Delve into the world of peptides and anti-aging advancements with guest host Dr. Scott Faulkner. Meet Jeremy, who shares his astonishing personal story of overcoming severe health challenges through biohacking, and learn about the innovative methods being applied to enhance well-being. This episode provides invaluable insights into how peptides and proactive health measures can radically improve life quality by reversing signs of aging and circumventing potential health risks.
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It’s actually your guest host, Dr. Scott Faulkner, filling in for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday in Denver, Colorado, a health and wellness Wednesday with my friends, Jeremy Sova, Josh and Maddie, brother and sister who are experts in the peptide space. I wanted their knowledge to impart to the listeners today. What are peptides? What can they do for me? Where do I get them? What is the delivery method? Those sorts of things. So we talked quite a bit in the first hour. We’re not going to rehash all that. Go back and listen to the podcast. It’ll be up on Rush to Reason later this evening. But I wanted to recap Jeremy’s story because I know a lot of listeners are in and out of their car. They may not have remembered or didn’t hear your story and why are you in the biohacking space. So Jeremy, give us a recap.
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Sure. So about 10 years ago, age 37, moved out to Colorado, had a good financial event that allowed me to move from the Midwest out here. And going way back to the late 90s, I’d snapped my right femur in half in a wakeboarding accident, real severe, metal in, metal out. Second surgery, doc told me I had severe issues with my lower back pain in my 40s. So fast forward, age 37, on the golf course, blew the first of two lower lumbar discs. It got worse over the course of the next year. Couldn’t travel. Work was tough. So was faced with a two-level fusion and decided to explore stem cells, which was 10 years ago. This regenerative space was kind of just starting to become a concept. Mm-hmm. So rolled the dice, you know, paid a significant amount of money, had the treatment done and did get some results. But I wasn’t sold until I saw the after effects of the MRI that was taken a year later when the disc height had grown substantially from where it was after the injury. So I was sold. I thought it was a panacea. I thought I was cured. Well, it turns out in 2018, I just turned 40, going over a ski jump behind my daughter. I launched into the air, landed on my left side, blew out the L4, L5 lumbar disc almost completely. Paralysis, skied down on one leg, couldn’t feel my left side. Insurance took 72 hours to get me cleared. For surgery, went in, microdissectomy, took the disc tissue, which is like crab meat, off of the spinal nerves. And now I was kind of back to square one. So I’m like, well, what now? Well, went back, had stem cell treatment again one year later before COVID hit. Got the disc height back. The paralysis had subsided. I got back on the golf course, back on the ski slopes again. Well, then COVID hits and this major lockdown situation. And I went out on the golf course and I tore the right iliolumbar ligament off my right spine. So those of you who have seen the new Happy Gilmore movie, that is not a way to increase the distance of your drive. It’s very painful. Um, so went back to the doc, got stem cells, facet joints, discs, iliolumbar ligament, and realized that I had to make some other changes to my health. It wasn’t just, you know, stem cells in the low back. And I was really afraid of COVID killing me just like we all were, right? We didn’t know how bad this thing was. You know, I started to look at certain biomarkers and realized, you know, I had some hormone issues. I had some cholesterol issues and that really started the journey kind of October of 2020, um, and really took an inward look at my health and started to make some significant changes. Well, fast forward to 2022, really wanted to take a deep dive on my own blood work. I paid out of pocket for it and realized that there was some serious inflammation going on that we didn’t know it was coming from. Thought it may have been from the rheumatoid arthritis on my mother’s side of the family. which was true. We did see a high RA factor and RNP antibodies were fairly elevated. But we also saw that my HSCRP and my sedimentation rate test, where they kind of drop, your red blood cells sink to the bottom of the test tube very quickly. And it was 21, which was pretty high, according to what I’d seen. So that’s where, going back to the last hour, we did a calcium score and realized that I had a About 20% of my left anterior descending artery in the heart was blocked with calcium. So that says that there had been coronary artery disease building up for the course of my lifetime that led to that event. So I freaked out and decided at this point, like, I’ve got to stop the progression. I had no idea that I could actually reverse anything at this point. It was just stop the heart from getting worse. I was high risk for heart attack, et cetera, et cetera. So then we started to look at the azetabibes, the red yeast rices. And I went to a cardiologist and they did put me on a lot of statin. And I started to see the numbers getting