Obtaining peptides without a doctor's prescription is risky due to potential contamination with LPS.

“But I've heard, for instance, that some companies where people can acquire these things without prescription, those companies are not good at cleaning out the lipopolysaccharide-- the LPS-- which can cause an inflammatory response. In other words, these are dirty compounds. And that just sounds risky. It just sounds-- frankly, it just sounds really dangerous to me.”

“the other sources of peptides which are gray market and black market often times do contain the same peptide that one would get from a prescription from a board certified physician but very often they haven't cleaned out the Lippy polysaccharide they haven't removed the LPS and that can start to create problems over time and of course in the case of Black Market sources especially often times the peptides are not what they claim to be on the label or from a particular source so that's especially problematic”

“and it worries me very much that people are buying PPC from um gray Mark dark gray Market or uh uh Black Market sources I mean anything that says on it not for animal or human use for research purposes only you can pretty much guarantee the endotoxin the lipip polysaccharide at least has not been removed and that could be really atic especially since my understanding is that that can be cumulative over time it's not that one injection causes somebody to go into anaphylactic shock it's that some of this LPS can build up an inflammatory response over time and then you don't know where the Tipping Point is and then somebody can have a really terrible reaction”