But, what actually are the benefits of all this peptide ingestion ? Does it replace, Good Food, Sleep and an exercise ?

> what actually are the benefits of all this peptide ingestion ?

50 years ago it was cocaine, 40 years ago there was crack, 30 years ago it was heroin, 20 years ago we had bath salts, 10 years ago it was gas station drugs and meth, 5 years ago it was Ivermectin, this year it's SF techies doing their own research into peptides and taking some. Taking the latest drug (or peptide in 2026) is its own benefit.

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zemvpferreira an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ozempic and Mounjaro are peptides. They are a silver bullet for obesity and orders of magnitude more effective than anything up to a gastric band surgery. Insulin is a peptide and keeps some 50 million people alive globally. You could go on and on.

The real question is: Should you be putting novel, poorly researched and dubiously manufactured substances (which happen to be peptides) in your body via injection? To that I say, to each their own but I'll wait for the pharma industry to catch up. I'm not that bored.

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mint5 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

My take on the peptides craze is it’s like random people started injected insulin because they have a hazy idea of it being helpful for something or other based on the word on the street but they aren’t sure about dose and also can’t be sure what they’re injecting is actually insulin or uncontaminated. They also aren’t diabetic.

	▲	Legend2440 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Most peptides don't seem nearly as dangerous as insulin, luckily. Injecting insulin without medical supervision is a good way to give yourself hypoglycemia and die - blood sugar regulation is not something you want to mess with! People don't seem to be regularly dying from peptides, at least not now.

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victorbjorklund an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Clearly they have effects. Heck insulin is a peptide. And pretty sure it has a benefit for those with diabetes. Dismissing peptides outright is just as silly as thinking peptides are the solution to everything

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Legend2440 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You also wouldn't want to randomly inject yourself with insulin outside of medical supervision, because it can kill you pretty quick.

Injecting poorly-studied grey market peptides seems like a bad idea.

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timcobb 21 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

How is insulin a peptide? Insulin is a giant folded protein

	▲	Ekaros 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Seems like it is very much on the edge of categories thus fits both. And it really is not a giant as proteins go and instead is on smaller end.

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fl0id an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can feel like you have control of your life and body, without doing anything about sleep, exercise or food. If you like that control.

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bamboozled an hour ago | parent [-]

I guess "feeling like", sounds like a placebo.

From what I've read there is some real risks associated with using them. Sounds a bit like the marketing of steroids in the 70s.

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victorbjorklund an hour ago | parent [-]

Insulin is a peptide. Not sure if it is really a placebo when a diabetic needs insulin.

	▲	inigyou 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Peptides aren't all insulin.

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TFNA an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have seen so much talk of Bay Area "peptide parties", so at least there is some social benefit?

	▲	bamboozled an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure I'd agree that a "bay area peptide party" has any real, useful social benefit. Sounds like hell.