better. Like, okay, well, I think we got the heart under control, but I’m still overweight. I’m still sluggish. I’m still got brain fog. So then we started to explore the testosterone replacement therapy, put me on that major, major game changer. You know, I started to feel much more vibrant, better, stronger cognitive abilities, firing, you know, libido, sexual health improving. So now I’m like, well, how far can I push this, this anti-aging thing? And about a year to two years ago, I really started to focus on exercise, diet, sleep, the best that I could. And now fast forward within the last year, I’ve basically turned all the dials that you can possibly turn, which there’s more coming at us as we go along here, but I’ve fixed and I got proof. I got the pictures, I got the blood work, I got the data, I got the test results. I’ve taken the mitochondrial cell that was completely shattered and broken with red dots all over the place, red being bad, and turned everything green in a 12 month period. I haven’t felt this good since I’ve been in my mid 20s. I’m 47 years old now. My first biological aging test two years ago said I was 62 years old. Now it says I’m 44.5. So now I’m younger than my chronological age. And I reversed the biological age about 16.4 years. And I’ve just started to scratch the surface with Dr. Faulkner’s I’ll call it a system, right? There’s not just one magic bullet here that you’re going to take to do what I’m doing. It’s a consolidation of several different modalities based on the results of your blood work, different test scores, and then different ways to approach what you need, when you need it, and how often to take a look at certain things. But I am so passionately excited about the journey that I’m on now that I want to share the story with all these listeners because I didn’t think this was possible. I thought I could slow things down and maybe fix my diet or fix my exercise routine. But we were talking on the break, like now I’m taking essential amino acids in my coffee in the morning without breaking a fast. And my protein uptake in my muscles is such that while on a GLP-1 peptide, I’ve cut 5% body fat that I’ve been fighting for two years. I’m down to 9.5% body fat and 87% muscle mass. And I’m stronger than I’ve been since I’ve been in high school. And I’m not putting more time in the gym. I’m not lifting any more weights. I’m just following the biological processes of the body as we’re learning to understand them now and using the inputs that optimize all the different systems. And peptides is a perfect example. That’s what we’re here primarily to talk about today. And just in the last three months, I’ve taken BPC-157 and TB-500. They call it the Wolverine stack. The BPC-157 I inject near the injury, which in this case is my right shoulder labrum. It’s called a slap tear. And the TB-500 subcutaneously, along with my GLP-1, three days a week. Let me back up. I microdose the GLP-1 now. We can talk more about that later. Mm-hmm. and I completely cured a torn slap tear in my right shoulder that had been bugging me for years. My son’s been playing hockey now for 10 years, 50, 60-pound bag, throw it over my right shoulder, in the car, out of the car, to the rink, out of the rink. Eventually, that repetitive use of that shoulder gave out, and it was extremely painful. I was told I needed orthoscopic surgery, six to eight weeks, and then not be able to play golf for a whole season. And I’m like, I’m going to try this Wolverine peptide stack. Two months later, completely healed and pain-free just from using these peptides. So then I layered on epithelon, which is something you can use to lengthen the telomeres on your DNA strands, which is like the caps on your shoelaces. So hypobaric oxygen, epithelon, and high-dose vitamin D, keeping the levels around 60% to 70%. Now, the strength of the chromosomes, the telomeres are near perfection. The inflammation in my body is almost completely undetectable by every metric that you can try. And my mitochondrial cell now, and I have the proof, is near perfection.
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And that’s what the spectra cell is.
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Yeah, so I look intracellular. You can look in the blood, and then I took a deeper dive and looked intracellular. So you can see things like beta carotene, CoQ10, the different B vitamins. And I’m at the point now where I’m reversing the clock at a pace that I didn’t think was possible. And one of our gurus, Brian Johnson, which you guys know as the blueprint guy or the don’t die guy, now he’s sharing daily what he’s doing. And we pick and choose different things that fit our lifestyle because most of us aren’t going to live like a lab rat. But you can take certain things. Like I stopped using primarily animal proteins and now I use plant-based proteins and polyphenols. And my protein intake is now – basically 170 grams a day. And I’m fasting 14 hours a day, I’m only eating three meals, and I’m 10% below my caloric maintenance number. So there’s so much that we can do here. And peptides are allowing us to now take a deeper dive into what’s possible. And I see a binder here, there’s probably 15 or 20 or 30 more that I haven’t even heard of yet.
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Yeah, I got a whole stack of them.
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So I kind of raced through that. Those of you that have listened previously, kind of the complete story is up on the website. But we’re only getting started here, and people need to learn this is possible and kind of set your primary care physician health insurance to the side just for a moment. We know you need it for the emergencies. We know you need it for the kids. But you need to take a look inside and realize what’s going on And approach it from a preventative perspective because you can absolutely prevent chronic disease. Brain disease is a choice now. Metabolic disease is manageable. Heart disease, we should die with it, not from it. And I want to talk a little bit later, too, about stress and emotional health management because I’ve entered that realm. And now the stress markers on my aura ring are down near low since I started to put it on. So we’re approaching now more of a holistic Eastern medicine look that most doctors just shake their head and roll their eyes.
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Yeah, that’s exactly right. So we’re going to take a break now. When we come back, Josh, you had a story of a slap tear and then how you got into peptides. And I want to discuss. What Jeremy had started to talk about is the BPC-157s, the Wolverine Blend TB500. People have heard those names. What are they? How does it work? So when we come back, we’ll talk about that. Listen to Dr. Scott Faulkner, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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TJ here with KLZ Radio. Once again, I have Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial with me. Al, what are some of the common mistakes that people make before they come see you?
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Well, one that I sometimes talk to them about that they really have no control over is not having started to save for retirement at an early enough age, because that’s the biggest mistake people can make. But it’s not one that they can correct. You can only do what you can do right now. Another mistake, once people are fully retired, sometimes they help their children out too much.
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What’s that look like for someone that helps out one of their kids? You know, obviously they’re just trying to be benevolent, that kind of thing. What are some mistakes that we can make in that?
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Well, I’ve met some who allow their children to live in the same household and don’t provide any encouragement for them to leave. And I don’t necessarily mean the 32-year-old who’s playing video games in the basement. I have met a couple one time that had children who were in their 40s, and their children themselves had their own children and were living with the grandparents, and it was… borderline senior abuse. So I think saying no to your children sometimes can make your own retirement better, and it can also provide more respect.
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It seems like you kind of help people fulfill that whole picture. You’re not just giving them a DIY software kind of fix. You dig into the root causes and look full steam ahead. Is that right?
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I also, I try to learn from the people I’ve worked with. I met one retired gentleman who had a son that was having some difficulties and he gave his son a gift rather than a loan because a loan, if it’s not paid back, not only is the money gone, but the relationship is gone because the son or daughter feels bad about contacting the parent because they haven’t made the payments.
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You got it there, folks. klzradio.com slash money for Golden Eagle Finance. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Well, you’re welcome. Thank you, TJ. It’s always good to talk with you.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
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That’s actually Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush. John, I appreciate it. Thank you. You and Tara have a wonderful day off. You’ve deserved it. So we were talking about Jeremy’s story. He gave a quick recap. He’s now showing us a picture of him. You guys can’t see this, but he was a big, well, fluffy is the word I’m going to use. And he’s no longer fluffy. So Josh, I wanted you to talk about your story because you had a slap tear. Tell us what is a slap tear and then how did you get relief from these peptides?
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Yeah. Let’s go back to college. Must have been 2022. Always had a weak shoulder, grew up playing sports, and through that had a labrum injury, or as it turned out, was a slap tear, which is a superior labrum tear of the anterior or posterior side of the labrum. So Grew up in a pretty much holistic family where if you didn’t need surgery, there was an alternative way. Had heard about peptides back in that day through avenues like Joe Rogan, Andrew Huberman. And, you know, that was kind of the start of Brian Johnson and longevity medicine and stuff. So yeah. not a whole lot of information on the Internet at that point in time. I reverted to Twitter or as they now call it X, where you can get independent you know, information that you might not find on the, you know, Google. So, um, heard about BPC and TB 500 now referred to as the Wolverine blend. Um, and use that for about three months. Um, within those three months, it, you don’t, you know, it’s, it’s not an overnight fix. You’re not gonna, you’re not going to use it for two weeks and you’re going to wake up perfect. Um, you start to see progression around that two week level, um, Um, and right around that 12 week mark is kind of where you start to feel a hundred percent again. Um, slowly, but surely that is something that happened and, um, you know, a 100% affordable way to heal an injury. And it’s not only going to heal that actual injury site. Um, super cool thing about body protective compound or BPC, um, is it was found in the gastric juices. So it was derived from that. First and foremost, what it’s going to do is it’s going to lower your systemic inflammation in the body. So it’s going to create a proper environment for your body to send signaling proteins, cytokines, all sorts of these things that your body needs to heal to the actual injury site. And like we mentioned, affordable, you know, surgery by far not affordable, especially for a broke college student who is wanting to enjoy the outdoors of Montana State. Skiing, fishing, golfing, all these things that I didn’t want to experience. take out of my life for a, for a shoulder injury. Um, so kind of went that whole holistic route, let’s call it. Um, but you know, BPC in and of itself, it is going to be angiogenic. So it’s going to create blood vessel growth. Um, and, One awesome thing about it is because your body has it in it already, it knows where to send that protein. So any place in your body that’s suffering from inflammation, you’re going to see these downstream benefits. I use it to heal a shoulder, but in that process, low back got better. Gut health got better. Lots of people who might be struggling from leaky gut. That is a huge problem nowadays. It has to do with diet. But BPC actually is studied to heal leaky gut. It’s being looked at from the Mayo Clinic for things like Crohn’s disease right now. Yeah, go ahead.
