Thanks for posting both of these — I still reckon the upside easily outweighs the (mitigable) risks for most grey folks, but each article does land a fair point about what's dangerous for consumers who don't inform themselves.
Social media resellers always report THE BEST RESULTS with [insert literally any pep here], no side effects whatsoever, it now lives in their "forever stack", get yours here before it's gone, blah blah. They'll also make grand claims about testing/COAs, dosing schedules, and so on, and basically steer people away from doing their own homework — because there's no insane profit in customers who know better, right?
Then on the flip side you get people who pile in behind the fear-mongering so that they never have to think a single thought of their own and can just parrot back what they've been told, like good lil robots.
Every industry puts money ahead of safety; that doesn't make any given thing inherently dangerous. Still, business sees an informed consumer as a dangerous one, because it threatens the money-grab here... journalists included, and the more outrageous/click-baity/rage-baity it is, the more moneeeeyyyyyyyyyyy.
ThEy'Re gOInG rIGhT fOR tHe vEInSsSssss, HALP. It's fear-mongering, it's deliberate blurring of lines, and I just know it's gonna cost grey folks a pretty penny later on.
Last week I did watch a clip of someone pinning forgotten/who-knows-how-old compounded GHK from the back of their fridge, raw-dogging it with not an alcohol swab in sight and guessing at unit dosing... She wasn't chasing veins though, so there's that at least
