What specific Attia emails in the DOJ Epstein release mention metformin, statins, or Clomid and what are their full texts?
Executive summary
The Department of Justice’s latest Epstein document release contains multiple email threads involving Dr. Peter Attia in which medications — most notably metformin — are referenced, but the mainstream reporting so far reproduces only fragments and descriptions rather than complete, unredacted email texts; the clearest named example is a June 24, 2015 thread with the subject line “Got a fresh shipment,” which Attia says showed bottles of metformin and elicited Epstein’s “me too” reply with a redacted photo [1] [2] [3]. Several outlets and commentators note additional references to statins and Clomid in the DOJ corpus, but the published accounts cite summaries or excerpts rather than providing full email text [4] [5].
1. The one email with an explicit public description — “Got a fresh shipment” (June 24, 2015)
The most concretely reported email is the June 24, 2015 message whose subject line reads “Got a fresh shipment,” which news outlets relay as an email from Attia that — according to Attia’s own public statement — “contained a photograph of bottles of metformin, a medication I had just received from the pharmacy for my own use,” and which drew Epstein’s short reply “me too” plus a redacted photograph [1] [2] [3]. Reporting reproduces Attia’s characterization of the thread and the short Epstein response, but the DOJ-linked published summaries and contemporaneous news stories do not reproduce an unredacted full text of the entire thread in the articles reviewed here [1] [6].
2. Mentions of statins and Clomid are reported but not printed in full in available coverage
Multiple outlets and a Substack analysis flagged by mainstream coverage say Attia’s emails in the DOJ release include discussions of routine medical matters — specifically statins and Clomid among other medications — but those reports quote interpretive summaries rather than verbatim, full-email transcripts [4] [5]. For instance, the Cut and the Substack deep-dive by Jen Gunter identify threads that appear to discuss statins and Clomid, noting Clomid’s off‑label use in men, but neither the articles nor the aggregated DOJ summaries linked in the reporting here provide the complete, unredacted text of those Attia emails [4] [5].
3. What is actually available in published reporting versus what is not
Published news items give specific short quotations (for example Epstein’s “me too” and Attia’s later crude line in another thread) and Attia’s own explanations, but they do not reproduce full, unredacted email messages concerning statins or Clomid; the reporting instead cites the presence of such mentions across the roughly 1,700 documents in which Attia appears and highlights select lines and subject headers [7] [5]. Where outlets quote Attia verbatim about the metformin photo, they do so based on his public statement rather than a full DOJ transcript published in those articles [2] [6].
4. Context, competing claims, and reporting limitations
Attia has publicly apologized for “embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible” emails and insisted he never witnessed illegal behavior or saw anyone appearing underage in Epstein’s presence; media organizations have reacted (for example, CBS pulled a planned rerun with Attia) while noting the volume of references in the DOJ release [2] [1]. The crucial limitation is documentary: the stories reviewed summarize or excerpt particular lines and subject headings from the DOJ tranche but do not supply complete, verbatim reproductions of the Attia emails that mention statins or Clomid — consequently, any request for “the full texts” cannot be fully satisfied from these secondary reports alone, and verifying full texts requires consulting the DOJ document repository directly [5] [7].
5. How to verify the full email texts (journalistic next steps)
To obtain the complete, unredacted email bodies referenced in coverage, the primary source is the Department of Justice’s Epstein files release itself (which some reporters link or cite when noting the 3.5 million pages), where a document-level search for Attia’s name, the subject line “Got a fresh shipment,” or keywords like “metformin,” “statin,” and “Clomid” should locate the original items if unredacted versions exist in the public tranche; the reporting examined here documents the references but stops short of reproducing full, continuous email texts [5] [1].