YouTube doctor says 5 peptides sourced from China tested at 0%

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A YouTube doctor who is pro-peptide says they bought 5 different peptides from China, each with a COA, and had them tested. According to the claim, all 5 contained 0% of what was claimed. No source was named.

I haven't come across any discussion of this on public forums, and I haven't seen any video or podcast responses either.

Either it's BS, or they deliberately ordered from a scammer to get publicity and stir up fear.
 
Pretty sure I came across that video too. What stood out was how much was left out — most notably which supplier the peptides came from. That detail matters a lot, since sourcing from U**er is not remotely the same as sourcing from a hair salon. My take is that YouTube creators put out this kind of content every so often as a way of safeguarding their channel.
 
Gosh, will any of these folks be getting a 1099 from Eli Lilly come January?

This smells like a guerrilla marketing hit piece straight out of the House of Eli... I mean, it reached our boards, so it'll probably pick up some traction elsewhere for a bit, fizzle out, and then get replaced by 20, 50, 100 more of the same....

....and it's easy to make peptides fail to match what the label claims... just don't hand the testers vials that are correctly labeled (assuming they even took the ruse that far) ...hell, I'm fairly sure I've got some vials that wouldn't even test positive for 'peptide'...because they aren't....
 
DiRTY DOG said:

A YouTube doctor who is pro-peptide says they bought 5 different peptides from China, each with a COA, and had them tested. According to the claim, all 5 contained 0% of what was claimed. No source was named.

I haven't come across any discussion of this on public forums, and I haven't seen any video or podcast responses either.

Either it's BS, or they deliberately ordered from a scammer to get publicity and stir up fear.
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In my view, every one of those "tick tock/YouTube pseudo doctors" is pushing people to worry about CN gray sources because they sell their own products and profit from it. I'd guess 99% of what they sell originates in CN, and they just put their own label on it...
 
Jano has been seeing more vials with zero peptide content, so this is clearly happening.

These kinds of experiments tend to be staged for a particular audience. The message is that the market is a minefield, but at the same time they're pitching their own products as great and safe (which they probably aren't). People who aren't prepared will be putting their health at risk, and many find shipments arrive spoiled or get lost when vendors refuse to honor their guarantees. The warning against casually jumping in is sound advice: doing this takes a decent amount of knowledge and a willingness to lose your money.
 
Scott Carney, an investigative journalist on YT, did a video on the "alleged peptides from China" topic. He bought from a domestic reseller with a flashy site and inflated prices, then brought the product to a CU Boulder lab for testing — convinced it would be fake. To his surprise, the vial matched the label and showed high purity.

Even funnier: his follow-up video covers his use of that same peptide, and he's delighted about losing 8 pounds. 🤣
 
After watching that video, I blocked the channel. That story is not something I can accept as true. What's more, they gave almost no information about how they located their sources. Look hard enough for a scam to make a cheap-click video out of, and you'll find one. Nobody with any sense gets ripped off 5 times in a row.

It comes across as a video made to collect a paycheck from their big pharma overlords.
 
I've come across a few published scientific papers looking at this topic. Broadly, the results tend to land near a 50/50 split: roughly half of samples contain the advertised drug at close to the correct amount, some turn out to be scams where nothing arrives, some contain nothing at all, and some hold the right peptide but at the wrong dose. There aren't really enough of these papers to judge how representative those findings are, and they typically involve purchases from random online sources without any effort to vet the sellers beforehand.

Since this kind of information is about as accurate as anything available, it's probably roughly right. I do think people here get the impression that online peptides are likely to be fine, based on their own experiences buying from vendors who advertise on this forum. But the vendors here are a select group, and questionable ones get called out or removed.
 
ultima thule said:

In my view, every one of those "tick tock/YouTube pseudo doctors" is pushing people to worry about CN gray sources because they sell their own products and profit from it. I'd guess 99% of what they sell originates in CN, and they just put their own label on it...
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Exactly — that's the point.
 
A chiropractor who uploads many videos to YouTube strongly warns viewers against purchasing peptides online. At the same time, he says his own sources are reputable and safe, so you can call that 1-800 number and one of his associates will be happy to assist you.
 
If he ordered from a reputable supplier and every sample came back clean, YouTube would likely shut his channel down.
 
Yeah, I watched that video about the scammers who rig test results for profit — the Finnrisk grifter. This campaign is a bit more sophisticated than Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" one
 
reta-stacker said:

A chiropractor who uploads many videos to YouTube strongly warns viewers against purchasing peptides online. At the same time, he says his own sources are reputable and safe, so you can call that 1-800 number and one of his associates will be happy to assist you.
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That says it all. A group of quacks nobody should ever go near.
 
DiRTY DOG said:


A pro-peptide YouTube Dr claims they purchased 5 different peptides w/coa's from China and sent them for testing. All 5 peptides contained 0% of what was claimed. No source was named.

I haven't seen any public forum discussion on this, nor video or podcast responses.

It seems either BS, or they intentionally ordered from a scammer to get publicity and drumb up fear.

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This brings to mind those YouTube channels that review watches by purchasing supposed "superfakes" from China and putting them up against authentic ("gen") pieces. Naturally, they always pick up something bottom-of-the-barrel and shell out 5x what it would really cost if they knew what they were doing.

Many of those fakes end up being close enough to gen that most people can't spot the difference, but if they'd gone for an actual superfake, the findings would scare people. They've gotten so good that on plenty of watches you can trade real and fake parts back and forth and everything lines up and functions either way. The replica watch community even has a name for these top-tier superfakes: NWBIG. Not Worth Buying In Gen.
 
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