• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    4 days ago

    Someone just gave me a huge bag of collagen peptides, been meaning to look it up.

    There are cool peptides, tree frog toxins are peptides and many are pretty sweet. One with a super opiate, albeit short acting, in S. American deserts, one in russia with antibiotic action, one with hiv drugs in the carribean or something. I forget some of the others.

    Obviously these ones sold by these marketers and influencers are going to be almost all bullshit, presumably.

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      4 days ago

      One with a super opiate, albeit short acting, in S. American deserts

      super painkilling, super breathing impairing, both?

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        I don’t believe so, it is the waxy monkey tree frog, Paul Simon references it in “girls with a necklace of tears,” and around 2010 horseracers in the NE US got caught doping their horses with it, as they are always at the forefront of trying out new and exciting drugs. The article I read said regulators were “hopping mad,” about it.

        They used to be available on order. I think they need dry air if I recall and it’s super humid, and cold, where I’m at so I didn’t order any.

        https://australian.museum/blog-archive/science/frog-goo-to-the-rescue/