← Decoded | Unlock The Secrets of Human Behavior, Emotion and Motivation
Decoded | Unlock The Secrets of Human Behavior, Emotion and Motivation
What Happened After a Year of Peptides
00:44:09
Loading summary
Transcript1 lines
- [00:00]
A
For those of you that have dealt with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, you've spent so much of your life not feeling good that when you finally know what it feels like to feel good again, you want that back. I knew very definitively. I'm like, oh, okay, this is a great experiment. Never doing this again. Your brain is wired for deception. But here's the truth. Patterns can be broken. The code can be rewritten. Once you hear the truth, you can't go back. So the only question is, are you ready to listen, y'? All? This episode has been needing to happen for probably almost a year. So many of you have been waiting anxiously on my peptide update that never happened. You know why? Because life got so good and I started to feel so good in my body that I forgot about the whole thing. Now I'm going to try my best to catalog back from probably the first one I ever did on. It was maybe June of last year. Now we're almost in June of this year, so it just seems like the right time to do the peptide update. For those of you that haven't listened to the original one, it was in season one, and I believe the episode was called the Peptide Protocol. At that point point, I was a solid 35 pounds heavier of arguably inflammation, water retention, so much nonsense. I got diagnosed with lupus when I was 23. And in that particular year, my symptoms, while they just got diagnosed, really, I'd been having those recurring symptoms for probably four consecutive years. And at that time, I did really manage everything with diet. Straight up, I had a very, very good doctor. I think I've said this in the last episode, shout out to Dr. Thal. He's probably dead now because he was very, very old back then. If you're not dead, God bless, keep it up. He was kind of a hippie, hippie doctor way back in the day when alternative and complementary medicine was, like, not really a thing yet. And he was in Javi, Hawaii. So if anyone does track him down and he is alive again, shout out to Dr. Thal. So at that time, I got on a bunch of supplements. He put me on this really radical dietary protocol. And I stuck to everything because I was miserable, you guys. So miserable. When I got diagnosed, my whole body had swollen lymph node glands. They thought that I had lymphoma. I guess, praise God, it turned out to only be lupus. My A N A scores were off the charts. I think the first test I ever had, my A scores were over, like, well over a thousand. And I Think I don't know what the exact range is, but I think like 48 is the high normal range. So it was like very, very over the line. And I was having body spasms, terrible migraines all the time. I just felt like my body was shutting down. I literally felt like I was dying. And I had that really well managed by being very strictly Paleo pretty much until I had my last two kids. So for reference, I just turned 41 in March and I had two back to back kids that are now 4 and 5, respectively. So I had a, what they call a geriatric pregnancy where I had back to back babies. And honestly, thank God I did because I think if I had had time to recuperate and get my body back, I probably would have convinced myself not to get pregnant again. It's true. Pregnancy takes a much bigger toll on your body when you're older. And one of the delightful symptoms that happened to me through pregnancy as an older person was that like all my back teeth rotted out simultaneously. Never out of cavity in my whole life. And suddenly all the nutrients got leached out of my back teeth. It was awful, you guys. So I have these two back to back babies. And initially after Harley, the first one of the latter two, initially after Harley, I actually felt like I was bouncing back. Things were great. And then I got pregnant with river when Harley was legitimately, I think, like two and a half months old. If you look on my Instagram, there's a picture of me holding a tiny baby and it's like, surprise, I'm pregnant. So then I have River. And interestingly enough, after River, I actually, my body started to go back to normal right away. And I was like, wow, this is great. Like, I'm gonna get out of this unscathed. God is so good. And I remember going to a Christmas party. River was born on like December. Not like I know when my son was born. It's been a long day, you guys. River was born on December 17th. So I'm at a Christmas party, December 27th is at a friend's house. And I was already back in my size 0 jeans. And I'm thinking to myself, this is magical. How did I get this lucky? And I did stay consistent with my diet. I worked out all those things. So at this point, I think, you know, I'm home free, everything's going great. Then many of you that have followed my journey. This is like right when I started to get into kind of a legal battle over another company that I had founded years before. And My stress level went through the roof. Like suddenly all of the stress that I hadn't had in years back in full force, literally in a 24 hour period. And I started to balloon. And I think I have probably reverse body dysmorphia where I often think I look better than I do, which I'm sure has served me well in certain capacities. But when I look back at a couple of those years, I'm like, wow, I was, I was getting big and bigger and bigger and I really didn't notice it until I realized how crappy I felt internally. Like I felt really, really bad. When I finally pulled the trigger on Peptides, I was really at the edge of my rope because I was working out, I was counting macros. I had worked with a, I had worked with a personal trainer, which I don't, I don't do that. I don't even like working out, you guys. So I even worked with a personal trainer, was tracking my macros, was sending in my like pictures and I had been doing that for a while and one day I send in my, you know, weekly pictures or whatever with all my macros. I was wearing a freaking fitness whatever. What is the tracker device? I don't even know what it's called. Fitbit. Thank you. I was wearing a Fitbit, you guys. I am a hippie that walks around barefoot. I don't like gadgets, I