Peptide Content Creator Contagion

[ResearchCat]

Just for chuckles, I thought I would track the current topics running through the peptide content creator world. I have noticed a trend across many topics where a popular CC makes a video that does well, and suddenly everyone is making essentially the exact same video.

The topic of the week: This is why your peptides aren’t working. Spoiler alert: it’s an ad for TRT, labs, etc. and it isn’t wrong. it’s just funny all the creators I follow have made this video.

[Randy]

Are they all shilling the same TRT clinic affiliate code?

The way trends work in this space is a funny thing

[ResearchCat]

I didn’t dig that deep. A couple were shilling their own ‘clinic’. I only recently discovered that there are now franchise style setups where whatever business you run, you can basically prescribe/sell peptides through a third party where they handle the doctor’s notes etc and you’re the face of the business. We have TRT clinics popping up all over the place. Their peptide pricing is insane.

[Randy]

Okay so fun fact about those clinics - some of them are actually using research grade compounds and they just have a nurse reconstitute it. It's not super common but I know of two places near me that do it.

[ResearchCat]

Yeah, when i started dipping my toes into this pond last year I went to one of the fast-growing clinics in my area. When a (grumpy old dude mode) very young woman with lots of tats on her face and piercings everywhere took me into a side room and made me watch her reconstitute the peptides they sold me ($400/vial for 5/5 wolv), I thought to myself, ‘hmm, maybe i should be sourcing this elsewhere for a lot less money.’

I had been investigating peptides for a while but had no idea where or how to get them prior to that, so it was a lesson that had value. (Now i am showing my friends how to recon their peps.)