The scariest thing about gray-market peptides is how little we know

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Author: Victoria Song

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Finding concrete data about gray-market peptides is a Sisyphean task. Unlike bona fide clinical drug trials, there are no official numbers. There's little to no safety data. Some peptides have more anecdotal evidence than others, but a stranger on r/peptides is, perhaps, not an ideal information source. The fact is most people partaking in a dubiously legal activity aren't going to shout it from the rooftops. What we do know abo …

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