The Peptide Pulse — Episode 2: Healing by Design - Amanda Soukoulis on Rooted Transformation & Epithalon Breakthroughs

In this episode of The Peptide Pulse, Dr. Adam Boender sits down with high-performance health coach Amanda Soukoulis to unpack her powerful healing journey. 

From navigating mold toxicity and chronic symptoms to uncovering functional medicine solutions, Amanda shares how peptides became a turning point. Together, we explore optimization vs. “biohacking,” the layers of healing, the role of restorative sleep, and the power of mindset in recovery. 

If you’ve wondered how peptides impact real people beyond theory, this story will resonate.

00:00 - Intro: Unpacking Health in a Toxic World
00:34 - Meet Amanda: Nurse Practitioner to Holistic Coach
02:00 - The Journey Into Functional Wellness
03:12 - Challenges Women Face with Hormones & Energy
04:45 - Environmental Toxins: Where They Lurk
06:10 - Amanda's Personal Health Story
08:00 - How Amanda Healed Herself
09:20 - Role of Food and Natural Medicine
10:36 - Real Talk on EMFs and Mold Exposure
13:03 - What Most People Get Wrong About Wellness
14:22 - Steps to Detox Your Environment
15:56 - Amanda’s Favorite Health Practices
17:18 - Dr. Adam on Cellular Regeneration
18:54 - Supplements and Daily Protocols
20:27 - Closing Advice for Women in Healing
21:12 - Where to Follow Amanda’s Work

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro: Unpacking Health in a Toxic World
• 0:00 Meet Amanda: Nurse Practitioner to Holistic Coach
• 0:00 The Journey Into Functional Wellness
• 0:00 Challenges Women Face with Hormones & Energy
• 0:00 Environmental Toxins: Where They Lurk
• 0:00 Amanda's Personal Health Story
• 0:00 How Amanda Healed Herself
• 0:00 Role of Food and Natural Medicine
• 0:00 Real Talk on EMFs and Mold Exposure
• 0:00 What Most People Get Wrong About Wellness
• 0:00 Steps to Detox Your Environment
• 0:00 Amanda’s Favorite Health Practices
• 0:00 Dr. Adam on Cellular Regeneration
• 0:00 Supplements and Daily Protocols
• 0:00 Closing Advice for Women in Healing
• 0:00 Where to Follow Amanda’s Work

Transcript

00;00;00;02 - 00;00;18;03

Speaker 1

Hey, everybody. Dr. Adam Boender and I am back. I'm the peptide researcher, and I'm so excited today to have a special guest with us. This is Amanda Soukoulis and we have actually been working in the world of peptides together for I mean it's been over a year now, right?

00;00;18;03 - 00;00;18;29

Speaker 2

Yeah, just about a year.

00;00;19;03 - 00;00;45;28

Speaker 1

Just about a year. And it's fun just because we get to go back and forth, the stories, the education and really that is what the peptide pulse is about. It's about telling the stories of people who have not just experienced it, but they're also helping other people experience the benefits of these powerful little amino acid chains and sequences that are truly, I believe, really the next generation in what I call bio optimization.

00;00;45;28 - 00;01;00;03

Speaker 1

We've had this talk as well, but I want to give a little introduction to you. I am going to read it because I tried to memorize it and it was too impressive for me to get it through my head. I'm like, Man, this isn't going to this is going to hold. But Amanda, she has a high performance health coach.

00;01;00;05 - 00;01;21;24

Speaker 1

And when I say high performance, I mean like above the above. I mean, yes, I'm a doctor and I speak with many, many doctors. I train physicians. But Amanda is she is one of those she's a constant learner. She's a constant, in a sense, even an educator, which I think sometimes the best way that we learn is through education and she is the creator of what's called the U3 three system.

00;01;21;26 - 00;01;54;01

Speaker 1

And if it's actually like you cubed, you can correct me on that. But. Right. Okay. So that system is to uncover, uproot and unleash. And it's obviously the powerful voice in the world of regenerative health. But more than that, she has actually lived the transformation. And I think that's the best thing is because in anything that we do, unless we've actually experienced what we're actually preaching, what we're actually teaching and what we're bringing, I don't really think that we can actually transform the lives of other people.

00;01;54;06 - 00;02;13;21

Speaker 2

Yeah, I mean, absolutely. And I always say I had to go through the worst of it so that no matter what was thrown at me from someone else who I'm blessed enough to work with, I could say, Oh yeah, I experienced something similar to that. Let me let me show you kind of how exactly I navigated that.

00;02;13;24 - 00;02;35;14

Speaker 1

Yeah. I mean, being a physician and I should say even being an A physician and I don't practice anymore, But again, I train a lot of physicians, health coaches, the entrepreneurs in this in this realm of what many call biohacking. Again, we've talked about this many times. I hate the word biohacking. If you've listened to any of my episodes, that's probably the hundredth time you've actually heard me say that.

00;02;35;14 - 00;03;02;10

Speaker 1

But that's okay. But it's true. Bio optimization. I would love for you to just share, you know, give the odds a little bit of that, like your your history, your story. It's it's so impactful. And I think that's really again, that's that's why we're here is that and I think most of the guests that I bring on here, that's why I love to bring them on and bring you on because, I mean, you have a very unique story and a very big story to tell.

00;03;02;10 - 00;03;03;08

Speaker 1

So I'm excited.

00;03;03;08 - 00;03;26;11

Speaker 2

Yeah. Well, thank you. And that's actually one of the very first reasons why we connected so much was over that word optimization, because that right when we met was when my body was finally getting out of this healing journey and I was ready to optimize again. And I had always lived in a state of optimization. And as soon as you said, Amanda, that's not I don't really like I don't love the term biohacking.

00;03;26;19 - 00;03;47;14

Speaker 2

We're not we're not chopping away at our body like an ax that just stuck with me. And I'd always use the word optimization, bio optimization and that really just cemented it. And so I love that. Yeah. So a little bit just about my healing journey, my health journey. I always cared about health and fitness. I grew up playing every single sport.

00;03;47;15 - 00;04;26;28

Speaker 2

I danced in college for one of the top collegiate programs in the country. When I finished that up, still really cared about health and wellness, nutrition, all of that. I had moved to Dallas, Texas in 2021. Really just changed my environment and that allowed me then to set a really solid foundation for my health. And I was at the peak of my health, so I thought I was training with one of the greatest trainers and in DFW and he was a former professional athlete and really just in an environment where I could thrive.

00;04;26;28 - 00;04;48;02

Speaker 2

And I had been a finalist for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, you know, on Netflix, all the things. And all of a sudden, two months later, my health just crumbled literally overnight. And the first sign that something was off was my my heart rate variability dropped. My HIV went from a 90 down to a 60. You're not familiar with that heart rate variability.

00;04;48;02 - 00;05;08;09

Speaker 2

It's telling you how balanced around your nervous system is to really take on the day and higher the better. There's no perfect score, but it's more relative to to yourself. And so my HIV dropped. I went to a doctor was like, Hey, this is what's going on. That was the very first time I was dismissed. I said, Oh, you're probably just stressed.

00;05;08;09 - 00;05;29;13

Speaker 2

So there's nothing going on. I'm like, No, there's something wrong. A month later, a month later, my energy plummeted, literally plummeted. I could hardly show up to my workouts the same way that I did. And it had that same energy and zeal and passion for life like like I always do. A month after that, my brain fog set in, and that was the worst of them all.

00;05;29;13 - 00;05;56;17

Speaker 2

I went from totally productive, totally fully functioning. I worked in private equity at the time, working on really complex projects to hardly being able to get myself out of bed. I was literally dragging myself out of bed was awful. And I just remember thinking like, This is not the answer. I was dismissed over and over and over again by different doctors and even people in the functional and naturopathic space.

00;05;56;20 - 00;06;24;11

Speaker 2

And so the last straw for me actually was in a I think it was around November, December. And I just remember going in to my O'Brien's office and I had gotten some test results back that said that my estrogen levels were post-menopausal. Keep in mind I am definitely nowhere near that range at all. And I told her that and she looked at me and she said, Well, are you trying to get pregnant right now?

00;06;24;13 - 00;06;44;28

Speaker 2

And I looked at her and said, No, in the back of my head, knowing that your hormones are for so much more than just fertility. And that was the very last time that I would step foot into that doctor's office ever again. And I left that office and really just felt this radical responsibility that if I was going to heal, it was going to be up to me.

00;06;45;00 - 00;07;01;16

Speaker 1

So that last doctor, I mean, and then her questioning and some people may be wondering like, well, that seems like a normal question. But that question, though, was more of a push off than trying to actually figure out what was going on exactly.

00;07;01;16 - 00;07;23;27

Speaker 2

There was there was no empathy involved. There was no there was not another question. There was no curiosity. There was no trying to uncover. Okay, why do we think your assurance levels are low? And, you know, I can tell you now my estrogen levels were so, so low because my body fat percentage was really low and I was experiencing my cortisol was all over the place.

00;07;23;27 - 00;07;37;12

Speaker 2

Right. So there's like so many different things that we end up figuring out and but I had to go figure out myself, the doctor, the doctor just was very dismissive. And so that's when I found the world of functional medicine.

00;07;37;13 - 00;07;42;17

Speaker 1

So that was like your your turning point like that. How many doctors did you actually go to?

00;07;42;19 - 00;08;00;28

Speaker 2

Probably five or six over the course of a few months. And I think I think I was I was in so much pain. I mean, also like £35 piled on top of my body. And I went from as a dancer or constantly in front of a mirror looking at an ad ourselves all the time like that. Part of it matters.

00;08;00;28 - 00;08;30;00

Speaker 2

And I remember just I think my rock bottom was actually on Christmas Day. I was at my parents house. Was this this was in 2023? Yeah. So like two years ago now, I was at my parents house and I remember rolling out of bed on Christmas morning. I'm in my childhood bedroom. The walls are bright pink. It's literally a princess room for like a young adult, like my parents never change my room since second grade.

00;08;30;02 - 00;08;55;01

Speaker 2

And I, like, stumbled into the bathroom because it was dark and I was tired, not really feeling well. I turn on the lights, look at myself in the mirror. I didn't even recognize myself. My whole body was covered in hives. I had a fever, I had chills, I had body aches. I was it was Christmas Day. I then I decided like, hey, it's really not it would not be smart of me to even get out of the house because I was so sick.

00;08;55;01 - 00;09;16;15

Speaker 2

I laid on the couch all day long. I felt absolutely awful. And that was right after we had found out that I had a bacterial pathogens that was just wreaking havoc in my gut and it was causing a whole cascading effect for everything else. But it wasn't until I found functional medicine and I did those functional lab testing that we were able to actually uncover that.

00;09;16;19 - 00;09;32;15

Speaker 3

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00;09;32;18 - 00;09;36;25

Speaker 1

So that was like the starting point of your journey to where you're at now.

00;09;36;29 - 00;09;38;20

Speaker 2

Yes. Yeah. So.

00;09;38;20 - 00;09;39;25

Speaker 1

So what happened next?

00;09;39;25 - 00;10;05;28

Speaker 2

Yeah. Yeah. So. So at the time I had partnered with someone that was in the functional space. She was a functional P.A. and so she helped me get all that testing done. And I started just doing a deep dive on everything connected to the gut microbiome. And I'm like, Wow, this is so fascinating. And, you know, I think that alignment is just such a big piece of of every single step along this journey for me.

00;10;05;28 - 00;10;30;26

Speaker 2

And like I've heard the saying, God puts a a lamp to our feet, not a flashlight. Right? He's not going to show you ten steps ahead. He's going to show you the next step. And that's just what I continued to do step by step. And really, the journey started months before when someone had shared with me, Hey, the Lord just spoke to me in a vision for you, saying, Clear path, clear path, clear path.

00;10;30;28 - 00;10;52;05

Speaker 2

This was three months before my health really plummeted, which is just wild, right? And I had that happen. An hour later. I walk out to see that there was a scholarship for this health summit that was in Dallas. So I applied to that. I'm like, I don't really know why I'm showing up to this place right now, but I am.

00;10;52;08 - 00;11;15;10

Speaker 2

And that ended up becoming really the start of my journey to being able to to launch my business. The person that was running it, she's very well known, well established in the functional nutrition space. And she really took me under her wing and helped me build out the blueprint and take my own story. What's helped me and create my own practice.

00;11;15;13 - 00;11;36;15

Speaker 1

You know, I love quotes. Obviously they help to me, drive me and guide me. And one is from Steve Jobs is, you know, we can't connect the dots looking forward. We can only connect. I'm looking back. That's exactly what I'm thinking as you're like three months earlier, you know, somebody gave you this like it's a light, you know, the lamp into your feet.

00;11;36;15 - 00;11;59;27

Speaker 1

It's like, again, in any journey, in any health journey and people that have been through it, you know, I've shared my story multiple times on, you know, my wife with chronic Lyme and mold. And and quite honestly, if that had never happened to our family and to us, we would not be sitting here. And it's so often that people say, well, I mean, would you want to take it all back?

00;12;00;02 - 00;12;21;10

Speaker 1

Now, that's a big question. I get all the time like, man, that that's such a hard journey. We haven't even got to the amazing stuff of what's brought you to where you're at now. But but like we sit back and like, would you want to not go through that again And after, like when you're in it, all you can think of is, I wish I wasn't here.

00;12;21;13 - 00;12;24;16

Speaker 1

I wish I wasn't going through the pain. I wish I wasn't going.

00;12;24;23 - 00;12;25;19

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah.

00;12;25;19 - 00;12;49;04

Speaker 1

And, but, but when you get through it and that's the thing I think that's the biggest thing for people to understand, is you will get through it. You just don't give up because it's not why it's happening. It's what is happening. What can I learn from the journey? Yeah, and I think that's what's brought so many people in to this, this space of of what I mean, it is it's true health and true wellness.

00;12;49;06 - 00;12;56;13

Speaker 1

And we have to be our own advocates, which is exactly what you had to be, because our own health care system when honestly it fails us.

