Dale was a few months into using Mounjaro when he started to wonder whether there was a cheaper way to lose weight. The 38-year-old had gotten heavier during the pandemic, after returning from the army and getting a job as a long-distance HGV driver. “Gyms weren't open. You couldn’t really do anything,” he says. “I just got lazy and got fatter than I wanted to be.”
The GLP-1 drug helped him shed the extra pounds, but when the price of the medication rose in September 2025, he decided to look into options. Dale joined a Discord group, where people were discussing an online “grey market” of cheaper drugs. He thought: “If there are that many people in [the Discord chat] and they’re all raving about all the products, then how bad can it be?” He decided to buy two peptides: BPC157 and CJC-1295 combined with Ipamorelin — peptides that are not licensed for human use in the UK.
