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Unapproved peptide drugs have become a trendy new hack among wellness influencers, fitness coaches and celebrities, pitched as a way to build muscle, shed pounds and look younger. Online stores will offer inje…
Read guide →1 March 2026 Ruth Clegg, health and wellbeing reporter and Amy Walker @katiepeptalks Katie carefully takes a syringe out of its packet. She pricks the top of a small jar of blue liquid and pulls up the plunger…
Read guide →Here’s a new trend that sounds unwise: buying unregulated substances from dealers in foreign countries and injecting them into your body. And yet, grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances wit…
Read guide →About a decade ago, a group of competitive CrossFitters in Charleston, South Carolina, went looking for ways to improve their athletic performance without taking steroids. At the time, members of the fitness c…
Read guide →Radio Crocodile dung. Tapeworms. Raw meat facials. Yes, at some point in history these wildly popular — and wildly unproven — treatments were how people tried to stay young. Right now, plenty of influencers wi…
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