Peptides Sweeten Your Life Beyond Hormone Replacement Therapy

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Peptide therapy is an exciting, cutting-edge medical intervention that targets specific outcomes in the body for health optimization. Peptides are specifically-formulated amino acid sequences, i.e. small pieces of proteins, that are already found naturally occurring in the body. When properly dosed and administered, peptides bind to specific receptors on cells and signal specific messages to achieve unique and varied outcomes in the body.

Over 7,000 naturally-occurring peptides have been identified to date, and peptide therapies are gaining notoriety with medical providers worldwide, because of the highly-specialized and effective action of each peptide. Individuals like peptide therapies because of their noticeable positive effects, with very minimal, if any, side effects.

Many individuals find the peptide therapies are an incredible adjunct to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, while others use peptides without hormones, to reset their biological clock, achieve their health, wellness and fitness goals, and prevent maladies of aging.

PEPTIDE THERAPY HELPS WITH A BROAD RANGE OF HEALTH CONDITIONS:

  • Enhancing Growth Hormone Production
  • Balancing Hormones
  • Improving Sex Drive and Erectile Dysfunction
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Insomnia, Anxiety & Depression
  • Treating Obesity
  • Osteoporosis
  • Inflammatory Diseases
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • Tissue Repair, including joints, tendons and ligaments, and bone
  • Hair growth
  • Reversing greying hair
  • Reducing irritability in digestion and gut issues

Cutting-edge PEPTIDE OPTIONS

How many peptides are there?

Over 7,000 naturally-occurring peptides have been identified to date, and peptide therapies are gaining significance with medical providers worldwide, because of the highly-specialized and effective action of each peptide.

Why do patients like peptides?

Individuals like peptide therapies because of their noticeable positive effects, with very minimal, if any, side effects. Many individuals choose peptides to recover from injuries, reset their biological clocks, and/or achieve their health, wellness and healing goals, and prevent the maladies of aging.

What are the goals of our peptide patients?

  • Enhancing Growth Hormone Production
  • Balancing Hormones
  • Improving Sex Drive and Erectile Dysfunction
  • Improving cognition and Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Reducing Anxiety & Depression
  • Achieving deeper sleep
  • Treating Obesity
  • Reducing Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
  • Repairing tissue after injuries
  • Regrowing thinning hair and reversing greying hair
  • Reducing irritability in digestion and gut issues
  • Reducing Osteoporosis
  • Recovering after intense athletic training
  • Reducing the impact of toxins like mold
  • Lose weight

How are peptides taken?

Peptides come in a variety of ways, based on your preference and how to achieve optimal effect in your body:

1. Oral capsules
2. Topical creams or serums
3. Nasal sprays
4. Belly fat injections performed at home or in office
5. Intravenous infusions
6. Ultrasound-guided injections into the injured tendon or sore nerve

How long on average does the treatment take and cost?

Treatment cycles average one to three months, although patients often choose to continue many of the benefits for years. Costs range from $150 to $350 per month.

What are some of the most studied peptides?

AOD 9604
AOD 9604 seems to possess many regenerative and fat reducing properties associated with the growth hormone (GH). As a tiny piece of the GH molecule, AOD 9604 appears to have no effects on growth or insulin resistance.

Growth Hormone Stimulating Peptides
The most popular peptide combinations to date are a mix of a Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH) and a Growth Hormone Releasing Peptide (GHRP). This combination can work synergistically to increase the brain signaling to produce more human growth hormone (HGH) in a natural, physiologic, targeted way, with a low side-effect profile.

Semaglutide
Semaglutide is a peptide that was first FDA-approved in the U.S in 2017 as a method to balance blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes. Recently, weekly Semaglutide injections have shown to be an effective solution for patients who are having difficulty losing weight. It now carries an FDA indication for chronic weight management in overweight or obese adult patients.* The New England Journal of Medicine’s publication of the STEP trial revealed more than 50 percent of trial participants lost 15 percent of their body weight.
*When used as an adjunct to a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

Sermorelin
Sermorelin is a synthetic peptide composed of 29 amino acids that mimics the structure of a growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH). It is commonly used to optimize growth hormone levels. It offers a variable increase in IGF-1, which is often a blood marker used in Joy Wellness Partners to test growth hormone levels in the body. It is an FDA approved peptide.

Thymosin alpha-1
Thymosin alpha-1 naturally is secreted from the thymus gland and is an important influencer in immune function. The synthetic version of thymosin alpha 1 belongs to a class of drugs known as biologic response modifiers. It has been studied for its ability to help the immune system and has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of melanoma liver cancer and Hepatitis B.

Thymosin beta-4
Also known as TB-500 or TB-4, Thymosin beta 4 is currently FDA approved for the indication of neurotrophic keratopathy (NK), but additional clinical trials are being performed on its effect on wounds, tissue repair, and its positive effect on supporting the body after regenerative medicine therapies.

PT-141 (Bremelanotide)
PT-141 is a peptide that is being studied for sexual arousal in both women and men. Unlike phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors like ‘the little blue pill,’ it does not act upon the vascular system, but it works more on the sexual desire via the nervous system; avoiding the cardiovascular system. There is a known side effect of nausea in a large percentage of individuals, so your medical providers can offer anti-nausea pills if needed.

Zinc-thymulin
Zinc-thymulin is a topically-applied serum that mimics part of the thymus function that responds to alopecia, meaning that it may help stimulate hair regrowth. It has also been said to reverse greying hair by stimulating melanogenesis and restoring normal pigmentation in the hair.

Reference: Wilding, John P.H. et al. March 18, 2021. Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity. N Engl J Med 2021; 384:989-1002. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2032183. Referenced online Aug 19, 2022 at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183#article_citing_articles

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