My gf is in medicine so she had a friend test it through their work.
My gf is in medicine so she had a friend test it through their work.
There must be an irony that it was Trumps crackdown on peptides, I presume to prop up his prescription company, that forced me to switch to Chinese supply. By doing it all at once it created a critical mass for that market.
How so? Is there a particular characteristic of the US that makes it so, or of the channels through which this is done? I get that in general it's impossible as with recreational drugs, but when you look at cocaine then at least to traffick it to most wealthy countries it takes a large amount of resources and is at high risk of getting caught. Which is why they're increasingly starting to use narco submarines. This greatly increases the price of the product. Why can't the same happen to peptide imports?
They drop ship a box containing cold packs and the meds.
You dont need the idiocy of trumprx to get these prices, just go directly to Eli Lilly or Novo Nordisk.
Even drug addicts heat up the thing they inject so theyre actually safer than you can ever be. Dont inject things from China into your blood!
Back when I started few people were doing this and it was more of a risk, I was buying from research peptide vendors who had their own testing practices, but now a huge number of people are doing it and there are markets where reputations matter and it appears to be reasonably efficient.
I would prefer not to inject peptides from gray market China but practically all of the gray/black market supply is from there. I will likely switch to pharma grade when generics become available.
Tirzepatide is $400-450 (depending on dose) per month directly from Eli Lilly.
https://www.lilly.com/lillydirect/medicines/zepbound
Novo Nordisk's drugs can be had as low as $250/month through third party (which is weird), though they'll probably honor those prices in direct sales before long.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/novo-nordisk-wegovy-subscrip...
These are all cash pay prices, no insurance.
How did they test encapsulation? I thought the whole problem is your stomach acid breaking it down.