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Dr. Craig Koniver

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Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Exactly. Yeah. And so you can do things like that with a compounding pharmacy. But again, just to make sure people understand, compounding pharmacies are highly regulated, highly regulated. Again, there's always going to be bad apples.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

But physicians who know how to work with compounding pharmacies, I think, provide access to things that these conventional, both pharmaceuticals and conventional pharmacies can't.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

But physicians who know how to work with compounding pharmacies, I think, provide access to things that these conventional, both pharmaceuticals and conventional pharmacies can't.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

But physicians who know how to work with compounding pharmacies, I think, provide access to things that these conventional, both pharmaceuticals and conventional pharmacies can't.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah, and who's developing a relationship. So we, for any peptide that we use, we meet with the patient. We make sure they're a good fit. We make sure that there's no contraindications.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah, and who's developing a relationship. So we, for any peptide that we use, we meet with the patient. We make sure they're a good fit. We make sure that there's no contraindications.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Yeah, and who's developing a relationship. So we, for any peptide that we use, we meet with the patient. We make sure they're a good fit. We make sure that there's no contraindications.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

We also can recommend and specifically dial it up or down, whatever it is, come up with this is what we think you should use based upon your life experience, the medicines you're taking or not taking, the conditions you're treating or not treating. I think that's really important. Again, I'm biased being a physician. My whole goal is to get to know patients.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

We also can recommend and specifically dial it up or down, whatever it is, come up with this is what we think you should use based upon your life experience, the medicines you're taking or not taking, the conditions you're treating or not treating. I think that's really important. Again, I'm biased being a physician. My whole goal is to get to know patients.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

We also can recommend and specifically dial it up or down, whatever it is, come up with this is what we think you should use based upon your life experience, the medicines you're taking or not taking, the conditions you're treating or not treating. I think that's really important. Again, I'm biased being a physician. My whole goal is to get to know patients.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

That's why I'm here is to kind of walk that walk and help people in that regard. And if someone's out there on the internet doing it themselves, they're walking in kind of on their own. And so not to make it like everything bad is going to happen, but when you have the help of someone who has experience, that goes a long way. I think particularly with something like this.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

That's why I'm here is to kind of walk that walk and help people in that regard. And if someone's out there on the internet doing it themselves, they're walking in kind of on their own. And so not to make it like everything bad is going to happen, but when you have the help of someone who has experience, that goes a long way. I think particularly with something like this.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

That's why I'm here is to kind of walk that walk and help people in that regard. And if someone's out there on the internet doing it themselves, they're walking in kind of on their own. And so not to make it like everything bad is going to happen, but when you have the help of someone who has experience, that goes a long way. I think particularly with something like this.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Well, and then taking a step further, you know, getting away from just peptides. But I remember this was, I don't know, 15 years ago, someone was taking advice from a very famous doctor on TV about taking an oral compound to lose weight. And they called me up and they said, I'm having terrible headaches, terrible headaches for days. They came in, their blood pressure was through the roof.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Well, and then taking a step further, you know, getting away from just peptides. But I remember this was, I don't know, 15 years ago, someone was taking advice from a very famous doctor on TV about taking an oral compound to lose weight. And they called me up and they said, I'm having terrible headaches, terrible headaches for days. They came in, their blood pressure was through the roof.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

Well, and then taking a step further, you know, getting away from just peptides. But I remember this was, I don't know, 15 years ago, someone was taking advice from a very famous doctor on TV about taking an oral compound to lose weight. And they called me up and they said, I'm having terrible headaches, terrible headaches for days. They came in, their blood pressure was through the roof.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

You know, like, I don't remember the specific numbers, but let's just say 220 over 140. And normally it's 120 over 80. Well, did you take anything differently? Yeah, this doctor recommended I take this weight loss compound, right? So the problem is people have access to all this information.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

You know, like, I don't remember the specific numbers, but let's just say 220 over 140. And normally it's 120 over 80. Well, did you take anything differently? Yeah, this doctor recommended I take this weight loss compound, right? So the problem is people have access to all this information.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

You know, like, I don't remember the specific numbers, but let's just say 220 over 140. And normally it's 120 over 80. Well, did you take anything differently? Yeah, this doctor recommended I take this weight loss compound, right? So the problem is people have access to all this information.

Huberman Lab
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver

But if they're not under the guidance of a doctor to help clean up the mess, and we clean up the mess, and not that there's always mess, but this is what we enjoy doing. As a physician, we've seen the darkest of dark. We're able to help people when things don't go perfectly planned, right?