Yup. TLDR its basically a step below steroids. While I can’t really speak to their safety etc, I do know that there are no legal OTC peptides in Canada. However that could simply be because Health Canada has very high standards and a lot of hoops to jump through, making our 40 million people market not worth it.
The reason peptides are largely a grey-market phenomenon is because they’re not easy to patent or otherwise monopolize through IP laws. Unlike your ordinary run-of-the mill medication, peptides are chemically simple, and often mimic or occur as endogenously-produced compounds in living animals.
They’re promising research targets from a medical POV, but the pharma industry has been systematically ignoring them for decades due to difficulties around profiting from them, as demonstrated by the current rush of GLP-1 analogs. Any firm that invests in the clinical trials to prove safety + efficacy of a given compound won’t be able to stop competitors from ripping off their work.
And to be fair, this incentive misalignment is a global issue rather than a US/Canada problem.
I believe you can buy most peptides and other substances legally if they’re labelled research chemicals and not as a product for human consumption / use in humans.
Yup. TLDR its basically a step below steroids. While I can’t really speak to their safety etc, I do know that there are no legal OTC peptides in Canada. However that could simply be because Health Canada has very high standards and a lot of hoops to jump through, making our 40 million people market not worth it.
The reason peptides are largely a grey-market phenomenon is because they’re not easy to patent or otherwise monopolize through IP laws. Unlike your ordinary run-of-the mill medication, peptides are chemically simple, and often mimic or occur as endogenously-produced compounds in living animals.
They’re promising research targets from a medical POV, but the pharma industry has been systematically ignoring them for decades due to difficulties around profiting from them, as demonstrated by the current rush of GLP-1 analogs. Any firm that invests in the clinical trials to prove safety + efficacy of a given compound won’t be able to stop competitors from ripping off their work.
And to be fair, this incentive misalignment is a global issue rather than a US/Canada problem.
So it’s like Kratom, but replacing Steroids instead of Heroin? Can you get it at gas stations too?
The only way I know to get it is through a guy I met at BJJ. No fanny pack but still so sketchy its cliche
I believe you can buy most peptides and other substances legally if they’re labelled research chemicals and not as a product for human consumption / use in humans.