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>People need to stop pretending aging isn't a tragedy just because it's our natural state. We should be as bold with treatments for it as we are with treatments for other fatal diseases.

We don't encourage people to experiment with self medicating themselves for cancer and multiple sclerosis, because it's dangerous and most people have no idea what they're doing. It's pretty much the same thing here. I know it'll happen either way, but I wouldn't recommend it to the average person.



I know it'll happen either way, but I wouldn't recommend it to the average person.

Hence "let them", not "encourage them". The average person doesn't have the slightest idea what a "custom peptide" is.


But you're responding to a warning with "let them," not a bill in congress.




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