Wendy Zuckerman
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3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
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Basically, in this unregulated market, these peptides are coming from factories where the quality control is not up to snuff.
Now, this may change in the US soon.
The FDA is meeting in July to talk about letting compounding US pharmacies make a handful of peptides, including MOTC and BPC-157, and then sell them directly to the public.
Of course, that's not going to make them effective, just less likely to have lead in them.
But there is one more risk that we need to talk about, and that is around cancer.
Like I mentioned, some peptides are supposed to work by encouraging blood vessels to grow.
And this, in theory, could increase your risk of cancer because giving cancer cells a blood supply gives them the nutrients to survive and spread.
I talked about this with Dr. Corey Mayfield.
We don't know for sure if this is a risk or even if some of these peptides increase angiogenesis in the first place.
But the thing is that if peptides actually do what people are saying they can, if they are modulating your body in all of these different and exciting ways, they probably will have some side effects.
I mean, think about the peptides that we have good research on.
So GLP-1s, for example, they work really well.
But if you're losing a ton of weight, you need to worry about muscle loss.
They can also cause nausea and diarrhea and rarely gut paralysis.
IGF-1, like I mentioned, can increase your risk of cancer and heart disease.
None of the doctors and researchers that you heard from in this episode, Drav, Corey, Keith and Hassi, inject themselves with peptides.
I talked to Hassi about why he's not injecting MOTC.
And while I get the impulse to want to be your best self, and I know how frustrating it is when injuries take a long time to heal, and I also think that the potential peptide revolution happening in science land, it could be super cool.
But at the same time, injecting yourself with stuff that some influencer, or worse, podcaster, is selling you online, as Hassy would say, it's the wrong way to do it.
I guess I'm old-fashioned like that too.
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