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Grey-market #peptides: an emerging public health challenge | InSight+ https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2026/15/grey-market-peptides-an-emerging-public-health-challenge/ “Within Australian clinical practice, people, particularly those aged in their 20s and 30s, are increasingly inquiring about or using these unregulated compounds. Drivers of uptake include cost barriers of approved GLP-1RA therapies, limited PBS eligibility criteria, and the perception that grey-market alternatives offer equivalent therapeutic benefit at lower cost or access to more effective novel agents unavailable in Australia.”
Grey-market peptides: an emerging public health challenge - InSight+

Clinicians need to be aware of the growing grey market of injectable peptide-based substances being promoted online for weight loss. Australian clinicians are increasingly encountering patients using or inquiring about unregulated injectable peptide-based substances. While several compounds are promoted via social media claiming benefits of ‘tissue repair’, ‘skin rejuvenation’ and ‘anti-aging’, we are particularly alarmed …

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Show threadDaniel ReedersApr 19
@auscandoc YEAH. And social media influencers. The stories of some of the compounding pharmacies are hair-raising. Glad to see some attention to this issue.
Show threadauscandocApr 20
@onekind Yes: mentioned in the article.
Show threadDaniel ReedersApr 20
@auscandoc Barely! I don't know if the authors realise exactly how big of an issue it is. And I'm a media and cultural studies researcher who generally errs on the side of not panicking about things.
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As a society, I thought we’d already covered off ‘don’t inject yourself with random crap’, yet here we are. 🤷‍♂️
Show threadJohn Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁Apr 20

@crispius @auscandoc I used to follow a liver Dr that worked mostly with Indian diaspora, and shared many many tales of woe, people who'd fried their livers with unregulated herbal quack cures for this or that, and were untreatable and going to die.

Bulk individuals cannot protect themselves from harmful substances & products. Enforced prohibition by experts is necessary. We had it for a long time in Canada, it faded in the 90s and has continued to weaken.