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Essentially, if you have a health concern or problem, whether that's a physical problem
or a cosmetic or aesthetic one, there is probably a peptide for that.
That's Madison Muller, who covers the pharmaceutical industry for Bloomberg.
Recently, she's been hearing a lot about a specific kind of drug: peptides.
I've been hearing a lot about them, too. They seem to be everywhere.
Now to the injectable peptides craze sweeping social media.
If you're in your 30s and you're not incorporating peptides into your skincare routine, why not?
At the most basic level, peptides are chains of amino acids that bind to receptors
in the body to turn processes on and off.
Peptides are used in lots of different drugs and they promise all kinds of transformative benefits.
They will make you theoretically tan, beautiful, snatched, pain-free, well-rested.
That's Amanda Mull, a senior reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek.
She says some of the most popular peptide-based drugs are ones you probably recognize,
like GLP-1s for weight loss and insulin.
Some of the substances that we're talking about are like extremely well-researched,
extremely widely used, safe, effective,
and they come from pharmaceutical companies that have large, well-inspected facilities
for producing peptide drugs in large quantities.
But there are a lot of other peptide-based injectables that are largely unregulated.