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I’ll give you an example. I had grade three esophagitis from years of GERD, smoking cigarettes, broke the lower esophageal sphincter, the flapper, if you will. Took oral BPC tablets in 2022 for a year, re-scoped it. It’s down to grade zero. Nothing else changed.
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It’s a miracle peptide and something that, you know, I personally have had a lot of success with, but, you know, Me and my sister, we work with hundreds and hundreds of clinics across the nation, and that’s something that I truly recommend for any person to start doing, whether you’re on a GLP and you’re having GI side effects from it, whether you’re struggling from a low back injury, shoulder pain, knee pain, arthritis, you name it. BPC is going to come in and lower your systemic inflammation in your body so that you’re going to be able to do the activities that you’re used to doing at the level that you want to do them.
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So in your experience, did you find it more beneficial to shoot near the injury into the muscle, or you just trust that it’s going to find its way from wherever you inject it to the site?
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So if you’re doing BPC in and of itself, there is some literature that says it’s best absorbed to do acutely or at the injury site. I was always comboing it with TB500, which is thymosin beta-4, Um, it’s another angiogenic anti-inflammatory peptide. Um, and the cool thing about BP or the cool thing about TB 500 is it’s a carrier peptide. So, uh, we mentioned that BPC is in your body. It’s flown around. Your body’s going to send it, you know, where it needs it. TB500 aids in that signaling to send the protein to where it needs to go. So personally, I don’t do an acute injection. I feel that, and this is all personal experience, I don’t see the increased pain of doing an injection in your elbow outweighing the benefits personally. Did I say that properly? I don’t see there being extra benefit in doing an acute injection when your body can send it to the elbow when you’re just doing a subcutaneous injection in your glute.
SPEAKER 10 :
So BPC by itself is like a shotgun approach, but you pair it with TB500, it becomes a rifle shot to the injury site.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, yes, very great analogy. It’s a way more streamlined path to get that amino acid to the actual injury site.
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Yeah, and to be clear, BPC-157 by itself is, well, a peptide in and of itself. When you pair it with the TB, then it becomes the Wolverine blend.
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Correct.
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And so we have both at the office, and so it just depends on what somebody wants. But I can’t tell you how many guys with golfer’s elbow or you name it that labor them. Like I was that guy. A year ago I was benching. And this is one of the reasons why I’ve moved to the machines as opposed to the free weights because I was down in the basement by myself. And I’m like, oh, I’ve got this. And my shoulder started to ache a little bit. I’m like, I can push through this like an idiot. It took three months. I had to take three months off of doing pushing muscles, right? So your bench press, which is your pecs and your triceps. Because I screwed up that labrum, I irritated it. Three months I had to take off because of that. I then went on the BPC, and it was, oh, my gosh, my shoulder’s getting better very quickly. I don’t make that mistake again.
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So you put the BPC into the muscle and the TB500 into the subcutaneous fat. Is that the ideal way to go?
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Yeah. If you’re going to be doing individual injections, then BPC – I would. Everybody’s different. There’s not a one size fits all approach when it comes to peptides. You have hyper responders and you have hypo responders. And so there’s going to be you’re going to know whether or not your body’s responding properly. If you’re doing a BPC injection subcutaneous in the glute for a shoulder injury and one month has gone by. and you’re not seeing any results, one, check where you got your BPC from. If you’re getting it from Dr. Scott, we know it’s good. So then switch your approach up. Increase the dose a little. Switch to an acute injection. If you’re doing BPC and TB together, a subcutaneous glute or stomach shot is totally up to standard. That’s where I do mine, yeah.
