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NYC-based Nikhil Krishnan, who has spent a decade writing about healthcare and runs a non-jargon newsletter called Out-Of-Pocket to make the subject accessible and entertaining, said in a recent post dissecting the peptide boom: In 2020 people were hoarding toilet paper, in 2026 theyre hoarding bacteriostatic water (needed to safely mix with peptide powder). Like HK*, he also makes note of the scepticism around medical bodies, like the FDA in USA, with people wanting more agency in their healthcare decision-making and to be able to assess risk themselves vs relying on the government to do it
The likely causes include escalating FDA enforcement against research peptide vendors, ITC actions blocking peptide imports, quality concerns revealed by Finnrick testing (E-rated retatrutide across 37 samples), and the broader collapse of the grey-market business model