Welcome to Peptides for Women. I'm Jennifer Woodward and this
is your podcast for smart, honest conversations about
peptide therapy and midlife Wellness.
We cover everything from GLP ones to BPC 157, plus the
foundations that still matter sun like steps, strength
training, protein, and minerals. So if you're ready to feel
better with science, back tools, and natural habits that actually
work, you're in the right place. Let's dive in.
Welcome back to the Peptides for Women podcast.
I'm Jennifer Woodward and I'm back here with Samantha Lander,
a fellow FDN. And Samantha loves peptides too.
So we're kind of excited to bring you a special episode
today where we are doing Q&A from our community.
We spent some time over the last couple weeks polling you guys
and asking you what in the world do you want to know about
peptides because we want to answer that for you.
So Samantha, welcome back to the show.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Well, thanks for having me again and entertaining my Q&A idea.
I'm so excited. I am a functional diagnostic
nutritionist. As you said, I do work with sort
of Wellness and longevity, but I do the whole body Wellness
thing. I have a niche of, you know,
perimenopausal women just similar to you.
So I think these questions are just perfect.
And then I work with a lot of people who are just sober
curious, getting sober, you know, in that space to just kind
of optimize their health. So really it's anyone who wants
to sort of optimize and learn how to generational changing
within their family, within themselves, anything like that.
But yeah, I don't know if that's major single mom.
I could probably relate to a lot of your people, the people on
here, Single mom 45. These are the important things,
DJ. Please throw that last one in
there DJ. No DJ Ray love it.
So fun, like I said, welcome back.
It has been fun to get to know you.
And I do love this idea just for, you know, people asking
questions. We do get questions a lot just,
you know, on DMS or on emails. And so it's really nice to be
able to kind of coal through the most common questions that
people are asking because, I mean, I don't know about you,
but I see a lot of these questions over and over and over
again. So I'm trying to answer a lot of
them with some of my Instagram reels or some of my social media
content. But it's kind of fun to get to
expand a little bit more on them, you know, together.
I would say too, make sure you subscribe to our podcast because
everybody talking about pet pods getting locked down or accounts
getting shut down. So like we're not able to talk
about a lot of this stuff. So I think that's why it's
important to educate people as much as we can so you don't,
when you do get itchy rash or you feel like crap or
something's happening when you do a peptide, you realize it's
not the peptide. And we can kind of hopefully
answer some of your questions as to how to be safe and, and
understand what is going on. Because there is a wild Wild
West. The peptide for sure, but
getting locked down a bit which is good.
And that's a good point because we've been talking about this a
lot. I had restrictions placed on my
Instagram account for at least 90 days.
It was so frustrating not being able to collaborate, not being
able to do any of my sponsored posts, not being able to have my
content shown to new followers. I was just like, what in the
world? And it's for literally saying
the word peptide. It's funny too because there's
no rhyme or reason. Like who's being shut down for
what? Like all these people are
talking about peptides and I'm like, what?
I don't even know what I did wrong Instagram.
But you can't, you can't appeal to anyone.
It's just a bot. No, no.
And then they and then they call you and then you feel like, Oh
yeah, I got it on the phone with Instagram.
And then you're like really talking.
It's like another hour wasted of your time.
But I did you know, I know they were going after merchant
accounts and people who are using certain accounts with
peptides. And then they were going after,
you know, saying Reddit true tide.
And now they're this past like just really the past like week
accounts are just getting completely taken down.
So I I started talking about why people smell like pee and keto
and I totally changed into some new script and not talking
about. Why people smell like pee you're
gonna. Have to so when you're when
people are doing trying to get in ketosis and they're not doing
it right or not getting enough water or whatever they need to
do, they start smelling pee the ammonia.
Like the ammonia smell? Yeah.
And so I'm I'm switching my script a little on Instagram so
I don't get blocked down. Yeah, that's definitely helpful.
And honestly, I think one of the reasons I love being in this
space, and you probably feel the same way, like being an FDN and
being here for so long. Like I realized peptides aren't
necessarily the trend that I think a lot of the past things
in Wellness have been like really trendy.
I think they're here to stay and I think that they work, you
know, unlike a lot of Wellness trends for people.
But it's definitely interesting to see, you know that when you
do peptides, right, it's basically like an FDN
foundation, right? Like you, you have to take care
of all the things we talked about all the time on the
podcast. Like I, I cannot record an
episode without talking about protein and steps and minerals
and sunlight because I have seen people try to do peptides
without those foundations. And lo and behold, the peptides
stop working. And people are like, well, why
did the peptides stop working? I'm like, it's not the peptides
full all right? Peptides are a tool in your
toolbox. You still have to do all of the
other stuff. It will not work.
I had people who you know, here's a great question that I
get all the time. It's like we've read a true tie
like why am I not losing? Why am I not losing?
Yes, there is a genetic snip that they are finding that could
potentially be where you're a non responder.
So I'm kind of digging into that.
But they if you still aren't like thyroid, you always got to
check thyroid. If that's not functioning
oftenly, usually GLP may not work.
If you have a bacterial infection.
I find that at least with like red a true tie, it does not work
as well. But if you are not eating
enough, because what does it do, which is appetite and Loretta,
they they make you not eat you, you're not going to lose like
you have to eat. And we will both say this to you
time and time again, I think a. 100% it's that's funny because
the, the few people that I have had on and I, I've told you guys
this before, like I'm mostly amusing Tirzepatide.
I obviously don't write the prescriptions.
I'm not a doctor, but my clients through our doctors are sourcing
tirzepatide. That seems to work really well
for my midlife women and men. But I've had two people in
particular I can think of that have not lost a lot of weight on
terzipatite. They had weight to lose, too.
It's not like they were, you know, of normal weight.
They had weight to lose. And on further digging, I found
that both of them were only eating one meal a day, One meal
a day. And the one meal a day that
they're eating is at night. I'm like, you guys, OK, Listen,
I'm all for therapeutic fasting. I use it in my practice with the
parameters being met. But, well, yeah, they're not
they're. Not doing them on purpose.
They're just not eating and so they're not losing weight.
And lo and behold, I mean, I can think of another client I have
right now, a gentleman. He has like probably 40 lbs to
lose and he was only eating one meal a day.
We had him start eating more food and he's down 26 lbs.
Like you, you have to eat enough in order for these these, you
know, peptides to signal correctly, right?
Yeah, and I do think that's important.
Like sometimes like when people have just like massive
quantities of weight to lose, sometimes that's when you can
bring in other peptides that are fat burners and things like
that. But like, because that's a lot,
it's when you over, you know, 40 lbs plus to lose this, sometimes
it's better to bring in more fat burners and like AOD or five
amino one MP or you know, things like that for sure.
And just so you know, we are not medical professionals.
So do do what you need to do to cover your butt and talk to any
medical writer or doctors or things like that.
We're just just shooting the shit with you.
Just talking about the questions you get asked a lot.
Right. Should we dig in?
I mean, we can, but you said you want to talk about your weekend.
I want weekend because usually it's been at home or at swim
meets, but I went to Vegas this weekend so there you go.
