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Should you fear grey-market peptides? (yes.) · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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All right, y'all, I'm going to be honest. This one's going to ruffle some feathers. Okay.
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I typically in my business like to be a peacekeeper.
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I like to not ruffle feathers. I like to offer understanding and grace and,
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you know, extend all the love to everyone.
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And, you know, this is actually something that the Lord has really been challenging
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me on because sometimes it is at the cost of my own convictions.
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You know, like I'm too busy trying to keep you from feeling an emotional feeling
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and so then suppress what I know to be true.
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And so this is actually like a thing going on with me personally.
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And so I have gone back and forth about this episode because of that.
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I know that this is going to bring some opinions, some anger, some frustration.
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I know that we will be getting many an email and DM and probably some text messages
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from the people that have my direct phone number.
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But at the end of the day, cannot not say what I'm about to say because my heart
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is breaking for women in 2026.
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I don't know what has happened, y'all. I felt like we were on such a...
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Body self-love, you know, strong is the new skinny path.
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And then like 2026 is common. Everybody just wants to look like skeletons.
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And then when you look around and your friends look like skeletons,
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then you feel more pressure to look like a skeleton.
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And, you know, I feel like insecurities are at an all-time high.
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I feel like desperation is at an all-time high. And like, I cannot sit back and let that be.
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Okay. I may go down with the ship, but I cannot just sit back and let everybody
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chase this skinny at whatever cost mentality that we are being pitched in 2026.
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And so, you know, no one else is going to say it.
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And everyone is saying, you know, why skinny is better and why these peptides
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are amazing and all that.
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And so I'm going to have to speak out even though, you know,
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it's against, I don't, again, I don't usually like to rub people the wrong way.
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But buckle up, baby, because here we go. Okay, because this one is just so.
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It is mind boggling to me.
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This topic is absolutely mind boggling to me.
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And it makes me feel like, oh my gosh, has the entire world gone crazy?
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Okay, I digress. All right.
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All right. So I want to talk about peptides today. Now, I did a series last year about GLP-1s.
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And when I did that episode right it
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was more so from women who were getting like
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I was wanting to advise and help
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people think through if your
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doctor has offered you a GLP-1 here are some things to consider right like it
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was more from a medical standpoint that that podcast episode and I stand by
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everything I said in in in that series and and you'll understand why later in this episode but,
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Since then, like since that episode or that series aired, which was not very
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long ago, the availability of gray market peptides has absolutely exploded.
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Okay, and so I want to dive into this, but I want to dive into this with you
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understanding that there's a difference in the way that I'm speaking.
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And again, you'll understand why here in a minute.
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First of all, I want to say, I know it seems like everyone is doing this.
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Okay like your algorithm knows that you have a desire to change your health so it's showing you,
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things any chance that it gets about how to change your health right and because
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these gray market peptides are all the rage I'm sure you're seeing it I'm sure
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you're seeing your friends talk about it I'm sure if you go to the gym people
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at the gym are talking about it right And I know,
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like, the idea that, like,
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everyone's talking about it and everyone's doing it.
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Like, I know that this can give you the perception that it must be fun,
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right? Since everybody's doing it, like, surely everybody's not that dumb,
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right? So surely it's fun, okay?
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But I just want to remind you what your mama said.
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If everybody else jumped off a bridge, would you too? You know, right?
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Think back to like high school and even middle school for me.
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And I'm like thinking about looking around and think about it.
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When you looked around and all your friends were doing this,
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that and the other. And like, aren't there some things you're really,
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really glad that you didn't do?
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You know, or did you participate in those things that your friends participated
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in because they participated in it? And then you got in big trouble.
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Right. So I just I want to remind you of that. Right.
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And also I do before we dive into this, I want to acknowledge that it has to be so hard.
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This is just like a side note before we dive in. But a few weeks back,
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y'all, I went to a women's business event where everyone was either selling
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or talking about their peptide use.
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And for me, this was like a really big eye opener.