00;12;56;19 - 00;12;57;14

Speaker 2

Yeah, it's not.

00;12;57;14 - 00;12;59;10

Speaker 1

There to help us get better.

00;12;59;13 - 00;13;07;21

Speaker 2

I mean, 80% of chronic conditions can be reversed or prevented from proper lifestyle interventions.

00;13;07;28 - 00;13;26;27

Speaker 1

I'm going to go even further and I say if you read or go deeper into things like Bruce Lipton and his research in his books, I think it's 92 to 95% of all disease is self-imposed. It's not genetic. So it's it's because of the things that we do to ourselves. Environmental toxins, the frickin food we put into our own mouths.

00;13;27;00 - 00;13;45;08

Speaker 2

The stress, whether or whether real or perceived, like I can go on and on and on and like, honestly, a part of my healing journey, too, which I think is important to know, is, yes, there was the physical healing that needed to happen, but so much of it to I say, I was in this this cocoon for 18 months yelling.

00;13;45;09 - 00;14;02;06

Speaker 2

It was the worst thing of my life because I thought I would I was a finalist for Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. That was my dream. I said, I want to go back the next year. Yeah, well, I said, okay, four months, I'll be healed. That's how long I signed up to work with this functional pay. We hit four months.

00;14;02;09 - 00;14;05;00

Speaker 2

My body is still not healed. Not even close.

00;14;05;00 - 00;14;07;24

Speaker 1

I think it's funny. We put time limits. Oh, yeah?

00;14;07;25 - 00;14;09;27

Speaker 2

Timestamps on what.

00;14;10;02 - 00;14;12;28

Speaker 1

We think we should happen. It's like, Wait a second.

00;14;13;01 - 00;14;36;18

Speaker 2

Yeah, Well, and so to just continue on, my story was we get to this for months. My brain fog is kind of starting to get better. And the one thing that helped it the most was actually an ad and a few months later, all of a sudden, I'm I'm now I'm going through all the certification process. So I was able to actually order labs for myself.

00;14;36;18 - 00;14;55;05

Speaker 2

And so it's something that I do now. I mean, I'm always going to be the first guinea pig on things. So I ordered comprehensive ops for myself like I do every 3 to 6 months. And I just so happen to get a test for Mycotoxins, which that's the the toxic part of, of mold that can metabolize in our body.

00;14;55;07 - 00;15;20;13

Speaker 2

And sure enough, I had about seven strains of molds, most of which were actually black mold from an indoor environment. And so the apartment that I had been in had black mold. And I got those results back in August. I was still really sick. My energy levels were low, all of which were symptoms from the black mold. And we had done so much work to go through the gut healing process.

00;15;20;13 - 00;15;37;17

Speaker 2

My gut still wasn't fully healthy. That's there's truth. There's a differ, there's a differentiation between that. There's gut healing. But when you go through gut healing, especially need to re fortify the gut so that the toxins stay out of your body forever. Yeah. And so that's kind of the phase that I was in. I still had not lost all the weight.

00;15;37;17 - 00;15;57;03

Speaker 2

Again, like my body still looks sick, my stored cortisol phase like it was I it was 18 months of really being in a cocoon. It was a it was a long winter. And that is when we connected. Yeah. And I'm sitting there next to you, you're talking about stem cells and my CS and.

00;15;57;05 - 00;16;04;19

Speaker 1

I was at a time, I was at a training for a franchise group and I was doing education on, well, on my passion regenerative therapies.

00;16;04;22 - 00;16;29;02

Speaker 2

And we start chatting about I mentioned something or you mentioned something about mold and you're like, we need to connect. And so I think God so much because when we connected was finally the time that my body, my body needed, like the first phase of what we did, which we'll get into, was the final piece of healing that my body needed.

00;16;29;05 - 00;16;49;03

Speaker 2

And after we got through that, I finally got to get back to Optimized Vision, which is where I live in. It's where I thrive. And so I'm so grateful. I'm so, so grateful. And to answer your question about what I what I go back and like not have all that happened to me, and the answer is absolutely not.

00;16;49;03 - 00;17;12;22

Speaker 2

I would I don't want to go back through that again. But I couldn't imagine being doing what I was doing before I stepped into this. And I knew as soon as I started looking back and connecting all those dots, as you say, that God was orchestrating every single step of mine. And I flipped the script from why me to it had to be me.

00;17;12;25 - 00;17;31;17

Speaker 3

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00;17;31;19 - 00;17;59;02

Speaker 2

And I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful because especially just in light of everything that's been happening in this country recently, like we live in a very sick country and it's important to get the truth out there and that healing is possible. And, you know, if you need hope, maybe, maybe you don't have the hope or you don't have the confidence or belief that you might be able to heal, just borrow some from me.

00;17;59;04 - 00;18;19;29

Speaker 1

I love it. I think there's so many great points that you made through this and things that stick out to me. And one of them is, is the fact that you're talking about there's layers to healing, not just physically, but but, but mentally. And, you know, when I was in practice, you know, I would sit in front of a patient and I would talk to them.

00;18;19;29 - 00;18;39;16

Speaker 1

And I said, you know, as hard as it is to fully understand during the healing process, all right. And which is crazy, we live in a country that even just seeing the word healing can get you taken off of networks saying that something helps you to heal can literally pull video content. I'm like, wait a second.

00;18;39;18 - 00;18;39;26

Speaker 2

Yet.

00;18;39;26 - 00;19;03;10

Speaker 1

That's what we're all trying to strive for. But I would always tell patients it's like, you know, you have to first want to heal. That's the hardest one for people understand? So why wouldn't I want to heal? Because sometimes people are defined by the disease process that they're going through. Why do you think we live in a country, in a society, in a world where we name diseases because we define ourselves by those things?

00;19;03;12 - 00;19;24;18

Speaker 1

You know, I have diabetes or I have cancer. A powerful thing is speaking. I am over yourself. And that's really what you're doing. Whereas I, I truly believe without a doubt that every disease process is a disease process of dysfunction, miscommunication on a cellular level. And that's really all it is.

00;19;24;18 - 00;19;34;04

Speaker 2

Absolutely. And if we can get the cells to properly communicate and and work in efficient and be efficient again, then the body will be able to do what it means to do.

00;19;34;09 - 00;20;01;03

Speaker 1

And that's when we start getting we're going to get into peptides. Trust me, everybody, we're going to get to peptides here. But here's the thing. Like I have always said, peptides are not in the utilization and I'm actually, you know, a step further. It's not just peptides, it's it's other modalities that we implement, whether it's, you know, regenerative medicine, vitamin IV infusions, supplements, good supplements that not aren't not just off the Wal-Mart shelf, you know, actually like viable, good, healthy, real supplements.

00;20;01;03 - 00;20;05;05

Speaker 2

And not off Amazon either. There's there's so much research showing that so.

00;20;05;12 - 00;20;16;12

Speaker 1

So but but ultimately it's it's not about a lack or a lack of you know I would say it's it's.

00;20;16;14 - 00;20;18;09

Speaker 2

Time deficiency not a deficiency.

00;20;18;10 - 00;20;24;17

Speaker 1

And you're saying my own quote better than I am right now. Jeez. I'm like, geez, my brain went, that's okay. But yeah.

00;20;24;19 - 00;20;25;01

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah.

00;20;25;04 - 00;20;26;22

Speaker 1

Thank you for quoting me.

00;20;26;24 - 00;20;27;29

Speaker 2

Right here.

00;20;28;01 - 00;20;41;01

Speaker 1

It is. It's it's not. It's just it's the efficiency in these systems. As much as we look at this world and we look at a Ferrari or Lamborghini and we're like, Oh, look how efficient that car. Look at what it can do when it works together and it.

00;20;41;03 - 00;20;44;08

Speaker 2

Has a power. Think about the kind of fuel you're putting in that car, right?

00;20;44;08 - 00;21;13;25

Speaker 1

Okay. It's our bodies can be just as efficient in flow and function and thrive, not just survive. And I think that's we missed that because we are bombarded by a system on we're going way off here. But I love it. And burdened by a system that that thrives on sickness. That's our health care system. And that's what has to change.

00;21;13;27 - 00;21;30;28

Speaker 1

And it will only change by by this by sharing this type of information with people, sharing your story. And I'm excited to hear not just your story, but the stories that we're going to be telling of people that you've been helping. And I'm just as I just got goosebumps, you can actually see those goosebumps. They're happening right now.

00;21;30;29 - 00;21;53;23

Speaker 1

I know it's my passion for this is, I think, beyond a measurable amount. And I don't know how else to say that because it's again, it's it's when you live through these moments and most people that move into a realm of functional medicine and in fact, what I love you to do is actually explain, like, what does that even mean?

00;21;53;23 - 00;21;59;27

Speaker 1

What does functional medicine mean to you? And for those that are listening, yeah, great question.

00;21;59;27 - 00;22;25;24

Speaker 2

So functional medicine, we're really just looking at the interconnectedness of the human body. How does the gut talk to the brain? Talk to your detoxification systems, your hormones. And something that's very interesting is about our our medical system. The more specialized you are, the more money that you make. Mm hmm. So you go to one doctor, they're only going to look at that one particular part of the body like.

00;22;25;24 - 00;22;28;12

Speaker 1

A cardiologist or an orthopedic instrument.

00;22;28;18 - 00;22;49;03

Speaker 2

Okay? Yes. Whereas in functional medicine, we are looking at the body as a whole. And that doesn't just mean your physical body. We're looking at like the mental, the emotional side. Like I will say, until I started speaking life into my own brain during my healing process, did my body start to heal like that? Just the power of our brain.

00;22;49;03 - 00;23;06;22

Speaker 2

And, you know, 90% of our serotonin is produced in our gut. 70% of our immune system is in our gut. So it just goes to show how comprehensive our body is. And so really functional medicine, we're just looking at it through a holistic lens and and actually connecting the dots.

00;23;06;27 - 00;23;28;10

Speaker 1

I think and and correct me, I think it's Netflix, it's actually a series called Heal, I think is what it's called. Okay. But it talks about, you know, because you said you mentioned the mind set of these things. You know, I've always said, you know, our our conscious mind is a reflection of our subconscious thoughts. So I think that our body actually on a cellular level works exactly the same way.

00;23;28;12 - 00;23;47;17

Speaker 1

It's what we are constantly giving our bodies to work on a cellular level is the reflection, our physical reflection, our energy, our our clarity, our again, even our vision meter even move is what the subconscious body is doing based on what we are consciously doing to it on a regular basis.

00;23;47;17 - 00;24;08;07

Speaker 2

And we have to be very intentional about that because it can get somewhere between 90 to 95% of our thoughts are the same repeated thoughts every single day. So you have to consciously think and for myself, I know I've I've done so much work on, okay, what what kind of life do I want to live? Where do I see myself five, ten, 15, 20 years from now?

00;24;08;09 - 00;24;19;10

Speaker 2

And I actually have a note on my phone that I read to myself every single morning about who I am mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally, And the kind of partner that I want in my life.

00;24;19;14 - 00;24;30;08

Speaker 1

Is that on the front of your phone that you read every morning? Because actually I was looking at your phone and I'm going off topic here real quick, but I wanted you to read what is the the first thing on your phone.

00;24;30;10 - 00;24;34;12

Speaker 2

So that says I am. And then at the bottom it says, Rooted in Radiance.

00;24;34;14 - 00;24;50;17

Speaker 1

I love it. I'm going to read mine Spirit. I will trust God. I will not overthink. I will not worry. I will not stress out. I will believe the best. I will trust God's timing. I will hear God's voice. He gives me wisdom. I will rest in him. And to me, that's it's mind, body, spirit. It's all of it combined.

00;24;50;17 - 00;25;19;06

Speaker 2

It's so true. So that's that's one of them that I have. I have another one that says, Don't waste the pretty baby. You just swim, right? The fish is meant to swim. They're not meant to climb a tree. So be exactly who you are meant to be. And I was talking about this on them with someone on on Wednesday that I think optimal living in optimize health comes when you're living in full alignment with who you are and who you're supposed to be and who you're called to be.

00;25;19;09 - 00;25;27;02

Speaker 2

And I don't think it's possible to be in a state of disease to be sick if you're fully walking and living in your purpose.

00;25;27;03 - 00;25;49;21

Speaker 1

I agree. I truly 100% agree with that. I think we live too rooted in what I truly believe is a draconian system of of pushing and fear mongering when it comes to our health. The moment we start going in for our yearly checkups and all these other things. And again, this goes to the mind, we are told, and we go through this.

00;25;49;21 - 00;26;06;08

Speaker 1

I'm like, So does your mom have cancer? Does your dad have cancer? Does your mom have heart disease? Is your dad have heart disease? Does your brother does your sister? We go off of these systems thinking and we're taught that everything is genetic, this is genes.

00;26;06;12 - 00;26;10;07

Speaker 2

But so whatever the truth so far from the truth.

00;26;10;07 - 00;26;32;28

Speaker 1

I mean, and there's so much research out there. And again, I'm going back to Bruce Lipton because he is just one of the kind of, in a sense, the the godfather of this foundational aspect of understanding epigenetics, like literally the turning on and turning off of genes. Yeah. To transform your health. Just because your mom had cancer doesn't mean that you're going to have cancer if you do the same things as your mom.

00;26;32;28 - 00;26;33;11

Speaker 2

Yeah.

00;26;33;13 - 00;26;58;00

Speaker 1

Then yeah. Are your chances greater? Yes. Yeah. And now and here's the truth. Science in research knows this. Yeah. Why do you think pharmaceutical companies, which by the way, did you know what pharmacopeia means? Witchcraft. Sorry, I'm just throwing that one out there. But Greek, you're you're you're a citizen of Greece and America, so. Sure. You tell me what it means in Greek.

00;26;58;02 - 00;27;00;09

Speaker 2

I know that's probably where the role of the root.

00;27;00;09 - 00;27;01;03

Speaker 1

Is, but.

00;27;01;05 - 00;27;01;22

Speaker 2

You do that.