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Gotcha. Okay. Yep. So we’re going to take another break. Maddie, when we come back, there’s a lot of people now on YouTube and everywhere else claiming to be experts in this space. A lot of the stuff that I hear is horrible advice. So you being the expert, I want to know who can we listen to besides me that really is dialed into this space. So I’m going to ask you that question when we come back. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLC. We’ll be right back.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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Thank you for listening. Listeners, it’s Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday afternoon in Denver, Colorado. So my guests and I were talking about peptides and we were talking specifically BPC-157. The TB500, that combo, the Wolverine blend. There’s other peptides that we want to talk about, the CJC epimeralins. We’ll also get into the GLPs, right? So all the weight loss medicines, the semaglutides, terazeptides, retratrutides, those are also peptides. People may not realize that. But, Maddie, I ask the question because there’s so many people now on YouTube and everybody seems like they have a podcast, a lot of bad information out there. So what would be your advice to the listeners? Where could they get trusted information from?
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That’s a great question. I think that a good place to start is – provider a practitioner who is in the regenerative medicine sphere internal medicine sphere holistic medicine sphere and once you’re in that area they’re obviously open to this type of information, just ask them, are you familiar with peptides? Do you read about peptides? Usually they’re up front with you. And if they’re not, that’s not great. But the people that are in that sphere are going to conferences. They’re learning about it. A4M is a huge American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
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Yes, I’m a member of A4M.
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Yeah. So, you know, Double check that they’re staying up to date on peptide research. If they’re into peptides, they know what A4M is. They know what Seeds Institute is. They are going to these conferences and… joining other doctors who are in the sphere and listening to new information coming out. That’s a one. I think that’s a great sign. Um, two, there are obviously just like any other thing, there’s people who are not physicians, but are very much in this sphere and know a lot. And there’s people who are in this sphere and know nothing. So, yeah, Hunter Williams, if anyone’s familiar, he has a podcast series. He’s very famous in the biohacking sphere. He is a great peptide researcher. He dives into a lot of literature. He tests everything on himself. You know, and I think another key component is for anyone who you’re getting your information from to be upfront from the beginning saying, hey – If I’m not a physician, I’m telling you I’m not a physician. I am not giving you this device or advice as your doctor, and I want to make that very clear. Because anyone who’s not making that clear, that’s a red flag, right? Hey, you should do this. Listen to what I’m saying. I didn’t go to medical school. I don’t think you should be following the advice of that person when they’re claiming they know things that they clearly don’t know.
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Yeah, so my journey has included a lot of things that I’m like, is this risky? Should I be doing this? So we talk about Peter Attia a lot. And the reason why he’s kind of at the top of my longevity pyramid is because he stress tests everything through case studies in science. And he’s actually one of the hardest people to convince. And he did a, the drive is the number, the name of his podcast. And he did an episode on peptides. Right. And basically what he says is, you know, there’s, he lists like five or six that, that are proven that he stands behind. But then he also says, make sure you’re using them for a targeted purpose and make sure whether it’s your doctor or a doctor, you’re under some sort of medical supervision. Yes. And then track the results. But the second that he was behind is when I dove right in. Because he’s kind of the gatekeeper, if you will. Because he kind of overdoes it a lot, but I’d rather err on the side of caution. So there’s a green flag from him in those regards to at least a handful of ones that are used for targeted reasons.
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Yeah, I mean, all peptides should be used under the guidance of a physician, right? Like Dr. Scott. Yes, they are available to purchase probably from China online on some random website. That is a terrible idea. You definitely should not be getting peptides that way. They can be, you know, they can have toxins in them. They are not tested with certificates of analysis. The peptides that you get through a registered physician who knows what they’re doing and can guide you and do your labs first are the peptides you should be using. Because you need someone giving you that guidance and dosing information and all of these other things that you can’t get from just the random internet search.
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Even the GLP-1s, when I first started dabbling three or four years ago, I found out that I was getting like semi-glutide salt mixtures that weren’t giving the effects, but I was paying the same amount of money. And I actually had them lab tested and found it out on my own. So I can only imagine the amount of bad actors in the peptide space that are either diluting it or it’s not even what they say it is. So, yeah, big, big buyer beware out there. Correct. Make sure it’s a reputable source.
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Yeah, if you’re in the gym and your buddy has a gym bag, he’s like, hey, man, come to the back of the locker. I got something for you. That’s probably a red flag. Don’t do that. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or it’s really good. One or the other. He either did his research and it is the best peptide on the market or it’s sawdust.