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Because again, I surround myself with like holistic health, wholesome,
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like holistic everything, really, like I love the gardening people and the bread baking people.
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And, you know, and so this, to be in the presence of like a bunch of women who,
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were selling gray market peptides, to be completely honest, it was eye-opening.
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Okay. And so there was even just this one woman, y'all, and she was like,
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I was so appalled by the end of it.
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She, we were standing in line and she introduced herself to me and she told me what she did.
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And then I told her what I did. And so then she was like, oh,
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we need to get together. And so then she started telling me all about her peptides that she sells.
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And she was just telling me how they were life-changing for her,
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how her hormones and her weight and all this stuff, everything was life-changing.
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And I mean, she really laid the sales pitch on me.
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She doesn't know me. She didn't know like my perception or my opinions on things
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like this. And so anyway, she gave me the whole spiel,
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And then it was like, I said, I said something along the lines,
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she had lost like several pounds or something. And I said, I'm so proud of you.
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Like that is, that's an achievement, right? That's an achievement to lose that weight.
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And she hesitated. And then she said, well, I have to be honest.
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I also have a prescription for a GLP-1.
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And so like, even in that moment, I thought to myself, I wonder how many people
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she has sold to on the internet.
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Like she has, you know, talked up these gray market peptides and sold and not
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acknowledged to the internet that she's also got a prescription for like a legit peptide, right?
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And it just broke my heart, not only for her, because right,
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she's trying to make money. And this is something I want us to remember throughout
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this whole conversation, y'all.
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The peptide market.
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Whether medical grade peptides or these gray market peptides,
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it's about the dollar bills.
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Okay. Just like everything else in the past. Right. Like it is a huge industry.
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And so you can't like, we cannot like cover our eyes and think that somebody
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is going to give up millions of dollars in exchange for, you know,
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knowing that I'm healthy.
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Right. Like it just, unfortunately, that's just not how we, how America,
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that's not how business works. Right.
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And so I just want to keep that in mind. But anyway, I was thinking to myself
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about her, like, I wonder how she sleeps at night doing that.
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But also, like, how many of these women are seeing her and believing her and
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trusting her because she's got the results. Right.
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You look at her, she's got her before and after pictures and everything.
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And they're buying the gray market peptide without understanding that she's
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also been working with a doctor and,
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you know, doing the things you
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know medically advised of her
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and so it just got like I actually I
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went live in my in RPF and weight loss group that
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afternoon and I was like so emotional I mean these these pregnancy hormones
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they be getting me anyway but I cried talking about it right because number
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one I felt like I was the only one in the room who was like still motivated
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for actually habit change and lifestyle change, right?
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Like effort. And then...
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Also, I was just so heartbroken thinking about my ladies who have signed up
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for that lifestyle change, for that habit change, for that effort,
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and then them being presented with this other culture constantly,
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nonstop, seeing these dramatic transformations and believing them for face value,
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you know, not knowing that this woman confessed to me behind the scenes that she's also, you know,
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been working with a physician and taking medical grade, GLP-1, you know?
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And so I know that if I felt like isolated and overwhelmed and alone in that
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moment, then I know you definitely do too, right? And you want the results.
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You want to love the skin you're in. You're seeing pictures everywhere of people promising that.
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And it can feel like, well, everyone around me is getting this by using these
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peptides I'm seeing all over the internet.
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And so the desire for relief in our frustrations with ourselves can push us
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to make those desperate decisions, right? Like that is such a true and real thing.
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And so today, I really want to give you like the real facts that you're not
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going to see on your timeline, right?
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But I hope if anything, they will equip you to be able to walk forward in confidence
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in your decision to not go down this road, right?
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Okay. And so again, with these gray market peptides, they're calling it biohacking.
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And let me just tell you something. This really frustrates me.