00;27;01;25 - 00;27;27;05

Speaker 1

The Latin. Yeah, Which is the root. Actually, Latin is the root of most medications or the names are rooted in Latin. But, you know, it's interesting to me because we we take things today to to to push our body into something. That's what medications do. And and in a sense, once you take I think the research says more than three medications at one time, the number of chemical reactions within your body is infinite.

00;27;27;05 - 00;27;55;16

Speaker 1

They do not know what will actually happen, but yet they'll research one medication and say it's for a medication, B is for B, C is for C, and the majority of the American population on average, I believe, is on 8 to 10 medications at one time. And we wonder why we're a sick and dying country. We do rank the world in one thing when it comes to our health care system, and that's called emergency medicine.

00;27;55;16 - 00;27;56;23

Speaker 1

And that is it. Yeah.

00;27;56;26 - 00;28;19;15

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah. Well, when I found out that the average American lives to be 76 years old, that's their life span. But their health span is 64 years old. And it's give or take two years. But I a 64 years old, I mean, 12 years, the average American is actually dying. They're living with at least one chronic health disease.

00;28;19;15 - 00;28;45;23

Speaker 2

And that's because of choices that have compounded over the past 20 years. Yeah. And so imagine if we lived in a country where people went for proper nutrition, hydration, movement, sunshine like you get here in the beautiful state of Florida connection, knowing how to regulate your nervous system and grounding your feet in the ground.

00;28;45;26 - 00;28;50;26

Speaker 1

You mean like natural things that can actually help you like heal and be restored?

00;28;51;01 - 00;28;56;24

Speaker 2

Yeah, heal and restore. And then peptides that just take you to the next level. Love it.

00;28;56;27 - 00;29;03;15

Speaker 1

It's it's phenomenal. Sometimes it's sometimes the best healing is doing less right.

00;29;03;22 - 00;29;04;05

Speaker 2

Yeah we.

00;29;04;05 - 00;29;04;22

Speaker 1

Can get into that.

00;29;04;22 - 00;29;24;18

Speaker 2

One. Yeah yeah, yeah. I mean I remember some someone asked me right when I was coming out of the thick of my healing. I think I put a smile on my face more than I was actually feeling really healthy at the time. And she had asked me to. What's the what was what's been the hardest part about this journey for you?

00;29;24;21 - 00;29;45;23

Speaker 2

I said, actually resting. I'm actually resting because I have been and go, go, go mode my entire life. And so it was learning my nervous system and learning what my body actually needed and listening and knowing that you could only you can only perform to the level that you are recovered.

00;29;45;25 - 00;29;46;20

Speaker 1

That's a good one.

00;29;46;20 - 00;29;50;15

Speaker 2

Repeat that you can only performed the level that you are recovered.

00;29;50;18 - 00;30;07;13

Speaker 1

I think everybody needs to take a note on that one because that one hits me because I ama if anybody knows me and I don't stop, I go. But that's so powerful. It's man, we can go so deep into that one. Maybe we'll have to run our whole other episode on.

00;30;07;13 - 00;30;09;21

Speaker 2

The laterals before we start with that one.

00;30;09;22 - 00;30;31;01

Speaker 1

Yeah, right. I mean, so okay, so we're going to get back on to the journey. So we met and I was working with a franchise group. I was in there doing education on the coaching side where I do on, you know, stem cells exosomes and, and implementing that into this franchise. And I remember what it was was I heard you say mold.

00;30;31;01 - 00;30;51;04

Speaker 1

You were talking actually to somebody else and I remember walking up to you and I was like, did you mention that mold? And how that hit me is because my wife, you know, at the time was dealing with more than again, again, my my own journey, my family's journey. If I hadn't been going through that, I wouldn't have been able to come up with the confidence that I had, like, Hey, we need to talk.

00;30;51;05 - 00;30;51;24

Speaker 2

Yeah.

00;30;51;26 - 00;31;14;16

Speaker 1

Because you are going through something that you should not have to be going through with your health. Yeah, so I do remember that that's, that's how we met and we, you were with 2010, but I remember we, we swapped numbers and I said, give me a call. Let's talk. I'd love to walk you through some, some because I was like, I know that peptides can help you.

00;31;14;19 - 00;31;15;09

Speaker 2

Mm hmm.

00;31;15;11 - 00;31;18;12

Speaker 1

Yeah. You know, I don't know to what extent, but I know that they can help.

00;31;18;13 - 00;31;20;08

Speaker 2

Yeah.

00;31;20;10 - 00;31;29;05

Speaker 1

And I think it was a two weeks. It was a few weeks. I think that. And then you ended up reaching out and then we started talking. So yeah, I'm glad you keep going on your journey here.

00;31;29;07 - 00;31;50;09

Speaker 2

Yeah. So we sat down on a zoom and you shared all about them. And the main focus at first was how can we get rid of this black mold that's in your body? And so the first step that was recommended was apathy, pollen and VIP and so apathy. DOLIN from my understanding, is.

00;31;50;17 - 00;31;52;07

Speaker 1

Which you understand well.

00;31;52;10 - 00;31;56;14

Speaker 2

So I'm just sitting next to the researcher, but I'm.

00;31;56;14 - 00;31;57;27

Speaker 1

Sitting next to the peptide princess.

00;31;57;27 - 00;32;25;11

Speaker 2

You're so right, so appetite in it. And essentially it resets your circadian rhythm through the pineal gland, and it also helps to regulate your hormones. It helps to harmonize your hormones, as I like to say. And this was the very first step. It's actually better known to extend your telomeres, right, and to reset your DNA. So it's more known to be a longevity peptide.

00;32;25;11 - 00;32;48;09

Speaker 2

However, what's connected to longevity, the quality of your sleep, the average American there, restorative sleep, what restorative sleep means your REM sleep in your deep sleep. So that's how well your brain recovers. How well your body recovers is between 35 to 45% of your sleep. Well, I wear a woop shout out to woop. But woop. It's it's my favorite.

00;32;48;09 - 00;32;50;12

Speaker 2

I've been wearing it. There it is for almost.

00;32;50;12 - 00;32;51;12

Speaker 1

I had to do that.

00;32;51;15 - 00;33;13;20

Speaker 2

Oh, here it is. I've been I've been wearing my woop for almost a thousand days straight. I don't take it off and I actually keep it on to remember my journey because it's a big piece of my journey and I've been identified that something was going on. That's what was connected to my Hrb It also tracks sleep very well and my restorative sleep was around 48%.

00;33;13;20 - 00;33;42;23

Speaker 2

So already I was on the higher end, higher than the average American. Well, I started with that baton. As per Dr. Adams recommendation and three days in to a ten day reset, you just take up a thousand for ten days straight. Three days. And I call Dr. Adam. I'm like, Doc, you will never believe this. My restorative sleep is at 60%.

00;33;42;23 - 00;33;44;06

Speaker 2

Are you kidding me?

00;33;44;12 - 00;33;49;09

Speaker 1

Okay, so I remember this phone call. I was actually at my daughter's one of her chair.

00;33;49;09 - 00;33;50;06

Speaker 2

Competitions.

00;33;50;10 - 00;34;17;18

Speaker 1

And I was out. We're out by the pool with some friends, and I saw your your call come in and knew you had just started taking up a challenge. And again, like you said so at Bethel, and it has some phenomenal benefits. It really is looked at in the longevity space and specifically like DNA repair, telomerase activation and how that really works in the multiple mechanisms of of its function as it actually slows down.

00;34;17;20 - 00;34;41;01

Speaker 1

There's a thing it's a it's a law or what's called the hayflick limit. It's body has a very set number of cell replications. Every cell is different, some replicate faster, some replicate cells slower. But the hayflick limit is is really based on the fact that there are a very specific set of those replications. When the replication stopped, guess what happens?

00;34;41;03 - 00;35;05;13

Speaker 1

We die with this turnover stops. That's how we continue to live is we have new blood cells, red blood cells every 90 days, new skin every 14 to 21 days, new intestinal cells like every 90 days. And so this cancer replication, well, what researches has shown through Dr. GEVINSON, is then it's the caverns, and protocol is what we go by is ten milligrams for ten days.

00;35;05;15 - 00;35;28;22

Speaker 1

But that cell, so you have a parent cell, which is your first cell. And what it does is it actually divides because when a cell doze off, it needs to replace it with something else. And so from cell to cell, be that parent self of that daughter cell, what happens is epithelial and in a simple way, just to explain it, it slows down how quickly this cell replicates to create that daughter cell.

00;35;28;25 - 00;35;51;12

Speaker 1

Now, I always reference the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton. I mean, I'm 44 years old. I know you all thought I was like 26 hits. Okay, guys, don't worry about that. But but that movie, Michael Keaton, he's trying to clone himself and he actually does. He clones himself. And his first clone is like, almost near perfect. Almost exactly like him.

00;35;51;19 - 00;36;19;13

Speaker 1

A little bit different, but almost. And then he's like, Man, I've got even more work than you do. So he then clones that clone and he gets up to like, I think it's like nine and each time he does it, like the clone gets dumber and dumber and dumber. And this is how I talk about a cellular replication is if you were to replicate something really fast or let's just say that you're at work, you got to write a paper, you got to get a report out, but you do it extremely fast.

00;36;19;15 - 00;36;33;20

Speaker 1

How well do you think that reports going to work and how well is that message going to get across? Not well, but if you sit down, you take the time, you go through it, you proofread it, you make sure it's right, you hand it and you're like, okay, this this is what I need to do. Cells are the same way.

00;36;33;22 - 00;36;53;22

Speaker 1

So if it replicates fast, you get less of that transformative information to that daughter cell at the thousand slows down that process. So you have a better replication of that second cell. And that's where that longevity because now you have a healthier cell. Yeah, a more prominent cell. And that's just one part of it. So it slows down that telomerase, break down.

00;36;53;23 - 00;37;19;03

Speaker 1

It doesn't stop it if you reverse it. That's called anti-aging, which I also don't like that term. I like longevity, anti-aging. I always seems like that's an external facial thing. I do anti-aging procedures on my face. Okay. Longevity is that cellular communication and longevity and optimization. Oh, good. But how epithelial then affects that pineal gland is. Yes, it it it hits like three different receptors, specifically to help with sleep.

00;37;19;05 - 00;37;19;19

Speaker 2

Yeah.

00;37;19;19 - 00;37;38;22

Speaker 1

And and so I remember getting back to my story. I go off on tangents and I get excited, but I was sitting there and you go, Doc, you're not going to believe it. And in my mind, when somebody tells me this, in the many years that I've been helping people and through everything I do, my first thought is.

00;37;38;24 - 00;37;39;20

Speaker 2

Oh, no, oh no.

00;37;39;22 - 00;37;49;22

Speaker 1

No. Well, first it's I don't know what happened, but I could tell by your voice. It was it was an exciting voice. Hey, doc, you're not going to imagine what happened in my first that is. I bet you I know what happens.

00;37;49;24 - 00;37;50;12

Speaker 2

You know.

00;37;50;14 - 00;38;20;19

Speaker 1

Because it's it's when when people are doing things to to better the efficiency efficiency of their system and to better their health instead of thinking as medicine. And again, I'm not really going to do medicine here, but optimization, how we work this, we associate symptoms as negative or side effects as negative. What if we started to actually think of a side effect as a positive benefit that comes from what you're actually taking?

00;38;20;22 - 00;38;22;16

Speaker 1

I'm like, We need to switch our thinking.

00;38;22;16 - 00;38;41;07

Speaker 2

I say all the time that symptoms are signals and that they're the greatest gift to us because if if we're say like you wouldn't ignore a check engine light on your car, so why you ignore the signals that your body is telling you something's wrong? Like, I think back to Christmas Day when my whole body was covered in hives.

00;38;41;07 - 00;39;02;04

Speaker 2

Yeah, there was something really wrong. And. And that was my body saying, Hey, we need to heal. Yeah. Yeah. And so getting back to episode one, so I call him, I'm super stoked. I'm like, Wow, 60%. And so my brain is just thinking, if this one peptide was this effective, what can all the other peptides do and why?

00;39;02;04 - 00;39;27;02

Speaker 2

Why I love epithelium as a starting point is because sleep is foundational to everything. And I will admit I don't get my 8 hours of sleep every single night. But I will tell you that my restorative sleep and the amount of REM sleep and deep sleep that I get every night is probably still higher than 95% of of the population in the United States.

00;39;27;02 - 00;39;28;10

Speaker 1

You said 98%, right?

00;39;28;16 - 00;40;00;18

Speaker 2

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I mean, I you know, I'm just lowballing it. But so that was the first thing, three days in. And, you know, I know if I if I hit right around my 4 hours of restorative sleep every night, then it's going to be a great day. It's going to be an excellent day. And so then a few months later, I was this was probably in February when I was out at the Hill conference and we were sitting down chatting and I shared a little bit more because Doctor Adam had explained to me, Hey, like it also helps regulate your hormones.

00;40;00;20 - 00;40;24;01

Speaker 2

Well, when I was 16 years old from 16 until just about a year ago, my cycle was never normal. My hormones were always off. It would come every six months, every three months. There was never anything that was normal. No one ever said anything to it other than just take birth control, which is awful. It's not the solution whatsoever.

00;40;24;03 - 00;40;49;09

Speaker 2

And so for the very first time in my life, my cycle has been regular and it's been normal and it's brought my hormones into so much harmony. And I just think like, wow, imagine if I had up a thousand a decade ago, two decades ago, when that my hormones would be so much better. So much is like sooner.

00;40;49;11 - 00;40;52;07

Speaker 1

I mean, what if just more people knew about it.

00;40;52;09 - 00;40;56;01

Speaker 2

Right? That's why I try so from the rooftops you do.

00;40;56;01 - 00;41;16;26

Speaker 1

And in fact, I think you anytime you call it will go through. You're like, Hey, doc, like, I've got this person and they've got X, Y and Z. And I'm like, Well, what do you think in the first episode? Absolutely. You know, but the reason for that is I, you know, I've called BPC like the Tissue Whisperer, you know, like I call Ray 290.

