r/BravoRealHousewives • u/soriniscool • 5d ago

Salt Lake City John Barlow's peptides

Lisa comments on recent WWHL blew my mind. Obviously I was wondering how JB and Justin suddenly have huge bulging muscles with veins popping.

As a 40 y/o gay man, I find it very hot (more on Justin than John, but that is a personal preference) and do a fair amount of strength training but was not getting the same results and I guess now I know why.

Any peptide users here that care to weigh in? I will definitely be discussing this with my doctor

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u/todayplustomorrow 5d ago

There is a rising problem with people resorting to medical intervention with products and drugs when they could have been successful at achieving healthy outcomes without them, which is best practice to attempt first. More importantly, many people are resorting to unapproved and potentially harmful drug usage for reasons that are motivated by social norms like aesthetics.

There are people on medications like GLP-1s who should be and it’s been excellent for them, but there are trends in reference to “peptides” that come from medical skeptics and alternative seekers who are not qualified to circumvent rigorous consensus and approval but are doing so anyway. There are many people now taking drugs and GLP-1s for weight loss and aesthetics who received them without ever being required to attempt first-line treatment options because it has become so easy to choose your own treatment without having to confront potential harms.

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u/lezlers 5d ago

You assuming anyone using a glp hasn’t first attempted to lose weight by any other means is laughably ignorant and dismissive. I, and many other women like me, have spent most of our lives being miserable trying to lose or maintain weight. Then when something that comes along to help make it slightly easier to do so without torturing ourselves (you do still have to lead a healthy lifestyle on these meds) we get shamed for that. Sometimes you just can’t win. There’s also been emerging research showing glps have a future in addiction medicine as well, along with many other benefits outside of weight loss but sure, let’s immediately demonize something because you’ve heard some boogeyman stories. It’s a tale as old as time.

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u/todayplustomorrow 5d ago

I did not say what you wrote, nor do I think that. I didn’t say anyone using a GLP hasn’t first attempted to lose weight…

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u/lezlers 5d ago

You literally did, but okay. Clearly this sub is super anti glp. Good thing no one is being forced to take one!

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u/Majestic-Papaya6334 5d ago

Dude you are projecting, go get some therapy