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Biohacking is defined as the practice of making intentional
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changes to your lifestyle diet or environment to
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improve and ideally optimize how your
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body and mind functions okay we participate in
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biohacking like I love I love the idea of some biohacking
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right like biohacking can be things like trying intermittent fasting okay for
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energy purposes or cutting out carbs like my sister and brother-in-law they
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did carnivore for a little while for I mean yeah they lost weight obviously
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but for like brain function and some autoimmune struggles.
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Okay. Just to like see like, is this going to make me feel better? You know what I mean?
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Things like cold plunging, right? Breath work, red light therapy,
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even things like using nootropics or caffeine.
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All of these things are readily available on the market. Okay.
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So they're available on the market, or they've been proven for the thing that
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they're saying they're proven for, or they're overseen by a physician, okay?
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Injecting gray market peptides at this point in the game, and as long as they're
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considered gray market, it will be this way, okay?
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Injecting gray market peptides is not biohacking. It is legit freaking gambling. Like you are gambling.
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Like you are, it is Russian roulette, baby, in my eyes and I think any health
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practitioner's eyes at this point.
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Okay. And so I'm going to talk about why today.
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So first of all, I want to be clear because I don't want anybody coming at me
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because y'all be reading like half my posts and come at me or, you know, whatever.
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I want to be clear that I'm not saying all peptides are bad.
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Right? Like peptides are not bad. Medical grade peptides have been,
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there are great things about them.
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There are also risks and scary things about them, right? But they're not bad.
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But I'm saying we need to be careful of who we trust with our information and
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make sure we aren't self-diagnosing our needs through our neighbors or our work
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friends or our trainers or whatever, okay?
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So there's a major difference between going to your doctor to get a peptide or another, you know,
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wellness practitioner, someone who holds a license that they have to uphold
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versus somebody that you teach with at the elementary school.
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Okay. There's a very big difference.
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And so I want to tell you, like, this is your body and your health you're talking about.
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And hopefully by the end of this episode today, you'll understand how serious that this really is.
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But this week alone, y'all, I heard two stories of two different people losing
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their lives and peptides were part of their lives. Now, I'm not blaming the peptide.
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Do not hear me say peptides killed these people. I do not know, right?
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But I do say it to remind you in general that like life is precious, okay?
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There are local families in my community right now that they're families of super healthy people,
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young people, people my age that would give anything to have their loved one
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back, right? That they have passed.
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And while I'm not afraid of dying, y'all, I'm not in a hurry.
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Like I want to treat my body as the temple that scripture says it is.
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And nowhere in scripture does it say to take a risk on medications that are not proven safe, right?
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In my eyes, it's irresponsible with the gift God has given us, okay? So,
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I want to just say that about gray market peptides. We do not know what we don't
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know about these new things that are entering the market.
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And the safety and long-term effects are just, they're not available to us yet.
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Again, three years from now, we could have more data and I could feel a different way.
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But like at this point in the game, it is just a no for me, dog,
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right? Like, I mean, it is just a no.
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Like for smaller pants and bigger muscles and Lord have mercy,
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tan skin, And people are injecting certain peptides for TAN scan.
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I'm like, what is happening?
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What is happening? Okay. So I want to remind you, you need to be comfortable
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and educated on what you're putting inside your body at all times.
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You need to know through and through that this is the route for you and feel
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supported by someone who actually has a medical background and even then use
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the discernment, right?
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Like even if your doctor says this is generally considered safe,
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take some time to like research that for yourself, right?
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And so that's with a doctor.
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That's with, you know, a physician. I have a PFM Plus client right now who she
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has got a rare disorder that she just found out about.
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And her doctor is encouraging medication, and rightfully so,
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to help slow the progress of this disorder.
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But the medication comes with side effects. Almost all medications come with side effects.
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And so she is medically educated, this client, and she has spent a long time
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praying over and discerning.
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Okay, the pros and the cons and what do I do from here?
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Like we cannot in this day and age just trust what anybody tells us to do or
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to take or to drink or eat or whatever.
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Especially someone who is not in the medical field. And a trainer ain't in a medical field, y'all.
