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- was any evidence ever given?
>"The trained eye, weary of vibe coded designs, will see Claude Code’s aesthetic fingerprint all over this. "
yeah, everyone is re-doing old interfaces with LLMs.
>"They're hosted on AlexHost"
yeah, they're selling grey market pharma.
Now, I have no problems saying that the whole thing is a bot driven scam -- it probably is , grey market web is filled with scams -- but there was no evidence given; just an ad for a magic tool that detects AI... somehow.
...which makes me feel like an asshole for putting in the time looking for the anchor and hoping it wasn't an advertisement.
by serf - > was any evidence ever given?
Try browsing through the offtopic forum [1] if you're not convinced. About half of the threads lead with a post which uses the phrase "food noise" (often "the food noise came back"), even in topics like "Pet photos thread" or "TV shows to binge while on the treadmill" [2] where that content is completely inappropriate.
Or, along the same lines: try reading the "welcome thread" [3]. No one actually introduces themselves; all of the replies immediately start treating the thread as if it's a discussion of some vague topic. "Admin" even comes back several times to "close the loop on my own question" and to return "with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one" [4].
In short: all the simulated user behavior on the forum is wildly unnatural. It doesn't stand up to any close examination.
[1]: https://www.compoundtalk.com/forums/offtopic/
[2]: https://www.compoundtalk.com/threads/t29681/, https://www.compoundtalk.com/threads/t31154/
[3]: https://www.compoundtalk.com/threads/t34774/
[4]: https://www.compoundtalk.com/threads/t34774-page-10/#post-47, https://www.compoundtalk.com/threads/t34774-page-20/#post-98
by duskwuff - “stay strapped” is a fantastic sign off.
- ESL here, apparently this phrase has multiple meanings. The first result was "broke", and "stay broke" definitely doesn't sound right. The second one was "having a gun", which I assume is metaphorical for staying on your toes in the context of an increasingly hostile socioeconomic environment.by andai
- But, what actually are the benefits of all this peptide ingestion ? Does it replace, Good Food, Sleep and an exercise ?by bamboozled
- > what actually are the benefits of all this peptide ingestion ?
50 years ago it was cocaine, 40 years ago there was crack, 30 years ago it was heroin, 20 years ago we had bath salts, 10 years ago it was gas station drugs and meth, 5 years ago it was Ivermectin, this year it's SF techies doing their own research into peptides and taking some. Taking the latest drug (or peptide in 2026) is its own benefit.
by zzgo - Ingestion, like eating?by MPSimmons
- Sometimes it IS good food. Protein is peptides. Collagen is peptides. Eat hearty beef stew, Salmon and you're eating .. peptides.
Unfortunately many peptides break down in the GI tract. However there is some reason to believe eating protein, like collagen in meat does produce an outcome in terms of muscle mass and skin condition. I guess because those breakdown products make their way through the blood/lymph system to where they're needed.
All those people huffing Whey powder after Gym? peptides! Just enjoy a low sugar yoghourt at lunchtime guys. same-same
by ggm - I have seen so much talk of Bay Area "peptide parties", so at least there is some social benefit?by TFNA
- You can feel like you have control of your life and body, without doing anything about sleep, exercise or food. If you like that control.by fl0id
- Clearly they have effects. Heck insulin is a peptide. And pretty sure it has a benefit for those with diabetes. Dismissing peptides outright is just as silly as thinking peptides are the solution to everything
- Peptides are basically protein chains. Proteins are instructions to certain things in our bodies, proteins can activate/deactivate certain processes in our bodies among many other things.
If you artificially inject the correct protein into your body to mimic a naturally producing one, it would do the job and in that way peptides works. However, most of peptides injected by people are hardly human tested for long term effects. Human body is remarkable at adjusting and maintaining a baseline and we don’t know what would be the unintended side effects of these peptides because the body would try to counterbalance it. At best it could be just a mild headache or stomachache and at worst it could be cancer
- Ozempic and Mounjaro are peptides. They are a silver bullet for obesity and orders of magnitude more effective than anything up to a gastric band surgery. Insulin is a peptide and keeps some 50 million people alive globally. You could go on and on.
The real question is: Should you be putting novel, poorly researched and dubiously manufactured substances (which happen to be peptides) in your body via injection? To that I say, to each their own but I'll wait for the pharma industry to catch up. I'm not that bored.
