates, online forums, wherever.

So the other group, I guess, is those who have the means and the access to go and see a health professional.

And commonly, I guess we call these anti-aging or TRT clinics.

And you can go to these clinics and there is a means there for prescribers to, you know,

Well, the most popular one, obviously, is azempic or semaglutide, right, being used off-label, so not for the, you know, intended indications, being diabetes, but for weight loss.

And so they can, you know, go and prescribe that and off you go, you purchase it and you start injecting.

Also, the ones that are on the poison schedule or, you know, not on the radar that have been compounded