'Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World(nytimes.com)
nytimes.com
'Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html
So now AI researchers are peptide junkies ? “In the backyard of a San Francisco Victorian, tech workers in their 20s and 30s chatted … One artificial intelligence founder mentioned buying cheap drugs directly from Chinese manufacturers. A group … share their own sources for the medication they use for weight loss, productivity, and fitness”
“People are trying BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing injuries by stimulating new blood vessel growth, oxytocin for improving eye contact (one OpenAI researcher called it “Ozempic for autism”),”
I understand FDA takes time and the current FDA trying to cancel Tylenol I crazy. But injecting substances from china in the name for growth hack sounds crazy.