Just because it's a peptide, that doesn't mean it's natural.

That doesn't mean it's safe.

And if your functional medicine practitioner is using it, that doesn't mean that it's

addressing the root cause of your symptoms or illness.

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Peptides, all the rage, are they safe?

Hey, I'm Robin Openshaw.

I'm the Green Smoothie Girl online.

And recently, peptides have become very popular. They're sold by health coaches and functional medicine practitioners.

Did you know, though, that peptides are also the main ingredient in many pharmaceutical

drugs? When people constantly ask me about peptides lately, I think they assume that because

peptides are chains of amino acids and because peptides lately, I think they assume that because peptides are chains of

amino acids and because peptides occur in nature, that they must then be natural and therefore

harmless. In fact, the whole concept of peptides is so popular that they're currently one of the

most common categories of questions I'm getting. And I even noticed that the shampoo, my stylist recommended to me, because I wanted one that

is free of sodium laur sulfate and free of parabins, has peptide right in the title because

the concept is so trending.

However, once a peptide is altered, it can be patented.

And then it becomes a potentially billion dollar product once

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