This one product can change your whole life and fix everything you don’t like about yourself? Huge if true. This week we talk Patent Medicines (AKA: snake oil) and Peptides, the wellness craze that has teens mixing and injecting miracle elixirs in their bedrooms. What are the claims behind these phenomena, and do any of them actually work?

Plus: Poppish speaks on Punch the Monkey and we reflect upon our outdoor childhoods and all the moss and poison oak that came with them (sorry, iPad babies).