Yes, and tell me all about it Happens in Vegas, stays in
Vegas, girl. Maybe I used to when I was 23,
but I'm 43. Oh, it was, it was fun.
But also I'm 43, so we had a great time.
I think the biggest exciting thing for us is that we had
dinner at 9:00 PM. You know, it's kind of exciting.
Yeah, OK. Did you go to the sphere?
Did you do the sphere? We did not go to sphere.
Well. He went to go see the Eagles a
couple weeks ago and said it was pretty awesome, but I mean, we
weren't going to go back. He just saw him well.
We should go see Ilium girl. Ilium swing at the sphere.
When I don't know, I I got offered some tickets, but then
they sold them before I responded.
But throughout, throughout the next couple months for sure.
I think I know in April. I know, yeah, know in April
because that's when the tickets were.
I know that is a yes. OK, so we saw we saw Cirque de
Soleil, which we've seen before, but it was every, every time I
see it, it's just magical. The live music is my favorite
aspect for sure. And then it was a quick trip,
like we went over Saturday afternoon and we were back by,
you know, Sunday evening. The guys like to gamble.
So they were playing craps for a couple hours, which was, you
know, less fun for me. I like to spend my money.
You know, I gamble my money, but I don't.
Gamble money and I'm Yeah. I don't get it.
Oh yeah. I don't get it.
I would, I mean, I think there's levels of addict I would
identify as being on the spectrum, right, Yeah.
So. Have to be careful.
But I can't, I can't throw my money away.
Like I just can't. Like I can't, doesn't like that
does not make sense to me. I guess I've never really won
enough to like, I know my, my brother recently got into it and
he's like he, he, you know, anyway, so he was saying how he
like won all this money and his adrenaline's been going and it
like, you know, and then he lost some money and then it was like,
I was like, yeah, see, like you may have a little bit more of
the ISM, you know, that I have too.
Like we might, you know, you just run in the family.
It is genetic, but I just can't. I was explaining my kid wanted
it was his birthday. He's like, I want scratch offs.
I'm like, no, because you might lose.
What happens when you lose the money that you just got for your
birthday, you know? Oh yeah, I, I don't even want to
play like a slot machine, honestly.
I'm just happy to like people watch and sit out there.
And it was fine. We, I got his tickets to
Marshmallow, so that would have been fun.
I mean, he was playing, I mean, he's a residency there.
And so I thought, OK, that'd be fun if we have time.
But by the time the guys were done gambling at like midnight,
I was like, I'm going to bed, I'm going to bed.
I was out. I went out deep deeper purpose,
a big DJ. One let me big.
Honestly, I don't even know. There's so many now, everybody's
a DJ. But I went out.
It was nice. I didn't have to DJ and I didn't
have to do any work. So I did go out Saturday night
and hear this guy for a bit, but I'm trying to get my 10,000
steps in again. Like I totally got LAX on it
this winter. And so I like did a lot of
walking Saturday during the day. So I was already at 10,000 when
I went out to go get this DJ and I was struggling.
I would have little spurts. I was like hit interval dancing.
I'd have like a little spurt. And then I be like, Oh my God,
I'm so old. I'm like, I'm so tired.
I just want to go home. And then I be like, OK, this is
a banger. And I start dancing and then and
that and my kid let me sleep in. It was great.
That is so nice. 80° weather so. Lovely.
I mean I do miss my dancing days.
I think I told you this, when I turned 48, I made Bo take me to
a lane 8 This Never Happened festival down in LA and I was so
excited. It's like a bunch of D's.
I love Lane 80s coming on at like 11.
So we're out there just like, you know, partying, having a
great time, dancing. And I look around and I'm like,
Oh my gosh, everybody's like 20 years old.
All of a sudden I was like, I'm so old.
No, I just go at it. I just like put my blinders on
and I just go. I just, it feels so good to
dance. It just feels so, so good.
And it's good that the sober movement and the sober parties
and raves too are happening. But sometimes I swear I just
tell my clients, I'm like, you need to just go out and play,
have a little reset. Oh yeah, I like that.
A little recess. Yeah, Yep.
Just a little injury I got, I got a guy out who hadn't been,
he's been married and like all this stuff and he's a DJ and
he's like, I you moved to Saint Louis.
He's like, I didn't, I don't know that there's a scene.
I'm like, oh, there's a scene. I was like, you need to come
out, you know, tonight, the other night.
And he was like, oh, my God, I had so much fun.
He just like danced. This guy was soaking wet.
And like, I was like, Oh my God, I love, like, you know, you love
when you just put a little nugget of like hope and joy and
happiness and such a yeah. It's like it's.
Very cathartic. Right.
Oh my God, he was so happy. I just loved.
I just knew exactly what he was going through because I remember
when I, I experienced that here in Saint Louis and I was like,
oh, there is like DJ something so oh.
So fun. So fun.
Oh my goodness. OK, should we should we get to
some of these questions, though? Kind of a lot.
I know, but we can always see it again.
It goes well. So everyone like review what it
podcasters. I don't have a podcast like
review, comment, subscribe. We'll do it again.
Yes, yes, OK, we got, we got our questions up.
So, so let me start with you. I'm gonna ask you a question,
you answer, and we'll just go down.
You know, these questions we've got #1 you guys, thank you for
for responding. Thank you for giving us these
questions. Of course, like I love this
podcast to be catered to you. Like I only want to talk about
what you want to hear about. And the feedback that we've been
getting lately has been phenomenal.
So I just really appreciate everyone is taking the time to
comment and reach out to me. It's just really fun because
when I started this, I didn't know if anybody would listen.
You know, my mom hasn't even listened to one of my episodes.
So it's just fun to hear from you guys that.
Yeah, right, my character. Like my dad is an orthopedic
surgeon, trust me. Like he doesn't want to hear
anything I'm doing like my mom listen to it or I'll get here's
what I get. If I send him a podcast.
It has to do with like anything like this.
He'll be like, you should have been a doctor.
You should have got middle school school.
And I'm like, okay, childhood trauma right here.
Oh man, Oh my gosh. OK, OK, let's start here,
Samantha, question from one of our listeners.
I've been using GHKCU copper peptide serum serums for about a
year, but now I'm seeing people talk about injecting it.
Is there a genuine benefit to systemic use for skin
elasticity, or should I just stick to my skin care routine?
Good one because I kind of do both.
So disclaimer, I do everything and like I'm all in when when it
comes to peptides, but I do the so I think with the GHK copper,
it takes six months to if you're injecting it sub Q, it's going
to take six months until you see any like significant changes in
your skin, like with your face aesthetically.
But I think that if you can get a topical GHK CU is great for
like local collagen and the dermis to really have like a
faster, you know, change on your face.
If you can micro needle it in even better.
So there are a couple. There's a lot of companies.
I haven't tried anything with snap.
There is another peptide called snap that I really want to try
with the GHK copper because snap basically like tightens your
skin more. But if you can get, you know, a
peptide or create some sort of topical, there's some recipes
out there where you can do a little bit of GHK copper with
that, put it micro needle it in and then do sub Qi.
Think that would be the best, the best route if you're doing
it for, you know, aesthetic reasons for sure.
Yeah, I love it. I've done both.
