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0:09Speaker 0What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Peptide of the Week Podcast.
0:13Speaker 0I'm your host, JD Denham, and as always, across the way, soon to be sitting next to me, my good friend and co host, Mr. William T. Haas. What's up, my man?
0:25Speaker 1Friday. Life's good. Happy Friday.
0:27Speaker 0Last week before the holiday weekend, then we get into the holiday season.
0:32Speaker 0Boy, man.
0:34Speaker 0Time should go fast.
0:36Speaker 0And what do you got going next week? Are you I didn't even ask you yet. Are you going out of town or anything? Are you No.
0:42Speaker 1No. I'm go I'm chilling. Although,
0:45Speaker 1we are there's, like, lots of parties
0:47Speaker 1that I have to go to. You know?
0:50Speaker 1But, no, we're staying home. We're actually hosting Thanksgiving at our house.
0:55Speaker 1Nice. And I I was in I'm in charge of the activities,
1:00Speaker 1so I actually have some dude, so honest, like, I just
1:03Speaker 1so I don't drink. Right? You know that. I don't drink, do anything. Right? Most people do. That's a kind of a fun way to, like, hang out together. You know? Yeah. So I and I also almost have, like, ADD. Like, I don't like sitting in places
1:16Speaker 1and just talking to people.
1:19Speaker 1So
1:20Speaker 1I want there to be, like, constant activities. Like, I'm the worst when my girlfriend always gets mad at me for I, like, order my food, and then I go, and can I have the check, please?
1:29Speaker 1Because I don't like sitting there full
1:32Speaker 1being held hostage by the by the waitress. Which most people are waiting there after dinner until they're talking. My wife and I are like, let's get out of here, dude. Yeah. I wanna just leave. Worse. But so I want some other things to,
1:44Speaker 1I don't know, to distract us. So I bought this 9 foot
1:48Speaker 1inflatable. And so we have the kid in a pool in the backyard. Right? And the kid and Ali's dad is cool,
1:54Speaker 1playing college baseball, and he's he's he don't know. He's into sports and so is the kid. And so I bought this, like, 9 foot inflatable
2:02Speaker 1and Velcro dartboard,
2:05Speaker 1essentially. Right? And it came with tennis balls that are Velcro, golf golf balls that are Velcro,
2:11Speaker 1and other, like, soccer balls. So, basically, you can kick and throw balls or whack balls across the pool onto this giant inflatable
2:19Speaker 1target
2:20Speaker 1and a stick. And then I got a couple floating
2:24Speaker 1golf ball greens.
2:26Speaker 1Right? They go into the pool, and so we can chip. Her dad lives on a golf course too. So he's probably gonna be the only 1 who actually can, like, chip on the green and make it stay there.
2:35Speaker 1And I don't know. I got these other darts that
2:38Speaker 1these big rubber darts that stick to anything as you throw
2:42Speaker 1Do they drink? They've been everywhere. Family drink? Yeah. Okay. Although her dad although so her dad does drink, and
2:50Speaker 1the family
2:52Speaker 1they've had problems with it a lot. But he's, you know, he is his own man, and he ain't gonna do anything. So I don't know. Recently, he was going through a tough time, was drinking a lot. They were concerned. I talked to him, and he just but he's not really the true alcoholic. Right? He just picked himself up by his bootstraps, and he hasn't had a drop in 2 months. He's lost, like, 40 pounds. And and
3:14Speaker 1frankly, he's like, dude, my life, I've I've never been happier,
3:17Speaker 1obviously.
3:18Speaker 1But he was able just just to do it. He's gone to Green Bay and gone to Packers games with his buddies and not not drink anything.
3:24Speaker 0Right.
3:26Speaker 1But,
3:27Speaker 1yeah.
3:28Speaker 0Cool, man. He's not drinking and life is great for him. There it is. Tends to happen that way. Right?
3:34Speaker 1It does.
3:36Speaker 0Dang.
3:37Speaker 0It's the 2 and A episode. We always enjoy these. We've scanned through them and should go pretty quick. Some good questions.
3:45Speaker 0It's coming on the easier side today. Just kind of a matter of an opinion. So why don't you start, man? Why don't you get us cracking?
3:53Speaker 1Okay. Number 1, my wife, 55 years old and
3:57Speaker 1165
3:58Speaker 1pounds, has been taking Retta for 4 months now.
4:01Speaker 1Up to 4 migs plus also alternatives
4:04Speaker 1each morning or alternates
4:06Speaker 1between AOD and MOTS-three
4:08Speaker 1and then takes Tesamorelin 5 nights a week and has not lost weight. Good diet, moves a lot, walking, working in the yard, in the house, not doing any regular exercises,
4:18Speaker 1but not always on the run. Any thoughts on why? Thanks.
4:24Speaker 0So,
4:26Speaker 1you know, we both go, mm-mm.
4:28Speaker 0Doesn't make any sense to me. I think that
4:32Speaker 199 percent of us are
4:35Speaker 1just have a body that works. And when you
4:38Speaker 1take the calories out
4:41Speaker 1or exercise a little bit, weight comes off. Some people, though, have some other, like, metabolic condition that they just can't. I doubt that this is it. My 1st thought is she doesn't have enough muscle.
4:53Speaker 1We all know that I mean, she's 55
4:56Speaker 1years old. Right? And
4:58Speaker 1a woman and if you don't have enough muscle, your metabolism is super duper duper slow.
5:05Speaker 1My best suggestion would be to add some muscle.
5:10Speaker 1Also
5:11Speaker 0You got some ketogog in there. She's got Tesamorelin. Yeah.
5:16Speaker 1Do that 7 nights a week. I don't know why
5:19Speaker 15.
5:20Speaker 1I'd be curious about the dosing of the AOD and MOTS-c,
5:24Speaker 1and I would run those
5:26Speaker 1daily, every day,
5:28Speaker 1and not alternate.
5:29Speaker 1But
5:32Speaker 1and also, Retta, I mean, it's really this is the 1st time I've ever heard somebody takes take it. It right off. Mean, yeah.
5:39Speaker 01st off, check the supplier,
5:41Speaker 0the provider, who knows? Mean, not saying it's good or bad, who knows? That
5:46Speaker 0would be my 1st opinion.
