Two women required hospitalization after receiving peptide injections at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival in Las Vegas. The physician administering these treatments lacked the necessary permissions to practice in Nevada. Public health investigations are underway to assess if other attendees experienced similar issues. The popularity of peptides is increasing, influenced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s advocacy for their use as longevity treatments. Kent Holtorf, the administering doctor, disputes the connection between the peptides and the health incidents, asserting confidence based on an AI report.
The two women, who are recovering, fell ill after receiving peptide injections at a conference booth. The doctor who ran the booth was a Los Angeles physician specializing in 'age reversal' therapies who did not have permission to practice medicine or dispense prescriptions in Nevada.
Since becoming Health and Human Services secretary, Kennedy has vowed to end the Food and Drug Administration's 'war on peptides' and other alternative health therapies.
Holtorf told ProPublica he is cooperating with the investigation. 'Of course, I want to get to the bottom of it. But almost assuredly it will come out that it was not the peptides.'
He said he became convinced the peptides weren't the cause of the severe reactions after plugging everything he knows about the incident into an artificial intelligence app, which he said gave him a 57-page report that 'basically says that it is impossible it was the peptides.'
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