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Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns

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Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns
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Researchers are starting to get a closer view of the various gray-market peptides making the rounds on the back of the “looksmaxxing” trend, and it isn’t looking good.



In a new interview with Axios, Anthony Rossi, a dermatological surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, warned that the substance “Melanotan II” isn’t exactly the best thing you can put in your body.



Also known as the “Barbie drug,” melanotan II is an unregulated, syn

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