Peptide Politics — The Weekly
Brady Dale (Author of Front Stage Exit) joins Host Ron Steslow to examine the booming gray market for therapeutic peptides and what it reveals about medical freedom, institutional trust, and our resistance to the unfamiliar.
They begin with the market itself, which Brady compares to the early crypto era he covered: people eager to risk their own money against regulators in the way.
Next, they examine the cultural backlash, the moralism that casts GLP-1 weight loss as cheating, and a MAHA coalition at once wary of pharma yet drawn to gray-market compounds.
Then, they turn to safety, where…
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