Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World—mentions chronic fatigue

“Ms. Bowman started taking BPC-157 and TB-500 last year hoping to address chronic fatigue, and said her sleep had improved right away. She logs her injections in the Peptide Tracker app, monitors her sleep and heart rate, and gets bloodwork done regularly.”
 
So I kinda thought it was a meme but I checked in with my US friends and lots of them are actually on Chinese peptides.

I feel like I’m loosing my mind. They are flaunting obviously fake COA’s. This feels like the SARMS run that hit my college in in the early 2010s.

It’s hit mainstream so hard, the huberman podcast has made it seem like there’s 0 downsides and it’s magic.
 
Trish said:
Does anyone have a non-paywalled link to the article?
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You can access this and many other articles by prepending "https://archive.ph/" to the url:

Then remove any optional parameters (from the question mark onwards):
archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlA.EnVI.FmgJ-R2kBu0h&smid=url-share

End result:
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Then solve the captcha and press on the blue link. In rare cases the blue link leads to a paywalled version. In that case, try the other archived versions to the left shown as mini screenshots.
 
I improve temporarily (a few hours) with Thymosin alpha. The CoA is from a third party. I've written elsewhere that I experience different PEM triggers which cancel each other out to a degree. TA1 gave me a sore throat which allowed me to be more physically active. Unfortunately, I built tolerance within a few days, but I might resevere injections for big events.
 
Chandelier said:
You can access this and many other articles by prepending "https://archive.ph/" to the url:

Then remove any optional parameters (from the question mark onwards):
archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlA.EnVI.FmgJ-R2kBu0h&smid=url-share

End result:
/
Then solve the captcha and press on the blue link. In rare cases the blue link leads to a paywalled version. In that case, try the other archived versions to the left shown as mini screenshots.
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I just go to https://archive.ph/ and paste a paywalled link into the first box ("My url is alive and I want to archive its content").
Then it asks me to click on the "I'm not a robot" box and voila.
 
Trish said:
I googled SARMS and found this:
Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) - Current Knowledge and Clinical Applications
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Yes, it’s for body building mostly, different mechanisms, just similar situation. SARMs ran through colleges in the 2010’s due to them being easy to get since they were unregulated and sold for “research” purposes. Lots of marketing as no side effects compared to steroids, the thing was no long term studies. They are potentially worse and to get around regulation constantly tweak the formula. So you never knew what you were actually taking.

Similar vibes to the current round of peptides. The “research” use only and the no side effects marketing with no long term human studies.
 
OrganicChilli said:
I improve temporarily (a few hours) with Thymosin alpha. The CoA is from a third party. I've written elsewhere that I experience different PEM triggers which cancel each other out to a degree. TA1 gave me a sore throat which allowed me to be more physically active. Unfortunately, I built tolerance within a few days, but I might resevere injections for big events.
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Even with third party testing isn’t aggregation/degradation and possible immunogenicity an issue? I guess different risk tolerance for different folks.
 
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