Peptides Explained Like Legos

[00:00:00]What the hell is a peptide? Peptides are a structural class of medications. The best way to think about peptides is that just like we have small molecules which are drugs that are very small, taken in a pill, and have a wide-ranging effect throughout the body, peptides are derived from little pieces of amino acids, which think of them as the Legos that make up the human body, the Legos that make up proteins. These are fragments of proteins that are designed to specifically target certain receptors and affect cells in a very targeted fashion.