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Chapter 1: What are peptides and how did they become mainstream?
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Chapter 2: How do peptides influence sobriety and mental health?
It's the same effect.
Oh my God. So after I had my boobs done, they were looking, I had drains and part of the package that comes with the boobs is peptide therapy. And They gave me two things to put in the back of my arm and I made my mom do it because I was like, oh, this is so much easier. Oh, really? And I didn't know you could put it in the back of your arm. Oh, yeah.
You can put it anywhere where it's fat.
Where there's fat? Yeah. I put mine in my... In your ass? I do my love handles.
That's where I do it. That's where you do yours? Yeah. It's less painful. It's accurate. Yep.
But we... She shoves the NAD right into my ass. Let me tell you, I may come in today because I need it.
I'm like, give me whatever feeling I had after I took that. Well, that's because it is more effective if it's in the muscle. So when I'm there, you're doing a sub-Q in the fat. And so when I can do it, I can put it in the muscle. It's a little bit more, it's absorbed a little bit better and faster.
Well, I was thriving after that. Yep. you did it for me and Michelle yeah my friend that I brought in yeah and we both were on a hundred I was like I've never felt this way in my life
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Chapter 3: What are the different types of peptides and their functions?
And I remember looking at your brother, if you don't mind me. No, let's go back. I love this. And I remember saying to him, the first thing I asked him was, are you on benzodiazepines? And he said, yes. And I said, that will keep you sick. That you will relapse over and over, over again. This makes me even want to cry. And I said, that's when I said, I'm going to help you.
But I told him that he was just never going to be able to get sober unless he got off the benzos. And the only way to get off benzos, which is really interesting, it brings us to NAD. NAD is a polypeptide. It's not actually a peptide. It doesn't really signal anything. It's not a signaler or a teacher. But what it works in is then the mitochondria, which is the Krebs cycle.
And that's a little complicated, but it's an electron carrier. It's like, what do you mean? It just helps it more efficient. So if I intake glucose and I have to go through the Krebs cycle, i.e. mitochondria, to make ATP, right? What happens in those third and eighth stage of the Krebs cycle, electrons are released. Okay. And so then you get free radicals and that's really bad and stuff.
So what it does is it actually helps with the uptake of electrons. Now you think, well, why does this have anything to do with addiction, right? Okay. Or helping with... urges or anything like that. They don't know, but there's great studies going on right now on how it's actually helping. So that's what I put them on is NAD.
So what it, let's just say for an example, I went ahead and took two grams of sugar in. And I only made one gram of ATP. Well, that's not very efficient, is it? No. Right? So this is exactly what NAD does, as well as MOTC as well. So it's great for efficiency. And when cells work efficiently, they won't break down. And you don't have to keep utilizing new cells and new cells and new cells.
But how it helps with addiction? No idea.
But you think that in the next few years, they're going to be able to tell?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, they're using them in rehabs. I've heard that they're now testing them and really finding really great results with people who just cannot get off, you know, whatever substance that they're suffering from. Since I started taking them about, I think I'm six or eight weeks in now, I have, my sex drive has actually gone down a lot. Wow. A lot. I mean, is that a good thing? Do you care?
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Chapter 4: How do peptides work for weight loss and muscle gain?
Good God. I take care of that on my own. Yeah, get it done. We get the job done. I have a question for you. The NAD, a lot of people are talking about how it's coming in pill form that you can order. Worth it, not worth it?
According to Dr. Seeds, anything by pill form, it's not going to be as effective. That's what I'll tell you about that.
You know what? I think I heard that there's a company out there that you could do GLP-1s in a pill form as well now. But again, probably not as effective. Or is it? I don't know. You tell me. Because I did cave to the NAD pill. I don't know if I've noticed a difference. I don't look like I'm 25 still. So how long does it take to notice the results once you start taking the peptides?
Oh, they're usually immediately. They're very, very short-acting peptides. Most peptides are really short-acting. There's some that are a little bit longer. Some of the growth hormone ones, which are not always the best either, because the gremlin I was talking to you about earlier... That can increase the grenolining sort of anxiety as well. Those are a little bit longer term ones.