00;41;17;01 - 00;41;41;02

Speaker 1

It's like the Neuroinflammation Whisperer, Epatha Allen. To me it's, it's, it's the functional reset. It really is. And it has a tremendous amount of research behind it. It is it's I call it the reset peptide. If somebody has I mean hormonal imbalances, chronic disease of any sort.

00;41;41;02 - 00;41;49;05

Speaker 2

Or is just not sleeping well Are you kidding me? Like how many women and men? But I feel like it's more common in women that are up between two to 4ai.

00;41;49;05 - 00;41;51;22

Speaker 1

Think it's more men that are up between one and three.

00;41;51;23 - 00;42;07;18

Speaker 2

Okay. You know, maybe I don't know. I think I probably have more intimate conversations with the woman. And so but that's like a common thing that I that I hear is that people aren't sleeping through the night. I can't imagine not sleeping through the night. Are you kidding me? My productivity would be tanked for the day.

00;42;07;19 - 00;42;17;16

Speaker 1

So tell me this, waking up at 2 a.m. in the morning because there's there's some I don't to say that there's some research behind it. But what is that? You know.

00;42;17;19 - 00;42;18;07

Speaker 2

Cortisol.

00;42;18;08 - 00;42;34;09

Speaker 1

Cortisol. Right. So if you're listening to this right now and you're waking up at 2 a.m., your cortisol is off. That's just a sign right there. You know who wakes up at 2 a.m. almost every night? This guy I know, my cortisol is all over the place, but I got to get this fix. I need to do my round of epithelium.

00;42;34;09 - 00;42;52;29

Speaker 1

But, you know, not only should we be calling you like the peptide princess, you need to be like the the Empathy Island Energy bunny, because that is really I mean, every person I think I mean everybody that you work with, you put on empathy. Alan You really do. And and we're going to keep going into some of your story.

00;42;52;29 - 00;43;27;28

Speaker 1

But I love your story because, I mean, epithelium is it's epithelium is the reset. It's the reset. Because if we talk about DNA, if we talk about telomerase activity, we talk about sleep. You know, those rest is essential. I don't believe, again, we can go into our own medical system and you can look at labs. Okay, So you run labs very specific labs that I think are essential if I mean, we're going to get some links so that people can know how to reach you and how to get that information from you and what labs they need to take its tests.

00;43;27;28 - 00;43;46;23

Speaker 1

Don't guess, I think is an essential thing. But I think that there is there's something to the fact that you don't have to get 8 hours of sleep, you know, in most labs. And we have the American standard. Like everybody knows, the America centered diet is for for crap. It is. It it it's it's nothing, in fact, that the.

00;43;46;23 - 00;43;47;19

Speaker 2

Set the.

00;43;47;19 - 00;44;10;04

Speaker 1

Table is flipped upside down. You know, we need those healthy fats and then all the carbs needed to be thrown away because our carbs are different than anywhere else. But I'm getting off topic again. But sleep, as long as you're getting the deep sleep, like I maybe get 4 hours a night, I know I should probably get more, but to me it's about the quality, not the quantity.

00;44;10;04 - 00;44;32;03

Speaker 1

When it comes to sleep, rest and almost to me, anything. Exercise is not about exercising for 2 hours or one hour. If you get great quality exercise, mixing it between actually lifting heavier weights and then getting in your cardio, you know, it doesn't have to be an hour of constantly just doing some sun squares. A sun squats is what you.

00;44;32;03 - 00;44;33;05

Speaker 2

Call sunshine, squat.

00;44;33;05 - 00;44;52;23

Speaker 1

And sunshine squats. I love it I did a video the other day because this girl, you follow her. We'll get to that here later on on Instagram. But you'll see her. She's like, I'm outside doing some squats. You're getting the sun, you're getting the blood pumping, you're getting energy. Motion is like it's what you need. So yeah, again, I love Epistle.

00;44;52;23 - 00;44;56;05

Speaker 1

And so from Allan, where did you go next?

00;44;56;12 - 00;45;08;03

Speaker 2

Yeah. So ten days worth of Italian? Yeah. Then we started my VIP treatment to help get rid of the black mold. And that stands for Basso Intestinal peptide, correct?

00;45;08;04 - 00;45;08;26

Speaker 1

That is correct.

00;45;08;26 - 00;45;41;10

Speaker 2

And it was wild. I mean, Dr. Adam's not going to be surprised that I was just blown away because all of the markers that came back, I retested the same exact test for Mycotoxins and for the mold toxicity, all of the markers that were from the black mold, that were from the environment that I had been living in went from high in the red down to like less than one, meaning if the range was at eight it was 0.74.

00;45;41;12 - 00;46;03;05

Speaker 2

Like it was insane. And so I did part of it was nails, nasal spray, part of it was a subcu injection. And so because a big piece of mold is that it does get into the brain and it crosses that blood brain barrier and that can really impact just how you think and everything else. And so that was VIP.

00;46;03;08 - 00;46;24;06

Speaker 2

We got those results back. And then I said, okay, doc, we're now like through this healing portion, we see that the black mold is gone. I'm like, It is time for me to get back to being Amanda and get back to that, that just energetic, optimized version of me. And you know, I put on £35, which on my body that's a lot of weight.

00;46;24;06 - 00;46;47;27

Speaker 2

Most of it was fat. It was disgusting from from from how I from how I viewed the health. And so I was ready to optimize again and from January until now, like I took myself from 28% body fat down to 15% body fat. I'll attribute a lot of that to hard work, proper nutrition, proper hydration and proper movement.

00;46;47;27 - 00;46;53;22

Speaker 2

But I'll also say that the peptides played a really big role in that because we got the right stack for me.

00;46;53;29 - 00;47;24;09

Speaker 1

Okay, before we get into that. But yes, the stack of and when we talk about stacking in relation to peptides, that's how we combine specific peptides and put them together because unlike medications, when you mix those medications like we talked about earlier, you know, it's almost there's this infinite non understanding of what they're going to do with peptides because they are so specific at their receptors like a locking key, we stack them based on the outcomes that we're really looking for and peptides being added in really is it's, it's optimizing the system.

00;47;24;09 - 00;47;36;12

Speaker 1

So we went through kind of that healing phase and got you to place. I'm going to bring you back to that with the VIP. Before you did the lab tests. Do you remember that phone call?

00;47;36;12 - 00;47;57;11

Speaker 2

Yeah, Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, because I called and asked, Okay, Do you think it's a good time to retest? And you say to me, This is how I remember it. So correct me based on your memory too, but I remember you saying, So how do you feel? And I said, I feel amazing. I feel like the best I've really felt in a really long time.

00;47;57;14 - 00;48;15;25

Speaker 2

And you kind of reframe things for me in a way of it really matters how you feel more than what those lab results are going to show. Because what the VIP does is it helps to build up the the immunity in your body, your immune resilience. And it was such a positive reframe. What did what exactly did you say?

00;48;15;25 - 00;48;16;07

Speaker 2

To me.

00;48;16;13 - 00;48;38;15

Speaker 1

That's actually pretty much exactly what I said to you, because it you know, going back to what we talked about earlier, you know, when when we go through a healing journey and we have tests, again, we talk specifically, we test, we don't gasp. But again, our mind is so powerful that even if we're changing and I've always said it's not how we feel, it's how we heal.

00;48;38;17 - 00;49;03;06

Speaker 1

So, yes, I was asking you, how do you feel? And you said, I feel amazing. Well, people aren't going to be feeling amazing if they're not healing well, because what is health? I think that's a big question that people don't ask themselves. They want to obtain this thing that yet they cannot define. And so I, I ask what is the definition of health all sit in a in a room full of I think you heard me speak at Heal and I said, hey, what is health?

00;49;03;13 - 00;49;11;20

Speaker 2

It's full function physically, mentally, socially. I like to add in spiritually and spiritually. Yeah. Not just the lack of disease.

00;49;11;20 - 00;49;22;22

Speaker 1

Exactly. And that is health is actually stated by D'orleans Medical dictionary. Health actually has nothing to do with how we feel, but we're based, again, in a system that everything should be based on how we feel.

00;49;22;28 - 00;49;29;02

Speaker 2

If we live based on how we feel. Are you kidding me? We get me to live by standards and by excellence.

00;49;29;04 - 00;49;48;28

Speaker 1

It's we have a system and and I can attest to this. In fact, when we met the very first time, even though you weren't all the way through that that healing phase and going through this in living optimally, if I were to look at you, I'd like, Oh, she looks healthy, but you weren't. And that it's that underlying thing.

00;49;48;28 - 00;50;13;26

Speaker 1

So I yes. Ask you is like, So how do you feel? I feel great. Okay. So what VIP is doing is it has a multiple it's it's derived from the intestines, kind of like a B PC. And there's so much healing that happens within our GI tract because the turnover is so much. And it's really I mean, it's considered the second brain of the body because of the number of neurons, the release of serotonin and dopamine and all these things.

00;50;13;29 - 00;50;28;12

Speaker 1

And yet we take essence our eyes to, to change our brain for things like depression and anxiety when all of that they're blocking receptors in our brain. Yeah. When actually all of the receptors in the released us as actually coming from our GI tract and it's not even addressed.

00;50;28;14 - 00;50;48;28

Speaker 2

And I'll say I'm going to bring in a testimonial right now because you're talking about SSRI and serotonin dopamine. And you know, we live in it breaks my heart research came out that one in three high school girls have seriously contemplated suicide like that. Breaks my heart. And it should not be that way. It should not be that way.

00;50;48;28 - 00;51;14;28

Speaker 2

And there is a a young man that was fresh out of college. I've known him since middle school. I went to school with his older brother and he had reached out to me on Instagram just sharing how he was really struggling. We hop on a call, we talk through things and. He's currently studying for his CPA exams, but really struggling with his mental health.

00;51;15;00 - 00;51;31;12

Speaker 2

I'm like, Hey, look, I know you have a budget right now of how much you can really invest into your health, And I understood that piece of it. I said, I want you to get yourself started with with this stock. And so we put him on a bit of a lean stock, which we could get into the esthetics piece later.

00;51;31;12 - 00;52;02;07

Speaker 2

That's the least important that's the least important part of peptides to me. But the most well known. But I said, okay, we need it, we need to get you on flying. So Max and I hexa and he sent me a DM last week and said, Amanda, these peptides have absolutely changed my life. He said, I'm, I'm actually able to focus and get through studying for my CPA exams, which those are not easy exams and they're really hard and I can only imagine the weight that's on him as he's working a full time job.

00;52;02;07 - 00;52;21;10

Speaker 2

I'm also studying those. But most importantly, he said his mental health has just it's a night and day difference. And that's I think that's the my favorite story as far as the peptides that can really help with mental health.

00;52;21;12 - 00;52;54;24

Speaker 1

So if I if I cry at least once in this episode, sorry, I've gone to tears twice just because utilizing things like this is not just about trying to optimize the system, which it is, but there are so many people suffering that don't know that they can have help with something that doesn't have a side effect, that has worse than the condition that they already have.

00;52;54;26 - 00;53;25;26

Speaker 1

And that's a system that they go in and they trust right now. They trust that the the antidepressant is going to help their depression. When the side effect is homicidal and suicidal thoughts, they go in and they trust a medication that's supposed to help their heart disease. Actually weakens their blood vessels and weakens their heart. We live in a system that is so skewed that people go into something that they trust.

00;53;25;29 - 00;54;17;18

Speaker 1

And then why do they question the things that actually can help them? They can actually transform their lives and and it's trying to be hidden from them. But it is and there's not. It's and quite honestly, if we want to be completely frank about it, it's because we're in a system that only cares about the dollar. The dollar if we actually had a system, a true health care system, not a sick care system, just think where we would be people walking on the streets not wanting to hurt the person next to them, not actually going out and having shootings in schools and all these things that are happening in the world today.

00;54;17;21 - 00;54;45;07

Speaker 1

We would be in a system where actually there is love, there is joy, there is peace, there is patience, kindness, gentleness. I can keep going, self-control. But we are in a system that manipulates a cellular environment. That's what our health care sick system is. It manipulates instead of helping to build a system that actually creates life. And I think that's the power and then that's that's a deep one.

00;54;45;10 - 00;55;03;19

Speaker 1

And I'm going really deep. But I truly believe that is the power of what peptides regenerative medicine, vitamin infusions, cryo, red light, sunlight, grounding. It's all the things that we we have our disposal.

00;55;03;21 - 00;55;31;02

Speaker 2

It's nature, It's nature. I mean when you're sharing all of that, I have a dear friend who lost her husband to suicide 22 years ago, and what had happened was he had been given an antidepressant to help with his sleep. Two weeks later, my friend receives a phone call as she's on a photo shoot in Europe. Saying what?

00;55;31;02 - 00;56;05;16

Speaker 2

He's dead. He committed suicide from an antidepressant. And now she has spent the past 22 years fighting against it, creating labels on all the pharmaceuticals, showcasing how bad this is. And after the shooting that happened recently in in Minneapolis area, she that's where she's from. It was right down the street from where they had previously lived together. And she said the problem is that we have a mental mental health problem in this world.

00;56;05;16 - 00;56;22;24

Speaker 2

And to me, that's the mental health. Is it cellular dysfunction? That's what it is. And if we could just restore the cells and their communication, we'd be much happier, more joyful, more loving place in this country.

00;56;22;26 - 00;56;55;12

Speaker 1

That's what peptide therapy is. Peptides are the language of the cell. I love what I do. We need to keep going. But like I'm like, who? Okay, it's a yeah, it hits. That is one of the thing. Again, I'm just going to go back to this that I love about what we do is because it's not just creating turning points for people like from your cycle to the mold to his mental state.

00;56;55;14 - 00;57;16;23

Speaker 1

It's transforming lives in so many other ways. I've have stories of people that are on like the GLP one products that are just trying to lose fat and get to a weight that they want to be at. But then I hear the stories from them and they're coming back in and they're like, Doc, you're not going to believe like, I don't even crave alcohol anymore.