don't track things. So the idea, just to put this into perspective, that I was using a food scale, I did that, I used a food scale, I was wearing an app, I was tracking my steps, you guys, I did everything. And when I showed my picture to the trainer and my feelings are still hurt by this, but I'm gonna get over it. Her response was, wow, you must have something really going on with your hormones. This isn't working. And I was like, oh, okay, okay, great, let's just go off myself then. I put in so much work, you guys, and nothing was working. So I struggle for another few months mentally and physically. And at this point, I know some people in my life who are doing Peptides and they're busy. You gotta try it. And I'm like, guys, I don't even take Advil, okay? I'm that person, I'm the read the label, don't take anything. I, you know, I let my kids actually have fevers. I know it's a shocking. Although many of you, I'm sure in the natural health community, so we just, I'm not one to put something into my body, okay, that's what I'm trying to say here. So I did not take this decision lightly when I first decided to do it. I did a lot of research, like an exhaustive amount of research and cutting through the noise of what I think is fear mongering and what the actual data says, not the articles that are trying to twist or distort said data, talked to a lot of people whose opinions and research on their own that I trust. And eventually I pulled the trigger. So I started a year ago and within probably nine to 11 weeks, pretty much all of my weight gain was gone. Like all of the effort that I had been making all of a sudden, like, I had muscles again, I had strength again, my bloating was gone. I was having vis visible lipedema all over my stomach and all over my legs. And yes, it was actually diagnosed by somebody. So I was starting to see that the very early stages of that all over my body. And it didn't matter what I did, it was getting worse and worse and worse. So now nine to 11 weeks in, completely gone. Like, skin looks nice again, I have my muscles again. I'm not bloated. I can actually eat food, which I don't think I've been able to really eat, eat food freely the way that normal people eat food since I was 23. So it was many years of not being able to eat. So this idea that now I finally was autoimmune symptom free, no more migraines, all the different inflammatory flares that I was having everywhere, just gone. And I kept at that micro dose for. So probably from. I started in probably early to mid May. If you watch that podcast. I don't know when that was, but my guess is like early to mid May, by the time we're in September, which I know because our house was getting renovated in the whole month of September. We lived in an Airbnb. At that point I had dropped to a half of a micro dose, so I'd already lost all the weight that I wanted to lose. I was not like, I was just trying to feel better. First of all, I wasn't in it just to get, you know, skinny. I actually wanted to physically feel like myself again. So by September, I already, like, I didn't want to lose any more weight. I already felt like a million bucks. So I dropped to a half a dose and I stayed there for about six months. And for that six months, I maintained. I felt amazing. I felt so good. And at that point, I don't think I've lost any more weight since then, which I'm really grateful for. I have a lot of routines too that I'm going to talk to you guys about today as well that I think are partially responsible for that. But one thing I will say is I started to eat a lot more food. So this interesting thing about when people talk about peptides, especially tirzepatide, like what I've been microdosing, a lot of what it talks about is, you know, kind of like stamping out food noise or people's appetite going down. I had a very opposite effect where yes, of course you get through the first, you know, like two months of off and on nausea and all the other things. And at that point surely you don't have an appetite. If anyone's ever been pregnant before, it's very similar to first trimester, unfortunately. And then when that goes away, I was ravenous and I think for the first time really in my adult life I started eating like legitimate caloric intakes because I've been much more of a grazer and I've always found food to be kind of an annoyance. So now, you know, come September I'm on half of the micro dose and I'm eating more food than I ever have, probably a solid two to three times more food than I've ever eaten before. And I have energy to work out. Pushing myself to work out doesn't require me to like white knuckle it and force myself. I just, I'm like excited to go work out, I'm excited to do things. And that really persisted for another six months. During that six months I've also was going through a, probably one of the most stressful periods in my adult life. Dealing with a group, I will say, of people who tried to make it their life mission to do things that they shouldn't be doing. And I think arguably again going back to the stress, kind of like how I bounced back after River. But then the stress made me start to balloon again. I think at that point, the stress of dealing with that for months I started to notice that perhaps at that point the micro dose, the half of the micro dose that I was on was no longer quite feeling the same as it had been when I wasn't as stressed. So at that point I went back up to the full micro dose and I stayed there for the last maybe. So I was there for probably two or three months and then when my stress level went away again, I started to feel great again. I actually got myself completely off of it. More than anything, I just wanted to see what happens? I if you know me and you followed me for a long time, I am willing to put myself through something. Personally. I'm not just gonna like tell you guys to do something then not do it myself. And I really was curious to see what would happen if I just came off of it. As you know, if you've been following along with my podcast, I did not get into the peptide space for human optimization. I got into them because my body was completely broken down. I was having autoimmune flares, hormonal weight gain that was not responding to any of my strong willpower or time spent in the gym. The only thing