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What's pretty common is you will get a package from China.

They come sort of unlabeled.

You get these kind of little glass vials

with sort of interesting-looking powder inside them.

Zara Stone is a culture reporter at the San Francisco Standard.

And recently she's been reporting on a new trend in Silicon Valley,

injecting non-FDA-approved drugs called peptides into your body.

Then you have to go and buy bacteriostatic water.

You get a needle.

You take out some of the water.

You inject it into the bottle.

You swizzle it around.

Then you get your like alcohol swab and you like swab and up your butt or your stomach or a piece of thigh.

You inject the bottle again.

Pull out a plunger.

Inject your body.

There's a bunch of different steps.

And people are having to do all of these steps to do it successfully.

Yeah.

I mean, you lost me at the bacteria of static water.

I don't even know what that is or where you have to buy this.

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