So I've used copper peptide like serum, but it's also got like
like NAD plus in it and tretinoin.
Like it's it's not just GHKCU. I'm just trying to think of like
literal GHKCU on your skin. You'd be walking around like the
blue mangrove, right? Right.
Well, some of them are kind of tinted blue, but I don't ever
know. Like I did one that we had the
GHK copper, but it also had exosomes, but then they were
like plant based exosomes. And I don't know that those are
as beneficial as doing like actual like umbilical exosomes
because I will microneedle those into my face too.
So I'm on the exosome kick kind of for my face when it goes
right on. I'll send you a sample of that
stuff too. Yeah.
Remind me or ask Jeff. You're going to have Jeff on the
podcast. Jeff Gross.
Excellent. I just so, so his episode's
going to be out before this one actually.
And it's so interesting because one of the things he brought up,
I just keep on. I mean, I keep on bringing up
this graphic literally in my head.
And then as I'm talking to like my colleagues and my students,
because one of the graphics he sent over and he has this on his
Instagram, so you guys can go look it up.
I'm putting in the show notes for the Doctor Jeff Gross
podcast. But he has a fantastic graphic
that talks about the absolute systemic bioavailability of each
method of getting peptides and subcutaneous.
So if you're injecting your peptides, it's over 80%.
It's in fact it's almost 90% bioavailability, whereas
intranasal somewhere between like 6 and 8% sublingual is
about 2% oral, 3% oral lipos. Yeah.
But oral BPC I would say is the only one that I'm, I personally
would say, hey, definitely do oral because it's already made
that that's made in the gut. So it's going to have a very
different like the way that it signals the body.
But I, I think subcu too is going to be way better on
turning those signals on in your body and getting better results
personally. I agree.
Yeah, just, I mean very quickly, just like the last thing he has
on here is like a topical and topical you can't even see, you
can't even see like 1% of systemic bioavailability.
That doesn't mean they're not going to work, right.
It it really doesn't. And people do have success with
with these things. But if you are trying to get the
best method of peptides being available for your body like
it's it's injection, hands down, you know.
I wonder if that did he do one with micro needling it?
That's kind of like little needle.
That's not what it says. It says very small peptide
systemic exposure by route standard oral versus liposomal
oral. And then he also has, you know,
subcutaneous and intranasal. But but like I said, this is not
my information. It's not Samantha.
So go follow doctor Jeff Gross. Like I said, I had him on the
podcast a couple weeks ago and you can find this information on
his Instagram. I just thought it was really
fascinating because people ask this all the time.
They're like should I be taking GLP 1 drops and like no do not
waste your money on JLP 1 drops. Well I saw a commercial for
Wagobi has a fill out now. I'm like yay you shouldn't even
just be just get rid of all these other GLPS I don't know.
Well, it'll be interesting to see when red eye goes to pass
through with FDA. Yeah.
Do you know when that might be? I feel like it's going to be
soon because the way that they're pulling so many, they
kept saying it would be February, but there must be
something holding it up. I know they were really worried
about how people's skin was getting super sensitive with it
and they were trying to tweak that, but I'm not sure.
But I feel like it's going to be soon because of the way that
they're pulling everything off the social media.
OK, I don't know. I don't know.
But I think it's going to be interesting because it doesn't
quiet the food noise and you're still hungry.
And I don't think that Jen Pop is going to be ready for
something like that. They like the other ones because
it makes them not think about food and not eat, which is not a
good thing. But I do think that with the
Retta, you have to make behavioral changes that I don't
think that I don't know how it's gonna go.
Like, I think that, yeah, it may burn more visceral fat, but if
you can't control your eating, it doesn't matter.
I know there's so many. Yeah, that's my theory on it.
We'll see. OK.
I have two questions for you to piggyback off that.
Number one, I don't know who's who's a big pharma company
that's bringing Retta to market. Lily, it's Lily.
OK, all right. And then #2 this brings me to
the question. One of them that I got on my
story is after putting this out there for the podcast, but also
question I get all the time. And on one hand, I fully
understand it because I've had the question myself.
And on the other hand, it just makes me a little bit frustrated
that I think people's perceptions are still the fact
that the peptide does the work. And the question is what happens
when the peptide stop working? And by peptides I'm assuming
since this is like 8090% of my audience it's AGLP 1.
So I think the question was what happens when a GLP one stops
working? What are you gonna do?
So.
Oh my God. So if.
OK, so if a GLP stops, here's what I'll tell you what I would
recommend. So if a GLP isn't working, let's
assume that all your lifestyle stuff is into play, right?
Because eventually your receptors aren't gonna burn fat
how they used to. And I don't know, I'm wondering
if it almost levels out faster with Bretta.
I don't even. I'm kind of feeling that lately.
But when it stops working I. Pull people off it.
I, we take a break, we add in, if this has not been done, we go
in and we do Mott C and we'll do s s 31.
So what we do is we repair the mitochondria.
So the mitochondria is a fuel for metabolic health.
If that mitochondria is leaky and let's say the energy of the
cell is not working well, you're not going to have your, your
metabolic health is going to be crap.
You're going to weight loss resistance.
So if you go in and use SS31, which is a peptide that will
sort of repair the outside of that cell.
And then Mott C gives it its little buzz, it's a little
energy, you can feel it when you take it.
It's a little buzzy. And if you do that, you start
repairing the mitochondria that'll be helping with your
metabolic health. But then I would add in some of
the fat burners and maybe some secretive GOG.
So a OD, which is called anti obesity drug, I think is working
really well with some of my clients and some people are not
liking the GLP. So it's a great one or five
amino one MQ or you can do Sloop with your body just basically
sees it mimics the metabolic burn like that exercise does.
So you can use that for endurance athletes.
If you want to push their, you know, cardiovascular, you can
give them some slope free extra during an exercise.
So I mean, there's what there's Tessa Moreland, DJC, EPPA, all
those Tesla just burns belly fat.
So I think I would start doing cycles of those because I think
I don't think the GLPS are for everyone.
I think some people aren't realizing they're making them
super depressed. I have a couple clients.
They're like, I'm so down, like I don't have an interest in
anything. It's not just food.
I don't have an interest in my my wife, it nor my husband
anymore. Like I don't care about doing
anything which is not good. Like no, no skinny is that
great, sorry. Right, right.
Yeah. I think you bring up a good
point too, just that like there there's a next level maybe to
weight loss. I think.
I think one of the misnomers of GLP one's kind of sweeping, you
know, even alternative medicine at this point is that people are
looking at it as this very reductionistic intervention.
They're like, oh, so diet and exercise isn't working.
All these influencers tell me to add a GLP one, so I did.
Now the GOP 1 isn't working. So what do I do?
And the answer is that it's not just that single thing.
It's not like you add this in and magically, you know,
everything go your, your metabolism jumps back to normal.
There might be more interventions.
And This is why it is important to work with a practitioner,
somebody who's educated in these sort of things because GOP ones
aren't the be all and end all of metabolic medicine, right.
You mentioned AOD, you mentioned mod C, you mentioned Sloop.
And my question for you is, I've not used Sloop personally.
I've used a little bit of Mott C with myself and clients.
