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The retatrutide crackdown is spreading beyond vendors

A lot has happened in the space over the last week.

August 18: Reports started coming in that multiple peptide-related Discord servers had been shut down. At least one individual server removal has been separately reported, although there’s no public confirmation from Discord that this is a coordinated reta-specific enforcement wave.

August 17: Two prominent peptide creators, Josh Holyfield and Trevor Bachmeyer, lost their YouTube channels. Holyfield says directly that YouTube took his channel down. Bachmeyer’s channel has also disappeared, although I haven’t seen a statement from him or YouTube explaining why.

August 12: Eli Lilly filed six new lawsuits against US businesses selling retatrutide — covering a medical spa, pharmacy and online peptide sellers.

That part is much bigger than six lawsuits.

Lilly says it has now:

  • referred 200+ individuals and entities to the FDA, DOJ, state attorneys general, law enforcement and professional licensing boards
  • reported 14,000+ websites, advertisements, social-media posts and product listings
  • done so across 100+ countries
  • explicitly called on social-media and e-commerce platforms, credit-card companies, payment processors, and shipping/logistics companies to cut off the infrastructure supporting grey-market retatrutide sales

The six defendants are Aesthetic Envy, Astra Peptides, Legendary Peptides, Striker Pharmacy, Texas Peptides and Lone Star Peptide.

Taken together, this is starting to look less like a handful of lawsuits against individual vendors and more like pressure being applied across the wider ecosystem that allows the grey market to operate.

The important distinction is that Lilly’s legal action and requests to platforms are confirmed. The timing of the YouTube and Discord removals is also notable, but there’s currently no public evidence showing that Lilly directly requested those specific takedowns.

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u/Tiny_Split9436 — 14 hours ago
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Recommend syringes

hi guys, I recently just got 40mg of Reta, I am still waiting for the BAC water to come in. what do you guys recommend for syringes or injections pen? I’m new to this so I’m so lost I might even need help on how to add the BAC water to the vial 😭

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u/MutedScale1790 — 2 days ago
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Sam Sulek's peptide company sold a $285 "research use only" retatrutide pen, and a site with the same branding showed you how to inject it. On Sunday both disappeared.

I inject Zepbound every week, so I understand the retatrutide FOMO. Reta is Eli Lilly's triple agonist, the next molecule up from tirzepatide, still in Phase 3 trials and approved nowhere in the world. That is what got me looking at where people actually buy it.

Sam Sulek, one of the biggest fitness YouTubers, says on camera that he co-owns a peptide company called NewBioRx. The storefront sold a $285 pre-filled retatrutide pen under the standard research-chemical disclaimer: "Bodily introduction of any kind into humans or animals is strictly prohibited by law." A second website carrying the NewBioRx logo published a milligrams-to-units conversion table for that pen and a twelve-photo walkthrough titled "How To Give Yourself a Shot." One site swore no human may ever use the product. The other assumed a human was using it.

The timing matters. On August 12, Eli Lilly sued six US sellers of retatrutide, and its complaints lean on exactly this kind of material, the dosing calculators and injection guides, as evidence that a "research use only" label is a fiction. NewBioRx is not one of the six defendants, and nobody has sued Sulek's company. It is the same pattern, though. The FDA has separately said retatrutide cannot legally be used in compounding at all.

Then, on Sunday afternoon, while I was finishing the write-up, the pen's product page went 404 and the entire instructions site was replaced by a NewBioRx-branded "Coming soon" page. The 16 mg and 30 mg vials are still for sale. I don't know who took the pages down or why. I had archived everything first, and the write-up links to the archives.

I documented the whole paper trail, the product pages, the instructions site, the corporate filings, and Sulek's own on-camera explanation that research-only products are not "held to the same quality standards" as FDA-regulated ones, with screenshots: full write-up on my blog with the details.

The disclaimer itself is what bothers me most. It does not describe the product, and the seller's own instructions contradicted it. Its practical effect is that when something goes wrong, the person holding the pen owns the outcome, not the company that sold it. I think that is the real product being sold: deniability. Curious whether anyone here reads "research use only" differently.

u/DadStrengthDaily — 4 days ago
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13lbs down in 12 days ?

First couple of days were rough started on 2mg but went down to 1mg due to the nausea and side affects I feel much better. Anyone lost that much so quick?

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u/IcyPineapple3003 — 4 days ago
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8 weeks on Reta Before/After

Over the past 8 weeks I've been on Reta. Alongside that, I've been eating clean, tracking my calories, weight training three times a week, and being mindful to get more steps in. Still having cheat days when I need to, but not taking the piss with it.
Starting weight is 141kg/310lbs and I'm now 128kg/
281lbs
Still fat but getting there. I've worked up to 1.25mg I started on 0.5mg
l've experienced very little side effects but 1 am more aggressive and snappy since starting it.

u/Pale_Procedure4413 — 7 days ago
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Lilly sued 6 retatrutide sellers and is now going after their payment processors. Supply may get harder.

On Aug 12 Lilly filed six lawsuits against US sellers of reta (Astra, Legendary, Texas and Lone Star Peptides, plus a med-spa and a compounding pharmacy), referred 200+ sellers to the FDA/DOJ, and flagged 14,000+ listings.

The part that actually hits supply: Lilly is also pressuring the payment processors, card companies and shippers these sellers use. This market already struggles to keep a card processor (why so much runs on crypto/PayPal), so that squeeze may bite harder than the suits.

Two things worth knowing: the enforcement is aimed at sellers, not buyers. And because reta isn’t approved anywhere yet, there’s no legitimate version to check a vial against, so dose and sterility stay unverifiable no matter what COA comes with it.

Not moralizing (I’m on compounded meds myself). Fuller writeup with full complaints if useful: https://dadstrengthdaily.com/is-retatrutide-legal-to-buy/

u/DadStrengthDaily — 8 days ago
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r/reta hits 400 members

It’s only 6 days since 300 was hit! It’s amazing to see how quickly it is taking off.

Thanks to all those contributing in the early days and helping shape the subreddit. I want it to become a positive, supportive community for current and future Reta users. I think it’s the tip of the iceberg so far, both for the sub and Reta itself!

Please feel free to post about experiences, questions, progress photos, symptoms. Replies are really appreciated too - especially for any Reta questions members have! It’s great to see the community helping each other.

One thing that’s been noticed is more sourcing posts that mods or Reddit have to remove. Please remember this is a sourcing free Reta sub.

One question is should the community members have a name? Retas…. Something else? Or just keep as members? I see some other subs have…

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u/Tiny_Split9436 — 9 days ago
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What does the glucagon part of retatrutide actually add?

Retatrutide is often described as “GLP-3” or as three GLP-1 medicines in one. Neither description is really right. It is one molecule acting on GIP, GLP-1 and glucagon receptors.

The glucagon receptor is the additional part compared with tirzepatide, but online explanations often jump straight from that to claims about “burning fat” or “boosting metabolism” as though the clinical effect of each receptor can be cleanly separated.

What part of the glucagon story do you think people misunderstand most?

Background:

https://www.lilly.com/news/stories/what-to-know-about-retatrutide

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u/Tiny_Split9436 — 12 days ago