This past week, in a city built on risk and reward, billionaire biohacker Christian Angermayer went about his wellness routine.
He injected himself with weight loss drugs, testosterone, and legal-but-off-label growth hormones, designed to reduce deep layers of fat and regenerate his cells. To feel more outgoing, he added the peptide oxytocin, typically used by doctors to stimulate labor. For focus, he popped a pill of his usual stimulant, normally prescribed for sleep apnea. …
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Angermayer, who at 48 looks a decade younger, is the co-founder and funder of the Enhanced Games, a Silicon Valley-backed athletic tournament that breaks a cardinal rule of sports by encouraging athletes to take steroids, hormones, peptides, and any legal performance-enhancing drug.
The 42 inaugural participants who will compete [on May 24, 2026] in Vegas are elite swimmers, runners and weightlifters, some of whom are Olympic medalists. They are souped up on proprietary drug regimens prescribed by the organization’s team of doctors ….
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Wellness and supplements are a $6.8 trillion global industry, fueled by celebrities, Make America Healthy Again influencers and the “manosphere” on social media, according to the Global Wellness Institute, an industry group. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who said he takes testosterone, experimental hormones and amino acid chains known as peptides for antiaging — moved in April to legalize seven peptides that had been restricted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over safety concerns.
