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Daily Comet (Louisiana) Editorial Letter: Beauty trends and Internet danger
 
-Scott

Herald Sun (Australia) article about melanotan II: Ban urged on controversial tanning drug
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Where do people come up with this stuff?
 
There have been scattered anecdotal reports in the forums here of folks experiencing raised blood pressure but heart disease?  
 
I wish medical professionals when making such statements were obliged to cite their sources!
 
Sure there are valid concerns about folks using an unlicensed and unregulated drug like melanotan II but let's stick to the facts shall we?
 
This is classic example of scare mongering if I ever saw one.
 
-Scott

I have absolutely no medical study or training but i became suspicious when the 'experts' stated it was impossible to catch the Hiv virus from mosquitoes?Needle and blood going from person to person??!I didn't think that was a difficult conclusion!

Quote from smsgg on 03/20/09 at 00:50:06:

 
Thanks smsgg.
 
-Scott

Thanks sideways.
 
With her having had over £ 1 million worth of cosmetic surgery performed on her body and now she's partially blaming usage of a melanotan peptide for what happened here she may still be in denial.
 
-Scott

This news needs to seriously be taken with a grain of salt.
1  This is someone who loves attention.
2  By her claim, she went to the hospital where they pumped her stomach and released her.  Pumping her stomach would not take away the effect of the melanotan.
3  If she was near death they would not have, after just pumping her stomach, released her.
4  Why didn't either of these rags follow up on her story?

Quote from Big_Jake on 04/05/09 at 08:03:26:

 
Uh, what are you seeing? All I see is her in a pretty red dress as though she's dressed up for New Year's eve.
 
-Scott

An investigative Norwegian report similar to the BBC1 X-Ray "Melanotan mania" report.
 
TV2 Hjelper deg (April 23, 2009) : Stanset salget av Barbie-dop
 
It focuses on a company called "Solvaria" that had been run from Estonia that was selling to Norwegians.  
 
It mentions concerns about changes in moles and has a clip or two from folks at Clinuvel warning about purchasing and using the peptides.
 
Also covered was the report of a girl who developed either dark patches or darker moles in the area of her right calf/ankle. I'm not sure exactly what she says maybe someone who understands Norwegian can watch the report online (at the link above) and fill us in on the details?
 
-Scott

ive been thinking about botox or some other sort of age defying process as of the last year and a half or so, as ive become aware of my skin condition, and a generall age starting to show.
 Now if i decided botox was for me and then got it done professionally, I can tell u now that article would NOT put me off. Im a rasional peson and never jump into anything that could harm my health undoubtably, or do anything excess anyway without doing my research and weighing up my options, and risks, and this goes down to the smallest area lets say,even whitening my teeth. Its like this i havent looked into this, but if there was a forum like Melanotan.org, lets say stickbotoxinyourface.org based around people using botox, wheir we could learn from each others experience, then why not atleast look into it?. I have NO FAITH IN THE MEDIA, they are liars and biased, they rarely carry out their own research but instead base it on something they've read already , which was more than likley written by someone like them in the 1st place anyway. It states '' its easy to forget that botox is a poison'' oh my god, run, run from the poison, Isnt alchohol and poison?.  
we all discuss with with each other the possible effects of melanotan and melanotan II, e.x. moles darkening, white spots, or whatever! and its a great freedom we have to do this, but some of the sides we jst dont know and cant be sure off.  
i think this puts  melanotan at maybe 3 in the evil scale,as it stands now!.
But where does that put alchohol? and smokng? and sunbeds? the list of effects these can cause is to big to even go into, yet i wonder what % of the population do it on a regular basis. whats the difference, ts become socailly exceptable!. Anyway my point is thank god for the internet,  and forums like this, where we can make up our own minds and have far more options open to us.

WCBS [New York, NY] (May 19, 2009) : Believe It Or Not 'Tanorexia' A Very Real Problem
 
I haven't watched the video report but its corresponding online article is fairly accurate though it fails to make any distinction between melanotan-1 and melanotan II. It describes "the drug" as "illegal". This is true in-so-far as sales of the peptides for human usage is concerned but possession and/or usage is not illegal. They also mentioned that testing was going on in Australia (which is true for afamelanotide [melanotan-1]) but did not mention that testing is also ongoing across Europe and will soon start in the U.S.
 
The article does illustrate valid concerns about using the peptides in their current non-approved, unregulated state. They made an order and found that the vial that they purchased was not labeled and there were no instructions.  
 
Here's the video link: The Truth About 'Tanorexia' - The Real Extreme
Alternate: Yahoo News video link
 
-Scott