5:48Speaker 0If it's a company that's vetted and obviously has Genosick tests and all that stuff,
5:53Speaker 0then you know that it's good.
5:55Speaker 0What would be that's,
5:56Speaker 0I mean- But hell, I It's gonna happen. I mean, you're your science project like we all are. I mean, Retta, you've been on it for 4 months. I've just never seen anybody not get results from it.
6:07Speaker 0You might be the 1.
6:08Speaker 0Try to change your diet. He says a good diet, that is super vague. What does that mean?
6:14Speaker 0Try high fat, low carb. If that doesn't work, try high carb and low fat. You got to just try to figure out because you're a science project. It doesn't make sense to either of us.
6:26Speaker 0We are not
6:27Speaker 0in the know of all.
6:29Speaker 0Yeah. But something's not right.
6:31Speaker 0That
6:33Speaker 0supplement stack
6:34Speaker 0should work on anybody.
6:37Speaker 1It should and, I mean, so maybe
6:40Speaker 1the other thing is, like, cool, it might be a great product, and it could have been damaged
6:46Speaker 1by light or heat
6:49Speaker 1or
6:50Speaker 1by any other environmental circumstance. I also would play the maybe play around with the frequency of that, of those 4 mg. And also, like, look, like, 2.5 mg about the starting 0.15
7:02Speaker 1is the max dose and, like, some people
7:05Speaker 1some people need more. I guess I would ask is is she of any does she feel that Reta at all? And what I mean by that is does she feel like she's getting full really quick? Right. She should.
7:17Speaker 1She should have a little bit of a reduced appetite. Right? It doesn't reduce your appetite like the others, but still should have a little bit of a reduced appetite. And you should definitely be be feel full
7:28Speaker 1much
7:29Speaker 1faster and
7:30Speaker 1kind of food preferences should be changing. So
7:33Speaker 1if she's not feeling those,
7:35Speaker 1she can up the dose. I don't know if she's doing that all at once, once a week, If she's splitting it, if you're doing it once a week, hey. How about let's try and split it into 3?
7:44Speaker 1Yeah. If you're doing it in 3 right now, try do it once a week.
7:48Speaker 0Rolling them tears up a tide instead of the Retrutide. We're obviously big fans of Retrutide, but I don't know. Try that. Like, you guys gonna have to try some things. I wish we had better answers for you, but it really doesn't make sense, to be honest with you. Mhmm. Those are that's a stack that if it's good product,
8:03Speaker 0I can't see it not working for anybody because this is a it's a rat sack. AOD and Retatrut together is like a freaking light of fire under fat.
8:11Speaker 0Yeah. Antithrombin,
8:12Speaker 0like that burns your belly fat. Man, it's a good stack, man. So- Yeah. If,
8:17Speaker 1I mean, if all of those other things are true, you know,
8:22Speaker 1and what does good diet mean, etcetera?
8:24Speaker 1Yeah.
8:25Speaker 0Eat more. Try eating more. Believe it not. I would try eating more. I'd eat eat more. I'd try eating more protein. But it can happen very easily. They're not eating enough, so therefore your metabolism completely stops.
8:35Speaker 1Yeah.
8:36Speaker 0You know I mean? So try that. And I hope that it's you know that we'd probably not the best answer, but it's just a difficult 1 to answer because it doesn't really make sense. So
8:45Speaker 0hope that helps. All right, been taking CJC and Ipamorelin 100 micrograms
8:51Speaker 0each day,
8:53Speaker 0I would imagine. 5 days a week for the past 4 weeks.
8:57Speaker 0I started developing canker sores
9:00Speaker 0over the past 2 weeks,
9:01Speaker 0and at 1st I thought
9:04Speaker 0something I was eating, but my diet hasn't changed. I started doing some research and found that changes in hormones,
9:11Speaker 0specifically growth hormone, can cause this. Have you heard of anyone experienced this before?
9:17Speaker 1My answer is no. So I have not heard of anybody specifically
9:21Speaker 1experienced that.
9:25Speaker 1I've done some research on this after I saw your question. As
9:30Speaker 1I thought, like,
9:32Speaker 1there's no direct correlation.
9:34Speaker 1There is no direct correlation that says, nope, yep, that does happen. But
9:39Speaker 1your hormones are changing and just weird stuff and everybody's
9:43Speaker 1hormones
9:44Speaker 1changes, right? If your hormones are changing, weird things happen.
9:47Speaker 1And that absolutely could be it. It also could just be a coincidence. I don't know. Maybe you did eat some Sour Patch Kids 1 day.
9:54Speaker 1Maybe you were eating drinking orange juice once and you didn't, you know, you didn't realize it. Maybe you're stressed. Maybe you're not eating enough food.
10:03Speaker 1There's a lot of things that can cause canker sores.
10:07Speaker 0Yeah, is it a coincidence? I've heard actually heard a couple of people talk about this. I can't say that it's gonna be, but like he just said, I mean, just to be very direct and blunt and just if we slow down and just be logical, you are injecting something into your body. Therefore, it's gonna change regardless, right? So your body is going to either go through some changes, it's going to need some time to adapt. Everybody is very different. It's the same thing with like testosterone replacement. Some guys convert to some guy inject testosterone and it converts to estrogen immediately. Some guys hardly at all. It's no right or wrong or it's just an is, you know? So
10:40Speaker 0I wouldn't worry too much about it. I think even if you're kind of dealing with that, I would imagine it's gonna be short lived. I wouldn't stress on it too much. I mean, change from CJC and go to Tesamorelin, Ipamorelin anyway. I think it's a better compound anyway. Try that.
10:54Speaker 1That's a good point. I would actually try that. Also, I mean, taking 100 micrograms,
10:59Speaker 1right, of each daily is a very low dose. So
11:05Speaker 1that's interesting.
11:07Speaker 1I would also say that there's a lot of things when you start HGH or a secretagog. Right. A couple things that definitely people should feel is feeling just tired and
11:18Speaker 1low energy, but that that goes away. Short lived. Yeah. If you yeah. Short lived.
