#OS 9: Peptides, Olympic chicanery, Nike's new sandal? Britpop demon wellness, Magasin enters the mix; how to get low PUFA eggs
And a no-bullshit way to get RAW MILK in New York
Happy FRIDAY, back with separate lore after this week’s massive Attia/Epstein post:
With OPEN SECRETS, the Snake Super Health news update and aggregation missive that toes the line of both psychosis health and very normal person healthy behavior.
Think peptides, casein, Zerchers, tendon health, hair cell swapping, hyaluronic acid, Dr. Raymond Peat, sunlight, demon zero-drop shoes, aggressive scalp massage, ferrotin levels, cotton protocols, skincare, physical hygiene and more. Nobody writes about this.
In today’s newsletter: Dr. Peter Attia’s new post-Jeffrey Epstein career and his demonic WATCH collection (yikes), an actual no-subscription access point to get raw milk in New York City (this is America), breaking down the definitive/thorough New York Magazine piece on peptides, some incorrect fashion classifications regarding Nike’s Skims sneaker, Magasin busts into the wellness space, the demon Britpop-wellness connection, the single best leg exercise I have ever done (no one does it), a shakeup at Bandit (running), how to actually watch the Olympics and the #redacted scandal and why the Mets’ stone-age strength and conditioning protocols will probably lead to more, prolonged failure and shame.
Onto it:
Long Attia-Epstein post the other day; check it out above. The addendum today is CBS News, under new management—is keeping him on, per LA Times. Truly an incredible decision to not kowtow to cancel culture: keep the kid fucker on TV. That’ll show everyone. The bright side here: nobody watches television, least of all the evening news. Nobody that matters. Stone age morals for a stone-age medium. Network has five years left max.
More Attia: Were there warning signs? Well, before shit went down he was getting few tattoos (no comment) and sporting true weight on his wrist: wild-ass watches: a Mille RM 35-02, another Mille, a Bubba Watson. Check the post:
Creatine Cap@creatinecapmgmtthe richard mille rotation, silver chains and tribal tatts at 50 were pretty good tells something was off with attia
Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunterAttia and Epstein chatting like friend do10:47 PM · Jan 31, 2026 · 568K Views61 Replies · 96 Reposts · 1.71K LikesNot a watch guy (I only wear Soviet-era G Shocks and Land Cruiser watches) so I asked Thom Bettridge of CONTENT and i-D to break it down for me:
Although they are incredible feats of design and loaded with lore as one of the most shouted out watches in rap songs, Richard Mille is the perfect midlife crash out watch. They’re loud, aggressive, sporty, and almost always deep into six-figures so you probably need an offshore bank account to justify buying one. Definitely a signifier that you might have some unreads from jeevacation@gmail.com
Helpful, telling. From a remove the continuing CBS News-Attia relationship is beyond perfect. One gets no helpful information from either; both have been, for a while, cashing in. It’s just that the bias in health reporting is towards credentialism. I love this country. There are no rules.
Interesting if puffy Fast Co story about New Balance’s sports direction; really crazy that they got Cooper Flagg. Flagg is doing well in the NBA; here’s a clip of his workout from over the summer; pretty based what with the Copenhagens and single-less kB work. He moves well. No word on whether they’re going to be doing more zero drop, though.
Newsletter friend (paid sub actually) laura reilly is pushing Magasin into the health space—High Touch is the vertical’s name. She broke it down in a post this week:
People have been going apeshit on the Substack app/in comments; logged in yesterday morning at it was all I saw. Most of the chatter regards her routine, explicated in paragraph 2. I think it was a very canny editorial decision by Laura to include all the details in there—now everyone’s talking and crying about it and so people remember this vertical and things are going good.
From where I am—not much insight—the newsletter feels like it’s in the chick/longevity space, evidentiary, perhaps, and experienced based, somewhere between open and realistic. This is a varied perspective from mine, and is a needed one, if only… because the protocols Laura breaks down here don’t seem to get written about well—with detail—anywhere else. Mainstream pubs’ coverage is mostly just surfacing these fringe protocols, and switches between acidicly skeptical and naively supportive—you never know which. And the demon health people who understand these things just simply cannot write. Laura also went a little bit longer on the why—in a more earnest way—on Threads the other night. Probably worth interacting sincerely with that.
Peptides!?!?!?!?!?!? Strong, thorough, vibrant, reported piece here from Ezra Marcus in NY Mag last week about… the drug’s growth/acceptance. Akin with Marcus’ other work on the copper wire strip era of America here. That framing here is classic NY Mag tentpole story: an oncoming rush of troubling/elite behavior happening under our noses. Meaty and punchy, Marcus talks to bodybuilders, chicks, businesspeople, and does some n=1 experimentation himself. It frames the FDA… lag on them critically and simply; it shows, quickly, how the drugs have a theoretical use case for… most americans. People who want to look younger, lifters, demonic freaks, lazybones, normal, working people. Necessary. My use case scenarios here (and my reservations) after the jump.
Olympics started today; the big story (besides Canada’s fated waxing all of you clown countries at hockey very soon) has to be PenisGate—in which ski jumpers are injecting their [redacted] with hyaluronic acid so their members become engorged. And the athletes have to be fitted for bigger ski suits, and then get canopy drift from the extra fabric and jump further. And then win. Really good story; similar rule-bending happened in hockey a decade ago when goalie jerseys got massive to stop more pucks (outlawed), and the massive mid-2000s elbow protectors in baseball (also outlawed) that turned everyone into Ron Hunt.
This story is better; it’s preverted, international, weird, timely and is also based around a skincare 101 item. I asked friend of the letter Alexis Page about whether hyaluronic acid might work in that way, and she says this:
In skincare it’s used as a humectant to attract and hold moisture, thus kind of plumping lines on surface level. Hyaluronic acid is like the oldest and least sophisticated ingredient but has great PR for reasons that are a mystery to me. I think glycerin is a much better humectant. Hyaluronic is also naturally occurring in the body for like joint lubrication etc. Cosmetic filler is also hyaluronic based, just like gellified, so they market that as being “biocompatible” when people get their lips done etc… I guess, yeah, it ties into regular face filler rationale. It works!
So it rushes blood, water to the area… what I want to see is people injecting CREATINE in there. (Creatine hydrates muscle cells.) Ultimate male behavior. Excited—not in that way—for these games; found this very helpful calendar that syncs to iCloud and allows you to filter by country and sport. First men’s ski jump is Monday. Necessary.
Reader tip: there’s finally raw milk at RETAIL in New York City. Real raw milk, from a good farm, on the shelf. To buy. No sign-ups. Just normal like in California and Europe. Not sure how. The details: the store’s in Manhattan, and they have raw cow and raw goat in stock. A couple of things: one, no snitching. Two, it’s at
