Viewpoint: The facts behind the grifter-promoting wellness and anti-aging peptide craze: Don’t waste your money Jess Steier | Unbiased Science | June 29, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/06/29/viewpoint-the-facts-behind-the-grifter-promoting-wellness-and-anti-aging-peptide-craze-dont-waste-your-money/ The wellness craze of the moment. Peptides themselves are just short chains of amino acids, the same building blocks that make up proteins, and the science on how they work is well established. The problem is a distinction the industry is counting on you missing, which is what Part one of our ongoing peptide series digs into. The FDA-approved peptide drugs like insulin and GLP-1s, backed by decades of trials, are not the same thing as the unregulated wellness peptides (BPC-157, TB-500, and friends) sold for recovery and anti-aging. Most of those have little or no human data, some were built as research tools and never meant for people at all, and stacking several at once just multiplies the unknowns.