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The deadly drug everyone is taking

AsapSCIENCE | July 3, 2026



Peptides are extremely popular right now. They are injectable short chain amino acids that claim to make people healthier, heal from injury and live longer. Science is now finding that they could cause cancer, and maybe result in early death. So what is going on with peptides? Are influencers ruining science?

Written by: Gregory Brown
Animations by: Gregory Brown
Edited by: Luka Šarlija

Resources and further learning:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74022-y
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12893016/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32737999/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25592218/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12306302/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-025-00049-3
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12893016/#r4m
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/1263527105/steroids-men-body-image
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12893016/#r59racing
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4977020/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11103119/

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Comments

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  1. @happyplace3541

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    Watched this full video on my main account. The ending ad was a for a body scanner that "saved me from a x-thousand dollar surgery just weeks before it was too late!!!!!1!!!11" 🤦‍♀️
    Ohhh, algorithm. So close and yet so far.

  2. @rabbithorserunning

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    So this is what happens when an antivaccine, anti-science idiot is appointed to lead US's health oversight, and a couple billionaires conspire to tear down our government by firing everyone who could protest.

  3. @endrit536

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    @AsapSCIENCE Raw milk is 100% better than pasteurized milk as long as good farming practices are used. AFTER THAT COMMENT YOU LOOSE CREDIBILITY

  4. @radicalrals9973

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    I think the convergence of declining healthcare accessibility for younger generations + loss of faith in institutions is creating a deadly cocktail. It is undeniable that our system is progressively harder to trust.

  5. @ickkck1100

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    The covid vaccine WAS experimental, there´s no studies on the efficiency of m-RNA staying in a single tissue and not going to other tissues where the effects are unknown. The covid pandemic came from a specific variant in a lab in china that every major institution tried to hide or give the run around until they could not do it any longer. THAT´S why people have less trust in pharma (not to mention past dramas like the oxytocin train), influencers taking advantage of this to spread experimental stuff is a consequence, NOT the cause.

  6. @jonnyhatter35

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    The influencers are money driven little grubbers, but so are the legit doctors. Legit doctors started the opiate epidemic. This guy omits that one reason people are more prone to believing nonsense is that the the old institutions, from education to medicine to politics, really were lying to us, and only had their own interest in mind, just like the influencers. Now we're feeling completely lost. AI will augment the intensity of all I just said.

  7. @cairneoleander8130

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    Honestly I just see this as yet another stupidity trend that functions as a sieve: dumbest of all of us can be separated out from those of us smart enough to not go injecting all sorts of random stuff from sources you cannot trust. Anybody who falls for an influencer trend/scam deserves to be removed from the species, and thankfully this time they are handling that themselves. I see no problem. Stupids are gonna stupid.

  8. @azules9780

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    This is fear porn and click bait. The overwhelming majority of our FDA approved medicines are made and come from China. Also, some of the peptides have tons of research and studies and others truly are research only chemicals because you are researching them and science is also researching them at the same time. Bottom line, there are lots of doctors out there who know nothing other than what big pharma and big insurance companies allow them to say and think. Then there are others like Dr Ashley Froese who are on lots of social media/media sites like this one who can help you learn a lot. Retatrutide and the GLOW stack are heavily researched and the most popular. Finally, a lot of people are taking these things because 1) they get to make the choice or not and 2) these things are seen as enhancements to your body and system, not medicine. Also insulin is the oldest peptide.

  9. @aanngguusscclliinntt

    July 3, 2026 at 9:16 am

    Asking people if animal protein is "healthier" is kind of a weird question. I assume you'd argue that the answer is no but animal proteins are complete proteins which means you can get all the proteins your body needs by eating the meat. Whereas you'd need to eat multiple incomplete sources of vegetable protein to fill the same demands. Also whey protein isolate which I believe is considered the gold standard protein source is an animal dervied product (coming from milk). So whilst they might not be technically "healthier", animal protein sources definitely are superior, especially when sourced from lean meats.

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