00:00The glass and then after that's done look at it make sure that you're mixed and then your peptide calculator you'll put in how much you want each dose to be and it will tell you how far to pull your syringe back so I take 10 units on one of these small syringes so it's just very very little.
00:24I started taking semaglutide from a nurse practitioner and she had a compounding pharmacy so I was getting it compounded from her I was paying $50 a week which comparatively that's that was a pretty good price at the time but I did it and I was feeling so much better about it.
00:50I found there are several peptide message boards on Reddit and I started looking at those and that's where I found the gray market and when I got on there and saw the price difference it was pretty crazy.
01:05You can get a lot of different peptides right now and I'm sure there's tons more but there's nobody checking you there's nobody making sure that you're doing it right.
01:21Maybe on occasion I might get the tiniest bit of nausea but it is rare and a lot of people will complain at the higher doses that some will get diarrhea some will get constipation there's all these different GI issues that they'll get for the most part when you microdose it's not as it's not so much an issue.
01:51The first requests were roughly about 2022 but it was just a sample here and there and then the demand started exploding in 2023 and 2024 and 2025 has been pretty crazy.
02:21What's been the main difference from before is that we've mostly been contacted by people who were experienced who did some stuff on the gray markets, black markets but right now the most common client we have is just your regular Joe or so like it's people who've never dealt with this sort of stuff before
02:42and suddenly they're dealing with peptides acquired from Chinese factories so they're dealing with representatives from underground labs etc which which I find pretty concerning.
02:56On reddit I read about trizepatide which I was already taking through a local med spa and learned more about peptides and what that market looks like online and later found that I was buying it from a middleman and you can
03:26buy it directly some of the things that really help me advocate for what I'm doing in my mind at least or some of the reasons that I justify the advantages of gray market one obviously is the price point it is so much more affordable to through the gray market than I would be able to purchase on my own if I could buy the brand name myself at the same spending around the same amount of money I absolutely would that's a no-brainer but in addition to that I like that I'm in control
03:55of my dosing amount of my dosing amount and so I'm not rushing through a schedule to go from the starter dose up to the max dose and all of my weight loss has been at the 5.0 or 7.5 dose and then I've been able to back down from that as needed so when I have the side effects that are unpleasant I can kind of go to a lower dose for a while