00;57;16;27 - 00;57;21;05

Speaker 1

I used to drink every single night just to relax. I don't even want alcohol.

00;57;21;08 - 00;57;22;25

Speaker 2

So it's, it's.

00;57;22;27 - 00;58;09;01

Speaker 1

It's like and then another one that is on a GLP one and there are there are chronic smoker and I don't even crave Cigarets anymore. There's so much more to what peptides can do than what we're being fed and, what we understand from what we hear. And that's why I research these things to help people understand that again, whether it's at the salon or VIP or a GLP one or or any of these peptides, they work so specific on these receptors and signaling that that once one thing can actually start to work it has this pleiotropic effect within this system that the body's like, thank you, thank you for, for getting this turned on to

00;58;09;01 - 00;58;16;13

Speaker 1

make this more efficient. Now I can actually start doing these other things, you know that that actually create for restoration.

00;58;16;14 - 00;58;39;23

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I remember to talking about restoration in April, I came to you and I said, Doc, my ankle has been bugging me since January. I rolled my ankle like the dumbest way and I was doing all of the you can imagine. I was at one of the top spots where like Doc Prescott was doing for a while.

00;58;40;00 - 00;58;40;22

Speaker 1

Right next to you.

00;58;40;23 - 00;58;42;23

Speaker 2

No, no, no, no. Like, not at the same time, man.

00;58;42;23 - 00;58;44;28

Speaker 1

We need to get his autograph or something like that.

00;58;45;01 - 00;59;02;19

Speaker 2

No, no, but he was. He. He had previously been in there when he was getting his rehab done. And a lot of professional athletes are in there. And I say that because it was a high quality spot and my ankle was not getting better. Granted, I was not I was still dancing on it. Are you.

00;59;02;19 - 00;59;03;02

Speaker 1

Rest?

00;59;03;02 - 00;59;23;02

Speaker 2

I had stopped. I had stopped running. But I it was just a period of time where I really couldn't stop everything that I was doing because I had a goal in mind. And so I said, What can I do? You said, All right, organ and double. We're going to double the dose of the Wolverine, which is BP. c157 with TB 500 for two weeks.

00;59;23;02 - 00;59;50;25

Speaker 2

That will get you perfectly timed for what you need to be ready for in two weeks. And within ten days, my ankle was fully functioning, back, ready to go. I was sleeping, I was turning, I was running on the treadmill again, completely better. And it's kind of become a staple for me. The the Wolverine and the copper peptide together because I put a lot of stress on my body and it really helps that combination.

00;59;50;25 - 01;00;18;22

Speaker 1

So for for you, what we had done, it was one milligram daily and typically I recommend 500 micrograms if it's a good quality peptide that is strong, you know, pure, you don't need a lot. So we were doing one milligram a day and then we add in the copper because it works with collagen production. Again, copper is one of those, I call it like it's a secret peptide, kind of like a a thousand where, you know, it does people think of it like for hair, skin and nails.

01;00;18;22 - 01;00;28;16

Speaker 1

We hear copper all the time. It's like, Oh, I've got a copper topical, I've got this. I mean, the transformations I've seen with copper from women, I lost.

01;00;28;16 - 01;00;29;18

Speaker 2

That exposure.

01;00;29;21 - 01;00;30;10

Speaker 1

In the hair.

01;00;30;10 - 01;00;30;29

Speaker 2

They had.

01;00;31;01 - 01;00;37;15

Speaker 1

Thicker hair. Yeah, more volume as happens with me to wait. No, sorry. How does.

01;00;37;17 - 01;00;38;04

Speaker 2

This.

01;00;38;07 - 01;01;03;02

Speaker 1

That's Mr. Clean here. Shiny and squeaky. So this is my solar panel, people. It's okay, but. But it also activates, I guess, somewhere between like 404,000 different enzymes and genes within the system for longevity to help with nerve repair, tissue repair. I mean, all of these things, it's it's incredible. Plus it's a gorgeous like purple.

01;01;03;02 - 01;01;04;28

Speaker 2

It's blue color. I think it's it's.

01;01;05;00 - 01;01;07;29

Speaker 1

My colorblind and I don't know it. Is there a peptide for that?

01;01;08;01 - 01;01;14;13

Speaker 2

I mean, it's I guess it's like a yeah, yeah. It's kind of it's like the blue and the indigo, but it's gorgeous.

01;01;14;13 - 01;01;16;09

Speaker 1

I mean, I love it. I like just like looking at.

01;01;16;09 - 01;01;16;24

Speaker 2

The.

01;01;16;26 - 01;01;18;28

Speaker 1

GHQ and I'm like, it's just.

01;01;19;05 - 01;01;20;03

Speaker 2

It's just beautiful.

01;01;20;04 - 01;01;24;18

Speaker 1

Beautiful. And I promise you, you won't turn indigo by taking it, right?

01;01;24;19 - 01;01;25;20

Speaker 2

Yes.

01;01;25;22 - 01;01;49;16

Speaker 1

So you are going to be in the glow. Okay. That was really bad. And that's super bad in the jokes will keep coming. But yeah, I mean, again, these transformative stories are incredible. I mean, from, you know, with you from from episode Allen to VIP and and then you said, Hey, doc, let's go.

01;01;49;21 - 01;02;13;20

Speaker 2

I said, Yeah. I said, It's time to go. It's time to lock in. Like, let's get it. Let's get a nice lean start. Go in. I go. I have I want to look this way in two months. So what are we going to do? And so we got me on a job. He JLP three test Marilyn and EOD and granted you can't just take those and not do the work.

01;02;13;20 - 01;02;24;18

Speaker 2

You have to put in the work. That's the thing with peptides is that your body has to be primed for them if they're only going to be as effective as you are putting in the work and taking action.

01;02;24;20 - 01;02;25;08

Speaker 1

Like anything in.

01;02;25;08 - 01;02;55;06

Speaker 2

Life. Yeah, yeah. I just had to put this in there because the, the misconception with GLP is is that you're going to lose your muscle. I'll tell you this is that I actually put on £7 of muscle so went up to £78 skeletal muscle mass per the in body scan and my body fat percentage from kind of right when I started using peptides until now went from 28% down to 15%.

01;02;55;10 - 01;03;11;12

Speaker 1

And this is all what I love is that you do so much with with data and that because the numbers that you share are not just like, Oh, I went from here and I just went over here. I mean, you're from your loop watch to the in body scans.

01;03;11;12 - 01;03;39;23

Speaker 2

Yeah, it's important because if you don't have the data, then you're just, you're just guessing, you're just floating through life. And I think that's, that's where most of this country is. They're just floating through life. Imagine if we're more intentional Now we have to use data. And I think it's kind of my super my superpower. And when I tell people, because in a previous lifetime I was a CPA working in private equity, I just tell people I take my love for numbers, which was in financial statements, and I just put them into optimizing the human body.

01;03;39;23 - 01;04;05;09

Speaker 2

And so the data the better. And it's been so transformative because there is actually a period of time this year where I was like paying, I put on £5, What's going on? Why am I putting weight back on? Then I went and did the body scan and sure enough my body fat percentage went down and I gained £3.3 of skeletal muscle mass.

01;04;05;09 - 01;04;21;00

Speaker 2

And so it was like, Oh, no matter, you are actually getting healthier, you are getting more fit. Your visceral fat now is at a level three, which is phenomenal, which is exactly where I want it to be. And your body is doing exactly what it needs to do. So that's why the right data matter is Absolutely.

01;04;21;00 - 01;04;40;20

Speaker 1

And you talk about like visceral fat and a lot of people may not understand there's different types of fat within your body, you know, So that visceral fat is what surrounds those organs, like around the liver and the intestines and all those areas. And that's really the fat that is a big determining factor of like overall health, like cardiovascular risks and everything.

01;04;40;20 - 01;05;06;18

Speaker 1

I was actually just at went through my certification at the SEEDS conference. Really, I love it. I mean, the science for my brain, I think I came back Monday. I would almost say that I was brain dead, but I wasn't. There was so much deep information. One of the things that I took away from that is actually the number one thing for checking longevity in all of the testing that we do is actually your VO2 max.

01;05;06;20 - 01;05;11;21

Speaker 1

VO2 max is like the number one indicator on your longevity.

01;05;11;21 - 01;05;20;08

Speaker 2

Yeah, VO2 max is for longevity. HIV is for your nervous system. Those two are the two markers that I manually and you track and.

01;05;20;08 - 01;05;20;22

Speaker 1

I love it.

01;05;20;22 - 01;05;21;02

Speaker 2

Yeah.

01;05;21;05 - 01;05;23;19

Speaker 1

Which is why if you need somebody.

01;05;23;21 - 01;05;24;05

Speaker 2

And.

01;05;24;07 - 01;05;29;13

Speaker 1

Don't reach out to me, please. I'm just here to educate and I'm going to direct you where you need to go.

01;05;29;15 - 01;05;33;15

Speaker 2

I know we want you to be able to say they won't even be able to get a hold of you.

01;05;33;18 - 01;05;51;10

Speaker 1

But I will tell you, it's I think that's a good point, though, too, because you said, hey, man, my weight, my weight went up so often. Again, whether it's a what people will call their weight loss journey, I say we're not in a weight loss journey here. We're in a fat loss journey. And we have to again shift in our.

01;05;51;10 - 01;05;52;04

Speaker 2

Mindset to.

01;05;52;08 - 01;06;11;05

Speaker 1

Shift the narrative. Because because as you are losing fat and if you're doing it properly, guided by somebody that knows what they're doing and you're actually doing your exercise and you're moving and getting in the nutrients that you need. And you know, we talk about a JLP three, which if some people have heard of that, it's read a true tide.

01;06;11;05 - 01;06;34;01

Speaker 1

I mean, it's JLP one, JLP two and then a glucagon receptor. And how that works is it revs up your metabolism as well. I'm on it as well. I take a very low dose regularly and just to help regulate my own metabolic function and insulin and, and it hit you less on the appetite suppression then like the semaglutide or the appetite, which is really cool.

01;06;34;01 - 01;07;05;16

Speaker 1

In fact, there's times where I feel hungry more and I'm eating more healthy foods, high protein. But I'll, I keep getting leaner. It's almost like maybe we should have an understanding of how metabolism works. Mitochondrial function that that actual VO2 max, the aerobic anaerobic processes that happen in our body, which again, nobody really thinks about, they just think, okay, if I go to the gym and I get on the treadmill for 2 hours, I'm going to lose weight.

01;07;05;18 - 01;07;08;06

Speaker 1

Holy cow, you want to about cortisol spikes and.

01;07;08;08 - 01;07;10;14

Speaker 2

You want to see your body and fighter.

01;07;10;17 - 01;07;25;12

Speaker 1

Cortisol spikes and they're the same in both. Actually, this happens more in women. I think it's like for men, I call it like I don't like saying this for women, like it's the skinny fat type of thing. It's like, Man, I work out so hard. How come I'm not losing any of this?

01;07;25;14 - 01;07;34;13

Speaker 2

Yeah, because of cortisol. You're actually in your midsection Most of the time it's cortisol. Yeah. That or your face. Usually for my face, I can tell when I'm getting cortisol face. Yeah.

01;07;34;13 - 01;07;58;21

Speaker 1

And so like again, utilizing red, a true tide again rubs out metabolism helps with some of the appetite suppression. You know. Tessa Moreland The reason why we put you on that is just I mean, it was research early on for with HIV patients. So HIV patients were dealing with what's called sarcopenia muscle loss and muscle wasting, and they were getting these from the medication that they were on in this clinical research.

01;07;58;23 - 01;08;18;15

Speaker 1

They were getting these like pot bellies. So think of it like a beer belly that's hardened, visceral, fat. That's not that fat on the outer layer, because you look at some of these these guys with these beer bellies and like you can see their abs, but yet their belly sticks out like six inches because that's all that fat internally affecting the liver and all of those areas.

01;08;18;15 - 01;08;38;11

Speaker 1

So so tests them all. And what they found is when they sort of given it to these these patients in this trial to help with their Lilly slowed down this muscle wasting or the sarcopenia because that is one of the things is a growth hormone secreted gag they started noticing all of a sudden like the belly started to shrink and diminish.

01;08;38;13 - 01;09;04;27

Speaker 1

So Test Moreland is one of my favorite growth hormone secreting hormone peptides works on from your well multiple places pituitary hypothalamus regulation within the system. It's not like giving yourself a synthetic growth hormone, but synthetic growth hormone you just inject in and then it just puts it through your bloodstream. This actually creates a positive action on the pituitary to release hormone in a natural way.

01;09;04;27 - 01;09;23;21

Speaker 1

Does it in a natural way. And then all of a sudden these bellies start to diminish. And so I tell people, you know, hey, if you're trying to hit this region and really lean up and get that, that combination helps to sleep, which is another great thing. Yeah. So so there's those. And then the third part of your stack.

01;09;23;24 - 01;09;26;15

Speaker 1

So we had predatory tide, we had Tessa Moreland.

01;09;26;21 - 01;09;27;07

Speaker 2

And then.

01;09;27;10 - 01;09;47;27

Speaker 1

We had the ad which showed 9604 if you look it up, it stands for Anti-Obesity drug. It's like I call it like what's like the Fat Whisperer, if you want to call it that, because it literally creates lipolysis or fat breakdown and it's a fragment of growth hormone. So in fat, in a sense, it works in all aspects of the growth hormone except for the growth portion.

01;09;48;04 - 01;10;00;02

Speaker 1

So breaking down that fat tissue fast, hard to reach areas and it's also works in a mechanism of not allowing more fat to be developed or produced. And an added benefit is actually helps with joint health as well.

01;10;00;09 - 01;10;27;02

Speaker 2

Yeah. Yeah. And I would say to that we just put me on to put me on a two month stack at first and I'm like let's do another two months. And it's wild because I came off them for two months and I got my body scan two months later right after I'd been off for two months, and that is when my skeletal muscle mass went up by £3.3 that my body fat still continued to drop, but just shows that it has the lasting effects in my body.

