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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    Sure I have a question for you: What does a peptide look llke? In my head I’m imaging them as colorful pebble-shaped tablets, mostly thanks to the name. Is it a tablet? A capsule? A liquid? Do you swallow/drink/inject it?

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      It’s a nondescript off-white powder, in the raw. Mine was packaged into capsules by the pharmacy, but I did pop one open to inspect because I had exactly the same curiosity lol.

      I don’t have personal experience on this front, but I imagine for injected administration, which is the more common route, it would be made into solution or suspension and kept in a refrigerated multiuse vial, e.g.: