Dr. Craig Koniver: Health Optimization with Peptides, Light Therapy, and Methylene Blue
Guest appearances — Dr. Craig Koniver, MD — Dr. Craig Koniver: Health Optimization with Peptides, Light Therapy, and Methylene Blue
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And then you throw in the element that methylene blue acts as an antiviral agent probably across, you know, not just viruses but, you know, bacteria, parasites, I’m sure. And so you have this very powerful compound that one compound does all of these things energy production, helps with mood, helps as an anti-pathogen agent. Welcome back to the Smarter Not Harder podcast, your home for 1-cent solutions to $64,000 questions. In this episode, I have the privilege of diving into the world of performance medicine with Dr.
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- So by the time the sun sets, you could then release the anabolic hormones testosterone melatonin growth hormone to repair your tissue cuz guess what?
- Now, a lot of the peptides are totally safe to use IV and we’ll use them, you know, I think the most versatile peptide we use is BPC-157, body protection compound.
- The The The peptide The class of peptides we don’t ever use intravenously would be the growth hormone releasing peptides, things like ipamorelin and GHRP-6 and hexarelin and tesamorelin.
- We We just Those are not appropriate for us to use intravenously, but we’ll use all kinds of BPC, thymosin alpha-1, GHK copper, MOTS-c, humanin, you know, cerebrolysin, all these peptides, C-max, we do use them intravenously.
- The one peptide that that does stand out that causes some side effects is the what’s known as the fat burning peptide tesamorelin, which is a growth hormone releasing peptide.
- Um with the peptides, would there be anything that you’re testing for in terms of um you know, going back to this sort of growth hormone?
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