The science behind social media’s peptide obsession

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www.scientificamerican.comby Rachel Feltman, Sushmita Pathak, Alex SugiuraMay 8, 2026Submitted May 9, 2026

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Today we’re doing a deep dive on an extremely hot topic: peptides. Hype around these basic chemical building blocks has...

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