Seeing this referenced everywhere the past few weeks. No idea what is about? Is it a new social media trend or something?

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    23 hours ago

    Thanks, that is a lot of great context. So they are trying to just downmarket the GPL-1 rush, since that stuff is mostly sold to rich folks?

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      23 hours ago

      That’s one aspect. Although most of the marketing is not so much about weight loss, but muscle gain.
      They are trying to convince gym people that the same way you can use GLP-1 to lose weight, there are other peptides out there that will grow your muscle without exercise. The same target group as for steroids basically.

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        18 hours ago

        Not just muscle gains. Naturally since peptides are pieces of proteins, and there are a lot of kinds of proteins in your body, so artificial peptides would be capable of a whole lot … of nutrition supplement. Most aren’t going to have an effect anywhere near as strong as glp-1ra does.

        For example, collagen peptides are popular right now, and they do far less than properly fixing a shitty diet ever would.