Wendy Zuckerman
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16 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
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So here's where we're at.
Online, you are going to read and see these amazing stories of people juicing up with peptides and feeling so great and healing so quickly and popping with muscles.
But if you are looking for scientific evidence that peptides are doing that magic and not the placebo or something else, you are going to be bitterly disappointed.
As I kind of was.
But this takes us to the last question of the episode.
What are the risks?
If you've got a knee injury that just won't heal or you want to build extra muscle fast and you want to give this stuff a go,
Are there any downsides?
Well, if you try this, you will be injecting yourself.
So you need to be careful because you could get a nasty infection.
And there is the odd case report of bodybuilders using unclean needles to inject steroids and then getting infected with hepatitis C or HIV.
And on Reddit, you will see people injecting themselves with peptides and then some body parts swelling up like mad and needing antibiotics.
Also, if you're giving yourself repeated injections, you need to worry about lipohypertrophy, which is a buildup of fatty, rubbery lumps under the skin.
Away from the needles, another issue is, how do you know what's in the vial?
Right now, in the US, you can't buy a lot of these peptides at a pharmacy.
You get them online, right?
And Dr. Javkula, the physician at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, recently bought some peptides to find out exactly what was in them.
It was for an article that he wrote for The New Yorker.
Oddly, just as an aside, on one of the websites, they gave him a little bonus.
No matter, within a week, the peptides started arriving.
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