01;10;27;03 - 01;10;49;02

Speaker 1

Yeah, and it also takes time to get there. Like anything when it. So there are some peptides when you look at them it's like how quickly am I going to notice a response? I mean, there are some like one for one which helps with libido, sex, drive for both men and women. I mean, there's actually research to study specifically for women and then men also use it.

01;10;49;02 - 01;11;02;07

Speaker 1

It's actually I mean, I'm if I can actually I think I can say that I mean, research shows it's actually better and lasts longer than Cialis or Viagra. But think of it like a sales figure for women. That's really what it was research for. And FDA approved for that.

01;11;02;07 - 01;11;04;29

Speaker 2

So I don't know anything about. So anyway, I don't know, I guess.

01;11;05;02 - 01;11;36;15

Speaker 1

But I that's why I'm bringing this one up because because people ask, well, how quickly is the peptide going to start working something like that? I mean, within a couple of hours. But when you start working on like a growth hormone secreted gag or like something like a GOP one or an ad, you realize that again, it's it's almost again, it's like small whispers to the cell that over time it's almost like that subconscious response to the cell then will elicit what the conscious brings, which is the change in the transformation physically.

01;11;36;15 - 01;12;05;29

Speaker 2

Well, what matters is how much interference do you have in your body. And so my body was perfectly primed for peptides. That's why epithelial and we're so effectively because I had just met 18 months healing my body, getting all the foundations reset and getting really solid ground. Yeah, So that is one thing that if someone will ask Neil how long, I'm like, Well, we're going to start you on a four month protocol because that's what's recommended to really be able to see those effects.

01;12;05;29 - 01;12;26;12

Speaker 2

It could be sooner than that. You start to see them, it could be a little bit longer. It's just going to depend on the amount of interference in your body. You think about it, you know, some people come in, they've had autoimmune conditions for over 20 years, so we know that. Okay, that was 20 years. Well, that no, there was another five, ten years before that, that it was slowly building to that.

01;12;26;14 - 01;12;52;17

Speaker 2

So this isn't going to unravel itself overnight. However, I will say it is so much more effective than what these medications are. I think about a client of mine who came into me with Hashimoto's, she had that thyroid condition, thyroid of the autoimmune and she I think, was diagnosed when she was in her teen years like maybe 13, 14, 15.

01;12;52;20 - 01;13;15;23

Speaker 2

And she had tried everything, came in with probably 100 pages worth of lab tests for me to review before we even got her tests done. And she's young. She's still in her twenties, so she's been battling this for about a decade. And we we got her. We finally got her. Well, what we uncovered that the thyroid was actually just a signal.

01;13;15;23 - 01;13;33;13

Speaker 2

It was a warning sign saying, hey, there's actually something else deeper. What we found out was that she had a pathogen, that she had mold, toxicity, and that she also had a few micronutrient lack of efficiencies. And so those were the three root causes. The thyroid wasn't the root cause. Yet no one in the past decade had found that out.

01;13;33;13 - 01;14;00;12

Speaker 2

And so we need to walk her through a specific protocol before I was like, okay, I think you're ready for her peptides because there is a lot of healing that needed to happen. And so I started her with that python, right? And then put her on Thymosin Alpha one the next one where we're building up to right now is BBC 157 or actually going to put her on the combo.

01;14;00;12 - 01;14;25;08

Speaker 2

So BBC 157 TB 500 and, she wanted to do a little bit more staggered and she said, You know, I actually feel like my sleep is now getting better. And that was two months later and she can notice. Okay, the time I was on I forgot. We also put her on VIP because she had more toxicity, but it was one of those things where.

01;14;25;10 - 01;14;48;16

Speaker 2

This was a decade plus in the making of her getting here. And so when she was saying, I'm not seeing the results I want, I said, be patient with yourself. It took a really long time for your body to get here. Give yourself grace. Your body is healing. There are a lot of winds. The pathogen is gone. We're getting rid of the mold right now and and the peptides are slowly starting to do their thing.

01;14;48;16 - 01;14;53;28

Speaker 2

But it takes time, it takes patience, and we're just slowly removing that interference.

01;14;54;00 - 01;14;57;27

Speaker 1

I love it. And where is she now? So you said, how long has she been?

01;14;58;00 - 01;15;24;08

Speaker 2

So we've been we've been working together for almost a year now and she has lost a lot of fat. She looks really great. I think that her I think the best thing is that she's starting to actually feel good in her body again. And that's something that I think most of the time when I have conversations with women, they care less about the number on the scale and they care about how they feel.

01;15;24;12 - 01;15;52;28

Speaker 2

And most of the time it's that we just know how we like to feel and we don't feel that way. And she she sees that this has been a long journey. But what she has seen, we've seen complete improvements in her labs like she was like, praise the Lord, pathogen is gone right now. We're working through the the VIP, but she's feeling her information has gone down completely from that time.

01;15;52;28 - 01;16;13;05

Speaker 2

It was in Alpha one. So there are so many so many things. But I would say it's less of the physical responses and more of the confidence and her feeling that she is finally off of this health hamster wheel and that there's been hope and that there's been healing. And I love it because she's such a woman of faith.

01;16;13;05 - 01;16;29;22

Speaker 2

And so I think this whole journey has really strengthened that for her and shown that healing is possible and that there are solutions and that she feels really well equipped to be able to enter back into like this transformative time in her life.

01;16;29;25 - 01;16;43;16

Speaker 1

And love it. And one thing that it hit me there, too. I mean, you talked about this hamster wheel of health. I always called it the merry go round of misery. Are are our health care system of hers.

01;16;43;16 - 01;16;45;20

Speaker 2

You know.

01;16;45;22 - 01;17;12;03

Speaker 1

I go a little bit deeper on that. But yeah, there's I mean, but it's the same concept. I mean, we we do live in this truly a merry go round system of, you know, light medications like an off the shelf, two stronger medications that are prescribed to then a surgical implication to maybe a deeper surgical implementation that then puts us back over into a stronger medication and then we're stuck it for the rest of our life.

01;17;12;04 - 01;17;37;16

Speaker 2

But I'll tell you that I've had to advocate so hard for her because she also has a functional P.A. that prescribes her thyroid medication and she got really bad food poisoning in the middle of our our our protocol, which kind of led us into like, okay, your body needs to just chill for a little bit. Yeah. And she started losing hair.

01;17;37;16 - 01;18;01;15

Speaker 2

It started getting stressed out through this. So her story is like we kept hitting wall after wall after wall. And that's we're like being able to get in the weeds with someone and her functional VA had prescribed her a medication for her hair loss. And I really was saying, I really don't think that that's the best idea. And I start doing like, what's the name of the medication?

01;18;01;19 - 01;18;24;10

Speaker 2

I start doing my own research on it. And the medication was supposed to help with her androgens. Androgens were in excess, which is connected to your testosterone. Right? And I immediately messaged her to say, Hey, your androgens are actually in a really healthy range. I don't think that this medication is going to do anything. You sure enough, two weeks later, she's like, My hair is not getting any better.

01;18;24;10 - 01;18;46;13

Speaker 2

I'm actually getting a bunch of negative side effects. This is happening. This is happening, this happening. Names all these different symptoms. Again, very kindly, I say, you know, I think some of that might be connected to the medication. I would strongly consider pulling off of it, weaning yourself off of it. And so she did. And we got her on the copper up side.

01;18;46;18 - 01;18;52;11

Speaker 2

Yeah, right. For her hair to grow and all the symptoms gone away.

01;18;52;14 - 01;19;02;02

Speaker 1

Letting the body do what it needs to do. Beautiful. I love it. So you've got a lot of stories you're helping a lot of people.

01;19;02;02 - 01;19;04;12

Speaker 2

They're never ending. Never ending.

01;19;04;19 - 01;19;06;17

Speaker 1

Okay, I want to do a rapid fire with you.

01;19;06;19 - 01;19;07;04

Speaker 2

Okay, Real.

01;19;07;04 - 01;19;08;07

Speaker 1

Quick. This is going to be fun.

01;19;08;07 - 01;19;10;16

Speaker 2

Okay. I have one rapid fire question for you at.

01;19;10;16 - 01;19;13;09

Speaker 1

Oh, boy. Okay. It usually doesn't go that way, but okay.

01;19;13;09 - 01;19;14;05

Speaker 2

Well, we'll do this one.

01;19;14;08 - 01;19;32;19

Speaker 1

I want, you know, some of these I'm actually probably can already know, but we're going to go through in a way, first peptide for someone burned out but ready to begin episode. We all knew that was going to say okay for you, a favorite test that you do before using peptides or anything that you implement.

01;19;32;21 - 01;19;55;01

Speaker 2

You know, I hate to say that it depends on the person, but it really is everyone's bio individual. Personally, I like to the more data the better, obviously within reason, but I like to look at your gut. I like to look at how your hormones are metabolizing. So looking at your sex hormones, your adrenal hormones, I like to look at comprehensive bloodwork and I like to look at toxins.

01;19;55;03 - 01;20;24;05

Speaker 2

Oxidative stress, though, that's a marker that I would say most people don't look at. And there's like four different levels of stress at the top is oxidative stress. I've heard it dubbed the human equivalent to rusting, and I actually had one client whose oxidative stress marker was through the roof and through our our protocol watching involved peptides, we were able to take that marker that was 34x beyond where it should have been.

01;20;24;05 - 01;20;26;17

Speaker 2

All the way down to 0.74.

01;20;26;17 - 01;20;29;08

Speaker 1

What's the main marker that you look for, for oxidative stress.

01;20;29;09 - 01;20;36;28

Speaker 2

Eight hydroxy two dioxide going missing it let's wage. KD Okay, sure.

01;20;37;00 - 01;20;54;26

Speaker 1

And that's a simple test anybody can get anywhere, right? I mean, hey, no, but it is true. Oxidative stress is, is a big one and we can even touch briefly on oxidative stress. I mean it's, it's something people hear of antioxidants and they're such a big thing to people like, oh, I need my antioxidants. But do they even know why?

01;20;55;02 - 01;20;56;23

Speaker 1

No, they're talking into antioxidants.

01;20;56;23 - 01;20;57;24

Speaker 2

So know.

01;20;57;27 - 01;21;00;10

Speaker 1

Amanda, take us to class. Let's go.

01;21;00;12 - 01;21;36;09

Speaker 2

Well, reactive oxygen species, right? And so are our bodies. When there is so much stress that could be a build up from medications, it could be from toxins, it could be from real or perceived stress, emotional stress, mental work, stress, relationship stress, all of that. What we resist process. So that will builds up in your body. That's what causes disease And I actually you see a lot of times correlation between people who have experienced a lot of trauma that they haven't worked through a lot of emotional healing that they haven't worked through, or people that just downright don't treat their body as well.

01;21;36;09 - 01;21;58;21

Speaker 2

They have big toxin overload, a big toxic buildup from heavy metals, from more toxicity, from environmental toxins. There there eight hydroxy two toxic on a scene is really high. And so what what we do right. That's where that's where something like SS 31 comes in right. That would be one. What else would you throw in there for oxidative stress.

01;21;58;26 - 01;21;59;21

Speaker 1

Might see.

01;21;59;21 - 01;22;00;17

Speaker 2

Yeah.

01;22;00;20 - 01;22;22;10

Speaker 1

Is a big one. Need is great for that. And just so the people know it is compared to us. So in so I was going to actually mention this when you're talking about layers of healing. Mm hmm. Because if you think of rust on a car or on metal, first thing you have to do is you've got to remove that rust, you got to get it off and then you're going to do something to create a protective barrier over that.

01;22;22;13 - 01;22;44;24

Speaker 1

And so when I talk about and there's multiple for oxidative stress and damage, but a phenomenal combination that I always talk about for that is actually NAD, which is not a peptide, it's actually a coenzyme, but NAD is well, I'll take it even further here. We're going to talk about the mitochondria. Okay. Because the mitochondria is the.

01;22;44;26 - 01;22;45;20

Speaker 2

Powerhouse.

01;22;45;20 - 01;23;07;26

Speaker 1

Of the cell. It's like that's how we get everything and it's what creates ATP adenosine triphosphate, which again, that's the energy, not just for the cell, but again, we have the mitochondria, we have the cell, the cellular energy, the cell communicating with the other one. And then every cell. Then once combined, it creates the skin, it creates the heart, it creates the lung cells are what create every organ within our system.

01;23;07;29 - 01;23;32;10

Speaker 1

So we're going not just on a cellular level communication, we're going in intracellular level of communication with things like NAD, I call that the fuel of the mitochondria, which it really is must see, is like the orchestrator of that mitochondria and helps with mitochondrial even replication, getting more mitochondria for more energy. And then SS 31 is like that protector and that covering.

01;23;32;12 - 01;24;05;04

Speaker 1

So again you clean up the rust, you give what's needed to give, you create that barrier and now you have an efficient or as efficient as possibly can be an optimized mitochondrial function, which then that has a multitude of layers. When I was at the Seas conference I talked about earlier, it was like the whole two talked about mitochondrial efficiency, oxidative stress, these reactive oxygen species and utilizing like, like mossy says 31 nad through this.

01;24;05;06 - 01;24;17;08

Speaker 1

But what was interesting to me is there were so many different topics. We talked about degenerative joint disease. We about autoimmune, we talked about neurodegeneration, and every single one of them, they talked about oxidative stress being the underlining.

01;24;17;12 - 01;24;18;07

Speaker 2

Cancer is a big.

01;24;18;07 - 01;24;28;17

Speaker 1

Issue. Cancer is been the underlining thing that literally if we could address that, it has again this multitude of effects to help with those things.

01;24;28;17 - 01;24;53;08

Speaker 2

Yeah, how I was educated was that there is like four tiers to stress and that oxidative stress was at the top and so you have oxidative stress. If we're testing everything in your oxidative stress comes back high, we have a lot of work to do and a lot of times it's those things that I mentioned, it's the medications, it's the toxins, it's how you're talking to your brain, it's your emotional health, your mental health, it's your relationships, all matters.