SPEAKER 04 :
But either way, you shouldn’t say yes to that. Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
We don’t condone it. That’s right. So Maddie, what are some of the ways that peptides come in? So there’s a lot of different delivery methods. Yeah. What I get from your company is primarily injectables.
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Yes.
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And some of them hurt.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. They just sting a little bit. We had that conversation and we’ll explain why here in a little bit. But what are some of the delivery methods and what is new on the horizon?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so injectables is the most common form. You know, you draw it up into an insulin syringe, you inject it intramuscularly or subcutaneously into your tummy or thighs, wherever you’re injecting. They have since then started coming out with oral tablets. You take like a vitamin. These are only few and far between because most peptides are going to be broken down in your gut and they’re not doing anything for you. There’s a select few that that’s not the case. There may be targeting gut health. BPC you can take in tablet form. It’s not going to heal your muscle tear, but it will heal your gut lining if you’re taking it that way. But the newest kind of Application on the horizon is sublingual oral strips. So they are peptides that are coming in a strip form. You put it on your tongue and it’s going to either go into your buccal membrane in your cheek and your upper palate through the roof of your mouth or under your tongue. through your mucosal membranes. So that’s new and exciting. Dr. Scott, you’re going to have those coming up here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 08 :
I will be the first, people.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, no more injections, which is huge.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is huge because I just gave myself, yes, a doctor gave himself cellulitis in my abdomen because I didn’t use alcohol long enough. Yes, I gave myself a soft tissue, a skin infection from the needles. And my aura ring picked it up a day before. It says, you’re not at your optimum and your body temperature is 0.8 degrees high. There’s something going on. I’m like, but I feel fine. I woke up the next morning. I had cellulitis rash on my abdomen. And I’m like, I’ll be darned. Then, unfortunately, what’s the treatment for cellulitis? You have to take antibiotics. It wrecks your gut health. So I, yes, Dr. Scott, screwed himself up. So please don’t do that. If you’re going to do the injectables, make sure you rub your skin really well with the alcohol. Don’t do what I did. Before and after. Before and after. But this, the strip technology, I believe is going to be a game changer. So I have gone out and gotten the… go daddy names of oral BPC, oral peptides, oral CJC. These are peptides that are going to be coming out and I will have it on my website, um, very soon. And so people can call us or order it and have these available to them. No more injections in your tummy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s going to be a game changer.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And one thing to know about this new technology is, um, There’s a bioavailability of a peptide, which is how much of the actual, how many of the actual molecules does your body absorb and use effectively? When we talk about injection, the going rate is about 89%. When we talk about capsules or pill form peptides, the going rate’s about 15%. So you’re sacrificing a lot of bioavailability, which is just wasted in, you know, you pee it out. It goes through your endocrine system. It goes through your kidneys, your liver, other places besides where you want it to go. Um, and that’s the standard for the, the oral right now, when we talk about a, um, buccal strip or a, you know, sublingual strip, um, the absorption rate, depending on the product, because we do have to factor in the size of these peptides when we talk about them entering the bloodstream, um, via the mucosal membrane, um, it’s between 78 and 92%. So in some cases you are even getting higher bioavailability from a strip rather than an injection. So this is revolutionary in the, in the peptide market.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and it makes perfect sense. It’s like when you come to the hospital and you have chest pain and we give you nitroglycerin, right, to dilate your coronary arteries, where do we put it? We put it under your tongue or give you a spray of nitro. Why? Because that blood vessel, it has instant access to your entire body, including your coronaries. You bypass that first pass effect that you talked about earlier, Jeremy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
where your liver just chews everything up. Think about it, folks. If you swallow something, it has to cross that gut lining. Then the first place it goes is through the hepatic portal vein to your liver. What is your liver designed to do? Metabolize things. So you are wasting so much of this stuff – we’ll just call it stuff, whatever you’re taking – through the first pass effect. But if I can put it under your tongue and you don’t have to give yourself an injection and give yourself a skin infection – I truly believe it’s a game changer because as we described earlier, these shots are sometimes not pleasant and guys are the worst. We hate giving ourselves a shot. The ladies, you crush it. You guys can have babies. You can be bleeding. You’re like, I’ll suck it up. It’s not that bad. Every guy or every person I’ve had in my office that has fainted or passed out or gotten woozy has always been a guy. Every last one of them.
SPEAKER 10 :
So when can we get the hormones subcutaneously? Or I’m sorry, sublingually. Maddie?
