Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Peptides are short chains of amino acids that regulate hormones and reduce inflammation in the human body. They are best known as the P in GLP-1s — the class of drugs that includes Ozempic and Wegovy, which have transformed the weight-loss industry by mimicking a hormone that suppresses appetite.

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• etherphon@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hardly new, they have been around at least 10 years as I dabbled in them a bit back then, at least as far as things like BPC, SEMAX and SELANK. I would definitely not inject a random powder or solution sent to me from China without testing, I have heard of far too many dangerous mix ups and wrong orders. Anyways, I found them to be rather expensive for their effects. The human body is pretty fickle though, your brain can take a lot of abuse but eventually it will try to find balance, and then you will find yourself in trouble.

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