Biohacking your own medicines is only going to get easier & the vogue for Chinese peptide use in California shows us plenty of people will want to take advantage.

The TLDR of the linked article is that there has been a surge in the use of imported Chinese peptide medicines in California, which are years, if ever, away from US FDA approval. Making pharmaceutical-grade medicines isn't easy, and out of reach of home-based amateurs. Still, there's good reason to think it will get easier in the future, and that, aided by AI-medicine-design will proliferate among smaller manufacturers. Medical costs alone could drive this, with cheaper gray-market production of drugs costing $100,000s. Here, the focus is on people wanting access to the cutting-edge that may be years away from official approval and release. I've got a feeling this is a trend we are only going to see growing from now on. ‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World: The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.