The scariest thing about gray-market peptides is how little we know
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Finding concrete data about gray-market peptides is a Sisyphean task. Unlike bona fide clinical drug trials, there are no official numbers. There’s little to no safety data. Some peptides have more anecdotal evidence than others, but a stranger on r/peptides is, perhaps, not an ideal information source. The fact is most people partaking in a dubiously legal activity aren’t going to shout it from the rooftops. What we do know about many of these unregulated, unapproved substances is simply this: A lot of people are taking them, unsupervised by medical professionals.
Take BPC-157 — one half of the infamous “Wolverine” stack. The BPC in BPC-157 stands for “body protection compound.” The substance...
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