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They just, they're not, okay? A prime example of this is, okay,
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so there's a peptide, a gray market peptide right now called BPC-157.
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And it is being used heavily in the fitness space for injury,
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healing, recovery, and performance, okay?
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The process by which it helps with healing is through increasing blood flow
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and cell growth, obviously, right?
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Like to increase healing, you're turning over those cells faster, right?
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But let me tell you why this can be a problem.
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There is risk that if you have like undiagnosed cancer,
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Taking this peptide, again, it's increasing that cell growth.
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It's turning over faster, right?
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So taking this peptide could cause the tumors also to grow faster.
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These peptides are not geniuses.
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They just multiplying these cells. They're not saying, oh no,
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that's a cancer cell. Let's leave that one alone. Nope, no, they're not, okay?
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Also, it could possibly interfere with our body's normal cell regulation.
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So like with the enhancements that are coming from this BPC-157 people are injecting,
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it could allow more abnormal cells to slip through the cracks and disrupt our normal cell turnover.
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Our body does not need any help turning over cells.
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Okay? And so when we're flooding our body with this peptide,
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things speed up, which you know, if you've ever looked at an assembly line,
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if you turn an assembly line from level two to level 10,
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some bad crap's bound to happen, right?
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Things gonna fly off the belt. Things gonna break.
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Things aren't going to get fully complete, right? And it's the same thing inside
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of our body, Okay, so abnormal cells slip through the cracks and then disrupt
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what the normal turnover is supposed to be like in our body.
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And y'all, if our body is not able to take it at its own pace to fully detect,
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to fully repair, or to fully destroy those abnormal cells, then what happens
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if the cells get through the cracks?
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They divide and they keep growing, possibly increasing cancer risk, right?
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And it is absolutely mind-blowing to be me, honestly,
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honestly, because on one side of the coin, I have people in my life that are
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like using super clean cleaning products and being really clean about what they
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feed their kids because like all,
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you know, everything they don't, anything to lower that the abnormal cells in their body, right?
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Anything to lower the exposure to toxins or things that our body does not welcome.
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And then we got this other side of the coin where people are injecting crap
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that may cause abnormal cell growth.
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The complete opposite, right? Like, it's absolutely insane, okay?
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And so I'm not saying, I'm not saying if you take BPC-157, you will,
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you know, have a bunch of abnormal cells and then it'll turn into cancer.
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I'm not saying that because that's not proven quite yet, but I am saying that
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scientists have enough concern about it.
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And at this point, it's just too soon to tell and it's too soon to risk your
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life over, right? This is why, this is a gray market peptide.
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This is why the FDA has not approved this peptide, right?
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There are risks with it.
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And so that's just one that I know about. I mean, I could have probably researched
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for hours, days, weeks, months about all this, but who knows what other things
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may come about, come out about other peptides at this point.
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And anything, anything that interferes with cell growth or cell survival in
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our body creates cancer risk.
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And so that's scary, right? Like anything that may interfere with that is scary.
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So that's just one example of while, yes, our bodies do produce peptides, right? Naturally.
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And I know that's what a lot of the sales pitches out there are about.
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Like these are, you know, this is naturally occurring things inside your body.
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Yeah. But also God made our body and God made our body to produce the amount
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that it needs to produce.
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Now, do environmental factors, you know, kind of slow that down or, you know, affect?
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Yes, but do we need to just start injecting ourselves with who knows how much and who knows what?
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Without monitoring from a physician, without knowing what the heck you might
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be doing to yourself at a cellular level, and honestly, without knowing where it's even coming from.
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Where is this product coming from, y'all? I'm not saying doctors know it all
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or they always make the right call, but I am saying you can bet on them way
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more than you can your local trainer,
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who's trying to make extra money at his side gig from products that he gets
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delivered to his mailbox box from who knows where.
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Who knows where, right? Who knows where they are compounding these peptides, right?
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And that alone, like I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to knock trainers.
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There's some amazing trainers out there, so please don't hear this.
