Influencers tout injectable peptides as key to youth and beauty. Scientists say they’re ‘a giant scam’

Influencers tout injectable peptides as key to youth and beauty. Scientists say they’re ‘a giant scam’

Crocodile dung. Tapeworms. Raw meat facials. At some point in history these wildly popular — and wildly unproven — treatments were how the (richest) men and women of the day tried to hold on to youth, beauty and strength. Right now,

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