People Say These Peptides Hurt Them. Their Stories Are Muffled in MAHA’s Push for Medical Freedom. By Amy Maxmen Oct. 13, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/peptides-experimental-drugs-patient-harms-maha-medical-freedom/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-93wjegoJAO2-8WdP_YCZG0i_43wz4aVxAZEShOrYD_76q4AYjSnEfEh543gq5kYQoLBVJbJWtLQoXtodN2WRuKUE8JpA&_hsmi=443876565&utm_content=443876565&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: People Say These Peptides Hurt Them. Their Stories Are Muffled In MAHA’S Push For Medical Freedom After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible. “It was like I was underwater, like it took the most to do anything,” he said. Meetze stopped taking the drug but endured fatigue and anxiety for months afterward, and his eyes and muscles twitched, he said. (Maxmen, 10/13)