alt.hn

3/20/2026 at 5:19:42 PM

Peter Thiel's 'Steroid Olympics' Startup Wants to Sell You the Sketchy Peptides

 https://gizmodo.com/peter-thiels-steroid-olympics-startup-wants-to-sell-you-the-sketchy-peptides-2000735156

by ck2

3/20/2026 at 8:18:24 PM

If people want to try untested peptides, I think society should use that as the engine to _test those peptides_. Instead of buying something that's supposed to but may not be the peptide you want, you should pay 50+k% + data and get something that has a 50% chance of being the peptide and 50% chance of being a placebo, and you're _required_ to submit a report about effects and side effects before you can get a refill.

Rather than complain about how these things have not yet gone through real experiments and are marketed as having been "studied" rather than "effective", I would love to see society use the obvious demand for some of these to actually test them.

by abeppu

3/20/2026 at 8:16:12 PM

"14 peptides" yet I'm not seeing a single mention of any specific names.

I have read about BPC-157 and TB-500 in past. They're also banned as PEDs in competition. For injury recovery there is plenty of good feedback online. If not for the method of administration (only effective as subq; would prefer capsule or cream) I would've tried them out for a muscle injury recovery.

by k4rli

3/20/2026 at 6:40:05 PM

The problem with a true "PED Olympics" is that it wouldn't just be steroids/peptides/HGH/asthma inhalers - where health effects mostly manifest outside of the actual competition event, off-screen. Competitors would undoubtedly load up on enough stimulants to start collapsing/dying on the event livestream. The public simply won't stomach the reality of any true no-holds-barred competition anytime soon.

So, sure, you can have a version of the Olympics that has a lower bar than the official Olympics, but much like arguing whether someone would consider prostituting themselves or not ... now you're just debating where the optimum line is for allowed vs. disallowed PEDs. That wouldn't be a radical change over the current Olympics, where the line is "give your athletes PEDs, but just make sure they pass the testing".

Society may at some point be willing to watch people die with regularity in athletic theatrics, but we're currently a long way from accepting gladiatorial combat in modern coliseums.

by nerdsniper

3/20/2026 at 7:57:01 PM

The most cringe worthy is that vaccine skeptic, who has no problem injecting comparatively unproven stuff with unknown side effects.

Well, must be the brain damage of years of drinking.

by GuestFAUniverse