Topic
The fastest-moving and least regulated corner of wellness. GLP-1s, NAD+, BPC-157 and the rest — separated into what has human trials, what needs a prescription, and what is a grey-market vial with a marketing budget.
Our lens: What is prescription, what is research-grade, and what is being sold to you.
Semaglutide and tirzepatide are the most effective weight-loss drugs ever brought to market. They are also prescription medicines with real side effects and a large grey market growing around them.
Peptides & GLP-1A large share of the weight lost on a GLP-1 is lean mass. Two interventions blunt it, and both are things you would want to be doing anyway.
Peptides & GLP-1The mechanism is real and genuinely interesting. The human outcome data is thinner than the marketing, and one of these was pulled from the US supplement market.
Peptides & GLP-1A peptide with encouraging animal data, almost no human trials, and a specific regulatory status that most sellers do not mention.