On a recent Sunday night, more than 100 people squeezed into a Twin Peaks mansion for an invite-only meetup called the California Peptide Club, where founders, clinicians and biohackers compared vials, traded dosing tips and watched a volunteer mix and inject a buzzy weight-loss peptide. The vibe landed somewhere between tech salon and pop-up clinic: insulin syringes on tables, a peptide “starter kit” raffle and a thicket of phones aimed at the live injection demo.
According to Business Insider, the AGI House event on Twin Peaks drew more than 100 attendees, left roughly 300 people stuck on the waitlist and is something organizer Julius Ritter hopes to turn into a monthly ritual. The closed-door gathering featured panels, a peptide fridge quiz and a speaker lineup that ranged from prescribing clinicians to a peptide manufacturer and a Stanford researcher. The pitch: a place to compare stacks and trade what organizers framed as real-world, in-the-trenches protocols.
“My roommates made fun of me,” Ritter told Business Insider, explaining how the club began. He said the aim was to drag scattered peptide chatter out of message boards and Discord threads and into a room where clinicians, manufacturers and curious tech workers could hash things out face-to-face. Even so, many attendees acknowledged they were using products labeled research use only, a designation that brings a tangle of legal and safety questions along with it…