11:24Speaker 0Some headaches, but, yeah, short lived. If you just kind of stay the course, you have to you'll you'll outrun it, and you'll be fine. 18 hits. Your body just did it. Elbows because it means it's working. I mean, that's low dose. I wouldn't think that you would feel that at that. But again, you are a science project, maybe you do. I would say final answer, switch from CJC, go to the blend,
11:45Speaker 1Tesamorelin, Ipamorelin blend, try that. Yeah. Super. Good. And by the way, the achiness and everything does not go away.
11:51Speaker 1But those other 2, those go away, but this stuff is a good sign. Right? Arthritic kind of knuckles.
11:57Speaker 1Achin elbows. That's a good that's a good sign that it's working and
12:01Speaker 1stuff is good.
12:03Speaker 1Alright.
12:04Speaker 1Sup, warriors? I've been on TRT for 9 months, and it's been amazing until now. I started to see and feel some bumps on my shoulder. It feels like goosebumps and 1 or 2 pimples on my upper chest. I've been taking test sipunate 200 mg,
12:19Speaker 150 units twice a week.
12:21Speaker 1So he's taking 200 mg a week and 0.25
12:26Speaker 1anastrozole
12:27Speaker 1AKA Arimidex 24 hours after my testosterone shot. So that's once a week,
12:33Speaker 10.25.
12:35Speaker 1Usually, pills come in 1 mg pills, by the way.
12:38Speaker 1My testosterone is 1,089.
12:43Speaker 1My estradiol is 49,
12:45Speaker 1which is high. 2 months ago, my estradiol was 13.
12:49Speaker 1My free testosterone is 34.2.
12:53Speaker 1I'm thinking of lowering my dose to 40 units twice a week, increasing my anastrozole
12:58Speaker 1to 1 mg per week. My diet have been the same since the start of the TOT. My question is, what are your thoughts on why the spike of estradiol all of a sudden? What are your thoughts on my course of action? Thank you for your time and answer. Here you go. Just talked about on the last 1. You have
13:13Speaker 0everybody's different. You're like me. You probably convert to estrogen quickly. You're an easy fix. Not I mean, I would definitely You don't necessarily have to bring your testosterone. Your levels on testosterone look good to me.
13:24Speaker 0I mean, a little, little, little high on the total test, but 34 of the free test is good.
13:31Speaker 0You're just converting to estrogen, so just I would up the Rimadex. I would personally stick at that dose a little longer,
13:38Speaker 0take a little more Rimadex. That should work in my opinion. I mean, what would you say, Will, like twice a week, even like-
13:45Speaker 1That's probably a good deal.
13:46Speaker 1I'd
13:47Speaker 1probably go up a little bit a bit more. Definitely go up on the s-3.3
13:52Speaker 0blocker. Yeah. Yeah, like Monday, Thursday at least. You could even do like 0.25 Monday, Wednesday,
13:59Speaker 0Friday for a while.
14:01Speaker 0As we say, we're gonna be redundant. You are a science project. You will need to find your sweet spot. You sound like you're like me, converts your testosterone, converts to estrogen. You're gonna need to play around with it a little bit until you can find your sweet spot. I would leave the test where it's at, and I would just up the Rimidex. You should be fine right there. Okay. Yeah. Here's what I would do as me.
14:23Speaker 1And 1st of all, why after 9 months is it doing this? Well, you have siponate. It's a long ester. Okay? It's 7 day, like, active 0.5 life. Okay? And you're not doing a high dose, but guess what? That compounds before it's completely out of you. Right? It's you're doing a little bit more, and it's slowly compounding in your system. So
14:42Speaker 1your your your test levels, your blood serum levels are not the same as they were week 2 that you started. K? They slowly are rising, rising, rising, rising as our s as our test rises, right, so does our estrogen. Our body likes its specific ratio that we've been naturally given. So that's why it's happening 9 months later. Makes sense. It's a slow, slow, slow increase because you're not doing a whole bunch of tests. Right? You're not doing a lot. You're so I would keep the test that you're doing at what you are doing. I would say take 0.5 of an Arimidex 3 times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, until those symptoms are gone. Then
15:20Speaker 1stay doing that for another week till you stabilize and make sure they stay gone. Then you incrementally,
15:27Speaker 1week by week, just barely pull some Mirimidex. Right? So 0.5 a mg 3 times a week. Do that for 2 weeks. Make sure symptoms are gone.
15:36Speaker 1Then maybe do 0.5,
15:38Speaker 10.25, 0.5.
15:40Speaker 1Cool. Symptoms gone still, maybe drop it down to 0.25,
15:44Speaker 10.25,
15:45Speaker 10.5.
15:45Speaker 1Symptoms gone until
15:47Speaker 1I mean, the goal is to take as little of that as possible, but I would take it more consistently. Do not take 1 mg
15:53Speaker 1once a week. Okay? If you're gonna take 1 mg,
15:56Speaker 1split that into, you know, 3 different doses. You want things to be very consistent.
16:01Speaker 0Don't just wanna take 1 and let it kill it all. So that's what I do. I guarantee it'll work. Yeah, I think that's good. Mean, 1 another trick that you can do is you can spread out instead of 2 shots of tests, you can spread out the test a little more. You could do it daily and microdose it. Some people choose to do that.
16:18Speaker 0That becomes a lot pin that much, but you can at least go Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That's what I'm currently doing because I do convert to estrogen pretty easily.
16:26Speaker 0And that can help a little bit as well, so as you stay a little bit more stable instead of 2 big shot, 2 big doses up. So that can help a little bit. So little tricks that you can do, but again, you're gonna need to find what works for you, brother. So- Yeah. Take a little while.
16:40Speaker 1Yep. Who's that, me? You are
16:44Speaker 0Bots, the cerebral lysine, wondering about the dosage.
16:49Speaker 0All the info I see is about
16:52Speaker 0ampoules and refers to doses in milliliters,
16:56Speaker 1not Migs.
16:58Speaker 0It's kind of an odd 1
17:00Speaker 0because
17:02Speaker 0this compound has been difficult even for us.
