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Larry Page just became the richest billionaire on Earth

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Funny thing about peptides. Everyone thinks of them as this new biohacker drug category, but nature has been running peptide experiments for millions of years and the results are wild.

Opossums shrug off rattlesnake venom because of an 11 amino acid peptide in their blood. Honey badgers carry the same trick. Tasmanian devil milk has peptides that kill golden staph, an infection our best antibiotics struggle with. MIT took wasp venom, tweaked the peptide, and wiped out drug resistant Pseudomonas in mice without harming human cells.

And the one I can't stop thinking about: researchers built a peptide that regrows tooth enamel. 10 to 50 micrometers of new enamel per application. Enamel. The thing dentists have told us our whole lives never comes back.

We spent decades looking for small molecule drugs in chemistry labs. Turns out half the pharmacy was already walking, stinging and lactating around us.

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Peptides Google Trends. Just getting started

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SpaceX IPO Tomorrow

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@ashleeeylee 💯

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@HormoneForge

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@peptidepirate Damn there goes my whole personality.

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Theoretical concern: activating metabolic adaptation genes could in theory feed cancer cells too. Unproven. But worth knowing.

Treat it like a tool. Pull it out when needed. Put it back. Don't run it forever.

Not FDA approved. Not medical advice.

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There's a peptide hiding inside your mitochondria right now that almost nobody is talking about correctly.

-Mice lived longer on it.
-Diabetic rats reversed heart damage.
-Our own levels drop 21% as we age.

It's called MOTS-c. Here's what the research actually says.

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Other reported issues:

Jittery, anxious, revved up feeling
Blood sugar crashes

Stacking with metformin or berberine compounds the AMPK activation