Braden Peters, better known online as Clavicular, has never been quiet about his views on pharma enhancement. The 20-year-old looksmaxxing influencer recently talked about his position on natural training during a recent panel-style debate appearance.
“You can get to your results a lot more efficiently with pharma intervention,” Peters told the panel. “I don’t want to have to work out for 10 years to have mediocre results, whereas I could work out for one or two years with exogenous hormones and have 10x the results. It doesn’t really make any sense.”
When a panelist challenged him on whether this outlook ignored long-term health consequences, Peters did not flinch.
Asked whether he was only focused on the present rather than the years ahead, he responded directly: “I just don’t really think you really know anything about pharmacology. I think that’s the biggest issue.”
In a previous interview with Piers Morgan, Clavicular defended his use of pharma tools going back to his teenage years, describing hormonal and chemical interventions as a calculated approach to optimizing physical development during puberty.
“It’s a lot of pharma intervention, especially during puberty,” he told Morgan. “This is going to be the time where it’s most important for people to optimize their growth mechanisms and their growth pathways.”
Peters regularly points to the years between ages 16 and 19 as living evidence that his methods hold up. In his view, his physical transformation and his rise to wealth and public recognition are not separate stories.
“My life is kind of on a one-to-one linear timeline with my exact ideologies that improving your looks is going to have a direct correlation with improvement in your life,” he explained. “As soon as I started really ascending and really getting into those high percentile looks, look at what happened to my life. I became that millionaire. I became famous.”
He frames this not as arrogance but as a reading of observable reality. “It’s based on objectivity. It’s based on real world data that shows looks are extremely important in the workplace. Looks are extremely important in dating,” he told Morgan, firmly pushing back against the suggestion that his methods stem from personal insecurity.
That narrative, however, has run into an inconvenience. In a video circulating online, Clavicular disclosed he had only managed seven reps at 115 lbs (52.2 kg) on the barbell, despite currently using an anabolic peptide.
“My strength going down and down every single f**king week over week,” he said plainly.
The disclosure creates a noticeable tension with the message that pharma enhancement produces consistent, measurable results. When Morgan pressed him on the responsibility of promoting such techniques to a young audience, Clavicular held his ground, arguing that critics were simply missing a mechanical understanding of how the process works.
“If done properly with the proper precautions, it can be a good thing,” he maintained.