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But like y'all, there are some that are not well-educated.
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You know, they know how to write a workout and that is great,
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but that doesn't mean they know the ins and outs of health and medicine, right?
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Like if I could only tell you how many trainers I've had to correct about basic
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nutrition and wellness, like literally basic nutrition and wellness, you know?
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And so there's no way I would purchase anything from them to inject in my body
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that was not approved by the FDA, right?
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Like I would have to go to a physician who highly recommended it for me and
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my body and my needs specifically.
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And then I would have to really pray about and discern and like feel a peace
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with my decision moving forward, right?
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Because like, this is another thing that just absolutely blows my mind.
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When did we start trusting like just random companies, you know,
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like with our whole health?
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Like six years ago when COVID hit, we did not trust big pharma,
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scientists, doctors, like the millions of billions of dollars they were putting
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in, right, that for COVID-19,
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help, COVID prevention, COVID vaccination, whatever.
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Like everybody was so skeptical about these really well-educated people, right?
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And what were we saying? We were saying they were in it for the money,
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right? They were trying to take all of our money.
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Now we are, like these people were trained.
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They were prepared. Like they were really smart.
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But now we're out here injecting our bodies with things that could very well
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be coming from the same CEO who previously led companies selling things like
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the monogram tote bags or the pattern leggings or Tupperware,
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to a room full of women.
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Y'all know what I'm talking about, like the legging parties and the Tupperware parties.
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Like if we went all the way to the top, could that CEO be the same one that's
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now running these peptide, you know, gray market companies? Possibly.
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I mean, I have no idea, but I'm just, I'm making a point here, right?
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These people are good at sales, sure, but why are we trusting them with our health, right?
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Like, why on earth are we trusting them with our health?
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And so, most of these peptides are considered research use only.
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And so, I don't know what has happened, but like some people feel kind of like
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empowered by this for some reason. And I think that's absolutely insane.
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Okay. So we're going to talk about this a little bit.
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So research use only means that they're still in the research phases of whatever this peptide is.
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Okay. Meaning scientists are in a lab somewhere trying to figure it out.
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Okay. They're trying to figure out if number one, this is even effective.
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This combination or this peptide is even effective.
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And two, what side effects it may cause.
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Okay. And so that is if you are getting the purest version of that specific peptide.
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Again, the scientists are working with the best quality, right?
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Without contamination or quality issues or dose issues.
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And so I want to give you a picture of what this really means. Okay.
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So did you know that 90% of drugs that go to the research phase do not make it to approval?
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Okay. So that means 90% of drugs that are being studied don't end up being classified
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as safe or effective enough for the public use.
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Okay, so only 10% of the drugs that go to labs for research with the intention
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to eventually sell actually get pushed forward for public use.
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Okay, actually get approved by the FDA to actually go on the market, okay?
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10% out of the 100, okay?
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And then, hello, from that 10%, on average, four drugs per day are recalled by the FDA, okay?
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So these are drugs that have made it all the way through the research and have
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been put on the market already, and we thought they were good enough to go to
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the public, and then they get recalled, okay?
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And y'all know this. So we hear about drug recalls all the time.
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So even after drugs are approved, issues can still come up. Recalls can happen.
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Safety monitoring continues, blah, blah, blah. Right.
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And so that tells us how important that research and regulation really is, first of all.
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Okay, like it's very important to actually get through the research phase before
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we start letting people put whatever this medication is inside of their bodies.
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Okay, and again, I hate to like keep beating a dead horse about COVID,
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but like we were so skeptical about the COVID vaccine and constantly trashing
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FDA for what we considered rushing the process, right?
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It took FDA a while to get the vaccine ready enough to feel like they felt like
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it was safe to put in human bodies.
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But even still, we all were saying it was too fast and we didn't know the long-term
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effects and we didn't know the side effects.
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But like, oh my gosh, at least it made it through the dang research process
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before we started injecting ourselves with it.