And you mentioned that they both have these like exercise
mimicking effects. What's the difference between
those two? And in what case would you use
Mott C versus Sloop? So Sloop, you won't feel that
buzzy kind of feeling. I have people use Sloop when
they're going to have a hit and a roll workout or cardiovascular
day. And so pre workout, yeah, yeah,
you just take it before you do that.
And I think coupling that with your cardio, it's kind of like
you're getting a 2 for one. So it's gonna, you know, it
helps with that cardiovascular endurance that you need, but
it's also going to burn. If your body's in like a
metabolic state of exercise, you don't feel it, you're not going
to feel buzzy. Like you could take it before
bed and probably not have like you'll be able to sleep.
However, if you did not see before you go to bed, you
probably wouldn't sleep as well. And you do a lot less of the
Motsie. And that one is repairing
damaged mitochondria. Sleep isn't necessarily
repairing things as much as I think, and I could be wrong, but
as much as Motsie is. But Motsie you will see like I
see a lot of with their HRV can get a little like jumpy and a
little bit weird when they do it.
So you really got to go low and slow with that.
And so I think that 1 is long term going to be more beneficial
with people who are struggling with weight loss resistance.
But as you know, man, test your gut.
The biggest miss, like the biggest thing if you are doing
everyone who works with neo peptides, you have to look at
gut health. You do not clear out infections.
It's forget it all. And if you're drinking, that's
my very like, I don't think they work as well if you're drinking.
I definitely agree. I definitely agree.
Yeah, there has to there. There really still has to be
that, that lifestyle component that is dialed in for the most
part. It's not like you have to be
perfect, right? But you do have to provide a
good training ground for the peptides to do their work.
And, you know, it is kind of fun to think about some of these
alternatives like the metabolic peptides because a lot of women
too, you know, in midlife, they have a little bit of, you know,
they're just tired, right? It's not like they have exercise
resistance. But but we see over and over
again, you know, as estrogen declines, progesterone declines
or really imperimenopausal estrogen gets like wonky, right?
Like one cycle I might be super high, one cycle I might be super
low. Women just aren't getting, you
know, the body composition effects that they would have
gotten through exercise in their 20s and 30s, right?
Yeah, yeah, and I mean, that's the thing, it's beautiful.
Like if you're doing all the right things and yeah, add in
some growth hormone peptides, you know, your butt, if you're
in a place where you can do something like that health wise
and and work on that muscle tone because we get deconditioned
really quickly. If your testosterone drop, you
know you're not going to build as much muscle.
And sometimes having a little bit of help is pretty powerful
and it's motivating. Like, you know, you're spending
all this money and you're investing on all these Fredagogs
that are going to help you build muscle, then you're going to go
to the gym. Like if you're spending as much
as you do on good, I'm going to go to the gym.
I'm not going to sit around and just like take them.
Like, what are you doing? You have to like build muscle,
right? I mean, you can.
I mean, I have a client who's like she's a she's a drinker and
I'm like, you're waste. Just stop for a cycle.
Like, like you're wasting your money.
Like, I don't even know what to say.
Like I'm just. Like, OK, All right.
I've got 2 listener questions for you that I'm going to do
rapid fire because it kind of pertains to what we were just
talking about. First question is, if you were
to pick one peptide for women in their 50s, what would it be I.
Don't know anything about this person.
That's that is a functional practitioner answering right
there I. Know right, I need to know the
health history and give me more give me well, OK, if you if you
hear this and you ask this question, then give us more
information. However, if I were going to
pick, let me pick a bio regulator too.
So I would either do pineal or ovary bio regulator probably,
and then, oh, maybe a piddle on or Epitel and however you want
to call it. But that one repairs the
telomeres of your DNA. But I think that that what it
can do for the body is and a cellular level like the master,
like with the reset and healing is is really powerful overall.
Like like I think there's a lot of people struggling with sleep.
And so I think if you can get that pineal gland working
properly and then you protect your T, your telomeres and like
really do some anti aging work, maybe that one.
I don't it. I don't maybe, I mean go the
thion and ID are always foundational, you know, because
most people don't detox very well.
I don't know, what do you think? I mean, I love that.
I love that you threw glutathione in there.
I mean, for, for our audience, that's probably what they're
going to be a little bit more familiar with you bringing up
telomeres though. And like, you know, really re
like recalibrating the body and the way the body's aging I think
is important. I was just finishing William
Seed's book, Doctor William Seed's Peptide Protocols 1 and
that he just talks so much about telomeres in, in that resource
that it's definitely something for people to think about.
It's probably just not their first line of defense.
So. No, I would never have.
Just like, and that one's not really.
I mean, it's not talked about as much as all the other peptides,
but I don't know. I'm doing a cycle of it right
now and I felt great. My my dreams.
Dude, if you guys do it, Oh my God.
I had a total lesbian relationship dream the other
night. I'm not a lesbian.
Kudos, whoever it is. No, no, not saying that I'm not
supportive of whatever you are, but man, I was fully.
This girl wanted to have a relationship with me.
It was a full, it was so detailed.
I woke up, You know you got it when you got a blink twice
because you're like, wait, what? Yeah.
Oh, am I? What is going on?
Oh yeah, your dreams will be nuts.
That's funny because I, you know, have a similar experience
with glutathione. Like I sleep harder, my dreams
are more intense. My last dream I had with
glutathione wasn't like that, but it was spider dream after we
watched this like really creepy murder mystery where somebody
died by spider bite and I woke up and I was like like almost
trying to like get the spiders off of me.
And I can't remember, you know, honestly, before I started using
peptides, when I have dreamed this deep and this hard and been
able to remember my dreams. So that's good, yeah.
Yeah, that's a sign, guys. That's probably a sign that, you
know, your pineal is getting more regulated and that your
body isn't waking you up because you're having a cortisol
response, because you're so stressed out trying to detox.
Because you detox, your liver is doing its work between 1:00 and
3:00. So if you're waking up every
time you drink, you probably wake up because your liver is
freaking out. But between 1:00 and 3:00, if
you are, you know, if you're not waking up, that's a sign that
you're your, your buckets getting empty and you're able to
work those drainage pathways and start detoxing.
So kudos to those of you who are sleeping really well.
If you're waking up between 1:00 and 3:00, I would definitely
take a deep dive into like a lot of detox.
So then that's when I would say glutathione, NAD, probably even
a supplement, liver support and maybe a liver by a regulator.
But yeah, yeah. Beautiful.
That situation you just, you build, I don't know.
Well, and driving the detox capabilities of the body and
middle age, I think is important.
I think that's a really good thing you brought up.
I would just say it like off the top of my head, if I were to
pick one peptide for a woman in their 50s, that's just my
audience. That's like the, you know, the,
the niche of, of women that I work with.
And I will say in my research, like on my quizzes online and
talking to people, 90% of my women are starting with a low
dose of GLP 1. So if I were just to say, I
don't know anything about your health history, I really don't
know anything about you. I'm going to assume you're
impairment of pause. You've got 10 to 15 lbs to lose.
You're super inflamed. You are getting up in the middle
of the night to go pee. You've probably got some skin
issues, you've got some mood issues.
This isn't going to fix all of that.
But what I've seen for women is that cascade of events of like
becoming less puffy, losing a little bit of weight all of a
sudden, Oh my gosh, it helps your mood, helps your libido,
you know, it helps your energy. So it doesn't fix it, but it
definitely can be a boost in middle age, you know?
It does. It does.
It wants you to be naked more for sure.
Yeah, yeah. All the things right, all the
things I think too, you can even like with Retta.
It's so Retta has so many health benefits without not even the
weight loss. I hate people micro dosing.
You know, a tiny bit of just like you know, we're do like 10
units. I do 10 units twice a month just
for the health benefits for inflammation, PTOS, blood sugar,
all of that. Like I'm not even taking I'm
tiny human. I can't take it.
I wish I kind of wish I could take a higher dose, but like I
cannot do it. It burns so much fat and I I get
just it's not that brings that like puffiness and inflammation
that I've fought battled my entire life down and it and it's
it's really can protect, you know, insulin sensitivity, all
the things. So yeah, it's a good.
Yeah, I love that. Love it.
OK, so here's our next quote, rapid fire question.
Sorry, I need to be on it a little bit more with my rapid
fire. I was like.
What's her? Not rapid.
I was like, there's nothing rapid about this, but all right,
go for it. OK, also from our audience, what
is the most essential pill a woman in her 50s should take?
All right, So maybe some sort of mitochondrial support or like a
bio regulars. But I would say, you know, I've
been really taking a deep dive into the NMN or NR as the
precursor for NAD. And I think that that's a big
thing because a lot of people, I'm finding a lot of women are,
if they get into like injecting or doing something, they're
doing NAD. And I think having those
precursors I hear, I don't know, I'm so I'm kind of confused
because it's like, I'm all in that you're gonna need the MN or
the MN. But I hear other people say
otherwise, like you don't need it, but I think you have the NAD
work as well as it does. It's that's a really good
precursor for that or like a good liver support, I don't
know, probiotic. No, I like that.
And I mean I like. Osteoporosis, osteopenia, some
sort of osteo, you know, vitamin D, all those things.
OK, OK. Yeah, great.
Yeah, getting your vitamin D levels checked, really
optimizing those. A lot of the research we have on
NAD is with the precursors, right, NADH or NSM.
So there's, you know, that that is where where a lot of the
evidence lies. We don't have a ton of human
studies on NAD plus, especially injections or Ivs.
And so, you know, working with some of the precursors for
energy production especially can be helpful.
I would have to say like the most essential pill, probably
the one that I use the most of my practice is beef organs.
Like it sounds so simple. Honestly.
But like, women are like houses. Yeah, like should.
I be taking a. Multivitamin I like, I don't
like multivitamins. It's usually, you know, sub like
they there's just not enough of each vitamin in there.
It's all synthetic. But if you are trying to like
grow your hair or your skin, your nails, optimize your mood,
like dial in your digestion, prevent, you know, bone wasting,
get on a good beef organ complex and make sure you're taking the
recommended dose, which is 6 pills a day.
You know, alternative would be actually eating liver.
Me and my husband really like to bronze weiger but not everybody
does. Yeah, funny.
And then it's shameless plug, but there's pluck.
If you really can't stand the smell or something, you know,
you could start with like the organ based seasoning pluck.
I mean, and and do that. It's a great company.
I know the owner games really, really well, but they have a
they have great flavors and seasonings.
You could start with something like that.
That's a good one to sneak in on your kiddos.
So they have a they have one that's like a flavorless one
that I put in his yogurt and things like that.
So that's a good way to get it too.
Old school's Goodman. Sometimes you just got to go
back to that. I love a Castor oil pack and
like weird shit like that dry brush.
It's like you can do these things too.
It's not always about a $200 peptide.
Right. One of my favorite lines from
The Incredibles. There's no school like the old
school. Yeah, there you.
Go. You make a real out of that.
I did a real on like doing old bullet didn't do very well.
Okay, so I thought what peptide is recommended to switch to you
after a full round of summer Ellen?
Or should I just take a break? Right, so I don't use a lot of
femoralin at all. So I know I feel like that is
the go to with like the Med spas.
Like I noticed like if you go to a Med spa, it's going to be glow
and I'm not a big fan actually of glow.
Like I like all the peptides separate.
So if you're going to do that is like the BPC, the TV and then
has a GHK copper. So if they're trying to sell you
that stack together, a lot of studies are showing that that
that copper can degrade the quality of everything else, it's
not going to be as beneficial. So there's a lot of controversy
on that. I say just do it separate.
You can stack them as you're about to inject them.
I think that's fine. But buying them and
reconstituting them all together would not be an ideal thing.
Hey, let me, let me dive in here just for a quick second.
If you have that research and can send it over, I want to
include it in the show notes because I do get that question a
lot about the Glow stack particularly.
So I'd love to be able to educate people a little bit more
on that. I love it.
All right. I'll look into that for sure.
OK. But I think that So what I start
with is I would do an EPPA and a Tessa and then we would which
we'd do that for maybe 12 weeks and then I would do maybe like a
CJC and EPPA is what I would go to for like any of the growth
hormone type of like secretive gogs is what I would do
personally. You know, after, you know, three
to six months of a cycle of some Moreland, you know, it's good to
take a month break and have like a washout period basically to
keep that momentum. You could switch to like a
bioregulator stack or something for a little bit, but that with
women does really, really well. And Tessa, do not stack them
together. They come together a lot of
times until you know that you're OK with both at least.
So a lot of women get super, super bloated with Tessa, So
that I find and that you should just be at a little bit of a
lower dose. And a lot of mast cell histamine
reactions can happen from the growth hormones to free to God.
So if your body's on overload, it doesn't mean like when you
get a rash or it's really, really sore or any red redness
around or your whole body gets like it's happened to me, that's
a sign that's your body is telling you something.
It is typically not the peptide. So for me, I've always been
fine. I'll do like Tessa and EPPA.
I get really, really strong on EPPA.
I love it and I'll do some Tessa with it.
But I, I tried buying them together and very quickly, like
I just was getting a total mass cell histamine reaction.
And this is just one of my personal experiences.
And I know that my gut is pretty on point.
And so I kind of ruled that out. But then I went and I was like,
OK, it has to be my estrogen. So if you're having reactions
like that, I also find, and that high estrogen is typically
coupled with a mast cell activation when you take Tessa
for sure. And so as soon as I got that in
line, I was able to add in Tessa.
So if you're getting that, it's important you can put KPV in
with it. It's a great stack.
Do KPV with your growth hormone ones.
But yeah, and I like to do, I like Tessa fasted in the
morning. I do really well with that.
I don't do as well before because I do some protein before
bed for my blood sugar. So they want you to do it fasted
though. That's my thought on that.
What about you? OK, that's, that's great.
I love it. I like that you brought up the
fact that high estrogen is going to be prohistamine, right?
Like we see that all the time, like just in, in where I live,
like my women who are in perimenopause when their
estrogen is super high, they're, you know, 45 years old in
perimenopause, their seasonal allergies are so much worse or,
you know, their food sensitivities are so much worse.
