Elizabeth Yurth, M.D.

Not everybody.

I have people coming in in their 60s who have nice high IGF levels, but not everybody.

I think one of the places where it really helps is in sleep.

So our body's designed to release a lot of growth hormone at night when we're sleeping, right?

That's when you recover.

And so by taking it before you go to bed, it helps deep sleep and it helps your recovery so the next day you can get up and go.

So people who are having trouble sleeping, who aren't recovering well, it's also a great group to put it on.

I also, if you think about it,

People who come in, and you'll hear this all the time, right?

So somebody's on testosterone and they're like, I'm on all this testosterone.

My testosterone is great and I'm still not building muscle.

You have to look at IGF levels because if they're low, that's contributing.

IGF is a pretty big factor still in building muscle and recovering and rebuilding after you exercise.

I think that we've hit this whole new paradigm.

I've been in this role for a long time.

So I was one of the first people using peptides, teaching peptides.

And back then, it wasn't everybody on Instagram talking about peptides all over, right?

It was kind of done in usually with physician's offices who were trained in regenerative functional medicine and prescribed through compounding pharmacies.

Now, you can get online and buy peptides anywhere, right?

When you do that, there's a few problems.