On an August morning, among the marble columns and Tuscan frescoes in the Fairmont Hotel’s Laurel Court restaurant, a back table became an impromptu chemistry class. Lynne Ji, a slim 27-year-old dressed in black athleisure, moved aside a china teapot, unzipped a black business-class airline pouch, and tipped an array of glass vials onto the table. They contained powdered and …
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Image by Getty / Futurism Two women who attended an event in Las Vegas called “Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival” — please bask in the red flags that have already appeared in this sentence — received peptide injections at a booth organized by an unlicensed physician specializing in “age reversal” therapies. As ProPublica reports, not long after receiving the …
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Two women have been put on ventilators after receiving peptide shots at a medical convention focused on how to cheat death. The women, a 38-year-old from California and a 51-year-old from Nevada, who have not been named, were raced to hospital after taking the experimental injections at a booth at the conference in Las Vegas. Organizers of the Revolution Against Aging and …
Read More »People who want to feel younger, look fitter, or perhaps slough off a little layer of belly fat have been turning to an increasingly popular kind of treatment — one you can get without a prescription. They’ve got obscure names like BPC-157, tesamorelin, and cerebrolysin. All it takes is a tiny needle and a little clear vial filled with injectable …
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