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Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to be discussing seven overhyped nutrition and health fads that I recommend avoiding in 2026.

Every single year, there's a variety of

new fads that pop up in the health and nutrition space. I've been getting a lot of questions about

these topics that we're going to discuss today, and I've seen a lot of people promoting these things

with various claims that aren't backed by science. So what we're going to do in this episode is we're

going to separate the science from the hype and help you avoid some things that probably aren't going to benefit your

long-term health. The first thing that we're going to discuss is peptides. And peptides have

exploded recently. There's a variety of different peptides being promoted online, BPC 157,

Tersepotide, and others.

And there's another peptide that is also exploded from a medical standpoint, and that's GLP1s.

And so the GLP ones are the weight loss drugs.

This is a peptide.

And I think this is the reason that the peptide market has exploded is because we've seen

some of the success with these g lp1 medications.

The important thing to understand, though, is that these gLP1 medications have been studied for a

long time, which is not the case at all with these other peptides that are being promoted.

So when you see someone promoting peptides, and again, there's a variety of different ones,

some of the main ones that you'll

see are the Trezepotide and the BPC 157. These are the two that I keep seeing over and over again.

These do not have research to back up their safety and effectiveness. So I'm not saying that they may

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