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I mean truly like what in the
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heck you know people are using these gray market peptides before the FDA even
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gets to say if they're safe or not and I know you can have your opinion about
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the FDA that's not what this is about you know like they may have rushed the
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COVID vaccine or that you know they may not always make the right cause I don't
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know and that's not what we're talking about here but the point is.
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Is we are way, way ahead of the game here in comparison to the COVID vaccine,
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and people are just readily injecting themselves with stuff that comes from God knows where, right?
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And so I just, I want you to think about that for a little while.
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So I want, okay, so FDA approved peptides are prescribed as a medication with its own name.
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So this is how you kind of know, right? Period. Like if someone is spewing a
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scientific peptide name at you, it's probably not FDA approved.
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It's probably still considered research use only. It's probably,
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you know, all these things that I've just said.
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And like the real determinant for knowing whether FDA has approved a peptide
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or a drug or whatever is like you have to go through your physician to get a
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prescription for that thing.
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And then a pharmacy creates it for you, okay?
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And so, like, it should come from a provider who can monitor you and your progress, right?
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Because, and again, this is just another reminder that even though the FDA-approved
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peptides are considered safe enough at this point,
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right, the monitoring is still important because they have side effects that
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may arise over time, right?
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I know several people who have been on a GLP-1 and have had the side effects
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come up after several months of use.
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And without monitoring of their lab values or just how they're feeling in general...
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The doctor would not have been available to say, okay, we need to stop this
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or we need to change to this or we need to do this, right?
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So monitoring is key, right?
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Now, I'm going to continue here because I know we've got our little sales people
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out here saying that, well, our peptides have a certificate of analysis, right?
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Like our peptides are pure.
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They're lab grade. again remembering that
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just because they're in the lab right now don't mean nothing because they haven't been
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approved for safety and all the things but still okay
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you think you think somehow you're ahead of the game because you're getting
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these pure lab grade peptides that haven't even made the market yet and you're
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getting ahead on the on the health benefits and all the amazing things that
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they're going to prove that they're going to do down the road and we'll see sis but But anyway...
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Several studies have been done, right? And one study showed that labs tested
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thousands of gray market peptides that claimed to be 99% pure or pharmaceutical grade.
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And over 33% failed the testing with results having either, the reason they
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failed was either they had low purity,
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the wrong substance from what was claimed, the absolute wrong thing in whatever
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it was you were injecting in yourself, or incorrect dosing.
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So like smaller, like you were thinking you were taking a smaller amount and
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you were taking a massive amount.
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And again, that matters because of all the cell stuff I just talked about earlier, right?
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And other things like just body function in general, okay?
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In another study, over 66% of the peptides studied had this issue.
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And y'all, most of these were from companies that were saying they had certificates of analysis.
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Okay and I just want to remind you that a
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certificate can be drawn up and printed
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off a canva in about 20 seconds y'all okay
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and since when do we start trusting people trusting people for a dollar right
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we live in a world where nobody trusts their siblings nobody trusts their doctors
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yet we're going to trust somebody likely overseas that we do not know who wants
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to make money and printed a certificate with our health, right?
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Because that's another thing is like sourcing. Where is this even coming from?
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You know, again, that was another hype thing about the COVID vaccine was like,
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it's being made in China. Baby, where do you think these gray market peptides are coming from?
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I mean, I mean, again, have your opinions on whatever, but like,
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not going to trust something that I do not know where it was sourced, you know?
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I'm going to do my best to protect myself when I can from those things, right?
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Okay. Also, I want to hit on this because there's been talk about creating easier
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access to certain peptides that are not yet approved by the FDA. Okay.
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And so the way they would do this is possibly by moving them from Category 2
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to Category 1, which would possibly allow compounding pharmacies to begin to make them.
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Okay. And so Category 2 drugs are drugs with significant safety risks.
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And so the movement of these drugs into Category 1 doesn't necessarily mean
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that they're now more safe, but it's being done to,
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or it's being talked about being done to protect consumers from the gray market peptides.
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Okay. Because it's like become such a thing.
