@garrytan: Interesting to realize this peptides boom didn't start in SF but rather the midwest in bodybuilding subcultures I recen…

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Garry Tan discusses the origins of the peptides boom in bodybuilding subcultures and shares his personal experience using peptides to lose weight.

Interesting to realize this peptides boom didn't start in SF but rather the midwest in bodybuilding subcultures I recently started using peptides with @Ronan_RX and I've lost 18 lbs in two months!
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Interesting to realize this peptides boom didn’t start in SF but rather the midwest in bodybuilding subcultures

I recently started using peptides with @Ronan_RX and I’ve lost 18 lbs in two months!

Elena (@VirtualElena): one of the more reliable rules of the internet is that if a sufficiently committed group of people in silicon valley decides something is good/bad/going to change the world/kill us all, you will inevitably learn all about it (and then form an opinion about it yourself). this has

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