RFK is restoring 7 peptides. 20 states are restricting your supplements. This is the same fight.
Health freedom is being won and lost at the same time, and it's time we do something about it.
Last week, hundreds of you put your names on a comment section and told us what you take and why it matters. This week, the fight got bigger.
On one front, access is opening. On the other, it's closing. And if you think these two things aren't connected, keep reading.
The peptide reversal
RFK told Joe Rogan he's "a big fan" of peptides. This week the FDA made it official.
Seven compounds banned from compounding pharmacies in 2023 are now under formal review:
- BPC-157 for gut repair.
- TB-500 for tissue healing.
- GHK-Cu for skin and collagen repair.
- Epitalon for cellular aging.
- DSIP for sleep.
- GHRP-2 and
- GHRP-6 for growth hormone support.
The FDA will hold an advisory panel on July 23-24 to decide whether to restore compounding access.
Two years ago, these were pulled with three words on a federal list: "significant safety risks." No completed human trials required. No confirmed adverse events cited. Three words on a document, and access disappeared overnight for millions of patients and practitioners.
Now those three words are being reconsidered. RFK is pushing the FDA to act before the panel even meets.
This is what it looks like when someone fights for health freedom at the federal level. Access that was taken by language is being returned by language.
Remember that. Because the opposite is happening to your shelf right now.
The supplement crackdown
While the federal government is opening one door, 20 state legislatures are closing another.
New York already passed a law restricting the sale of products marketed for "muscle building" or "weight loss." Creatine is named in the statute. A federal court upheld it. And since that ruling, the floodgates opened. New Jersey, California, Washington, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, and more than a dozen other states have introduced their own versions.
In our last piece, we broke down the state-by-state crackdown on supplement access. If you missed it, [read it here].
What we didn't fully cover last time is how the mechanism works. And it's the same mechanism that banned those 7 peptides.
The FDA used three words to restrict peptides: "significant safety risks." State legislators use six words to restrict your products: "marketed for muscle building or weight loss." The phrases are different. The playbook is identical. Label something with the right language, and access disappears without a single study proving harm.
The FDA didn't restrict peptides because clinical trials proved they were dangerous. The product doesn't change. The science doesn't change. The words change. And the words carry the legal power.
That's how you lose access without anyone proving you should. And that's how you get it back when someone with authority decides the words should change.
The proof is on your shelf
Creatine is named in the statute. Over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies across three decades confirm it increases strength, improves cognitive function, and supports bone density. No pattern of safety concerns has emerged in the FDA's adverse event reporting system despite decades of widespread use. And they want to restrict it. But creatine didn't trigger the law. The word "muscle" on the label did.
We fought alongside the NPA when the FDA tried to reclassify NMN. After a citizen petition and a lawsuit, the FDA reversed course in September 2025. NMN stayed legal. Now the word "energy" or "metabolism" on the label gives state politicians the tool to finish what the FDA couldn't.
Tongkat Ali has published, peer-reviewed research on cortisol and hormonal balance. The word "performance" makes it a target. Berberine has clinical data on metabolic health. The word "metabolism" puts it in scope.
These are the same products +100 of you named last week:
An 81-year-old who bikes 20 miles a day, swims, and trains at the gym. A 77-year-old contractor who's never been out of shape and still works with his hands every day.
Real people. Real names. Real comments on our last post.
Several of you said it in the comments before we did: this is a First Amendment issue. Restricting truthful words on a label is restricting speech. The CRN is already challenging New York's law on those exact grounds. The case is still open.
Legal or restricted. Based on which words are on the outside, not what's on the inside.
This isn't abstract. These bills reach products you told us you take every day...
Why this is the same fight
The peptide restriction and the supplement crackdown aren't two separate problems. They're the same problem wearing different uniforms.
In both cases, access was restricted without proving harm. In both cases, the tool was language on a document, not science in a lab. In both cases, the people affected had no say in the decision.
The only difference is that peptides have RFK jr. in their corner. Your supplements have H.R. 7366 and whoever shows up to fight for it.
That's why both fights matter. The peptide reversal proves that access can be won back. The supplement crackdown proves that it can be taken just as fast. And the mechanism behind both is the same: whoever controls the language controls the access.
What we're doing
We endorsed H.R. 7366 after our previous Blog. We published the state-by-state tracker. Some of you contacted your reps. You put your names on the record.
Now we're escalating.
Next month, Black Forest is going to Capitol Hill.
We'll be there alongside the NPA on May 12 for Fly-In Day, meeting with lawmakers to push for H.R. 7366 and fight for your access to the products the science supports.
We fought for NMN and won. We're fighting for your shelf now. And when peptides become accessible again, we'll be ready for that too.
Something's coming
We're not just writing about this fight. We're building something behind it.
Next week we'll announce what that is. It involves your shelf, your voice, and a war chest that didn't exist until this tribe showed up.
That's all I'll say for now.
Your turn
Our previous blog got 100+ comments. Let's break that.
Tell us what you take. Tell us what state you're in. Tell us why this fight matters to you personally. Every comment is a voice on the record. Every share puts this in front of someone who doesn't know it's happening yet.
Contact your representative. congress.gov/members/find-your-member. Tell them to support H.R. 7366.
And if you think this only affects people who take supplements, read this again.
The mechanism that restricts what you can buy today is the same mechanism that can restrict:
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what you can eat,
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what treatments you can access,
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and what health decisions you're allowed to make tomorrow.
This fight has never been about creatine. It's about whether you get to decide what goes into your own body. Or whether someone else does.
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech." — Benjamin Franklin