17:05Speaker 0I remember when you 1st kind of digging into it, I was telling Will that it's
17:09Speaker 0reporting in mills. I was like,
17:11Speaker 0You know, and like, we kind of we
17:13Speaker 0both kind of put a lot of time into it in regards to kind of digging into it. So it's to be blunt,
17:20Speaker 0it's somewhat of even the doses that we kind of go through is somewhat of an educated
17:26Speaker 0researched
17:28Speaker 0opinion, for lack of a better way to say it, because there's just, it's a lot of just differences
17:32Speaker 0out there and it's hard. This one's a hard 1. I would say the hardest 1 so far on getting the dosage right. So,
17:38Speaker 0we've sent to a lot of people a website that we refer to
17:43Speaker 1And on there, you wanna go through that, Will? You're the Yeah, yeah. So it is he is right. It's right. They all just refer to mills. Like, so that means absolutely nothing. Right? And 1 mill, I don't give that means nothing if you don't know what the concentration is. So
17:58Speaker 1after lots of research, the standard concentration,
18:01Speaker 1by the way, is 2 15 mg/ml.
18:05Speaker 1Okay? That is
18:07Speaker 1very consistent.
18:09Speaker 1If you so 2 15 mg/ml.
18:13Speaker 1Now, you also see people saying like,
18:16Speaker 1take 10 ml a day, right?
18:19Speaker 1Means What does mean? 10. Okay. So that means 10 times 200
18:25Speaker 1mg.
18:26Speaker 1Right? So that's 2000 mg daily. That's a ton. Okay?
18:32Speaker 1Like, I know
18:35Speaker 1I don't know. I most recently have been taking, you know, a 30 mg bottle. So the bottles come with 30 mg, and now that's that would be saying I wanna take 2000 a day.
18:44Speaker 1That's crazy.
18:46Speaker 1So for the use of, like, practical purposes, but that seems to be, like,
18:52Speaker 1clinical, like, any inpatient hospital use that they are referring to. My suggestion
18:58Speaker 1is to do somewhere instead
19:00Speaker 1to around, like, honestly,
19:03Speaker 15 mgs to 30 mgs
19:05Speaker 1a day.
19:07Speaker 1Okay? 5 mgs to 30 mgs a day.
19:12Speaker 1And I would do it, I don't know,
19:15Speaker 1what do you say, like
19:17Speaker 1I'm
19:18Speaker 1forgetting my dosage.
19:19Speaker 1My
19:20Speaker 1I know we only want to I would run it maybe 3 times a year.
19:26Speaker 110 to 30 days. 10 to 30 days. Sorry.
19:30Speaker 1So
19:32Speaker 1maybe 5 to 30 mgs a day
19:35Speaker 1for 10 to 30 days, then take that same time off.
19:39Speaker 0Maybe 2 weeks That's still a lot. That's still a lot. That's still a lot.
19:44Speaker 0But that's what it says, man. So It's really
19:47Speaker 1it's a tough 1, dude. There's literally there's only 1 company that actually
19:53Speaker 1makes it like Pfizer,
19:55Speaker 1right? They make Viagra.
19:57Speaker 1There's only 1 company that makes the true Cerebrolysin. Now, I'm not saying that all the other Cerebrolysin isn't real, but there's only 1 that has an
20:05Speaker 1actual pharmaceutical brand name.
20:07Speaker 1The other stuff is real. It's just a generic form.
20:11Speaker 1So also, cerebralizin,
20:14Speaker 1just so everybody knows and hasn't stopped me, but literally is made from pigs' brains.
20:21Speaker 1Hopefully, that answers, though.
20:36Speaker 1Milligrams a day.
20:38Speaker 0Yeah.
20:41Speaker 0Well, so if you even take 30 mg, that's a bottle. That's a bottle. So I
20:45Speaker 1hope you have a couple of pucks to do it properly. And, I mean It works great. It's a great compound, but it's just it's a tough 1, man. It's a tough 1. I did say 5 5 to 30 Migs, though. Yeah. Right? I would start it I mean, I think that I the last time I was running it, I think I was doing 10 or 15
21:04Speaker 0a day. How'd you feel? I remember taking it.
21:07Speaker 1Felt good. I felt great.
21:09Speaker 1My brain was actually firing and I was awake. You know, I try to there's been times in my life where I've taken too many things at once.
21:17Speaker 1And
21:18Speaker 1I need to I think at that time, I was taking quite a few.
21:22Speaker 1But
21:23Speaker 1I mean, I loved it. Thought I think that that is what was doing it to my brain. I wasn't taking any other nootropics at the time. Nice. Smooth clarity.
21:32Speaker 1When I was awake, no need for any naps ever.
21:35Speaker 1Didn't drink as much coffee.
21:37Speaker 0Water's the key, folks, too. You ever notice? Salt water. Dude, salt water's good too. But if you're especially drinking salt water in your water, you're not really necessarily hydrating. So Celtic salt, man, I have it right here. A blast of stuff. I drink so much Celtic salt. It's really good for you. Mineral.
21:52Speaker 1Yeah. Do you ever notice those days where like, man, I'm still tired. I've drank like 4 cups of coffee is you know, probably just dehydrated If you just go slam a whole bunch of water
22:02Speaker 0Yeah. I'm assuming energy level will come back. Like, you come in like, oh, lick my fingers and like take a big thing of salt and let it sit into my my tongue for a bit and then drink water.
22:11Speaker 0I read that works well, so anyways, I do it. Seemed to work. This is why they give cows salt
22:16Speaker 1licks. So you notice they give cows salt licks so they don't have to give them so much water because they feel like they're
22:22Speaker 1it'll promote yeah. But it really won't hydrate you just licking the salt, but you need to drink.
22:29Speaker 1But it's a good way to save water, those poor cows.
22:33Speaker 1So you actually need to drink the salt water too. But if you know you lick salt, it makes your water mouth salivate.
22:38Speaker 0Yep.
22:40Speaker 0Alright, man. You're a big dog. Oh, sorry. Alright. I'm a 29 year old male.
22:44Speaker 1Had the booking stack question a couple weeks ago.
22:48Speaker 1Did 1 month of DBAL
22:50Speaker 1at 21 years old.
22:52Speaker 1No PCT due to ignorance. Good. Many health complications followed. At 29, I'm just now starting to figure my body out. The only place I hold fat is my waist. Other than that, I've had very lean build.
23:03Speaker 1I have not had any tests done yet, but
23:07Speaker 1I'm going to be setting something up soon and hopefully start TRT.