SPEAKER 04 :
Great question. I’m sure it’s on the horizon.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because the scar tissue I got building up in the ventricles from the two shots a week at TRT.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m over it.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s no joke.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct. So that, Josh, you said is coming, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s on the horizon. This technology isn’t new. This technology isn’t new, buccal technology. But the technology of the absorption of the product is new. So that’s something that they’re working on. This company is working on on the back end. And there’s a lot of stuff on the horizon coming in this strip form.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and so like you could take a trochee, right, a testosterone trochee, but the taste is disgusting. Right, I’ve tried them. Oh, it’s like awful.
SPEAKER 10 :
Even the flavored stuff is awful.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, even Viagra, right, the sildenafil, because there’s been several studies that show that if you take that on a daily basis, you decrease pulmonary hypertension, which is high blood pressure in the lung bed, but you can also stave off Alzheimer’s. There’s three studies that have all proven this. Is that because of nitrous oxide? That’s exactly it, nitric oxide. But when you take that stuff orally, the rapidly dissolving, it’s awful. It’s like, no, I’d rather die of Alzheimer’s than take that nasty thing. But with this technology, and I sampled some of the products, it actually tastes really good, like strawberry flavored. I’m like, I could do this all day long. Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Can’t wait. Fruit flavor dissolves super fast and you’re done. Another huge perk is – Right now with injectable peptides, you know, once you reconstitute a peptide and you have a vial that is ready to draw out and inject, that vial has to stay refrigerated. You know, it only stays good for about, let’s call it two months. and you can’t travel with that. You’re like walking around with a lunchbox. You can, but it’s embarrassing. Yeah, with ice packs through TSA. They’re like, what the heck is this? You have a box of strips. They’re all individually packaged. Throw it in your suitcase. Throw it in your purse. Take it wherever you need to go. Problem solved.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. Especially across international borders. That was an interesting discussion with the testosterone needles and vials.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 10 :
But they let me through. Oh, okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Like, is this heroin? You’re like, no, this is my hormones.
SPEAKER 10 :
Luckily, I had the prescription with me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that’s good.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. So we’re going to take a break, and then we’ll come back, and we’ll keep talking about the peptides. And if anybody has any questions, you can give us a call at 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. Dr. Scott Faulconer filling in for John Rush. We’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 08 :
Now, back to Rush to Reason. Welcome back, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner. And friends, here on this Health and Wellness Wednesday, we’re talking exclusively about peptides and Jeremy’s story. But during the break, we were talking about the GLP medicines. Yes, those are the ones that everybody’s using for weight loss. The semaglutide, primarily the terzeptide. and the retatrutide. So Maddie, you had some great advice. What was your advice for people taking these medications?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I think the main thing to understand about, let’s just say this in general, peptides are tools, right? It is another tool in your toolbox to help make you healthier, get the most out of your body, and feel the best you can. With any tool, you have to do all of the basics too. So if you’re taking a GLP, yes, you are going to lose weight if you do absolutely nothing. You change nothing about your lifestyle and you start taking a GLP, you will lose weight. The problem is you’re probably going to lose some muscle. You’re probably not going to feel great. You’re going to have side effects because you’re not doing all the things you’re supposed to be doing the way that it was designed.
SPEAKER 10 :
And if you stop taking it, all that weight is going to come back, but the muscle is not.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 10 :
Just the abdominal, visceral fat, subcutaneous fat.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. So to get the most out of a GLP, it’s a lifestyle change. You need to eat healthy, specifically up your protein intake. These are appetite suppression foods. drugs, and you’re going to want to eat less. So when you do eat, you need to be getting nutrients and protein in your body to fuel yourself. And you need to be exercising, specifically weight training. You need to keep your muscle mass that you have on your body. No one wants to look like a skeleton, right? You’d be skinny, but like, do you look that good? Not really. You want to look lean and toned and healthy. And the way to do that is to lose fat and keep lean muscle.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. And Jeremy, you were talking about that protein intake. So what did you learn about the varieties of protein, when to time it?
