Several patients have forwarded me the same kind of message over the past two weeks. An email from a wellness clinic. A post from a trainer. A headline asking, in one form or another, did the FDA legalize peptides. Something did happen in late July. It is worth walking through carefully, because the event and the way it was described are not quite the same thing. What Happened on July 23 and 24 The FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee met over two days to consider se

A patient came in recently with a printed menu from a wellness clinic. Fourteen peptides, each with a short description, each priced by the month. She wanted to know what was known about them. That turned out to be a longer conversation than either of us expected, because the list combined compounds that have almost nothing in common. Some have been studied in tens of thousands of people. For others, the human research has not really begun. The word "peptide" was the only thi