23:10Speaker 1Just wondering what your thoughts are on if I
23:14Speaker 1have any other problems than testosterone
23:16Speaker 1that I should get looked at. Okay? I eat very clean. I exercise 5 to 6 days a week on topping of having, on top of having a very active job. I can count on 1 hand how many times I've consumed over 2,400 calories in a day over the last 4 months, and I hit my macros every day, yet the love handles never disappear. It's only been 4 months. This question comes from hearing guys say that they're consuming 3,500 to 4,000 calories and are way leaner than I ever dreamed of being. Long winded, but thanks in advance. All right, dude. No problem.
23:45Speaker 1Like, everybody has different genetics, too. You know? Sorry,
23:49Speaker 1okay, you have some genetic
23:51Speaker 1love handles.
23:53Speaker 1Absolutely, your testosterone might be low even at 29, right? The debug could have really, really lowered it. It could just be naturally
24:00Speaker 1a little bit lower. So it's harder for you to burn fat.
24:06Speaker 1And I would definitely get that blood test and see what your test levels are, see what your free test is, suit your IGF-one levels. I mean, there's a ton of others. We can give you a
24:17Speaker 1give you a
24:19Speaker 1like, make sure when you go to your doctor and get your blood test that you make him check all of the panels. We can send you a or refer you. Actually,
24:27Speaker 1if you just go to peptideresearchinstitute.org,
24:31Speaker 1on there,
24:32Speaker 1there's a sheet that says like mail
24:34Speaker 1blood test panel. And it will tell you, Hey, go to your doctor and have him check all these boxes so they actually test you for that, right, instead of just spending your insurance money and getting tested for your total testosterone.
24:45Speaker 0Yeah.
24:46Speaker 1So get tested for absolutely everything.
24:51Speaker 1Yeah. A lot of hard work. And 4 months, 1st of all, dude, like, that is the hardest. Right? We all get leaner like this. Right?
24:59Speaker 1Hey. People say, oh, man, I'm starting to get lean. Your face leans out. Your shoulders lean out. Right? Your calves lean out 1st, then your quads. Right? I mean, last thing to go is your ass and your stomach and your lower stomach. So give it some more time, but be consistent. Dude, 4 months is nothing in the scheme of things.
25:16Speaker 0Yeah. I mean, you went from 29 mil. I did 1 month of DBOL at 21. So you just jumped ahead 8 years, dude. So what happened in that 8 years? Did you do 1 set of D ball and now we're talking about your 29? You can't see that. That D ball
25:31Speaker 0for 1 month has affected you at 29. I mean, it's possible. I'm just saying, and did you run to Stockstrone with it? You didn't do a PCT, but it's kind of vague when it comes to that stuff. I can't see the D ball affecting you 8 years later, but it's possible. I'm saying, it's a big jump.
25:45Speaker 0Yeah, as we'll say, you could be deficient in testosterone replacement. I know that because I worked with some guys in the last couple of years and I was surprised that
25:54Speaker 0even guys,
25:55Speaker 029, still pretty young,
25:58Speaker 0but it's common these days. So
26:00Speaker 0everybody that posts questions, 1 thing that it's so vague that I think everybody says that it doesn't help us is when you say I eat clean. What does that mean? Is so vague. That doesn't help us anything. I've asked a lot of people that I've helped with nutrition. They say, well, I eat clean. Well, explain that to me. And then when they answer it, that's not the way that you should be thinking. So most people, if you're going just a word of advice for you guys, if you help us and give us some more information, eat clean, what does that mean? Like what's your diet like? Do you have high carb, low carb, high fat, whatever? Just elaborate a little bit on that. We might get some better answers for you on the diet and nutrition stuff.
26:35Speaker 0And to
26:36Speaker 0be honest with you, brother, I mean, I would, I hate to say this, but I'm just gonna kind of be a little bit blunt. Look at your parents. Are your parents a little plumper? If they are, you might be a bigger bone type dude and they're just gonna have a little bit more struggles around your gut and waste. You're 29. It only gets worse, dude. So
26:51Speaker 0stop comparing yourself to the dudes that eat 3,500 calories.
26:54Speaker 0You're not them. So stop comparing your you.
26:58Speaker 0Don't do that.
27:00Speaker 0I'm going to always tell you throw in some fasting, dude. Don't care if you're 29. I'm a big, big, big, big, big advocate on fasting. You don't need to be me. You don't need to fast as much as I do. I started it, fell in love with it, and I've been doing it for 10 years because it's just amazing. I mean, you could literally, brother, just cut out breakfast alone and just fast
27:19Speaker 0and just do like
27:21Speaker 02, 3 meals later in the day, that alone could switch it up and help you out a little bit.
27:28Speaker 0We are not in need of eating as much food as frequently as we eat. So if you're eating a little bits and you're eating certain things that are gonna spike your insulin throughout the day, that's gonna be bad. You don't wanna do that.
27:40Speaker 0But here, bro, it'd be very blunt and to the point, like Will said, just get your blood work, dude. Get your blood work done. That will answer, I think, a lot of your problems.
27:49Speaker 0And then at least you can make educated opinions on the attack on this. You could even throw another question out when you get it and throw us some numbers, and we might be able to give you more of an educated, because it's great question. It's a little bit vague on,
28:03Speaker 0how to get you from A to Z if we don't know a lot of the pieces in the middle.
28:07Speaker 0Yep. You know what I mean? The fast, dude, try some fasting, dude. Try it, try different stuff and you can eat clean, but try high fat, high protein. And then if that doesn't work, try higher carb and low fat, like I said to the to 1 of the persons above. Choy around with it, play around with it. You're 29, you're still young, you gotta you just gotta find your sweet spot, and I did not know mine at 29. So you're still on course, dude.
28:28Speaker 1Just keep working, man. Keep working and be consistent.
28:31Speaker 1You
28:33Speaker 1got it. You'll be you will be fine. You will figure it out.
28:36Speaker 1But keep being consistent and keep focused. Never never
28:40Speaker 1let your foot off the pedal.
28:41Speaker 0Yeah.
28:42Speaker 1Alright. Alright,
28:44Speaker 0you are up. What's
28:46Speaker 0up, fellas? I'm 6 to 195,
28:49Speaker 0currently running AOD twice daily, 5 amino,
28:53Speaker 0KPV,
28:54Speaker 0PP-twenty 2, BPC,
28:56Speaker 0and SLU.