But typically most things have really short half-life. I don't know if that made sense to you, but half-lives, they usually react really quickly and then they're out of the body. They just break down and they've done their job. I love that. Yeah, we're constantly producing peptides throughout the day except me.
It would have to be quick because when I got my schedule, the cycles are relatively short. You're not on peptides for an extended period of time. There's maybe a week, week and a half, two. Is that around the range? And then you take a break from your cycle.
Yeah.
Right. So basically what we're doing is we're telling the body to release growth hormone. Then what does the growth hormone do? Utilizes fat for metabolism, right? It builds up muscle. So that part, once they've done their job, that part stays. But the actual peptides action is very short. Okay. It's a short acting. They do their job. They release the hormone, whatever they're going to do.
And the results of that last.
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Chapter 5: What are the risks of self-administering peptides?
Yeah, and you usually get, they're immediate. They're pretty immediate, you know, but as far as how they work, so copper peptide induces a connective tissue, which is then, i.e., fibroblast cells are stimulating and it produces collagen. TB is the... You're going to love this one. What? The TB500 is from the thymus gland.
Now, as you know, when we're children, we have... This thymus gland is really active and it releases the thymus and alpha-4. Now, what happens there is that as we get a little older, it starts to degenerate and it just gets replaced by fat. So we're not even... you know, making any more of it. Okay.
So you're replacing something that when you were a teenager, you used to have, and you don't have that much anymore. So that's really a good one. And then the BPC is really good for inflammation, tendon healing. I always talk about, I think the biggest attribute of aging, the attributed factor of aging is inflammation.
100%.
And so this BPC is made in our stomachs and the gastric line, intestine line. Yeah. And it helps with proliferation. That means the cell turnover.
induces healing decreases inflammation and collagen you love that fibroblast cells right there is our little fibroblast cells but i love this so that's why the glow is really good it's probably in the tb and the bpc is not a heavy heavy dose and the ghk you could take one to two milligrams a day for like a long period of time
I'm getting on it. I'm getting on it, Amber. I am so happy to be alive today. Let me just say. Okay, why? Tell me. Because we have all of this amazing... Yes, it's all about, you know, helps with vanity, right? All of the things that we want to look good. But like, think of all these things that our ancestors didn't have. Like even my mom. Oh my God, I wish I could get my mom on this stuff.
Like just to educate her and like...
inflammation think about the trickle effect that inflammation has down to like even cancer I imagine listen I'm not a doctor but I can imagine it's just this web that can help us heal in so many different ways mentally physically like this is this is amazing we live in a really cool time no it is incredible and the fact that it's something that your body already makes is
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Chapter 6: How can peptides improve skin health and beauty?
And so these pharmacies make sure that they're third-party tested. So they're checking for not only the sterility of it, but the actual molecule itself. And we really want to get 99.9% to 100% pure peptide that resembles our own. So it...
I love this. If you want to be on peptides and you're in the Los Angeles area, I highly recommend Skin Tide Aesthetics. I go to Leah. I've been going to her for all of my injectables for the longest. I'm so happy that you made time for us.
Oh, thank you. It's been a privilege. I so appreciate coming on and I just love you. So thank you.
Thank you. Amber, I love you so much. I hope I covered everything.
I love you.
You covered everything and you were freaking awesome. And I just, I'm like passionate about peptides right now. And even Heather and Terry Dubrow, who I don't know if you know Amber, they're, um, Heather is on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and her husband is like a world renowned surgeon. And they were on the podcast a while back.
And then, you know, I started telling them about this peptide journey and they were raving about it. And so happy that I had you because you were educating me on it. So I, I'm really excited for you guys to listen to this episode. Thank you for joining us. I'm going to catch you guys. Well, we're going to catch you guys next week for an unlikely affair. Love you. Bye. Bye.
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Chapter 7: What should you consider before starting peptide therapy?
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