- I was researching this topic to see if any peptides existed that were isolated from Ratfish-aka Chimaera monstrosa- Liver to help rejuvinate the pineal gland via decalcification. As I understand it, ratfish liver oil is a lipid-based supplement though I've read that bioactive peptides could theoretically be isolated from the liver tissue itself (the solid matter left after oil extraction) through enzymatic hydrolysis. Thus far, I've researched a couple of sites that carry peptides but don't see any Ratfish Liver-based products. Ratfish liver oil is hard to come by, expensive due to the fish being endangered.by SilentM68
- Have you tried contacting your nearest snake oil salesman?by anon48293
- This comment looks so much like today's YouTube comment spam that I fully expecting you to mention that you finally found this miraculous ebook/website, and then a stream of comment replies saying "me too!" with their own "testimonials".
I think, if you wanted to find out about the topic you mention, you might first want to look for literature that would support such claims (even preprints on arxiv would at least be a start) before looking for actual products.
- The problem with certain peptides (the Eli Lilly patented ones like Tirzepatide and Retatrutide) is that when you carefully look at whats going on, you'll notice that they are recently filing lawsuits for anyone who mentions those words on their website, even med spa's and compounding pharmacies [0].
It is legal to sell research only peptides that are not FDA approved, but as soon you talk about efficacy and human use, you also become a target for the FDA warning letters. [1] [2] [3].
Anyone selling these peptides who are indexed by search engines face increase scrutiny immediately, especially if you're going to try to sell the patented ones, because then you're a Target of not just the FDA but also Eli Lilly... peptides are big business but it's big risk if you do it wrong.... Eli Lily wants people spending $1,000 per month to use these peptides.
I think the trick about selling peptides to people is to probably do it word of mouth, no indexing by google, no ads, double gated website with invite only structure.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2026/08/13/g-s1-138594/eli-lilly-files-6...
[1] https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c...
[2] https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c...
[3] https://www.raps.org/resource/fda-warning-letters-target-mar...
by jijji - There are some peptides which have been abandoned by the pharmaceutical industry before completing phase 3 trials and which can be sold through an FDA exception by compounding pharmacies.
That being said, there’s usually a reason they were abandoned by the pharmaceutical industry; they were ineffective or had a worse side effect profile compared to other drugs already in the pipeline. Good example of this is the “Barbie drug” melanotan II which was abandoned in favor of bremelanotide for treating hypoactive sexual desire because the latter targeted fewer receptors and was less likely to cause hyperpigmentation and other side effects.
Ultimately, most people should probably just stick to pharmaceuticals that have been FDA approved.
by derektank - If you base your trust towards a thing you intent to inject into your body on the niceness of some website and clumps of letters that appear on it, you should think long and hard about your life because you must have made at least five grave mistakes sometime earlier that led you to this point.by scotty79
- "Anyone who’s not been living under a rock knows that we’re in full peptide mania."
No, they don't, it's a very Silicon Valley specific thing and I never heard about them here in France. People need to stop thinking their experience generalizes by default
by aweb - I don’t think it’s popular in Germany as well. I know some Leo taking steroids, but seems like peptides are yet to be popular
- https://www.quechoisir.org/actualite-peptides-vendus-en-lign...
https://pro.inserm.fr/press_synth/peptides-les-autorites-ale...
by Arodex - Yes they are a thing in France, haven't you seen young people being obssessed with their body? It seems there are more gym that boulangerie now.
They learn about it through Insta or Snapchat and take whatever is promoted by whatever big muscular guy.
by Glawen - East Coast exurbs of NYC here, these things are everywhere, go to a gym the whole place is on them
Maybe a US thing
by zzzeek - I live in a college town on the east coast and it is highly advertised at all of the wellness businesses here.by UncleMeat
- I think it's more generational than geographic.
I shall consult the zoomers.
by andai - They might have been too hyperbolic with the "living under a rock" comment, but at least in the US they're very much the latest health thing (among those with the money/access to get them). Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. touts them.by djeastm
- They are pretty big in Australia, and have spread through TikTok, Snapchat and IG. I doubt there's many people here who are across all of these circles and I only found out when it was mainstream news
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/unregulated-peptides-...
by shitcoder - Hey, could be worse. At least the amino acid chains themselves aren't LLM-generated. Right..?by andai
- One sec let me ask an LLM..by cgyvbunji