Peptides are everywhere. What are they?
These days, many internet influencers are promoting a wellness trend that sounds like something you might remember from high school bio: peptides.
They’re being sold as ways to improve skin, reverse aging – basically, peptides have become THE answer to your choice of wellness issues.
But most of what’s hawked on Instagram or TikTok is not approved by the FDA. .
That could change: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently said on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he wants to relax restrictions on many peptides.
In the meantime, people are accessing them through methods that some experts say are…. dangerous.
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Guests:
- Alex Hogan, a senior multimedia producer at STAT News and the host of STATus Report
Related links:
- Inside the world of internet peptides | STAT News
- Peptides Are the New Wellness Cure-All | Intelligencer
- Why 'Anti-Aging' Peptide Shots Are Trending on Social Media | TIME
- Peptides take off as a DIY treatment but is that a good idea? : NPR
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Libby Denkmann
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Libby Denkmann joined KUOW in December 2021 as the host of the midday show Soundside. She’s a native Pacific Northwesterner who grew up in Redmond, graduated from the University of Washington, and covered local news as a producer and reporter with KIRO Radio.
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Maleeha is a producer on Soundside, a show that helps listeners get to know the PNW and each other. Before KUOW, she worked at Cascade PBS, first as a communities reporter and then as a podcast producer on shows like Northwest Reports and Your Last Meal. Before moving to Seattle, she worked as a reporter at the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, but is originally from San Antonio.
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