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If your parents raised you right, they probably warned you never to take pills handed out by some stranger on the street or in a club or anywhere else.

Because who knows what's in them and what they might do to you.

Which makes the current trends around peptide stacks seem really wild.

Large numbers of people are ordering unregulated compounds from sometimes unknown sellers and injecting them directly into their bodies.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd.

Why would any rational person do this? Well, the hype on these things is huge.

Influencers rave about peptide injections as a source of energy, endurance,

fast recovery, maybe even eternal youth. Of course, some people might be willing to take a risk

on something like that. But first, we ought to talk about whether there is good science to suggest

many of those claims are true. Dr. Dr. Kular is a physician and a contributing writer at the New Yorker

where you can read his article, why are people injecting themselves with peptides? Drew, welcome

back to think. Thanks for having me. Let's start at the very beginning. What exactly are peptides?

Like aside from the supplemental ones that are a big deal right now, what do

naturally occurring peptides do in our bodies? Well, this is a great place to start because I think

there's a lot of confusion about what peptides are. So peptides are basically microproteens. So

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