And so this can be one of the reasons that women in particular
have more of that histamine reaction to anything foreign in
their bodies. And while peptides are
relatively safe, you know, they relatively always want to be
careful and exercise caution, that doesn't mean they're safe
for everyone all the time. So Samantha's advice to, you
know, try it out first, maybe start really low and slow, make
sure you're working with a doctor or practitioner is
definitely good advice. Yeah, I, I did, I did, I
remember I did that. I did the testament up together
and like it was like from head to toe.
I was so itchy. I was like, it was like nothing
I'd ever experienced. I mean, my, my private parts
like itch, like everything itch. I was like, what is happening?
I mean, it was like and it's it's quick.
So if it happens, just take some Benadryl.
Don't freak out like they have a short half like you're going to
be fine. You're not going to die or
anything crazy is going to happen.
I hope and just take some Benadryl and some some Zyrtec
and you'll be good. But definitely make sure.
Obviously peptides are not the answer for everything.
You build a program, so you work with someone.
You always optimize your hormones.
Get your hormones checked. Make sure that's in line.
And then the gut because estrogen finds to bacteria.
So if you have Steve O small intestinal bacteria overgrowth
or fungus or any of those type of things, yeast, it's going to
bind, you're going to have a lot more estrogen you're holding on
to. You're not going to be able to,
you know, metabolize it and get that estrogen levels down like
consistently. They're going to keep popping
back up if you don't tackle your gut infection, which I'm now
doing, which I'm now doing that because it turns out I actually
do need to do a little work. I'm like my gut.
I had a weird rash on my back and then I was having that mast
cell thing and I'm like. Time to do, time to put in the
work. See, even we you know.
So I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to be bloated and
like, oh, but I'm good. I'm Rally.
OK here's a great question. Everyone is on tirzepatide.
Now if I only have a small amount of weight to lose will it
cause muscle wasting or affect my cycle?
And is there a light peptide alternative?
A. Light peptide like a diet like a
diet, you know like a light peptide.
I love that, I love that whoever said that I love that.
All right, we know that large doses can cause muscle loss if
the protein intake is not high enough.
So for, you know, a light version, it depends on if
they're looking to like how what what, what is it they're trying
to do? So if they doesn't sound like a
lot of weight loss, so maybe they need to just decrease like
cravings and appetite a little bit.
So maybe it's something like putting in, you know, Tessa
fencing and then five amino one MQ and Tessa Moreland.
Like if it's just a little bit of weight, I don't know that GLP
would be the best thing I could. I would definitely say look into
some of the other like fat burner, like soprita gogs or
something like that first. I don't put really, really,
really like thin people, which is small water wave onto a GLP
typically, unless we really can't bust through.
But you know, strength training is really important.
Yeah. The tessofencing is sort of like
the Adderall of a peptide. So it really does curb that
appetite. So if that's something you're
looking for, you could definitely do that.
You'll be on fire though. Be careful because I I literally
break out open a capsule if I have like like I did, I did like
AI did a little toss of some peptide.
I break open the capsule and I just pour a little bit in my
mouth. The days that I.
I've had two podcasts back-to-back, so the days I need
to just be a little bit more on point, I will do it for that.
But I can push through and eat through any appetite
suppressants. But I was a meth addict for
years. Oh, maybe that's why.
I don't know. Yeah, no, I think that's a great
question too, is, you know, it does, it does actually seem like
everyone is on AGLP one. It's so funny to like hear just
these random people, like grandmothers and teenage boys
and, you know, just random people.
And so, yeah, turns up a date is not right for everyone, right?
There are so many different things that people can do and
should do first to lose weight. If you look at a lot of the
people like, I mean, like me, right?
Like I, I literally walk what I talk like I do all of these
things like protein and strength training and all my steps and,
you know, using my walking vest. But in perimenopause, I couldn't
lose 15 lbs. Like it just crept on.
And so doing all those things plus adding the tirazepatide is
what made those things work. But you know, and small amount
of weight to lose is definitely different.
Is it 5 lbs? Is it £20 right, if somebody has
£100 to lose and 20 lbs is relatively a small amount of
weight. So I tell my women to, you know,
in perimenopause, it becomes a really important for you to
determine how much fat you need to eat, eat during the day.
When I was 20 and 30 years old, I did do well on a higher fat
diet. But as my hormones started to
decline and you know, my metabolism started to slow down,
I did find that myself and the majority of my clients really
thrive on a higher protein, relatively higher carbohydrate
and lower fat diet. And that tends to move the
needle a lot with true weight loss even before adding peptides
in my practice. And so, you know, don't just buy
the party line for all the foundations.
You really have to figure out what works well for you,
especially if you only have a little bit of weight to lose.
Yeah, yeah, you're right. It is relative.
I'm like, what the weight, if it's £5, like, I don't know.
I mean, sometimes it's like you got to assess the person.
So if someone is just wanting to jump on this trend and like kick
like 5 to 10 lbs with like a GLP, they may have some other
behavioral things going on that aren't like what's going on with
your body image where you feel like you need to do a G LP for 5
lbs. Like I know it can be hard when
you're stuck for sure, but like I really try to tap the mental
emotional part that's tied in with like that, that 5 lbs.
Like, you know, there might be some other tweaks we can do that
aren't, I don't know, because I can't see people get very like
addicted to the weight loss and the feeling.
You feel really good. I mean, you feel great on a GOP.
I mean, bottom line, if you're doing it right, you're micro
dosing, it goes up that well. I, I've only done a lot.
I've done more work with Reddit, true tide.
I mean, it's pretty remarkable. I mean, you'll walk on water if
it's done right with the lifestyle factors too.
Yeah, feel better than you have, you know, in years such as a
beautiful thing, but only if only if like the rest of your
shit is dialed in. So we cannot say that enough,
you know, and and like Samantha said, you also want to be
careful. I mean, there's a reason that
like the the doctors that I work work with, they're not going to
prescribe even a low dose of turns upside if your BMI isn't,
you know, high enough, right. Like there there is a reason,
like a medical reason, these parameters are on place, you
know, with some of the GOP ones. And so just be mindful of that.
You know, if your best friend or your husband wouldn't say you're
overweight, you might not be overweight.
Just consider that, you know, as I say in my practice a lot
bitches never happy. Like we always want to lose 5
more pounds or you know how that's.
Something like. Kid or like just at some point
be content, you know, you're, you're beautiful, but if you
have 20 lbs to lose, like try Tri Zapatite, you know, just
make sure all the other stuff's dialed in too.
I would say I'm gonna, I'm the devil's advocate.
I would say try Rod and True Tide, but you?
Know, yeah, OK, great. One of them either 1, whatever.
See. Let us know how it goes on both.
Yeah, let us know. Everyone is everyone's different
for sure. All right, Samantha, so I've
heard PT 141 called the female Viagra.
Is it a quick fix for a night out or does it actually help
with long term low libido and women?
Have you done that yet? Sure have.
Are you kidding me? You're like.
Yeah, I think it so. All right, guys, just so you
know, so PT141 is one that is going to increase your libido.
So I give it to people who are struggling like relationships,
you know, their sex drive isn't boosted.
But the beautiful thing is it's a nervous system peptide.
So it's not like a vascular one like Viagra, and it's going to
work on the brain desire centers.
So it's not going to affect your estrogen, your progesterone,
your testosterone or any it's not going to disrupt and cause
hormone issues or, you know, dominant hormones either way or
low hormones, which is really, really great because most things
that women have to do for libido is going to be like when my
estrogen's high, Whoo, I won't like you better watch out.
But I feel like crap. So it's, it's a it's a balance.
So I have done the the nasal spray with I think the nasal
spray has been known to do to work really, really well.
You won't get the nausea that can sometimes come with a PT141,
but a nasal spray paired with oxytocin.
Oxytocin is your like love, connection bond, you know,
hormones. So if you do those two together,
I think that it can be very, very beneficial in
relationships. It works really, really well
with a lot of my clients. If you inject the PT141, you may
get some nausea. I think that it takes longer for
it to kick in with women. So I usually say 40 minutes at
least to do it prior. And definitely the nasal spray
you will get tan because it's got some Melano tan in it.
So if you start getting really tan, that's why you haven't been
in the sun. It's probably from the PT141.
I know 8 to 9 times Max in a month, keep that in mind.
But for me, I personally notice when I do it, it happens to it.
It kicks in like 24 hours later is when I notice it.
I haven't noticed like that immediate thing and it could
have been the partner, but my body is my body.
I feel like my body would have shifted whether there's a
partner like who's who I'm with or not.
But maybe. But you know, I usually notice
like the next morning I'm like, oh, there we go.
Now, now look here I am alone. Here I am alone, all by myself.
Now, this is one of the funnier peptides because I've noticed
the same thing with people. Some people have literally no
reaction at all. Some people have a really strong
reaction. It's funny because our friends,
we just went to Vegas with, they're both on PT141.
They took it before they left in the car, which is a four hour
car ride to Vegas. And the husband noticed it about
two hours and he looks over and his wife's like passed out of
sleep. He's like, oh great.
And then the wife notices it like 4 hours later as they're
arriving to Vegas, which is kind of great.
And I think that what I've seen in my clients is that you
definitely have to, you know, you have to be somewhat wanting
to have sex. This isn't like you take it when
you have no libido whatsoever. For me, I've tried the nasal
spray. I have tried a buccal strip.
And then I've also tried the injection, the PT141 injection.
I will say what people notice is that with the PT141, it's, it's
a stronger effect. So everything, you know,
potentially could be stronger. The nausea is something that
probably 50% of my clients will get.
So it's definitely not a first line that I use for libido.
Like I'm not going to be like, oh, you never want to have sex
with your husband. Like go shoot up this PT 141.
There's so many other things that we're going to work on 1st.
And like you said, PT 141, it's going to work on your
hepathalamus and your pituitary. So it's actually, it's like
working on your brain. And for women that's a lot more
powerful because they don't need a, you know, a physical
stimulant, they need a mental stimulant.
So just being able to get into an arousal space, I think is a
huge win for women. But there has to be so many
other. Everything's at play, right?
You don't just inject PT141 and like, suddenly feel like you
want to RIP off your partner's clothes.
That's not going to happen. And so like, for me, I'll take
my PT141. I don't mind the nasal and I
don't mind the bugle strip. But what I've noticed after
using it now for about 6 months is it doesn't make me like, go
want to have sex, right? What it does is increase the
intensity and duration of my orgasm, which I'm like, hell
yeah, that's awesome. And so now I know, like, it can
happen within 20 or 30 minutes. I don't want to, you know, take
it and then 20, 4 hours later, feel the the effect.
So I had to figure out, OK, like what works for me, what works
for my body. And that has worked great.
But I don't use it as like a, a substitute.
So you do want to be careful, you know, and make sure that
you're working on all aspects of your sexuality with this, like
making sure you feel good about your body, making sure you feel
good about your partner, making sure that like you're doing
something that like sets the stage for you guys to like
actually want to be intimate. It's funny, 'cause I was talking
to my husband, I was like, well, we're in Vegas.
Like we had sex 3 * / 24 hours. When we're at home it's a lot
harder because we've got like, you know, four teenagers, right?
And busy jobs and shit to do. And I was like, I can't believe
I actually feel horny. This is awesome.
Like, yay. All it takes is like getting
away to Vegas and not having kids.
Around, you know. And so keeping in mind that too
for women, like if you're getting up at 5:00 AM to go to
Orangetheory and then you're working an 8 hour day and you
are, you know, eating in the car as you drive around carpool, and
then you're going to Chick-fil-A for dinner and then you have
commitments in the evening, like you're just not going to be in
the mood, right? That's more of a situation
problem, not a body problem. Yeah, yeah, I have my clients.
Some of them I make a mask. I don't make them.
I suggest that they should masturbate, you know, every
single day just to try to get their body back.
Used to like doing those kind of things because they can't.
They don't always have the time with their partner.
You don't have to, you know, have your partner to orgasm.
But it is good to like, take. I think it's good for your
hormones and for your health. I think everything.
I might do it as much as you can.
Yeah, your mental health, just like anything else, it takes
practice. It's, it's not like, it's not
like these things just like magically happen.
You don't like go to the gym once and lose weight and get
ripped. You know, you don't take PT141
once and suddenly feel like you're, you know, like this
amazingly sexual female being like, that's just not going to
happen. It takes, it takes energy.
You know, we're 45. It takes some energy.
I don't know, I hit 40 in my sex drive picked up like big time,
big time. So lucky you.
I know it's. Also I love it bonus.
Almost so single take care of. Yourself, like your hormones are
optimized, your gut health is optimized, like your physique is
optimized. I think that's not necessarily
the space that a lot of women are living in in their 40s.
They're just not like life beats them down, you know?
And so taking that opportunity in your 40s to now maybe
layering some peptides, start feeling better about yourself,
start dialing in the foundations we talk about like, all the
sudden, you know, you start to experience a little bit of a
rebirth, you know, like, Oh, yeah, this is what they're, this
is what it could be. You know, in my 40s, I kind of
like this. Oh dude, 40s are great.
They're great. I love it they.
Are really. I love it.
I stopped giving a fuck. And that's when it all began.
Yeah, so. Freeing all right, we got time
for a couple more. Let's let's try to get two more
in here. All right, next question.
I've heard DSIP or delta sleep inducing peptide can reset your
clock and she probably means circadian clock.
Does this work well for women with cortisol issues or will it
just make me groggy the next day?
I think cortisol is sort of a a different issue for sure.
I think that's something else. You can you can use other
peptides like C Max and C length to tap into like how to re
regulate that or a pedal on stuff like that.
But it will not make you groggy. From my experience.
I have not had that ever happened.
It doesn't knock you out like a sleeping pill.
What it's going to do is it's going to help re establish
rhythm of your sleep. So if your cortisol is high
night DSIP or delta, you know, just can help modulate that
stress response. And so most women find that they
will sleep way deeper without the hangover.
I'm not big on melatonin. I think it's great if you're
dealing with like traveling somewhere.
A lot of people like to jump to that or Traz A Trazodone or
something like that. If your hormones are optimized
and you're not sleeping, then this is a great tool to get you
sleeping. I don't have people who end up
having to, you know, a week or two on it.
