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Timothy Piatkowski, Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland

Peptides are spreading on social media. Here’s how platforms can better protect public health

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Scroll through social media these days and you’ll likely come across someone injecting themselves with a clear liquid, waxing lyrical about how it’s changed their body for the better, improved their recovery, or maybe their skin.

That magic substance is often (allegedly) a peptide, a short chain of amino acids, the same building blocks that make up proteins, that can be used to send specific instructions to cells in the body.

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