Before You Start Peptides: A Doctor Answers Your Biggest Questions
This Is Not Covered — Dr. Ashley Froese — Before You Start Peptides: A Doctor Answers Your Biggest Questions
Channel: This Is Not Covered - Dr. Ashley Froese · Our label: Clinician educator · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=GSdJ5i1wvQY
What this video covers
I’m a primary care doctor and I work directly for my patients, meaning that I don’t involve insurance because we like it better that way. I get a lot of questions on peptides and it’s because I do a lot of research on them. If people are buying random compounds off the internet and injecting themselves with it, shouldn’t I know more about these things than my patients do? Because if I don’t, and I know you’re doing it anyway, I feel like that’s a disservice.
Summary drawn from this video’s own transcript (banked in our research library, pulled 2026-11-07). Claims below are the speaker’s — attributed, not endorsed. This site publishes no dosing, protocol, or sourcing information.
Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- There’s really good data on things like SS31, the mitochondrial stabilizer peptide, and tessamoralin, one of the growth hormone releasing hormone peptides.
- GHK copper, for example, works very well as a topical peptide.
- Some do, like the growth hormone releasing hormone peptides mixed with the growth hormone releasing peptides, you know, like CJC1 1295 and irammoral.
- And you’ll see people taking stacks of vials and just literally injecting one of each, you know, like BPC 157, TB500, Reddit Tide, and KPV classic.
- And listen, GHK copper does not degrade when it’s put in a vial with two other popular peptides.
- If peptides are so great, then why aren’t doctors prescribing them?
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