i’m reading a thing about peptides that e▒▒▒ gave me. it’s from new york mag. a physical magazine: what a concept.
as i read it, i couldn’t help but see no problem with it. and then i started to think of problems.
it seems obvious that it’s wrong. like, guys, hello. can’t this be one of those things where it’s obvious that we shouldn’t be doing it? i shouldn’t even need to get into all the reasons why someone....
from the scientific perspective, from the evolutionary perspective, it seems obvious that we should not inject peptides into our bodies.
insulin is a peptide, and exogenous insulin is useful for diabetics, but not for everyone else.
with the "wellness" peptides people are using, they’re trying to go up from their baseline. i think that’s a big mistake, and it’s hubris, and it’s temptation,
and people probably will die if they haven’t already. this dude got necrotizing pancreatitis after taking peptides. and then the person who injected it into their achilles and got sharp pain and kidney stones....
gone fishing the thing about peptides is that the body naturally uses these things as chemical messengers. we do use peptides, and we do make them, and we do have receptors which receive them and cells which know what to do with them. it seems like an elegant thing to do, to inject peptides. our bodies already know them well.
science has helped the peptide industry by spelling out what each of these peptides "does." and right there is how
by injecting peptides, you’re putting yourself into a new homeostasis that your body is going to want to maintain. you can make everyone’s lives easier if you keep homeostasis from things that are pretty simple. it’s better not to make yourself rely on exogenous stuff, right? unless it’s easy to come by and you don’t have to pay an arm and a leg and take a lot of weird risks that haven’t been taken by any of our ancestors....
it’s like, at a certain point, we gotta start listening to evolution more. we have to start trusting that the diet our body asks us for is going to be more or less sufficient to get us the nutrients we need. we gotta trust that our bodies in general know way more about how to sustain life than our directing minds, poisoned by language and ego.
let yourself listen to those signals. and i know when you got shit wrong with you, the signals can get warped, and it’s not so easy, and i’m speaking from a place of privilege here, because my body more or less knows how to ask me what for what it wants, and i’m privileged enough to be able to respond to the signals of my body, i can afford food when i’m hungry, i have running water when i’m thirsty, i have a toothbrush so my mouth doesn’t get infested.......
but look at the things i’m putting into myself exogenously. look at the social support i get from the internet. look at how it’s disrupting my need to get it elsewhere. it’s bringing me to a homeostasis, and when it gets taken away, my body is going to be like, ‘wait, put it back... we needed that... you weren’t talking to enough people, so we needed that, put it back!!!!’
you have a lot to learn about yourself by examining the things you put in exogenously. your body is doing a lot of shit right now. but
you, the directing mind? you, the girl reading this? the one who’s been infected by language enough to understand what is being said here? what are you putting into yourself exogenously?
it really is a slippery slope. reading that article, i was starting to think, ‘huh, peptides don’t sound too unreasonable, actually.’ that is the danger, especially when the article is so long that it’s divided in the magazine itself, split in half, and the second half doesn’t appear until forty pages later. someone might put the magazine down after reading the first part and be like, ‘huh, peptides.... yes,’ and never read the part where it makes a critical argument.
but even at the end of the second half, the author is implicitly suggesting that they are now peptide-pilled. the final line of the article is about how they looked in their fridge and saw peptides sitting next to an onion, and they thought, ‘it’s not a bad idea to lose some weight after the holidays.’ and then they injected them. like hello,,,, hellllo.... we need some more alarm bells sounding, i think. can we take shit more seriously sometimes?
and it’s tough because i don’t want to be like, ‘peptides are morally wrong.’ i really do think that the people taking them should keep taking them if it makes them happy.
i just think the bodymind wants
and if it’s telling you that it wants more dopamine right now, that what’s happening inside is not enough, you gotta check your exogenous shit, brother. you're being led into a homeostasis that i don’t really know if you’re choosing.
you’re not using free will when you add anything exogenous to your bodymind. shit, even when you eat food, you’re not using free will. you’re responding to millions, maybe billions, trillions of signals from inside of your body, taking the average of all of those, and acting in a certain way that is not up to "you" in every second.
because i’m not going to skip dinner tonight. i won’t be able to not eat. i could fast, of course, i could fast, and it would be fine, but at a certain point, the body is going to make me eat food. it’s going to change my thought process in such a way that will convince me to do it. it changes the thought process to change my behavior to add more of the exogenous thing that i seem to need, that there is seemingly not enough of...... all this exogenous shit, bro...
but isn’t life about the exogenous stuff? isn’t part of being alive, being porous? my mom always told me to be a sponge, not a brick, and part of being a sponge is taking in all the stuff around you. constantly sampling from your environment. sometimes you take a big bite. sometimes you fucking eat.
big bite