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The scariest thing about gray-market peptides is how little we know
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The peptide wild west is hard to quantify. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life
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Finding concrete data about gray-market peptides is a Sisyphean task. Unlike bona fide clinical drug trials, there are no official numbers. There's little to no safety data.
Some peptides have more anecdotal evidence than others, but a stranger on r/peptides is, perhaps, not an ideal information source. The fact is most people partaking in a dubiously legal activity aren't going to shout it from the rooftops. What we do know abo … Read the full story at The Verge.
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