28:58Speaker 07.5
28:59Speaker 0mg of Tirzepatide.
29:01Speaker 0I'm pretty lean,
29:03Speaker 0but have some skin
29:05Speaker 0small amount,
29:07Speaker 0have some skin amount around of fat
29:10Speaker 0on my lower abs that I can't seem to get rid of and some back fat.
29:16Speaker 0I fast at least 24 hours a day along with doing carnivore. Any advice on what I can add to the stack?
29:24Speaker 0Also forgot to add, I take 190
29:27Speaker 0megs of test SIP a week.
29:30Speaker 1You want me to jump on that? Yes, I do. That sure sounds like a question
29:34Speaker 1of So your
29:35Speaker 0I would imagine
29:36Speaker 0you probably follow my fitness channel because you're doing a lot of what I do. But again, kind of like a similar response to the last gentleman. You're not me, man.
29:47Speaker 0I've taken a lot of time to fine tune what works for me and even me right now, I'm changing it. If you've been following me, you've been on throwing some curves at it. So
29:55Speaker 0I would say you just literally might not be eating enough. That could really be it.
30:02Speaker 0So you need to make some changes, try some different things. Again, I love fasting. I think it's great, But fasting
30:08Speaker 05 days in a row, 24 hour fast for you just might not work. Did for me, but you're not me. So
30:14Speaker 0you need to toy around with it, play around with it,
30:18Speaker 0try some different things,
30:20Speaker 0and you finally settle in what works for you. Like Will's known me a long time and
30:25Speaker 0he knows that I've played around with it for a very long time until I found my sweet spot. And then when I found it, I sat there for a long time because it worked. Now it's not even working so much. Like my energy levels started crashing quite a bit. My numbers weren't where I wanted them when I got my blood work. So
30:41Speaker 0I made some changes. That's why I'm doing it because I wasn't happy with my blood work and most importantly with my energy level. The high fat, high protein just wasn't giving me, I was super tired. And so I've added carbs back in. It's not going to be forever. I like high fat, high protein, but I'm going to switch it up. I'm changing it and I'm tricking my body and
31:01Speaker 0I'm switching around as should you.
31:03Speaker 0We got Will. Yes, you should. Alright. I mean, I don't always answer to take something. Like, I know that like we are seasoned,
31:10Speaker 0take something, take some. Should I, like you ask, like, should you add your stack? No, I would say food is your answer. Toy around with your food. Fix that part. You don't need to add anything else.
31:20Speaker 1That's it. Yeah. I would agree with you. You might wanna think about switching from Tirz to Retta.
31:24Speaker 1K.
31:26Speaker 1That's it. Any suggestions on peptides to help with focus for ADHD?
31:31Speaker 1I have been on a stimulant in the past
31:34Speaker 1like Adderall, and I just can't remember the other 1 that they give fields for ADHD.
31:39Speaker 1Ritalin. Thank you. That's what he's probably referring to. And they work, and they really work, right? But I don't want to rely on them forever.
31:47Speaker 1Smart.
31:48Speaker 1That
31:49Speaker 1was another question.
31:50Speaker 1I think that Semax,
31:53Speaker 1I think, is your answer.
31:55Speaker 1That's your number 1 go to. It's being literally like this is its use in Russia and a lot of other countries.
32:03Speaker 0For a long time. Yeah. For a long time. Long time. Like as an antidepressant
32:07Speaker 0or what you're looking for. So I think that's your answer. I would add and see, like, before we answered, Will and I were kind of going back and forth and we were kind of giving our opinions on that, I didn't think those 2 run-in tandem so well.
32:18Speaker 1So I would run them both, but you think it's just Cmax, Will? I don't know. Yeah, I think I would try that 1st just because so I guess Cmax is the
32:27Speaker 1stimulant 1, right? C LANK is the 1 that makes you calm. And someone with ADHD,
32:33Speaker 1those things work opposites, right? So
32:36Speaker 1stimulants help calm him down. So I figured the Cmax would probably be the answer.
32:42Speaker 1But
32:43Speaker 1they do kind of, you know, synergistically work together. Like, I would try 1. Let's see how that does. Maybe add in Selank.
32:50Speaker 1I'm saying, but I would never just, I wouldn't, for you, I wouldn't just run Selank. Right? It's either Semax or Semax and Selank.
32:58Speaker 0Yeah. And like, let's kinda like kinda sit on this point again because I think it's so important.
33:03Speaker 0What's your diet like? You know? I'm not gonna say it's gonna cure your ADHD, but I'm gonna tell you with a 100% certainty, a lot of that stuff is triggered from seed oils and sugar.
33:12Speaker 0So I'm not saying that if you cut that out, it's going to fix your problem. I'm not a doctor and I'm not the 1 who described
33:19Speaker 0or said that you had ADHD,
33:23Speaker 0but switch your diet, man. I have read a lot about sugar and seed oils and a high fat diet. Taking that stuff out can be really, really helpful for people like you. So,
33:35Speaker 0Semax is great, Selank as well, but your diet, in my opinion, almost equally as important, if not more. What's your diet like? Fix that.
33:43Speaker 0Yep. Absolutely. Sugar, sugar, bad, bad for you. Sugar, bad for you.
33:47Speaker 0Yes. True. Alright.
33:50Speaker 1Dude, up next. Love.
33:51Speaker 1Oh, 0, I'm sorry. Have you heard of modafinil?
33:55Speaker 1JD, I know you have, but this person,
33:58Speaker 0maybe try that.
33:59Speaker 1That's kind of what they call, like, the the, like, prescription
34:02Speaker 1limitless drug or the smart smart pill.
34:05Speaker 0It kinda is though, dude. You're like, wow. I'm focused.
34:09Speaker 1Yeah. Amazing. You're focused. You're focused without
34:11Speaker 1I mean, there's no, like there's no stimulant effects in your heart. It's just a brain thing.
34:16Speaker 1I wouldn't tell you right before you go to sleep, but you're not gonna feel all weird and kind of cracked out like Adderall
34:22Speaker 1or Ritalin might make you feel. And again, therefore, it is a stimulant, not
34:28Speaker 1a true stimulant. So it might help calm you down and make you focus a bit.
