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Medical professionals are raising alarms about a growing wellness trend that has patients injecting peptides promoted on platforms like TikTok, despite a lack of regulatory approval and clinical ...

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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re doing a deep dive on an extremely hot topic: peptides. Hype around these basic chemical building blocks has ...

The hype around synthetic peptides—touted for everything from muscle gains to clear skin and healthy hair—has reached a fever pitch in the online wellness world. While peptides are used in some ...

It's tough to avoid the current hype about the health benefits of injecting peptides. Although these substances—essentially, synthetic bits of protein in solution—have long made the rounds in the ...

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Pick an ailment — joint pain, brain fog, insomnia — and there’s probably a peptide therapy promising to treat it. Never mind that many of these amino acid–based products are not approved by the U.S.