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The Most Powerful Weight Loss Drug Yet Isn’t Approved, but Its Black Market May Already Be Turning Deadly

Though retatrutide isn't approved anywhere yet, some companies are already widely distributing and selling it alongside other unregulated peptides.

Tarun Mottlia

Via Gizmodo

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The Most Powerful Weight Loss Drug Yet Isn’t Approved, but Its Black Market May Already Be Turning Deadly
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An experimental drug called retatrutide is set to become the most effective weight loss medication seen yet. Unfortunately, some people seem to be suffering severe, even fatal, complications from taking copycat versions of the still unapproved drug.

The Food and Drug Administration has received at least two reports of deaths linked to illicit retatrutide this year, according to documents first revealed by CBS News this week. Though it’s not certain whether counterfeit retatrutide is responsible for these deaths, these are…

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