A regenerative medicine doctor on the peptides worth knowing about — and the risks to avoid
Guest appearances — Dr. Edwin Lee, MD — A regenerative medicine doctor on the peptides worth knowing about — and the risks to avoid
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What this video covers
Can you how about a brief intro to what peptides are and what they aren’t? » Yeah, let’s talk about that because I think there’s a lot of confusion as to exactly what a peptide is and people think of them as this kind of foreign molecule that people are vetting and now they’re all over the internet. They actually most of the peptides that we use in our practice are what are called endogenous meaning your body makes them. So, just like your body makes hormones, your body actually makes peptides.
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Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- So you make these peptides like body protective compound, like the GLP1 agonist that are like the thymic peptides that are really high when you’re nice and young and they drop as we age.
- The peptides I prescribe, I send a prescription to the pharmacy.
- Where are you getting your peptides from?" Because I can tell you there’s a lot of doctors getting their peptides from research sites because it’s cheap.
- And so there’s the regenerative peptides, the repair peptides.
- People argue, well, there’s not human studies on BPC, but there’s a lot of anecdotal studies.
- So basically just like your other peptides, the GLP-1s drop and some people have low GLP-1 to begin with either genetically or from other issues.
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