An FDA panel has recommended allowing compounding pharmacies to make six unapproved peptides. Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN Health's John Bonifield discuss their popularity, safety concerns and what comes next.
This episode was produced by Madeleine Thompson and Leying Tang.
Medical Writer: Andrea Kane
Showrunner: Dan Bloom
Technical Director: Dan Dzula
Sr. Director of Podcasts: Zach Goldbaum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

An FDA panel has recommended allowing compounding pharmacies to make six unapproved peptides. Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN Health's John Bonifield discuss their popularity, safety concerns and what comes next. This episode was produced by Madeleine Thompson and Leying Tang. Medical Writer: Andrea Kane Showrunner: Dan Bloom Technical Director: Dan Dzula Sr. Director of Podcasts: Zach Goldbaum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An FDA panel&nbsp;has&nbsp;recommended allowing compounding pharmacies&nbsp;to&nbsp;make six unapproved peptides. Dr. Sanjay Gupta and&nbsp;CNN Health's&nbsp;John Bonifield&nbsp;discuss their popularity, safety&nbsp;concerns and what comes next.
This episode was produced by Madeleine Thompson and Leying Tang.
Medical Writer: Andrea Kane
Showrunner: Dan Bloom
Technical Director: Dan Dzula
Sr. Director of Podcasts: Zach Goldbaum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Why Peptides Are So Popular

All over the world, there are people who are living extraordinary lives, full of happiness and health – and with hardly any heart disease, cancer or diabetes. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been on a decades-long mission to understand how they do it, and how we can all learn from them. Scientists now believe we can even reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s dementia, and in fact grow sharper and more resilient as we age. Sanjay is a dad – of three teenage daughters, he is a doctor - who operates on the brain, and he is a reporter with more than two decades of experience - who travels the earth to uncover and bring you the secrets of the happiest and healthiest people on the planet – so that you too, can Chase Life.

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