Liver failure caused by online peptides

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I’ve written before about people being warned not to take peptides that are not prescribed or that they’ve bought online. Doctors are seeing more and more cases of life-threatening illnesses due to the ingestion of counterfeit weight-loss drugs. One such is ‘retatrutide’, developed by a US company. They say it is still undergoing clinical tests and anyone purchasing a product with that name is getting un unregistered and untested medication. One Australian woman purchased the drug from a beauty parlour. Although hesitant about using the drug because she didn’t have the advice of a doctor and she was unsure of the dosage, she injected herself with the product twice of the course of a week. A week later, she was in hospital with acute liver failure and is continuing to have health problems. The state of Victoria is aware of six cases of acute liver toxicity associated with the unapproved peptide product. Let’s hope the word spreads about the dangers of online peptides. The photo is mine and was taken in France.