More Injectable Peptide News

In this Iron Radio episode, hosts Dr. Mike T. Nelson and Dr. Lonnie Lowery (Phil Stevens out with internet issues) discuss an article on how social media influencers are marketing unproven, potentially dangerous injectable peptides to the general public, and debate what actually makes these compounds risky — amino acid sequence and receptor activity versus contamination, storage, and the injectable route itself. The conversation broadens to the show's recurring theme, "you got to lift, bro," examining how peptide marketing sells results without effort, why placebo and motivation confound self-reported outcomes, and the near-total lack of controlled human data on peptides like BPC-157 and mitochondrial compounds. They close by discussing the FDA's move to let compounding pharmacies produce certain peptides and the need for legitimate, IRB-approved human research.