« My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. »

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

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My patient would rather take a peptide than a statin. That reveals an uncomfortable truth in medicine

“The volume of evidence behind a therapy has become inversely correlated with public trust in it,” writes Vikas Patel.

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