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And obviously these gray market peptides have God knows what from God knows where in them.
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Right. And so in government eyes, it's like, well,
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even though the drug in its exact form, its purest form, is not fully proven safe yet, right?
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Because it's still going through the research phase.
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It's safer to allow real live pharmacies to,
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create them versus, you know,
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the harm that could come from all these random companies,
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you know putting you know
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who knows what in them right and
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so this move is
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is essentially to protect consumers from buying
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the random ingredients from the random people and putting them
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inside their bodies and because of that they're like considering compromising
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typical FDA standards like this is outside of normal FDA standards but because
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how wild and crazy kids it is out here with all these people selling peptides
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and injecting peptides from who knows where with whatever.
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They're considering it. Okay. So again, I just, I want to, I want to like say,
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I am not against medication.
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Do I think we need to run to a medication every time anything arises?
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No, because, and I was just talking to a friend about this on our walk today.
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Like we are not getting in touch with our bodies.
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We are not taking time to get to know our bodies.
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We are running from one thing to the
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next thing to the next thing to the next thing and then we're going oh wait I've
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had headaches for three days couldn't be the over consumption of caffeine
34:49
maybe I'm having migraines or you know like whatever it may
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be like we're not really because we're in such a fast-paced world it seems that
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people are not looking inward as often as they could be first you know and so
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I'm not against medication but I am against like avoidance right but I'm not against medication.
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I'm not against GLP-1, and I'm not against peptides, right? Like,
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none of this is going away.
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There's a place for them, but I am 110% against rushing into something that
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we don't fully understand, right?
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And even after that, even after the studying and the approval process,
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when these, you know, if these gray market peptides make it to public,
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you know, prescription level or whatever...
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I'm still not naive enough to believe that side effects won't appear, right?
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Or some may get recalled or whatever it may be, right?
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Like I'm still not, I'm still not convinced that just because it went through
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the FDA process that it means, oh yeah, we're supposed to just inject ourselves
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with this for the rest of our lives for overall health. You know what I mean?
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And so we have to always be discerning the risk versus the reward.
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And like, I hear people say so often, you know,
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when they resort to like medicine or supplements that after they've tried everything
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and y'all, I just want to remind you that like correcting your health has to
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be a priority for more than one week.
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You know what I mean? Like I've been trying to improve my anxiety for years
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upon years upon years, and it's still not a hundred day plus.
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Like I still don't wake up and think like, oh yes, I have no anxiety at all today ever.
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Ever, you know, like it's, it's all, it's always going to be a work.
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It's always going to be a discipline.
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Right. And like, I have just worked with so many women who've claimed they've
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tried everything before coming to me specifically for weight loss.
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Right. Like I'm not, I'm not talking about all medical conditions here, obviously.
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Right. But specifically for weight loss or for fitness needs or whatever.
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And they just don't realize how, like what they thought they should be doing,
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like how off base they were, you know, and that's why we have practitioners in the health field.
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This is why people get different degrees and have different areas of expertise,
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you know, to be able to help people who think like, I'm hopeless,
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I've tried everything, it's not working.
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Right? And you want to be able to say you healed your body from the inside out.
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Like you want to be able to say, I didn't put a bandaid on it this time,
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right? Like I healed my body from inside out.
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Like I personally want to be able to say like, even if I have to get medicated
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for my anxiety again, you know, one day down the road, I'm not promising that I'll never do that.
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But I want to say like, I'm doing the work alongside that medication, right?
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I'm not just putting a bandaid on it.
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Okay, and so peptides may help with this healing from the inside out,
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but self-diagnosing yourself from
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a person selling at your gym or on your timeline is not going to do it.
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That is just another temporary band-aid, right, and a pretty freaking scary
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one in this current economy.
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So, I mean, I want you to, like, I want you to really diagnose that or digest that. Like,
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You are not the expert. I do not care what ChatGPT says.
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You need a healthcare provider to help you with whatever the issue is.