01;24;53;09 - 01;24;57;28

Speaker 1

Healing has layers and it's the fact I mean, it is what it is.

01;24;58;00 - 01;25;00;24

Speaker 2

That was a rapid fire rapid fire question.

01;25;00;27 - 01;25;10;08

Speaker 1

That was a long winded rapidfire question that we both went into what was a lot of fun. One more rapid fire question, because I know you have one for me, a myth about peptides that you want to debunk.

01;25;10;11 - 01;25;39;17

Speaker 2

A myth about peptides. I would say that the average person thinks that they're the wild, Wild West and that they're actually because, you know, they're for research purposes or there's not enough research. No, there's plenty of research out there that shows there are healing modalities. And what most people don't realize is that insulin was one of the very first peptides that was known.

01;25;39;17 - 01;26;08;11

Speaker 2

Right. And you look at, okay, well what's a protein? A protein is just chains of amino acids. And if it's at 50, right, if it's 50 chains of amino acids or more, that makes a protein and anything less makes a peptide. Yeah. So they are natural. And the reason why I think they get such a maybe negative reputation is because there's a lack of education, there's a lack of awareness.

01;26;08;14 - 01;26;27;08

Speaker 2

People are doing doses that are way too high. That would be a big mess that you need a big dose of for it to be effective. Maybe that's the number one myth. You don't. It's microdosing. That's what's really effective. It your body doesn't even need that much. Like I have one of them that I take literally two units.

01;26;27;11 - 01;26;36;07

Speaker 2

Yeah, the tiniest little bit. It's hardly anything. And it's so effective. That one's in the land of ten. That one helps ten my skin because I don't get.

01;26;36;10 - 01;26;37;18

Speaker 1

So it keeps my solar panel clean.

01;26;37;18 - 01;27;01;20

Speaker 2

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. But I don't know. There's so many layers to the myths of it, and I think, it all comes down to awareness and proper education of it. And I will say that Big Pharma does not want to see peptides win, so they're going to do everything that they can to ensure that we say sick and we say bought into paying for medications.

01;27;01;21 - 01;27;18;20

Speaker 1

I mean, even to the point that they're trying to now take and turn and I just listen to another podcast on, I mean, they're trying to take and say that peptides are biologics and so they're trying to figure out ways that they actually patent peptides. People ask me, is this going to happen? And they will always try anything.

01;27;18;22 - 01;27;37;03

Speaker 1

I mean, most firms, companies will buy patents and products just to close the door on them, just to not allow them to be there. So that stuff is happening, which is why we need advocates. We need people to be able to, to come and to continue to educate and bring the real information as to what they are. So, um.

01;27;37;05 - 01;27;41;12

Speaker 1

Okay. Am I ready for for your question for me?

01;27;41;14 - 01;28;07;24

Speaker 2

So it's time to build the ultimate Amanda stack right now, the ultimate peptide. Princess Stack I'll tell you where I'm at in life. So quite and full life. My days are, are very long, right? And I'm dancing, I'm training. I am working a lot. I need my brain sharp at all times. I want my body comp looking great.

01;28;07;26 - 01;28;34;09

Speaker 2

I have been in communication with someone potentially going to go hike a mountain like a tall pink somewhere, somewhere in this world. So prepare me for what? Based on what you know about my health, what would be the ultimate stock to to take away with for myself today? And I'm just going to say we're going to start with Die Hexa, because that's a no brainer.

01;28;34;16 - 01;28;43;12

Speaker 1

So I love it because the moment I gave you one capsule, you're like, this stuff, it works. So before we go there.

01;28;43;14 - 01;28;50;03

Speaker 2

Okay, she had to now explain about how she died. So. Oh, my goodness. Where do I where do I begin?

01;28;50;03 - 01;28;52;16

Speaker 1

My first of all, I call it the limitless peptide.

01;28;52;16 - 01;29;10;17

Speaker 2

It literally is it's it's. Oh, So my grandfather passed away from Alzheimer's and in 2020. And when that happened my mom and I went and got testing done to see if we carried the gene. And we both do. And so as soon as I knew that I said I'm gonna do everything in my power to keep my brain sharp.

01;29;10;20 - 01;29;29;18

Speaker 2

What I knew up until we had met was the way to do that is to eat well, hydrate well, move your body, do word puzzles or dance a lot. And I dance a lot. So I'll do more dancing than I will word puzzles. But then I start talking to Dr. Adam about this, and he says, Oh, you got to try.

01;29;29;25 - 01;29;50;22

Speaker 2

Hacks at Me sat down for a podcast interview a few months, not a few months. It was a while ago now, and you gave me one. And it is wild. Your brain just locks in like. And what it does is it it works. It's neurogenesis and Snap's genesis, right? So what it does is it one there's research showing that.

01;29;50;23 - 01;29;52;15

Speaker 1

What am I needed for?

01;29;52;18 - 01;30;13;05

Speaker 2

I mean, I love it. You taught me everything I know. So yeah, there's actually research showing that it helps that either already have Alzheimer's or to prevent the onset of it granted. Right, Like genes are only 10% of it. So lifestyle choices that flip that gene on or off. But I'm do everything I can to prevent that. And I've danced since I was 18 months old.

01;30;13;05 - 01;30;35;19

Speaker 2

I've learned I don't even know how many routines in my lifetime. A lot. And I remember saying, okay, I'm going to try to hex that before going into a dance class. I took it about 15 minutes before I walk in. I texted him afterwards, Keep mind like I work a full day as an entrepreneur. I wake up at 5 a.m., I go to the gym, I'm home, I'm working all day.

01;30;35;21 - 01;30;55;03

Speaker 2

Then I drive 30 minutes to go to a dance class at 8 p.m. at night So it's a four day. You're going, I'm going. And I got out of this class and I texted Dr. Adam. I said, Doc, I was like out tonight and for the very first time in my life, I didn't have trouble learning the choreography.

01;30;55;06 - 01;31;09;24

Speaker 2

And so what I actually does is it helps both with short term, long term memory. There's a lot of other benefits to it as well. But for me it was like such a perfect example of, Wow, this is how effective it is. And now I take it every single day. It helps me lock in.

01;31;09;25 - 01;31;16;02

Speaker 1

Yeah, I love because you said, you know, I was lights out. But what it does is it turn the lights on. I mean that's really what it does. It's like.

01;31;16;04 - 01;31;16;22

Speaker 2

It's.

01;31;16;24 - 01;31;34;12

Speaker 1

You know, I've had other people who taken it and in fact were about to launch it with company. We've been sharing this information on some sprays that we're going to be in some level sprays, which is going to actually be now actually, there's going to be a nasal, but it's a nano encapsulated product that's like doing axis length and max.

01;31;34;15 - 01;32;01;02

Speaker 1

And to take it even further from what you're saying, I mean, this lights on mechanism that again I call the limitless peptide and I hexa it helps to increase again yes that synaptic activity so your neurons from your brain body I mean there's little gaps in between them and signals have to get between and across from those and and I will tell you this with with Alzheimer's too, we work with the Alzheimer's Foundation.

01;32;01;04 - 01;32;23;07

Speaker 1

And it was interesting because they were talking to me about the number one cause of Alzheimer's, and they were like, everybody talks about plaque and then like insulin and all these things for aging because insulin ages things much faster, especially nerves. And it was actually the number one cause that we've seen in our research is actually a lack of deep sleep.

01;32;23;10 - 01;32;24;10

Speaker 2

Yeah, yeah.

01;32;24;13 - 01;32;26;28

Speaker 1

Into the deep delta sleep.

01;32;27;00 - 01;32;41;16

Speaker 2

So yes. Anyway no that so but that's totally, that's totally true. And that's why as soon as I got those test results back, that's why I think data is powerful. Whenever someone tells me, Oh, I don't want to know what's going on inside my body, I said, Well, like you either figure out what's going on inside your body right now.

01;32;41;16 - 01;32;49;17

Speaker 2

You invest in your health right now or you're going to pay for it. When you're sitting in a hospital bed eating your medication as food five, ten, 15 years.

01;32;49;17 - 01;33;07;02

Speaker 1

From now, either proactive, a reactive, whichever you want to be, that's up to you. Yeah, because we can't push in anything. I don't I work on convincing anybody of anything anymore. It's like, I'll give you the information. It's like you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Yes, it's. It's that. But yeah. So I.

01;33;07;04 - 01;33;31;18

Speaker 1

I love the hexa. It's incredible. Okay, so. Oh, boy. Okay, so my mind, if you can just. If there's a picture right now of my mind right now, people like my mind goes like this, but then it's like it really is everywhere in because my head it literally it's it's almost like it goes through boom, boom, boom, boom.

01;33;31;18 - 01;33;54;01

Speaker 1

I keep thinking of all these different products and peptides that could fit this. And so high energy you talk about maintaining, you know, your body composition, which is a big thing, I think mental clarity. And the thing is, even with your rest in mental clarity, I would say first and foremost, if you epithelium, which we didn't mention, do it twice a year.

01;33;54;03 - 01;34;10;17

Speaker 1

So ten days, ten milligrams a day, twice a year, some people will do five milligrams for 20 days. I'm one that's like, let me get my ten days in and just we're done. Yeah. So I would say if you're up that next one. Yep, I would hit that right away. Okay I hexa Yes because I mean that's that your go to that your staple.

01;34;10;17 - 01;34;33;10

Speaker 1

My staple if you want to stack with I hexa knowing that you are constantly going from like 5 a.m. and I know you're doing your workout like your dance at eight, which means you're not done at eight. You're just starting and going again, cortisol stress, you're constantly going. So one that I really like is and acetyl Salang. Salang is a good one.

01;34;33;10 - 01;34;51;25

Speaker 1

It's actually it's a and when I say this I get people that will come to me and I'll say, What's an antianxiety peptide? And they're like, Well, I don't have anxiety. In fact, I had one person say, I'm a psychologist, I can handle my own anxiety. I'm like, Whoa. And what that's like as I was a chiropractor, I had a patient come in one time.

01;34;51;25 - 01;34;52;09

Speaker 2

Back and.

01;34;52;09 - 01;35;12;21

Speaker 1

They go they go, I'm a personal therapist or at a personal therapy trainer. Like, I can I can adjust myself. And I'm like, phenomenal. I'm a chiropractor and I went to school for this. I can't even do that. I can adjust myself. But it's not about, again, getting past that term of anxiety. What it does is it it lowers the stress level.

01;35;12;21 - 01;35;39;00

Speaker 1

Yeah. Which when we think of again, the other effects that that brings is that will lower the cortisol level. Yeah. And what it does is it actually helps in combination with that increase. It's basically it's a your natural brain, brain derived neural growth factor. So it actually helps with growing, in fact, new synaptic connections within the brain. That's a powerful thing.

01;35;39;00 - 01;35;42;22

Speaker 1

Yeah. And so like that's a good like brains attack that I love.

01;35;42;27 - 01;36;03;15

Speaker 2

And unsettles sleeping. Great. Yeah. Yeah. I have a few clients that have done it that are kind of in that menopausal range where their hormones have been all over the place and their stress levels are really high. And I've seen it work wonders for them, stacking it with that.

01;36;03;17 - 01;36;25;10

Speaker 1

Hexa So so there's a couple they great. I mean, because it's a capsule there's no injection on the other side I'm body cam I would argue with Matt C I think my C would be a great one. My recommendation on that and just the dosing side of it again drive NAD is always a good staple because of fuel.

01;36;25;12 - 01;36;49;08

Speaker 1

Matt C I like doing in five milligrams three days a week for a month and then I take a month off, then I do three days a week for a month. I kind of rotate back and forth. The reason it actually helps with regulating insulin within the body helps with body composition. But what you'll notice with Matt C is like during your workouts, you're going to have an endurance that you're not used to.

01;36;49;11 - 01;37;04;27

Speaker 1

And most of the people that I've worked with, I've worked with the gentleman that I can't remember the mountain that he went on, which is Phenix you're talking about. Yeah, I had him on C Okay. And he's like, it, it was game changing for him.

01;37;04;27 - 01;37;10;15

Speaker 2

I can't wait. So I know to begin training his is not very many mountains in Dallas.

01;37;10;15 - 01;37;11;04

Speaker 1

Yeah, you know.

01;37;11;09 - 01;37;11;20

Speaker 2

I live.

01;37;11;20 - 01;37;13;02

Speaker 1

On our stair climbers, but.

01;37;13;05 - 01;37;20;05

Speaker 2

I live on the 37th floor of my apartment complex and so I've been just walking the stairs.

01;37;20;07 - 01;37;28;27

Speaker 1

Nobody else would do that. But that's amazing. You get. So now you're going to I know you you're going to start timing yourself. How long did it take me to do this?

01;37;28;27 - 01;37;30;25

Speaker 2

The first time I did, it took me 11 minutes.

01;37;31;03 - 01;37;32;06

Speaker 1

Wow. And where are you at now?

01;37;32;11 - 01;37;46;15

Speaker 2

Well, I just. I just thought it was like this. Like a brand new thing. Okay. Okay, So you just. Just. I just connected with a a friend that kind of put it in my mind, like, Yeah, maybe start training for this midday. So all of it, the new thing.

01;37;46;17 - 01;37;56;19

Speaker 1

All right. And then the last one, which is going to hit a few things. It's actually a combination peptide. It's actually iood. And I've been Maryellen, we, I don't think we've really talked about this one much.

01;37;56;20 - 01;37;58;23

Speaker 2

No, we've talked about TCI, but not this one.

01;37;59;00 - 01;38;26;04

Speaker 1

So there's TCI. I'm going to go with AOC because you're still getting the body to help with the composition. But CJC 1295 is also another growth hormone secreted gag with I'm from Maryland, which is actually. So you have a growth hormone hormone secreted. GARG And now you have a growth hormone peptide secreted gag that work together. And I have a Merlin's really cool because of its its back regulation not allow your body to overproduce growth hormone.

