Utah Engineer's Tirzepatide DIY

This is a U.S. news story, published by Yahoo, that relates primarily to FDA news.

U.S. news

For more U.S. news, you can click here:

more U.S. news

drug discoveries news

For more drug discoveries news, you can click here:

more drug discoveries news

Yahoo news

For more news from Yahoo, you can click here:

more news from Yahoo

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best health news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like drug discoveries news, you might also like this article about

Adrian

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest powdered tirzepatide news, gray market medications news, drug discoveries news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Adrian purchases

Yahoo

•

Health

Insurance wouldn't cover his weight loss medication. So he started making his own.

Summary

Nutrition label

64% Informative

Thousands of people are making or thinking about making their own GLP-1 medications.

They call it “gray,” for the gray market.

The FDA has shut down compounding pharmacies that offer GLP1s at a lower out-of-pocket cost.

Compounding pharmacies are stepping in with cheaper alternatives to weight loss drug shortages.

Research chemicals are exempt from FDA regulation, but it also means that their safety is unclear.

The FDA and the U.S. Pharmacopeia don’t require medications to be 100% pure.

The longer the medication has been stored, the more likely it becomes that bacteria may be introduced to the vial, or that its potency might drop off.

There are no explicit laws or regulations saying that research chemical manufacturers can only sell to qualified scientists or pharmacies.

But it's unlikely that people like Adrian , who are simply buying readily available products, would face any legal repercussions.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive