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OK, now let's get into it. Welcome back to the Peptides for
Women podcast. I'm Jennifer Woodward and I'm so
excited Today I have a treat for you guys, the dynamic duo of
Colin and Aaliyah Decant. I am thrilled to get to welcome
them to the show. We've had a great time chatting
before we hit record. So let me tell you a little bit
about the Decants. Aleah is an FDNP that
specializes in working with midlife women so that they can
truly feel their best in this season of life.
And after a 25 year career in the RV industry, Colin and Aleah
and their family moved as a family to Arizona so they could
be closer to their own family. And Colin has now decided to
join his wife's business as a Wellness coach and will become
peptide certified. The Cans have actually been
using peptides in their own life for quite some time, so I cannot
wait to dig into their story with you today.
Welcome you guys. How's it going?
Good. Thank you for having us.
Doing great. Thank you.
Yes, I am thrilled to have you. We need to start with the fact
that there was a big event that led you guys to even consider
peptide. So Aaliyah, can you tell us a
little bit about where that started for you?
Sure, absolutely. So just under five years ago on
my 40th birthday, right after about 5 days later, I was
diagnosed with breast cancer and I ended up doing a blend of
traditional and holistic or integrative oncology in my
approach. I had a double mass decked me
back in our hometown and then decided that the the rest of the
tools in that tool shed were just not the ones that I felt
aligned with. And so I actually flew out to
California to Irvine and did the rest of my oncology treatment
with an integrative team out there.
And during that time I did low dose chemo, a whole bunch of
other alternative therapies. But one of the things they had
me do was peptides. So that was my very first
introduction to peptides was when I was going through
treatment and they had me doing GHKC.
So that was my very first introduction.
Had never even really heard of peptides at that point.
And it was amazing how I looked and felt while going through low
dose chemotherapy while I was undertaking peptides.
It was game changer for me for sure.
Definitely curious about Bethelia because GHKCU wouldn't
be the first peptide that would come to mind in a situation like
that for me, but I'm not educated in that way.
Can you explain to me the thought process and kind of what
that would be doing with regards to your cancer or your body at
the time? Sure.
So I think the thought behind it was more the the wound healing
aspect, the tissue healing because of having had a double
anastectomy. But then also low dose
chemotherapy is very targeted in the types of cells that it goes
after. So I think the regenerative
aspect of helping to regenerate healthy fresh new cells in place
of the damaged DNA cells that we were taking out of my body was
was the thought behind doing the peptides during that time.
How? That is fascinating.
And you were doing the rest of your integrative therapy as
well. How long did that process take
over time? Not long at all.
So I was in California for two weeks and I would go every day
and have different treatments and then I came back out another
time after that and I was done. So I did literally all of my
oncology treatment in like 6 weeks.
Six weeks, yes, I was completely done with everything and
released to the wild. I say released but they
continued to monitor me and still do to this day.
I have blood work done like every three months so.
And that must have been kind of a hard time for your family.
I know you guys have two boys. They were probably, I mean, they
were younger at the time. So Colin, were you at home with
the kids? Did you guys all go out as a
family? What did that look like?
Yeah. So it it certainly, I mean, you
know, when something like that happens, it affects the whole
family. And we took the approach that we
were going to be in it together. So, you know, instead of us
staying home, mom being out in California and, you know,
receiving these treatments, we all went out.
And so the boys and I, we got, you know, a place to stay.
And, you know, we would drop mom and wife off in the morning,
Aleah would be dropped off in the morning.
We would go and. Have a beach day?
Have a beach day, enjoy our day. And then we'd go pick Aleah up
in the afternoon. And to her point, the treatment
she was receiving and how she was reacting to it differently.
It was a normal evening for us. We would go to dinner, we would
get her her rest, and then rinse and repeat the next day.
So we did that for two weeks and we just did it together.
And I think it helped us understand what Aleah was going
through. But also Saul, she still had
energy about her. She's still vibrant.
She was still mom. She was still wife.
She was there. And instead of being home and
not knowing, right, and having that that, you know, wonder of
what's going on with with her health.
So, yeah, we were there for the entire part of the journey and,
yeah, candidly having a little fun during the during the middle
of the day. We're going and doing our beach
day and time with my career that I didn't, you know, normally get
afforded to with the boys. I took advantage of that and we
we just did it all together as a family, which was super nice.
Yeah. Definitely.
Best case scenario, yeah. And then after that time, you
said six weeks. So then you were given a clean
bill of health. You'd had your surgery, you were
recovered. What?
What is? What did that look like?
After the six weeks, yeah. Yeah.
So, you know, going through that really opened my eyes to the
world of functional testing. And so I pretty much immediately
started going to school for to become an FDN because it had
opened my eyes so much. Because I had spent so many
years trying to get answers to the questions as to why I was
tired, why things were shifting and changing, and no one really
had answers for me. But learning that you could
actually get those answers was, you know, a game changer.
And so I pretty much went right back into school, still
continued to do alternative therapies that we could do from
home. We bought different devices.
I, you know, partnered with local clinics that did the
different things that California did.
And so I still was doing some things from home to maintain my
health and keep it moving in the right direction.
But, you know, going back to school, I had actually been at a
different school when I was diagnosed.
I was going back to become a nutritionist.
And so when I was diagnosed, put that on hold, they were nice and
refunded my tuition. And then at that point it was
like, OK, no, I need to be in the functional space.
I need to have access to these testing because this is like
game changer for me. So I ended up going through
school focused on that, really focused on my health.
I mean, it was your whole life gets put on hold for a year,
even though treatment, you know, was a short period of time.
You're still having blood draws every three months.
You're still having imaging done every, you know, few months.
It's still very much a part of your everyday life.
And once treatment actually stops, that's when the anxiety
creeps in because all of a sudden, you don't feel like
you're doing enough to keep everything at Bay.
And what if it, you know, another blindsiding event
happens. But being able to focus on
helping other people actually relieved a lot of that anxiety
for me. And so I just dove into school,
you know, feet first and yeah, kind of came out on the other
side of of that and then opened my own practice and have been
working with clients ever since. So.
Incredible. So I have to ask, have you
always been kind of crunchy then if you were already in school
for nutrition and then decided to need to go into functional
nutrition and you chose integrative care for cancer
treatment, what was the genesis of that?
So yeah, definitely I would say it's always been a part of me.
So my, my way back in the day background, we're talking like,
you know, 2015 to 20 years ago is I worked in the market
department for our healthcare system that was local to where
we used to live at the time. And so I would sit in on
meetings with the surgeons from the Cancer Center, all the
different oncologists, but I always tended to align more with
the natural paths. And so I loved learning about
that stuff. I, you know, at that point in
time in my life, I didn't read any fiction.
It was all literally nutrition, fitness, health, Wellness.
I geeked out over it. And it was actually my husband
that brought that to my attention when I was like, OK,
the kids are getting older. They're, you know, going into
high school. What should I do with my time
now? And he was like, you need to go
back to school for this. Do this.
You're literally always in a book.
Yeah. And you have this wealth of
knowledge. Friends already reach out to you
and ask questions to you. And I'm like, this is this is
your path. This is what you you're.
You're meant to do so. And so, yeah, so the first
thought was nutrition because I I didn't even quite have a lot
of exposure to the functional world at that point.
So really what boils down to is me.
It was me that made it was just awareness is really what it was.
It was like, hey, I'm just aware that you love this.
And I think I always said it, you know, the with those first
clients that she would get in, it was like Christmas morning
for her for their labs to come in because she was just so
excited to see, let's just see what's going on.
Like, And I'm just like, you're so giddy about this, like this,
like you're enjoying your work, which is the best thing you can
you can ask for is, is to love what you do.
So it was fun to see her kind of grow and get excited about it.
Yeah. So.
He was right. It's so giddy, like it was just
awesome, yeah. It's funny you say that calling
because that's the exact phrase I use with my own clients.
And like, I think your Dutch test comes in next week.
It's going to be like Christmas. Yeah.
Yeah, that's exactly what I want, yeah.
Oh, that's so great. OK, so, so the support was
there. You went back to school, but you
still have your boys at home. You're recovering, you're trying
to rebuild after, you know, a pretty big health issue.
And you guys start kind of doing this together as a family.
And I mean, I'm also in midlife and we talked a little bit
before we started recording. And it sounds like Colin had a a
midlife moment. So Colin, let's let's hear about
that midlife moment for you when everything changed.
So I started peptides, you know, I think, you know, when you, we
talk about the traumatic family events, you know, your personal
health and those types of things kind of get set aside so many
times in, in our lives. And so prior to me, you know,
retiring, retiring from my, my previous profession, I kind of
taken the approach that, OK, it's time to self reflect and
get focused on that. So I had a couple buddies that
were kind of going down that path and they kind of gave me
that look like, what's your excuse?
Like, hey, you can do this too. So starting to dial in my
nutrition, looking at peptides to help support my lifestyle
changes and it made this vast difference for me.
However, it's still, you know, I think from the energy depletion
that I was going through, Aleah really helped me recognize that,
hey, you're doing this great job with your personal health, but
you're really kind of burnout of what your career path is is
taking you after 25 years and being fortunate enough to extend
to management positions and carrying a lot of weight and
stress in that. She's like, I think you're just
burned out. And it was really one of those
kind of scenarios we see, you know, on TV or in, in, you know,
news articles or on social media where it was like on Monday
night, we had that conversation. I agreed with her.
And Tuesday morning I walked in and resigned from, you know, a
25 year career in the RV industry of where, you know,
only worked for two different companies.
And I think in, in our community, it was really small.
A lot of people are in that space.
It was kind of like all shocked that it was like, wow.
But then we didn't rest. We started talking about what
that next step was. And then literally 2 weeks
later, we're preparing to move to Arizona where we have family
and we made the move. So that turned into a huge role
reversal of where Aleah put me on the front burner for my
career for 25 years. When we got out here, it was
kind of the direct opposite. It's like, OK, now we're going
to put your career on the front burner and, and we're going to
support you and, and your endeavours.
And it's been, it's been really, really great and a lot of
learning lessons in the last year, but ones we've we've
embraced. And so and thankfully we have
two teenagers that still enjoy hanging out with us.
So our time at home and being here has been wonderful with
them as well because we're connecting on a different level
with them that certainly I didn't have the opportunity to
do for for work reasons for so long.
So it's good all the way around on that aspect.
I think it's such a beautiful thing.
You brought up the fact that you guys traveled as a family out to
California. The boys were part of the
decision. You told me that the boys were
part of the decision to move to Arizona.
So you guys really sat down and it's a big discussion.
You did it quickly, but everybody seemed like like they
were on board. Yeah, I we actually sat down and
were like, OK, we want you guys to take a week to think about
what we're going to talk to you about.
Just process it in your friend groups.
But we're thinking of moving to Arizona now.
But take a week. Give yourself that time to
process it. I kid you not, the very next
morning at breakfast, it's like, OK, so when we move to Arizona
and I'm like, I finally look over to Leah and I'm like, oh,
this is happening. Like right now it's happening.
So they didn't take a week. No, I think, you know, it's a
testament to how close they are to their family, but more
importantly, how close we are as a family.
And, and taking the approach we did with Aleah's health when we
had cancer, that it was kind of like, hey, we're, we're in this
together. And I think they kind of take
that mindset. As long as the four of us are
together, we're good, right? So hey, if we're in Arizona,
we're good. So yeah, always, they're always
involved for sure. Yeah, we love that.
Amen. Amen.
If your family's together, there is really not much else that
could go that could go wrong. You're pretty happy and
insulated. Yes, yes.
So OK, you alluded to Colin that you were kind of looking at
peptides, maybe making some changes to your lifestyle even
before, you know, you went in and resigned from your position.
So can you give some specifics? What were maybe some of the
lifestyle habits that you were doing and what were some of the
peptides that you started with and why?
So really was taking a deep dive into my normal daily routines.
And so it really came down to the fact that I was under
eating. I was, you know, I was not
taking and nourishing myself. I've always been someone who
likes to go to the gym the end of the day, helps me relieve my
stress, gets me kind of in the right mindset to walk into the
house and and be dad and and husband.
But there was so many other things I was failing on, you
know, from my diet to my protein intake to my movement, not
getting enough movement, you know, walks and those types of
things. So I really transitioned those.
I started tracking those and figuring out how I can dial
those in. And you know, I kind of think
about peptides of 2 1/2 three years ago.
It's kind of like the iPhone one, right?
Like there's, there was only so much in this space.
You know, now it's the iPhone 17 or whatever it is.
So it's like, it was kind of like here's the core peptides
that you could kind of help dial in.
So it was L carnitine, you know, glutathione, those types of
things to just get some kickstart and rejuvenation.
And that and accompanied with the lifestyle changes, I mean,
dropping 25 lbs, changing, you know, body composition, energy,
getting higher, sleep getting better, just all around feeling
much better. And, and I think when I saw that
transition, it motivates you to maintain it.
And then also, you know, what little more can I do to just,
you know, improve and help help myself?
And so then that's you start to do your research and studying,
you know, when aches and pains are happening, how does BPC 157
help? And you kind of start, you know,
spiraling into a little bit more.
And then you realize this whole world's out there to help you
feel better. And the way you feel doesn't
mean the way way you have to be, right?
Like and I think that was that was the discovery for me and
it's been wonderful. I mean, it's been great.
I mean, just the body composition change the energy,
the sleep, the mood and mindset is really is really been
helpful. But yeah, so kind of
transitioning from those earlier days, you know, now there's a
wealth of peptides that have, you know, came to the forefront
and then continue to develop. That is just exciting for us and
the health of our family for sure.
Absolutely. I can almost picture it in my
head just like a meme of, you know, a successful administrator
management, you know, sitting in his desk and just not happy,
right? You're you, you've done
everything you can do in business.
You've made it, but you're just not feeling good and you don't
know how to feel better. And so I think it will be
encouraging to a lot of people to see that you don't have to be
stuck there. But now I'm looking at, you
know, this meme of this really happy, healthy couple who's
doing great things together to help other people feel the same
way. I think it's really encouraging.
Yeah, for sure. Thank you.
Yeah, Thanks, Aaliyah. I know you have your own
journey. So we're similar in age.
We're, you know, both FDNS. I know there's a lot of
correlation with our story, just not feeling good, not knowing
where to turn, not getting answers from doctors.
But I would love to hear a little bit more about what
brought you specifically to the FDN space and what started
changing as you started running lab tests on yourself and
implementing some of the DRESS protocol.
Sure, absolutely. So obviously when I started
working with the integrative oncologist in California, she
was running functional lab testing on me.
And all of a sudden I had all of this information at my
fingertips that were the answers I had been looking for for a
decade prior to being diagnosed. Like, why do I feel this way?
Why is this going on? Why is this going on?
All these answers and I know how to plan of how to actually get
my body back to optimal health and get things functioning and
working again the way they hadn't been for quite a while.
So then going through FDN school and running my own labs on
myself in addition to those, which was nice because I could
share them with my oncologist as well.
But even more answers were coming through like the ones
that we we run are slightly different than the ones that she
ran. And there were things coming up
that pointed to like, oh, more likely and more susceptible to
have breast cancer, more like, you know, oxidative stress,
inflammatory pathway that your hormones are going down, all of
these things that it was like, Oh my gosh, like just mind
blowing, right. And I have to say, it took me a
while to rebuild my health post treatment because even though I
did low dose chemotherapy, it is still intense on the body.
All the, all of the different things that you're put through.
I did have to do a stint of hormone blockers and completely
go into like chemical menopause for a while.
All of. Those types of things, I did it
for a short time and then I'm like, Nope, that's, that's not
for me. And so I went a holistic route
with that too for a while where I just did more supplements that
could actually help lower my estrogen and did it that way.
But it was hard on the body. It felt like it took me a good
two years to truly get to a place where I felt like not only
am I back to where I was prior to treatment, but night and day
my health is a million times stronger, better.
I'm in better shape, you know, faster, stronger, healthier
immune system strong than I was prior to being diagnosed.
Like even that ever really like I'm in the best shape of my life
and best health of my knife at 44 after having had cancer five
years ago. Like then I was in my 20s.
So it just shows like if you can do those foundations, which like
our dress protocol. So working on my sleep, dialing
in my stress for sure, high energy type A woman over here.
Go, go, go. Like do all the things until you
drop like learning to ask for help.
That was an I wouldn't have touched that with a 10 foot pole
prior to diagnosis. So that was like a blessing.
I mean, I had no choice but to ask for help.
So learning some of these foundational things of being
able to embrace community around you and lean on them for support
and, you know, starting to put your health as a priority again
just built me in a way where I was able to get to the point
that I am now where I'm, like I said, healthier, happier,
stronger than ever. And that feels amazing.
And that feels like such a testament to what, you know, the
work that we do can do for others because if you can go
through cancer treatment and feel in better health, like
that's such a novel like thing, right?
Most people don't absolutely that so.
Yeah, I love it too, because on the podcast we've had a couple
discussions of genetics, what you're born with versus
epigenetics, how that expresses itself after you go in and you
adjust lifestyle and nutrition and stress.
And so if we could geek out on the Dutch test for a minute,
were you elevated with all your estrogen markers?
And was your 16 hydroxy really high?
So give me a little bit of that background.
Yes, you, you named it. So estrogen was high,
progesterone was low, testosterone was like a zero,
DHEA was a complete 0. Definitely had the 16 oh being
high. So I was shuttling everything
down that inflammatory pathway. My liver enzymes were not
functioning the way they needed to.
I definitely had sluggish liver. So I wasn't actually
metabolizing my hormones in the way that I needed to.
So things were recirculating and accumulating in my tissue.
I mean, case in point, and maybe this is TMI, but let's see, it
would now be 14, almost 15 years ago, I had a breast reduction.
They grew back like big time. So big time.
We're talking like 3 cup sizes after having had a reduction.
Yes. And it just shows what my
hormones were doing in my system and accumulating and not being
able to come out of my body, not be able to be metabolized.
My gut health was a mess. So you're talking about, you
know, how we breakdown hormones and eliminate them?
Every piece of the process was not functioning at the level it
needed to be in my body. And it accumulated to this just
hormonal chaos overload in my system, which was one, just one
component of what led to that diagnosis.
Right, it's going to be really hard for me to not think of you
as super boobs from now on. Go for it, go for it.
My girl. It's it's crazy.
So I had met with two plastic surgeons obviously when they
were going to do my double mastectomy and the one said, oh,
that's not possible. And my husband was like, no, I'm
here to tell you it's totally possible.
And the other one's like, no, I've seen it.
I've seen it happen. And and hence now you know what
I know after learning functional labs, it's like, yeah, of course
it's possible. It's tissue growth stemmed from
hormonal situations, so. Yeah, right.
OK. So lots, lots of good
information that you were able to get.
And this is also, I think what we all appreciate about, you
know, functional medicine, functional nutrition is these
things aren't necessarily diagnostic, right?
But they definitely point to deeper dysfunction in the body.
And then, you know, as as practitioners, we're able to go
and address some of those pathways, like you have more
information than the average person who suffered from breast
cancer because you you have the why.
And I think that's really exciting.
Yeah. Definitely.
And it's, you know, I continue to do these tests to make sure
that I'm keeping things functioning at an optimal level
the way they're supposed to versus the way they did, you
know, 10 years ago. Yeah.
And to me that it feels like an important part part of my
preventing reoccurrence journey. Yeah, absolutely.
I, I'm curious for both of you then.
So of course, once you get into functional nutrition, if you're,
you know, in this world at all, you started hearing more about
peptides. You guys both had your own
peptide experiences for different reasons, but it kind
of naturally started swelling that way anyway, So what did
that evolution look like for both of you with regards to
peptides over the last couple of years?
Yeah, I think for me kind of alluding back to getting into
the fitness routine, lifting a little heavier to challenge my
body, things start to hurt, right?
Like I'm 49. So you realize, hey, the joints
hurt a little bit more. There's some aching, you know,
not wouldn't say injuries, but just nagging new things when you
hit the gym and do those types of things.
So certainly looking at OK, what can I do to try to help
rejuvenate and get back to optimum, optimum workouts and
those types of things. So that was really the course
for me is, is OK in order to keep this routine to be able to
stay on the journey. What, what is out there to help
me. And so like the BPC 157, like I
mentioned earlier, it's just exploring those those things for
me and I have used them. They're very successful and I
feel so much better like when I'm just to know that I joints,
knees, shoulders, elbows, those types of things when I'm using
them, you know, when I use it. So that was really for me kind
of staying the course of just maintaining what I've been able
to do through lifestyle changes and some introduction of
peptides very. Cool.
So I had obviously started with my oncologist doing the GHKCU
and then when we kind of Fast forward, like what my body went
through and how it started to respond to stimulus post
treatment, I was starting to feel better, starting to get
stronger. But I, I put on about 20 lbs
post treatment because it is so hard on the body and definitely
was dealing with a lot of inflammation.
Like you could just see it in my face, in my skin.
I worked with my oncology team trying to get things down.
My blood sugar was running a little bit high.
It didn't matter how I was eating, it was not responding,
but we could not get the inflammation to come down.
So I worked with my oncologist team for about a year on that.
I hired, I'm a big proponent of if you want results, a coach
that's an expert in that area is the best way to get them.
I mean, that's why we do what we do, right?
And so I always invest in in myself with coaching for
different things as well. And so had hired A specialized
nutritionist. I hired a personal trainer to
help like with the lifting component to try to get that
body composition back. So starting to feel good on the
inside, but the outside was not reflecting that inside for me.
Not only that, anytime you see inflammation in the body, that's
kind of like a red flag for cancer.
So it's like I don't want to be dealing with inflammation
knowing that that could be, you know, just a potential landmine
for me. So I actually had started
looking at tirzepatide. So I had done a bunch of
research. I had done an earlier
certification 2 years ago on different peptides.
Love the fact that it was dual agonist, could go after the
inflammatory pathways. And so I started microdosing
tirzepatide using the research lab peptides because that was
kind of what you could get at that point if you wanted to
microdose. I didn't really see a lot from
it. I did it for several months.
I think I lost 4 lbs. The 4 lbs came back on.
It was like it, it didn't do a lot for me.
But then, you know, prior to us moving out here, you know, I had
had like my movement dialed in, my food was dialed in.
I was feeling really good but still was carrying that weight.
And actually once again, my husband, he's like, what if you
looked at like micro dosing again?
Like there's more options out there now.
And so I had kind of been keeping my eyes on Ellie for a
while and decided to go with a telehealth company that
actually, you know, reconstituted on their own.
It came from the pharmacy. So I started those, started
micro dosing those and did about 6 full months of every week.
I dropped 14 lbs in that six months.
It was the inflammation within 8 weeks was gone.
Yeah, it was like the. Biggest thing right there.
I all of a sudden I was like whoa.
I see myself in my arms, look like my arms.
My face looks like my face. And then since then I've been
able to like actually pull the support back and I've lost
another 6. So it's like my body is now
responding to the stimulus the way it would have when I was
younger. That wasn't working before.
So it truly went in and actually changed my metabolic health so
that it now responds to the lifestyle pieces that I've had
going on for years. And it's actually worked, right.
So I mean, huge blessing for sure.
It was It's funny how many people have totally have from
the friend grew back in Indiana that it says Arizona looks so
good on you like right and it's kind of her to her point she's
getting back to. I look like myself.
But she looks like herself again.
And it's like, Arizona looks so good on you.
I'm like, Yep, OK. Yep, and I have an open book
like I'll share. I think peptides are amazing.
They're an amazing tool. If you're doing all of the other
things, the foundational pieces are in place, they can be the
most beautiful supportive tool that you can add especially for
and like for women and men, yeah, it can be amazing.
Amen, sister. I love that you brought up to
just the, the discrepancy you had with results with research
and then compounded peptides at the, the telehealth pharmacy.
I know we're both, we're both using the same company.
The peptides are really good. I was having this discussion
yesterday with one of my girlfriends and she said, well,
one of my clients comes in, she's an esthetician.
She's like one of my clients comes in and her her son sells
peptides. So she was going to get me some
peptides from her son. And I was like, you know, you
know, I totally understand that. That's like, I'm 43 years old
and I really don't want to, like, assemble my own IKEA
furniture anymore. I don't really want to drink
$2.00, Chuck, you know, Like, I don't even know if that exists
anymore, but it did when I was like, 21 when we were first
married, you know. Yeah.
Because like there, there really is a time and a place for, for,
you know, people who are ready to use tools at work and to not
have to experiment with things that are just kind of, you know,
rigged together. So I, I do appreciate that.
I know you do and our clients appreciate that too.
Do you have some some client stories or any information you
can share with with women like like you who went on?
Peptides. So absolutely I actually have
quite a few that are micro dosing tirzepatide specifically
and I would say on average the weight loss is about 15 lbs.
I have one beautiful woman that lost 27 in four months and feels
amazing. Like it's it's been that like
final piece, right? That final piece of the puzzle
that got them the result, every result they were looking for.
They were already feeling great. Their energy was amazing, mood
was now stabilized and now their bodies are reflecting on the
outside, what they're feeling on the inside and they feel like
themselves again. And that is game changer for
midlife women. If you get to feel like yourself
again and not feel blah and have the energy, because this season
of life, you know, we start to lose that filter where we play
small and we we start living a little bit larger.
If you can feel good and look good while you're doing it, Oof,
I mean, come on. Right, like unstoppable.
It's it's amazing what how good you can feel and what you can
accomplish in midlife if you know how to support your body in
the right way. So well said.
Yeah, take the leash off the tiger.
She is ready to come out and play.
Exactly. But men too, right?
I think, you know, it's cool having two teenage boys that,
you know, when you know, we're on vacation, you're hanging out
and you know, they, they kind of classify me as Wolverine.
You know, like they feel they're like there's Wolverine dad over
there. I mean, what a great feeling
that it's not just like there's dad, there's dad that, you know,
they're super proud of, not just from the family aspect of it,
but also your physical appearance and how do you look
And, and honestly, it motivates them to really dial in and focus
on their health too. You know, Hey, dad, I want to
get into the gym and I want to be, I want to be fit and, and
have that vibrant energy that you have at your age.
So I think yes, for both parties, it's been massively
beneficial. And I mean, it feels good to
have your, your boys, you know, it's in your kids tell you that
like that. That's a.
And your wife? He looks better at 49 than he
did at 25 when I met him. So so.
It it, it works in all kinds of different favors.
That's good, yeah. It's so great yes, peptides
making happier marriages. Very true.
I I think it's interesting too. I mean, this is something my
husband and I talk about. I probably internalize it a
little bit more than I talk about, but I've been in this
space for a really long time and you know, I think that women are
very comfortable talking about energy.
They're very comfortable talking about sleep and mood and, you
know, they're really not that comfortable talking about
weight. And it's almost that they feel
bad for wanting to look good. You know, I don't know if it's
the same for you calling. I think my husband's a little
less like existentially tied to how he feels about weight.
But I think that women are they they they feel like they're
going to be persecuted. They say, you know, I kind of
want to wear a two piece and look hot this summer.
Like people are going to say things that are not so
flattering about them. But I do think it's, you know,
our our natural birthright to to look as good as we feel on the
inside. That's just how humans have
looked. If you, you know, look at, look
at any pictures from like the 80's, the 70's, the 60s, like
people just looked healthier and their bodies looked fitter.
And I think we can do that now even in midlife with peptides,
which is really exciting. Yeah.
Definitely. I think you, you hit a good
point and I was thinking about the other day as I was doing
some study and it is, it's like from from the male's
perspective, I think especially if they, you know, were athletic
and athletes back in high school or possibly college, it's the
remembrance of the, how strong they felt, you know, from a
confidence standpoint and energy standpoint.
So it's not about like I want to look great in the swimsuit this
summer. It's more or less man.
I want to feel like I did then like with the knowledge that I
have now, right? Like I want to feel like 18 to
20 with the knowledge of what I have today, because then that's
a, that's a superpower in itself.
So I think, you know, knowing that with lifestyle changes as
we continually talk about and then the compliments, you know,
of, of peptides, it is possible like to feel that strong, that
energy. And you know that when you write
in your mind that peak moment, you know, of being when you're
on the, you know, in the athletics and in the sporting
events and those types of things.
So I think from for men, it's a little different.
It's like, how do I feel that way with this type of knowledge
that I have today? OK.
I really appreciate you saying that.
And it's funny because my husband as AD 1 swimmer for USC,
so he was peak athlete for a really long time.
And even in our, you know, 20s and our 30s, he still he, you
know, a lot of a lot of testosterone, a lot of energy.
He did take very good care of himself.
He's always liked to eat well and work out.
Me, you know, I, I probably looked better, you know, in my
20s, but I was consistently undernourishing.
I, you know, was exercising too much.
So I just never felt good, you know what I mean?
And now we're to the place where we're both like very balanced in
how we're kind of taking care of ourself nutritionally and with
regards to exercise and lifestyle and stress management
and peptides. And I'm starting to see the
potential, you know, of actually a feeling really, really good
energy and sleep and mood and stability on most days.
Today I'm about to start my period.
So mood's a little bit off today, but most days feeling
pretty darn good, which I think is just kind of a new thing for
me, really. Yeah, it's amazing.
And you're exactly right. I think so many women and even
now, I mean, I see that a lot and clients definitely
undernourished, underfed because it was move more, eat less and
now we don't have to do that, right.
It doesn't work for us anymore at this age anyway.
But but now we have a tool that helps support being able to
metabolically handle these things while we're improving our
relationship with food and actually nourishing ourselves
for sometimes the first time. Yeah, Amen.
And now you guys are taking this all your knowledge, your
experience, your training, your certifications, all these tools
and you're building a practice together, which I think is
really exciting. So can you guys finish up by
telling us a little bit about the practice that you guys are
are building together? I know we've been in business
for three or four years already. And now Colin, you're getting
your certification, peptide certification, nutrition
certification. I think you guys are going to be
unstoppable. Thank you.
We're really excited. So yeah, right now I specialize
in midlife women and very, very shortly, like maybe within a
week, Colin is going to be spearheading our men's division.
Yeah, so I think watching Aleah's success is, is certainly
motivated me. And as as I was searching for
the next chapter in my my career, I would get calls from
people in my past life that would hey, I need a little
advice. Hey, I have some questions.
And here again, her holistic little more woo woo approach.
She's like, hey, I think someone's telling you something
that maybe this is kind of your direction.
And I think there's so many men that were like, what I was
right, You just to your point, sitting at the desk trying to
figure out how I can feel better, how I can have more
energy, change my body composition, all those types of
things and just be better, right?
Like better with life, better with being a father and a
husband. And it's like, if I can help one
person do that, that's awesome. Like that.
It feels great and I'd like to think, you know, in my past
career, I always took the approach of teach, not tell.
So it's kind of empowering people on how they can sustain
this type of lifestyle for a long for the rest of their life.
Well, that's by teaching them what they need to know and
teaching those thing instead of telling them do this, this,
this, this and this. I feel like in that scenario,
you know, it might fizzle out, but if you teach them the whole
principles of why they can have a long, sustainable, healthy
lifestyle. And for me, you know, I've
always, I've been surrounded by great, great coaches through all
my life. So it's kind of like all right
now it's I guess maybe my turn to to pass along some of that
knowledge and help with health. So.
Very, very cool. I cannot wait to see what you
guys continue to develop together.
It's a really exciting. I I do have one question before
we close out. Can you share with me both your
current peptide stacks and maybe the next peptide you want to
try? OK.
Go ahead. Sure, stacks bigger.
So. I'm a.
Glutathione right now, Lipos C right now, and just because my
knees bother me a little bit, I'm a BPC 157 stacked with BP
500, so our TP 500. I'm sorry.
So yes, that's where I'm at right now.
So I still have the my micro dose of tirzepatide that I'll do
like once a month. Just trying to like make sure
I'm maintaining. Next up, I want to get into the
glutathione. And then I'm really interested
in the new Klow. So KLOW from LA Yeah, that's
that's next on my arsenal. I just ordered mine, so I've
been taking it for about two weeks.
I had a really fun story that somebody shared with me
yesterday about a woman who's been a lifelong smoker.
She's like 65 years old and her skin's always been super
dehydrated. One on the glow stack.
Also my esthetician friend. So both these stories come from
my esthetician because she had this client come in and she she
said what are you doing? Your skin looks amazing and she
said I thought you'd notice last time but you didn't.
I've now been on the clothes stack for about 8 or 9 weeks and
the esthetician said your skin is hydrated, it looks healthy
and I thought oh great I can't wait to keep taking this.
Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah, yeah, I haven't really
smoked a lot of cigarettes, but I'm sure that nicotine patches
or pouches aren't doing a ton of things for my skin.
So I'm going to get my, my, my glow on with my clothes stack
and continue my glutathione, my microtose threw Zapati.
I'm also doing BPC 157 TV 500 right now.
So the the slippery slope of peptides is real.
And a lot of our a lot of our disposable income between the
two of us goes to peptides. We're like, who's buying this
round this month? You're it tag.
Yeah. Sure.
Yes, you guys what? Enjoy what enjoy to get to touch
base with you today and hear about your story and what you're
building together. I very much appreciate you
coming on to share with the audience today.
Where can people find out more about you?
Sure. So probably Instagram's the
easiest. So for me, it's at Functional
Health with Aaliyah and for Colin.
It's YWY 2B coaching, so it's where you want to be coaching.
So that's where you can find me. Not all.
I'm still new, right? So not a lot of stuff up there.
Aleah and I are, you know she's. Working on it.
She's she's pushed me to get some stuff up there, but it's
still new and in the process just because, I mean, we're just
diving into this. But yeah, it's Y2 WYW 2B where
you want to be. Perfect.
Thank you for sharing it here. I kind of feel like this was an
announcement we got to. I got to hear that these are
like the new men's division of the business.
Now I have the whole afternoon, I have to do stuff like I'm just
gonna be going crazy, right? Yeah.
You heard it first here. It's an.
Exclusive release, yeah. So exciting.
All right, Aleah and Colin Dickey, thank you again for your
guys's time. We cannot wait to see what
happens here in the near future. Thank you so much for having us
see. You.
Appreciate it.