Peptide therapy has gained popularity as a potential health and longevity booster, but experts are warning of cautions and limitations. Peptides are short chains of amino acids that act as messengers ...

Though lab-made peptides are touted as a cure-all, they are not FDA-regulated and pose serious risks, experts warn Here’s a new trend that sounds unwise: buying unregulated substances from dealers in ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On a frigid December afternoon, I took an elevator up to the sixth floor of a midtown office building on a busy ...

STAT is co-publishing this investigation by Undark. In the spring of 2024, Flynn McGuire started to notice glowing references online to an unapproved drug that proponents claimed could help the body ...

Peptides have slipped out of the lab and into Instagram feeds and college mini-fridges. In a lengthy piece for New York Magazine, Ezra Marcus dives into how they became wellness culture's latest ...