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So if there is a cyst on your timeline promising hormone regulation or tan skin
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or weight loss or more energy, I'm not saying you may not need those things.
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But baby, you need somebody who actually will be able to come in and help you
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with the side effects or with, you know, whatever happens after you take that peptide.
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You need somebody who knows what they're doing and knows what they're talking
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about, not just somebody who knows what they're selling.
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You need a practitioner, okay? You need to know that your body is primed for that peptide.
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Things like, is your gut microbiome healthy? Y'all, this in itself is a whole,
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I could do a whole nother podcast on this.
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Like if your gut is whack, what you taking these peptides for?
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And are they going to do more harm than good? We don't know.
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Or have you ensured that your labs are normal before you even start?
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You know, like, do you even know what dosage would be appropriate for you?
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Like, is your fitness lifestyle supportive of that peptide so that you don't lose too much muscle?
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Because if you're taking a peptide that's going to burn up fat and you're sitting
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around and not doing anything trying to build muscle, well, it's going to burn up muscle too.
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Okay, and then where does that leave you?
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Are you consuming enough nutrient-dense foods so that you don't lose your hair or your energy?
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Or at a cellular level, like I talked about earlier, is that specific peptide even safe for you?
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Or are you being monitored to ensure that the peptide is not eventually causing damage?
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There is just so much responsibility that goes into taking a peptide for true
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health improvement, and you have to be aware of that.
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Like the aesthetic benefit that is being sold to you on the internet is quite
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literally what could be wrecking you long term.
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And like this is not a scare tactic.
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It's just it's a lack of evidence to show for certain that it won't.
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Like we do not have the evidence that says this will not eventually turn out horribly.
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And we honestly don't have any evidence that says this will eventually turn out amazing.
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It's just so new. It's just so incredibly new.
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And so again, if a peptide is in your realm of thought or need or whatever, find yourself a doctor.
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Okay, leave these people on your timeline alone.
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But if you are one who wants to like biohack your health, but maybe not inject
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yourself with something, you know, the bottom line is you need to slow down.
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Okay going 100 miles per hour
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from sunup to sundown is not going to help anybody's health right so if you
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are one of these that hits the ground running drinks caffeine all day can have
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a loaded tea and then go to sleep okay feels like you've got 50 tabs open at
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all times your notifications are coming in you feel like you're speeding around everywhere okay.
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Probs don't need a peptide. Probs needs a new way of life, right?
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Change your lifestyle, which does require some effort, but oh my gosh, is it so worth it, right?
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Or maybe you just need to like think about fueling yourself better.
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If you're surviving on candy, and again, like loaded teas or,
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you know, chips or whatever, could we try eating some whole foods before we try a peptide, right?
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Or could we try moving our body consistently before we go buy a peptide from
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China, right? Like, could we train our minds to meditate on what's good?
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Like, a lot of times we blame our hormones for our lack of energy and for just, like, our crappy mood.
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But then, like, also, if we were to take a peek inside your brain,
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you're constantly cycling through negative thoughts. You're constantly cycling through what's wrong.
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You're constantly cycling through how stressed you are. Like,
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no amount of hormone balance is going to be able to make you say, oh, I love my life.
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You know you have to make up your mind to stop thinking the
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negative thoughts and start thinking the positive ones right so could we
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start there right so many
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of the problems that we reach for medication for could
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be solved if we spent as much effort
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on some of the things that I just mentioned as we do searching these rabbit
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hole quick fix promises that we're seeing out here As we do dwelling on other
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people's lives that look so fabulous and great and like they've had so much
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success and their before and after pictures prove it and blah, blah, blah, right?
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Like if we just spent some time creating habits and disciplines, right?
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The need for the peptide may not even be there anymore, right?
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So again, I know I can't wait. I can't wait to hear from all my peeps out there
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that are just ready to holler back. But I'm here, baby, let's go.
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Because this one is so important to me.
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It's a very scary world out there, y'all. And I just couldn't keep my mouth shut about it.
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