SPEAKER 10 :
Sure. So I’ll throw a plug. A company is called Body Health, and it’s called Perfect Amino. And Dr. Mark Hyman, who’s a big functional health doctor, he’s with the Cleveland Clinic for years, him and a team of people came up with an amino acid blend. I think it’s eight or nine essential amino acids that are used in protein synthesis in muscle building. And it’s a simple powder. It comes in several different flavors or tablets. I prefer the powder. I put it into my coffee every morning or I put it into my protein shake. And you actually get the protein synthesis in the body, which is equivalent to about 30-ish grams of protein per scoop. But you don’t get any of the caloric intake. You’re basically getting protein in while fasting. And if you take it before a workout, the amount of muscle mass increase… And body fat percentage, both visceral and subcutaneous, that I’ve seen in the last four months since I started using it is phenomenal. I had this, you know, 14% body fat plateau that I couldn’t break, no matter how much cardio, how much weightlifting, how much whole food, you know, quote unquote dieting. I was doing. What I found out was I was taking in other protein sources like whey protein, casein protein, animal protein. Going back to a point earlier, when you put that food in your mouth, that protein doesn’t just go to muscle. Only about 15% to 20% of that actually turns into protein synthesis. The other 75% or 80% goes to fats. Those are excess calories. That’s why people would bulk and then cut, bulk and then cut. Well, now we’ve found if you’re taking the amino acids in correctly, then you can actually gain muscle and lose fat at the same time while living a healthy lifestyle without additional calories. So I found this stuff to be absolutely incredible. I use it every day, a couple of scoops a day. And I was able to cut that last 5%. Now I’m just under 10% body fat. I changed nothing else. I didn’t change any of my nutrition. I didn’t change my sleep schedule. I didn’t change my workout regimen. I didn’t change any of my stress or emotional health markers. I just added the right amino acids to the body to build muscle. And it worked much faster than I thought it would.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And you actually turned me onto that. And so that’s what I started doing. And you’re right. Your workouts are incredible and it doesn’t break that intermittent fast. So I don’t mind you giving that plug because I do it myself.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. And I have no hidden agenda. I don’t own any of the company. I’m not an investor. It’s just the stuff hit the internet and I’m like, I’ll, I’ll give it a shot. And pretty quickly I was like, wait a minute. I’ve been chugging whey protein shakes for years and not getting the type of impact. And now I’m eating more protein than ever and I’m eating less calories than ever at the same time. It’s a pretty cool matrix.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And Josh, you had a comment on whey protein earlier.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, whey protein has its positives and negatives. One is sourcing. You gotta be really careful where you source it from. Um, you know, there’s a few reputable organic sourced, um, companies out there, but there’s a lot of, um, there’s a lot of non-organic garbage whey source products out there. Um, I don’t personally know which ones you were on. But at the end of the day, if you’re on a proper sourced or a bad sourced one, your protein synthesis caps out at a certain point. So a lot of that protein that you do put into your body isn’t going to get absorbed. I do want to revert to one thing we talked about earlier called IGF-1. And so… When you’re on a GLP, we did talk about you being in a catabolic state. You’re not eating as much as you typically do, and protein intake is of the utmost importance while you’re on a GLP. A few things that you can do to benefit the little protein that you do eat throughout the day if you’re not prioritizing protein intake is something like an IGF which is going to increase protein synthesis. So you’re actually going to intake and your muscles are going to absorb more of that protein than if you were, you know, to just take a GLP by itself. So something that we call stacking, that’s when you take multiple peptides together and an IGF or or even a CJC ipamoralin, which we might touch on here in a little bit, are two great options to increase protein synthesis while you’re still in a catabolic state, keeping that lean muscle mass on your frame.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and IGF is insulin growth factor. So, well, we got a minute. Why don’t you touch on what you’re thinking? Finish your thought.
SPEAKER 07 :
Um…
SPEAKER 04 :
I have something. I have an example. I was literally at one of my doctors today. He’s not the doctor, but he was there. We were chatting. He is in his 60s now. He’s been on GLP-3, right at True Tide. And he’s like, you know, I’m just trying to get that last push. And I stayed on my GLP. I started doing CJC, ipamoralin, and I started doing IGF-1. And I gained eight pounds of lean muscle. He has a body scan machine at their place. And he gained no weight overall. So he lost eight pounds of fat and replaced it with eight pounds of muscle in one month.
SPEAKER 08 :
With the CJC-Ipamorelin combination.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, with the IGF-1.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, fantastic. Thank you, Maddie. So we’re at the top of the hour. We’re going to take a break. We’ll be back in about five minutes. And we’re going to talk sexual health when we come back. So don’t go anywhere. Dr. Scott Faulkner, Phil Landon for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
SPEAKER 05 :
Ordinary average guy.
SPEAKER 1 :
Ordinary average guy.