01;38;26;06 - 01;38;30;28

Speaker 2

Which is so important. Right. Yeah I just tested my growth hormone recently. Yeah.

01;38;31;01 - 01;38;54;29

Speaker 1

So it's a really good and helps with like IGF levels maintaining that. But instead of trying to do like just to test some all and just in a body utilizing a product that has all three of those in one is going to really help with the body comp again you're going to have the C for that energy. You're going to still notice energy, better sleep recovery again with growth hormone secreted goes in there, too.

01;38;55;01 - 01;39;01;26

Speaker 1

So how many of those did you think I was actually going to put you on that You're like, I'm on it for this. And then I surprised you as well.

01;39;01;28 - 01;39;09;11

Speaker 2

Okay. I saw them out see coming because I just got a stock for someone and we included Motsi for her.

01;39;09;16 - 01;39;11;18

Speaker 1

You said I was going to do the exact same one that I did for her.

01;39;11;18 - 01;39;13;05

Speaker 2

Probably right. Well, you know.

01;39;13;05 - 01;39;14;25

Speaker 1

What were you hoping? Because I know.

01;39;14;27 - 01;39;29;23

Speaker 2

So I'm saying I just did a hormone zoomer for myself, which the hormone zoomer looks at your hormones over 24 hours and looks at how they're metabolizing. And as soon as I get those results back, that that will determine if I also add in SS 31 for that.

01;39;29;23 - 01;39;35;01

Speaker 1

Yeah, I was going to say it, but sometimes I try to like I don't like to get people on.

01;39;35;01 - 01;40;02;18

Speaker 2

Too many things at once. Yes. Yeah, exactly. And like I know that I'm not coming off do I Hexa because that's just, that's my status symbol. I'm ready for everything again because I am due for at Battalion Motsi. Yes. And also the Wolverine and copper peptide for me, that stock that's just like one that I, I consistently feel a difference when I'm on it and I'm constantly putting wear and tear on my body with all the training that I do.

01;40;02;21 - 01;40;15;10

Speaker 2

And I just like to to look and feel great. So that's why I like the the GHQ, right? But the one that I think I learned more about was the EOD one that you mentioned, the ADC Jersey from Maryland.

01;40;15;12 - 01;40;33;27

Speaker 1

Yeah, it's a it's a great combination. Yeah. And you know, there's also some out there, I mean, like the test Marlin I've a maryland combo that's a really strong stack but I think where your body composition already is and if you're adding in the mat, see I don't think you need something as strong as like a test. Marlin So that's where my, my, my brain processing goes to.

01;40;33;27 - 01;40;39;19

Speaker 2

Where yeah, you're like you're listening. Oh, you're already at 15% maybe. Sound like we don't need a down anymore.

01;40;39;22 - 01;40;42;27

Speaker 1

Because what happened time when your body fat went to low.

01;40;42;27 - 01;40;43;09

Speaker 2

Yeah.

01;40;43;10 - 01;40;45;19

Speaker 1

It messes up every regulation.

01;40;45;22 - 01;40;46;00

Speaker 2

Yeah.

01;40;46;00 - 01;41;09;04

Speaker 1

Which is also a very key point is that you don't want your body fat to be too low because fat is essential. I mean, your brain's made of fat nerves, your hormones. And if and if you. Well, I'll get to this quick. Why is sunlight so important? There's this little vitamin called D3 that your body needs and your body will produce it if you get out in the sun.

01;41;09;04 - 01;41;16;15

Speaker 1

Yeah. So getting some sunshine, even if you live in Seattle, find it somewhere. I don't know where to find it. Get a red light.

01;41;16;17 - 01;41;39;23

Speaker 2

Yeah. Yeah. I will say that vitamin D is the most common lack of efficiency that I see when I get a lot results back. And it's really sad because if you look at the lab, even the lab company that I work with, they're phenomenal. But they still look at that marker through a normal lens. So they say that anything 30 and up is a good range.

01;41;39;26 - 01;41;57;20

Speaker 2

I said 30 to 100. I think it is. Don't quote me. Exactly. I know that throws the bottom point, though. If your vitamin D is at 30, none of the systems in your body are really going to be working effectively. I like to see that marker around 60 in most the time. It takes a while to get people up there.

01;41;57;20 - 01;42;05;04

Speaker 2

I see numbers as low as like 9912. It's really that's like one thing.

01;42;05;07 - 01;42;11;22

Speaker 1

That over that and so many people go for a multi vitamins so that's like you need to be more.

01;42;11;23 - 01;42;14;08

Speaker 2

Like a trash can is.

01;42;14;11 - 01;42;20;11

Speaker 1

Magnesium. Yeah probably the other one that I see is a major deficiency. People Don't get enough magnesium.

01;42;20;11 - 01;42;46;10

Speaker 2

Yeah. And I personally love powdered magnesium. I especially when I'm dancing late at night, I'll get at 1030 and I'm wired of my all of my just I have adrenaline still kind of pumping through my body. And so I'll, I'll heat up my tea bowl with hot water, pour it in, add my scoop of magnesium, and my body immediately relaxes.

01;42;46;13 - 01;43;03;05

Speaker 2

And it's such a good point because it's the D3 with the magnesium together that actually are needed for the systems in our body. One of them alone, the other one alone isn't as effective. We need both of them to be working at at max capacity.

01;43;03;07 - 01;43;12;20

Speaker 1

See, we're more than just peptides even. This is the peptide pulse. I mean we're bringing you so much information. This is going to be transformative for you. It is for us, right?

01;43;12;20 - 01;43;16;07

Speaker 2

Yeah, I love it, man.

01;43;16;09 - 01;43;41;12

Speaker 1

Well, and so you're asking me this fact. I mean, I knew that the BPC and the TB were kind of your staples already. I mean, you have your staples, but yeah, I think that with what you're going for and then again, I think in any sort of a stack program process, there's transition and change through it too. So we can't even say that it's it's going to be the exact same throughout that whole time frame because we also have to listen to the body.

01;43;41;15 - 01;44;02;28

Speaker 1

I will say it with growth hormone secreted bugs and utilizing those and helping clinicians in the education and understanding. Again, the research behind it. Some people work very, very well with certain peptides, especially growth hormone secreted guys that they don't respond the same to all of them, like they may respond to CJC a certain way and they might not respond to some all in the same way that they do there.

01;44;02;28 - 01;44;15;13

Speaker 1

They all hit different receptors. And so there may be something within that that body, that person that doesn't really react. So you have to be able to monitor. And I think that's why it's also important to have guidance when you do this.

01;44;15;14 - 01;44;17;11

Speaker 2

I do have a question, so.

01;44;17;14 - 01;44;18;17

Speaker 1

I hope I have an answer.

01;44;18;18 - 01;44;41;07

Speaker 2

We'll see because it's kind of just like pops into my brain. So genetically speaking, I have a left like I'm more prone towards leptin resistance. You're familiar with leptin, right? And so based on that, like no matter what I do, my leptin numbers do not come down like you would think that I weigh £500 based on what my leptin numbers are alone.

01;44;41;09 - 01;45;01;09

Speaker 2

When you see that number high because most of time that has to do with metabolic dysfunction for the average person. But I know metabolically I'm very healthy, so it's quite interesting. But then I started looking at my genetics and I'm like, Oh, it's literally because I have a gene that just it's been flipped on for a really long time, probably.

01;45;01;11 - 01;45;03;25

Speaker 2

So what peptide would you recommend for that one?

01;45;03;28 - 01;45;21;22

Speaker 1

Well, I'm going to go back to Epatha, Alan, talking about Gene, even though so again, here's the thing, somebody is recommended. So getting into the the constant stressors that our bodies come on, you can have and I've had people that are Epatha Alan on Epatha Alan for their ten days like I didn't notice anything.

01;45;21;25 - 01;45;22;07

Speaker 2

Yeah.

01;45;22;08 - 01;45;47;28

Speaker 1

Like well should you expect something immediately. Not necessarily because you even may become one of your clients. They didn't notice a sleep change until two months after the episode in your body. It has to transition. It's like we're asking you to do something. We're helping to give it the signal in the language that it needs. That doesn't always necessarily mean that the body is ready to make that change.

01;45;48;00 - 01;46;09;29

Speaker 1

And so and one of the reasons encompasses protocol that we talked about doing it, you know, again, twice a month is because I think even with epithelial DNA change, DNA repair, all these things, maybe we're hitting layer one the first time. The second time we're probably hitting layer two. The third time we could be hitting layer three or we're still hitting layer two because we haven't even hit everything that we need.

01;46;10;00 - 01;46;32;28

Speaker 1

Yeah, So I would still go for that as epithelial as a marker for there. But yeah, I mean leptin is, is a huge indicator, more so even than insulin a lot of times when it comes to to weight and all of that. We did talk about this at the conference and it's funny that you mentioned leptin because I, I still remember studying leptin a long time ago and most people don't discuss it, especially in the ketogenic.

01;46;33;01 - 01;46;52;02

Speaker 1

Well, they talk about it there. But where I would go with that is the NAD might see us as 31 combination again and anything that's happened in our body due to oxidative stress, oxidative damage, it is an underlining layer to all of it.

01;46;52;05 - 01;47;14;14

Speaker 2

What I learned is if the number is not going down over time, then that's like Houston, we have a problem. And I think a lot of it comes from people who are chronic dieters. Which alone? Yeah, that was me until until I learned properly to fuel my body. And so I think that that had been built up over many years.

01;47;14;14 - 01;47;31;08

Speaker 2

You know, you have to fit a certain look as a dancer and as an athlete, and you just push and push and push until your body says no, which is not the way to go. And that's why rest is essential. And that's why, you know, like I said, like we only can perform the level that we are rested.

01;47;31;09 - 01;47;31;21

Speaker 2

Yeah.

01;47;31;21 - 01;47;42;12

Speaker 1

I mean, I think it's also looking at tests and they are a guidance and they are a direction. And we talked about this when you asked me about your tests. I remember this too, because I said, Well, what if it doesn't change?

01;47;42;14 - 01;47;43;12

Speaker 2

Yeah.

01;47;43;15 - 01;48;06;29

Speaker 1

Are you going to be okay? Yeah. Is any term in the direction of your health, even though all these other factors have improved? Because again, just because you take a test today doesn't mean that it can't change tomorrow or shift or transition. So you know, having your leptin levels where they are, I think that that also is an indicator that, yeah, there's still underlining work that your body is ready.

01;48;06;29 - 01;48;08;01

Speaker 2

For.

01;48;08;03 - 01;48;11;04

Speaker 1

And this may be the next phase that gets it to where it needs to go.

01;48;11;08 - 01;48;13;19

Speaker 2

So yeah, it's, it's layer by layer. Yeah, it's a.

01;48;13;19 - 01;48;14;16

Speaker 1

Never stop journey.

01;48;14;16 - 01;48;22;08

Speaker 2

And the good thing is, is that the numbers have been coming down, but they just started at such a high place. I was like, this is astronaut comical. You would think that anyway £500.

01;48;22;14 - 01;48;28;07

Speaker 1

Which again so if you don't understand what leptin is Amanda take him to school.

01;48;28;07 - 01;48;35;06

Speaker 2

It's a, it's a hormone that has to do with it's like it's, it hunger has to do with hunger.

01;48;35;09 - 01;48;42;03

Speaker 1

Which most people think that the group ones with they are interconnected with that because hunger, appetite, satiety.

01;48;42;05 - 01;48;43;27

Speaker 2

But it has to do with appetite.

01;48;43;27 - 01;48;44;15

Speaker 1

And so.

01;48;44;16 - 01;48;45;01

Speaker 2

Appetite. Right.

01;48;45;02 - 01;48;51;28

Speaker 1

What they found in research is that those that are overweight have a higher level of leptin and they're hungry all the time.

01;48;52;00 - 01;48;59;12

Speaker 2

Yeah, because if it's higher, then pretty much that hormone gets confused. And so then it just tells you you're hungry you're hungry.

01;48;59;12 - 01;49;02;19

Speaker 1

You're hungry when I'm good.

01;49;02;22 - 01;49;03;11

Speaker 2

So.

01;49;03;13 - 01;49;07;29

Speaker 1

Well, okay, So I answered your rapid fire. That wasn't a rapid fire. I mean, we went deep into it, but that was all.

01;49;08;00 - 01;49;13;20

Speaker 2

Thank you for that. Yes, I'm ready. I'm ready for my cigaret. It adjusted. Yeah. Here we go.

01;49;13;22 - 01;49;35;11

Speaker 1

So thank you, truly. Thank you so much for coming. The peptide pulse. It was an honor to have you. I mean, we've been talking about this actually even before the launch of the peptide pulse. Like we need to bring you in. I want to share your journey, the journey that you've been sharing, your journey with others that has now helped them to create their journeys.

01;49;35;13 - 01;49;46;04

Speaker 1

And it's a beautiful thing. And so, again, thank you. It's been an honor and I'm excited to do this again sometime, hopefully very soon. Yes, that's going to be a lot of fun.

01;49;46;06 - 01;50;07;03

Speaker 2

Thank you so much. I, I just appreciate you. I appreciate your heart to actually have people be able to heal. And you gave me some hope when when I wasn't feeling my best. And you know that on the other side of taking that, oh, I don't know what this says, taking that step of courage and putting your trust.

01;50;07;05 - 01;50;18;20

Speaker 2

I put my trust in you and you delivered and went above and beyond. So thank you for your heart and your care. And let's blow up the world of peptides doing this.

01;50;18;23 - 01;50;27;05

Speaker 1

Keep educating, keep teaching, keep transforming lives. So I mean, how how can our listeners, viewers, how could they find you?

01;50;27;08 - 01;50;39;26

Speaker 2

Yeah, best way to find me on social media is on Instagram or TikTok. Amanda as IOU. K as shoot me a message on Instagram and happy to chat all things peptides.

01;50;39;29 - 01;50;49;02

Speaker 1

Awesome, wonderful. Thank you again so much. I'm Dr. Adam Junior. I am the peptide researcher. This is the peptide pulse and I look forward to seeing you in the next one.