It really helps with their sleep and then they use as needed and
I do nasal spray on that one. I don't know.
Injectables haven't worked though.
Injectables for DSIP have not worked.
It hasn't worked for it. I used it a little bit in the
beginning when I first was getting into peptides with
people and then I I stopped. It wasn't, I didn't find it.
It was working as well as the nasal spray.
OK, OK, that's actually great to know.
That is so good to know. It just, it wouldn't be my first
intervention for sleep, you know, with women.
We're gonna look at your cortisol levels.
We're gonna look at a Dutch test.
We're gonna see, you know, what's going on with food
sensitivities, what's going on with your gut microbiome and the
little critters that are in your in your gut.
But the research. And if you're drinking, you're
drinking, you're not going to sleep.
Of course, yeah. And you know, the research I've
read on DSIP is actually that, but it does kind of modulate
your cortisol levels, and it works on reducing high cortisol
in women. But the problem with most of my
women isn't high cortisol. It's usually low cortisol and,
like, more of a burnout pattern. And so if I'm looking at women
who aren't sleeping, I'm like, we have to get you eating enough
food, right? We have to get you eating enough
carbohydrates. We have to like modulate that
stress response through mostly food and lifestyle, circadian
rhythm so that your body can sleep a better on its own.
I just, I don't want women thinking that a peptide, you
know, or a pill or whatever is going to solve the sleep issue.
That's really due to the fact that they don't eat breakfast,
they're surviving on coffee and they never get outside, right.
But yeah, DSIP can, I mean, theoretically, yeah, it can kind
of, it can work on your, your hypothalamus, your pituitary,
the supracheosmatic nucleus. Like it can, it can reset your
clock, it can modulate some of those high cortisol issues.
So it wouldn't be a bad thing to do, you know, in concert with
everything else. It just wouldn't be a stand
alone. And from what I've read too, I
haven't tried it personally yet, so I can't speak to this like
from experience, but from what I've read is that yeah, it
doesn't, it doesn't make you groggy, which is kind.
Of nice. No, no, no.
You sleep like a baby. I sleep great on it.
So I haven't really had anyone not do well on it.
OK. And that's one of those, you
know, I think it's great too. Like I work with a lot of people
in recovery or they stop drinking or quit whatever
they're doing. And that can be a great tool to
help get that that sleep back in order because it's so disrupted
from doing, you know, substance abuse or something like that.
So especially people who have history of like heroin or
opiate, you know, pills or pharmaceutical abuse, because
typically their sleep is going to be messed up long term for a
long time. And a lot of times they don't
get it. It could be years later, but if
you add that in it does really well.
Interesting. OK, that's helpful even for like
years later. I love it.
All right, last question, my doctor mentioned thymosin A1 for
immune modulation. Is this something a healthy
woman can cycle during flu season or can it trigger
autoimmune flare ups in someone with autoimmune disease?
Oh man, I just had that flu and I'm going to tell you right now,
I grabbed that Thymosin A1 and I was pounding it and I swear, I
think I kicked it a lot and faster and all the things that
you would if you know then had I not had it.
So basically what it is, it's not like a it basically teaches
the immune system to be smarter and like not louder with what
they say. So while it's, it's pretty safe,
but it's going to help boost your T cells.
So all your in your immune system.
So your immune system is going to become stronger, better, you
know, it turns on. It's the signaling message
mechanism is going to help, you know, boost that immune system.
So that's why people use it. I have people use it who travel
on the plane because you're going to be exposed to so many
other germs and all the things. So let I'll have them do a shot
before they go on the flight. And sometimes I'll have them
take, if they're taking Pepcides with them, I'll have them throw
one in to do on the way home. But if you're getting sick,
definitely, or if you've had gone through like, you know,
some hardcore like the flu season or, or anything that's
going to really just knock you down.
Like I used it a lot after I did all my mouth surgeries and
things like that. My immune system was shot.
I had a ton of antibiotic use during all that.
So yeah, maybe you can use it as needed when you need it.
I don't think it's something you need to do all the time at all.
Just have it on me. I probably wouldn't.
And I, you know, I know that a lot of people are wary of
thymosinophil one, since it stimulates your thymus gland, it
can have an effect on autoimmune disease, like the theory out
there. I haven't, I haven't read any
studies. I haven't used it personally and
anyone who's had an autoimmune flare.
But since it's working on your immune system, if you have an
overactive immune system, as with, you know, active
autoimmune disease, it's absolutely something that could
potentially make that worse. So I, I wouldn't use it as like
a first line with autoimmune disease.
If you've got like elevated TPO antibodies or Ana antibodies,
you're in a flare of whatever, you know, autoimmune disease
you're dealing with, definitely take steps to reduce the
inflammation and get yourself back to kind of baseline before
adding thymosin A1. And remember, we're not doctors.
This is for educational purposes only, entertainment purposes
only, especially with Samantha. And it's definitely going to be
entertainment, just so you guys know, way more fun.
I don't know why that I'm going to pull it out.
You'll see you guys, if we keep this up, she'll be cussing,
she'll be doing all the things. We'll start the podcast with
some great, like some electronic music to break us out.
Can't believe you didn't bring it this time, I know.
We'll probably get blocked. One thing I do want to say
though, I am using Fimerson A1 right now under the supervision
vision of a physician with a client who's got active
ulcerative colitis. We're doing that with oral BPC
157, but then also all the other things like he's on a highly
anti-inflammatory diet. He's doing a lot of like rest,
some recovery and it's been working really, really well for
him. But that's not like a a typical
case, I would think because most people in autoimmune flares are,
are very unbalanced. You know, not everyone, not
everyone for sure, but a lot of like the general population.
So I'd be really wary of adding that in first line.
Yeah, you could try some Lorazzatide like the well
there's an injectable hard to get, but I that pill the pill
form of Lorazzatide or someone like that too.
It just fills those tight junctions and the leaky and
works really, really well for that, even if you're still
working on other stuff but. Yeah, I like that and exploring
something like LDN, low dose naltrexone for just kind of
modulating the immune system. My theory is that because he's
using that, that the peptides are working a little bit better
because his immune system is a little bit more balanced and out
baseline than it otherwise would be.
Yeah. Yeah, KPV, KPV is a good one
there. KPV, so beautiful.
All right, Samantha Lander, always a good time.
Where can people find out more about you and what you do?
I am at Sefit living. SEFIT living.
So www.secretliving.com or Secret living on Instagram,
you'll find me. And what do you think is coming
next to him in peptides? Well, the FDA is about to push
through what 14 and 19 or something new or peptide, not
new, but peptides. So they'll be able, compounding
pharmacies will be able to be able to get scripts and get them
to you. I think, right, a true tide is
coming out and I think then that that's the next things for sure.
And then the direct to consumers are going to start to get closed
down. All right, good stuff, you guys.
So keep on listening to the Peptides for Women podcast to
get more fun and exciting stuff just like this.
Samantha, thank you so much. For being such.
A great guest. Oh, thank you.
I'm so excited. This is great.
Hopefully we'll keep it up. Yes, and thank you everyone who
tuned in today. We'll see you next time on the
Peptides for Women podcast.