Nothing significant in the way of news from this article, just interesting to see how the popular press is covering it.
Like many men his age, William Stern was tired. At 45, the husband, father of three, and founder of Cardiff, a small-business lender, said he felt grateful but “run down” by his very full life.
Meanwhile, on social media, he’d started seeing posts from influencers extolling a panacea for this sort of midlife malaise—injectable peptides. Stern texted a doctor friend and got one prescribed: tesamorelin, a weekly self-administered injection that prompts the release of growth hormone.
A few weeks later he noticed a shift: more energy, powerful gym sessions, increased sex drive. “I don’t want my kids looking at another father and saying, ‘Well, he’s my hero,’” Stern says. “I want my kids to see me as their hero. This is a cheat code to being a hero.”
Peptides are part of the latest slew of treatments hyped at weight-loss clinics and gyms and on manosphere podcasts that lie somewhere between medicine and supplement. Popular health podcaster Andrew Huberman has dedicated multiple episodes to peptides, and Joe Rogan has spoken about them at length. Recently, Jennifer Aniston told the Wall Street Journal she takes them, saying, “I do think that’s the future.”
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But as the pop-culture buzz about these products reaches a fever pitch, other experts urge caution. “It feels like there’s a peptide circus wrapped up in a longevity carnival,” says Jordan Shlain, an internal medicine doctor and founder of Private Medical, a concierge practice. Of NAD, he warns, “the science is way too early, and the placebo effect is real. It’s supposed to slow down your aging, so I don’t know how you can measure a result.”
Read the full story: The Anti-Aging Injection of the Moment: Do NAD and Peptides Work? (Bloomberg)