Yup. TLDR its basically a step below steroids. While I can’t really speak to their safety etc, I do know that there are no legal OTC peptides in Canada. However that could simply be because Health Canada has very high standards and a lot of hoops to jump through, making our 40 million people market not worth it.
I believe you can buy most peptides and other substances legally if they’re labelled research chemicals and not as a product for human consumption / use in humans.
The reason peptides are largely a grey-market phenomenon is because they’re not easy to patent or otherwise monopolize through IP laws. Unlike your ordinary run-of-the mill medication, peptides are chemically simple, and often mimic or occur as endogenously-produced compounds in living animals.
They’re promising research targets from a medical POV, but the pharma industry has been systematically ignoring them for decades due to difficulties around profiting from them, as demonstrated by the current rush of GLP-1 analogs. Any firm that invests in the clinical trials to prove safety + efficacy of a given compound won’t be able to stop competitors from ripping off their work.
And to be fair, this incentive misalignment is a global issue rather than a US/Canada problem.
Yup. TLDR its basically a step below steroids. While I can’t really speak to their safety etc, I do know that there are no legal OTC peptides in Canada. However that could simply be because Health Canada has very high standards and a lot of hoops to jump through, making our 40 million people market not worth it.
So it’s like Kratom, but replacing Steroids instead of Heroin? Can you get it at gas stations too?
The only way I know to get it is through a guy I met at BJJ. No fanny pack but still so sketchy its cliche
I believe you can buy most peptides and other substances legally if they’re labelled research chemicals and not as a product for human consumption / use in humans.
The reason peptides are largely a grey-market phenomenon is because they’re not easy to patent or otherwise monopolize through IP laws. Unlike your ordinary run-of-the mill medication, peptides are chemically simple, and often mimic or occur as endogenously-produced compounds in living animals.
They’re promising research targets from a medical POV, but the pharma industry has been systematically ignoring them for decades due to difficulties around profiting from them, as demonstrated by the current rush of GLP-1 analogs. Any firm that invests in the clinical trials to prove safety + efficacy of a given compound won’t be able to stop competitors from ripping off their work.
And to be fair, this incentive misalignment is a global issue rather than a US/Canada problem.