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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ariel Bogle and Donna Lu

The online wellness clinics letting customers ‘add to cart’ experimental peptides without a doctor consult

Different medical ampules toned blue on black background.
On one website, customers could browse peptides including MOTS-c, which is not approved in Australia, after completing a health questionnaire and selecting areas of interest such as ‘mood and sleep’. Photograph: Aivolie/Getty Images

Online wellness clinics are allowing customers to browse and select for purchase experimental injectable peptides before any doctor consultation has taken place, Guardian Australia has found.

Approved peptide drugs play a key role in medicine – insulin and Ozempic are some of the best known – but there is now a growing online market for experimental peptides, which proponents claim can help with everything from muscle repair to slowing the ageing process.

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