34:32Speaker 1True that. Not a peptide, though.
34:35Speaker 0True that.
34:37Speaker 0Alright.
34:38Speaker 0My 16 year old son is begging to add Insermorelin
34:42Speaker 0into his workout regimen.
34:44Speaker 0Thoughts on a 16 year old trying these?
34:46Speaker 0Take this 1. Absolutely not, man. I mean, I'm going to answer it. My boys are 16.
34:51Speaker 0I mean, look at like this, Again, we are seasoned to wanna take something, so are your sons. His buddies
34:56Speaker 0might be taking it. And I just think 16, you are running full on your testosterone.
35:01Speaker 0Your growth hormone is perfectly fine. Your kid, man, be a kid. Adding creatine, HCL, even monohydrate's fine for a 16 year old. Just adding that stuff, Creatine's amazing. It's
35:12Speaker 0an underrated compound dude, like everybody can take it, a 16 year old for sure.
35:17Speaker 0Definitely not a secretagogue.
35:19Speaker 1Your son doesn't need it. I will not give my son it at 16 away. Yeah, dude. I I just I don't think it's necessary, and I frankly don't think it would do much. K?
35:30Speaker 1Just not even gonna do much to somebody who's young and has a ton of growth hormone.
35:34Speaker 1Right?
35:35Speaker 1And there's no point. Like and it it sure as hell ain't gonna make a difference of him being a
35:39Speaker 1all state or not or I don't know if he's playing sports, right, or or a professional athlete or not.
35:44Speaker 1You know, it's either got it or got it got it or doesn't.
35:47Speaker 0Yep. I know that's played by taking it or something and that's why he Sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. Peptadier of the rage and like everybody's, well, they're not geared, they're not steroids, so blah blah blah. But nah, 16, man. No way. I wouldn't love my son. I would really convince him, like, it ain't gonna even do that much.
36:03Speaker 1Not that much for a young kid like that. Yeah.
36:06Speaker 0Oh, you got the big 1. Alright. You get the big 1. You get the biggest.
36:09Speaker 1Hi, guys. Love listening to your podcast every week. I have possibly 2 to 3 part question. Alright? I'm a 3 32 year old female, 5 7, 1 70,
36:19Speaker 130%
36:20Speaker 1body fat. About 3 years ago, I lost a 100 pounds with Mounjaro.
36:24Speaker 1That's
36:25Speaker 1awesome. And have maintained since focusing on recomp.
36:29Speaker 1Good. I've been lifting consistently
36:31Speaker 1the whole time. In the last 2 years, I've been very intentional with my strength training and diet. I'm about 80 20 with nutrition, not super restrictive because I have a binge
36:40Speaker 1I have binge eating tendencies that get worse if I even think about restricting.
36:44Speaker 1I do really well on a 1,500 to 1,700 calories,
36:48Speaker 1a 160 to a 180 grams of protein,
36:51Speaker 1less than a 100 grams of carbs, mostly whole foods. That's a good explanation of your nutrition practice. Yeah.
36:57Speaker 1No alcohol, barely any sugar. I live 4 to 6 times a week for an hour on a muscle and strength split.
37:05Speaker 1I started PepBeds around February after an ACL repair. I was 1 85. BPC,
37:10Speaker 1TB, Tirz, and IpA.
37:12Speaker 1I didn't notice a ton from the IpA besides great sleep, then switched to Tirz 5 Amino MOTS-three for 8 weeks and got to 1 75.
37:21Speaker 1I don't care too much about the scale because I lift and don't mind being thick. Good for you. And I just want less fat in the abdomen, hips, arms, etcetera. Since July,
37:31Speaker 1I've been on Retta, 1 mg, 2 times a week, plus Tesamorelin
37:35Speaker 1at night, and 1000
37:37Speaker 1mg of SLU-
37:39Speaker 1micro I mean, yeah, there has to be micrograms
37:42Speaker 1of SLUIP.
37:43Speaker 1I've also been on TRT since June.
37:46Speaker 1K? I'm I'm going to Jamaica in February, and I wanna look like a shredded MILF.
37:51Speaker 1Good for you. Good for you.
37:54Speaker 1But still be mindful of my body dysmorphia,
37:56Speaker 1eating disorder stuff, and not doing anything makes me rebound after vacation.
38:00Speaker 1Questions
38:01Speaker 11,
38:03Speaker 1what would you recommend or change for fat loss goals for November through December, and what would you
38:10Speaker 1would you run a different cycle in January, February before vacation?
38:14Speaker 12, what peptides do you recommend before traveling to an all inclusive to help prevent illness and fatigue and also keep the libido through the roof? Thank you, guys. I tried not to repeat questions and gave you all lots of details.
38:28Speaker 1You did well. You did very well. You either got a lucky husband or somebody's
38:32Speaker 1gonna be lucky there. You're you're going alone?
38:35Speaker 0I know. Do you are you
38:38Speaker 0were thinking about that 4 weeks kind of joking. Is she going alone or is she going with her hubby?
38:44Speaker 0Just trying to find him.
38:45Speaker 0That's
38:47Speaker 0good. I mean, it's loaded. It's it's a lot to kind of unpack. I mean, it sounds like you have a really good grasp on you. You know, I know that you struggle with some of that body dysmorphia and all that, so I'm sorry to hear that. It's kind of fairly common for ladies. But the 2nd
39:01Speaker 0question's easy. Mean, what should you take in regards to flying and whatnot? Thymosin Alpha-one is a must. Yeah. That's a must. So you should be taking it up, up till, and then even past it, you probably won't get sick.
39:14Speaker 0My opinion,
39:16Speaker 0it is a powerhouse for that type of stuff, keeping you well.
39:20Speaker 0Libido is easy too. You can take the PT-one
39:24Speaker 0hundred 41 and oxytocin
39:27Speaker 0is gonna be good too. You can do that for like a spray. You take a little spray every morning. I think it's great.
39:32Speaker 0But those 2 would be great together,
39:34Speaker 0I think. So that part's easy. What's the other 1? Would you recommend a change for fat loss
39:39Speaker 0goals?
