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

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par Timothy Piatkowski, Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
Cheneal Puljević, UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Luke Cox, Lecturer in Sport Integrity, Swansea University
Samuel Cornell, Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland

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.

Some peptides,…

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