39:40Speaker 0I mean, you're taking,
39:42Speaker 0have a grasp on it, man. I mean, just clean up your diet and just be cognizant you're coming into
39:47Speaker 0the
39:49Speaker 0sweets months where there's sweets at every party and blah, blah, blah. So if you can just kind of stick that, you're on Retatrutide,
39:56Speaker 0that thing is gonna really help you just keep the fat off in my opinion. So I think you have a pretty good
40:03Speaker 0grip on it, girl. I think that you're great. I think that you just kinda be cognizant as you obviously are. SLU-3s great. Tesamorelin's great. Retatrut is great. I wouldn't change that. Those those are 3 great compounds
40:14Speaker 0together, man. I think you're gonna be great. I mean, is that super vague? I think you're you're on point. Yeah. That's cool. I I would say,
40:21Speaker 1for the the traveling, a 100% Thymosin Alpha, and I'd probably do some bring some b 12 or
40:28Speaker 1load up on this, like, injectable b 12
40:31Speaker 1before you go
40:34Speaker 1or bring it in your carrier or your or your checked bags. You know?
40:39Speaker 1And you shouldn't get sick. The yeah, everything you were doing, I 2nd everything he says, so I'm not going to repeat his explanations.
40:46Speaker 1I would maybe you totally could
40:48Speaker 1increase Zaretta.
40:49Speaker 1You're only taking 2 mg, which, by the way, like the clinical starting dose is 2.5. So-
40:57Speaker 1Yeah. You're not even taking the lowest dose amount, right? And you can slowly creep up with that. Like, good for you. I do I think it's great when people try to take as little as possible.
41:08Speaker 1But, dude, that that's gonna do
41:11Speaker 1miracles
41:12Speaker 1if you just
41:14Speaker 1increase it a little bit and incrementally increase it. Right? Tight slowly, slowly titrate it up.
41:20Speaker 1That will do a ton. I think that
41:23Speaker 1yeah. And that's something you could just keep running.
41:26Speaker 1I do think that it is a good idea to switch cycle, maybe 4 months, right, on 1 thing, then then then stop that and do something else that that
41:35Speaker 1replaces what you were doing so your body gets a break from that specific pathway being
41:40Speaker 1stimulated.
41:41Speaker 1And, like, AOD
41:43Speaker 1is 1 that I don't see you
41:46Speaker 1mention.
41:46Speaker 0Oh, good. He's great. I love him. He does a long good. Does a lot for ladies too, man. Yeah. Yeah. He's amazing. That's a great idea. Catch, bro.
41:55Speaker 1And I think that
41:57Speaker 1we all wanna get away from the from the, like, I don't know,
42:01Speaker 1specific diet, like the bulking cutting bulking cutting. Right? I think I don't know. I have always prescribed to just, hey, let's just stay in stay in good shape and make constant progress. So maybe it's not like spikes of progress, but if I'm just consistently going upwards, right, I'm constantly trying burning fat and adding muscle,
42:20Speaker 1then I look good at all times instead of, oh, I got a super duper cut for this. You know?
42:26Speaker 1I know that's not a helpful plan when someone needs to be in shape in a month, but
42:32Speaker 1I agree with everything JD said, especially about the libido.
42:36Speaker 0Easy mouth on that. 1 thing that I did we didn't address, which I think we both kinda caught initially was you're 32, a female, and the TRT is a little bit of a difference that I'm used to. I don't know if I've known anybody that's at 32 for a woman, men, of course, but like, I'm just curious and you're not gonna be able to answer this obviously, but I'm curious to how
42:56Speaker 0that transpired. I would hope that you got your blood work and there was just something amiss on that and an educated doctor that really knows about hormones puts you on that unless I would imagine you wouldn't have just done it yourself. You're fairly young, dude. You grew with that? I think she's 32 for a woman on TRT?
43:12Speaker 0She seems very young in my opinion. Yes, it is. But
43:16Speaker 1but if you did it or if you did a blood test and and it was necessary, then cool. There you go. Yeah, yeah. But I would imagine you did seem thorough, but- Yeah. Yeah.
43:25Speaker 0Know, and I'm actually just curious because I love this stuff and we care about you guys. That's why we're doing this in general. So I'd love a DM on either the Warrior or
43:33Speaker 01 of our personal channels. We're both on social media now. So shoot us a DM and let us know. I'm curious if you make sure you got your blood work done and if the doctor
43:42Speaker 0saw something funky on there and
43:45Speaker 0I'm not selling this because he's my buddy or our buddy, but
43:49Speaker 0we do have a good doctor that we trust.
43:52Speaker 0He's
43:53Speaker 0great with blood work. He is very, very, he just goes through it thoroughly and does a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep panel. If anybody wants that, I do that.
44:02Speaker 0We can let you know if you shoot us a DM, we'll send you his information. He's been on the podcast, Doctor. Scott.
44:08Speaker 0So that's available for you all, you guys. Anything that works for us, we will pass on to you. 100%.
44:14Speaker 1And I mean, the testosterone should be amping your libido up.
44:19Speaker 1Right. So
44:21Speaker 1keep doing that.
44:23Speaker 1And for the record, everybody, like, I bring my testosterone everywhere.
44:27Speaker 1I don't care where I travel. I haven't had any problems, you know, in this airplane. Oh,
44:33Speaker 0yeah. To your your bathroom, your bathroom bed. Yeah. Good.
44:36Speaker 1Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And like your checked bags, you know, these airplanes are not they're looking for drug smuggling
44:42Speaker 1and bombs.
44:44Speaker 1Sure about your little, your, you know, your stupid little What do you jump for? Drugs. DRP.
44:48Speaker 0Right.
44:49Speaker 0Very rare. If ever. Yeah, you're good. Yeah.
44:52Speaker 0Good stuff. Well, that's good, man. I think that was great. That was a very thorough question. Thank you for So good questions, man. We appreciate it. Those are great. That is the end of it. But man, awesome. Enjoyed it. Good stuff. Hope it helped. We try to answer these the best our ability and just shine a light on it. So
45:09Speaker 0with our experience and whatnot. So anything else you got big dog? Nope.
45:14Speaker 0Alright, let's put this Friday to rest, get to work, and we will see you guys Monday. The pep title of the week is dropping and then this will drop next Thursday. Cool. Alright, you guys. Blessings to you. We'll catch you on the next round. Take care. See you.