that actually made a change was adding peptides to my daily routine. As you know, I am partnered with LEMD so that you don't have to guess where your products are coming from, whether they're black market from China. You can find all of my recommended stacks at lemd forward slash busygold. And lemd is e l l I e md.com forward slash busygold. And I go deeper into all of my protocols and offer support on my telegram group, which is also going to be linked in the show notes. Now back to the show. And I came off of it for about five weeks, just like completely off of it. And for the first maybe three weeks I felt great and I started to augment what I had been doing and do a little bit more with supplementation and things like that because I really had kind of stripped down to the bare minimum for a while. And when I added back back, you know, when I got rid of the tirzepatide microdosing, I did try to get more regimented with my food. I tried to go back to Paleo to being more intentional with the supplements I was taking. And more specifically, there are these two creams that I really like that help you regulate your cortisol. I'll drop those links in the show notes. I'm not an affiliate with them. I just really like these creams and I'm drawing. I think it's the brand is maybe Apex, but I'm going to put the link in the show notes. But it's a cream that you actually put kind of like either here on the inside of your legs morning, afternoon, evening. And I was doing things like this just to try to help my body sustain. First three weeks. Great. Week four, I started to notice that all this inflammation in my gums that I had been having previous to getting on tirzepatite started to come back. All of a sudden I started to get migraines back. All of a sudden I looked at my body and I'm like, oh, I'm like a little more bloated than I have been in a really long time. And I will say one of the things is when you are on it and you've been on it, for those of you that have dealt with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, you've spent so much of your life not feeling good that when you finally know what it feels like to feel good again, you want that back. I knew very definitively. I'm like, okay, this is a great experiment. Never doing this again. So by week four, those little things were coming back. By week five, I was like in full blown migraines, felt like crap. All of like my gum inflammation was back hardcore. It was, I was actually pretty miserable. So at that point I kind of look at my husband, I'm like, hey, just saying this out loud. It was a good run. I gave it a good try. I just really felt so much better when I was microdosing tirzepatite. So I am going to go back on it. And I went back on at the half of a microdose and I've been here now for probably another four or five weeks. And I feel amazing. And I feel amazing with the caveat that like some sort of crazy plague has been going on. I'm sure everyone I know has been sick with some sort of strange symptoms, whatever sort of weird virus has been going around. It hasn't been fun. But despite those separate things, I'm very clear where I am in my life with whatever is going on with my body, both hormonally and with autoimmune conditions. Microdosing tirzepatide is something that helps me immensely and I don't like the way that I feel when I'm off of it. And that's just the honest to God truth. So I don't think I will be doing that again. One of the things that haven't been doing this now for a year, one of the things that I do like is kind of cycling between the full micro dose to the half microdose. I don't think, you know, and I realize everyone's. How the medication is done is different. The one that I have is mixed with B12, which I think I honestly also very much need. So for us I was on our standard microdoses, 50 units of, I believe 2.5 milligrams. And then for me the half of the micro dose was half of that. So 25 units 1.25. And for me, anything less than 25 units eventually starts to catch up with me. So I think kind of my current dosing protocol is to keep it at roughly 25 units for three months and then see how I feel and then maybe go up to the full dose for three months and then kind of keep going up and down. It's important you know that you guys do your research. I go much more in depth into the science in my initial episode, the Peptide Protocol. But there are so many clinical studies out there that show the benefits far ranging of micro dosing tirzepatide and there's so many other peptides out there as well. I have another episode with the mad scientist Chris Duffin where he does a really good breakdown of virtually every single peptide that's on the market and what it does. So that's a great one to go back and listen to as well. And he's a very valuable, very reliable resource there. I have tried taking other ones, so I tried taking GHKC you because obviously who doesn't want better skin? I personally find the injection site so painful that to me I will just suffer with Korean skin care. Maybe when I get older and more wrinkly, that's a pain that I'll be willing to manage. But for right now I'm pretty happy with my Korean skincare and I feel like my skin quality looks pretty great for 41. So if that changes, would I be willing to potentially deal with the injection site pain of ghkcu? Yeah, probably. But right now the annoyance of it and how frequently you have to do it, it's not really there for me. I don't feel like I really need it yet. We could get there. But I will say on the Korean skin care thing, and I realize this is a totally different episode, what we usually do, but I know a lot of you have been asking for my peptide upd, so we just, it's gotta be done. And surprisingly a lot of you asked me for like what I do for beauty routine and I've even had some of you ask me to do an episode on how I cultivate my personal style. So we might throw some of these in here from time to time because they're just, they're fun and then you guys get to know me outside of teaching you, which I think can also be beneficial as well, just for building the bond. So on the Korean skincare thing, there are a whole bunch of products that I love, but I think one of my favorite ones are the I Think it's the company's biodance pants and their collagen face wipes. Absolutely love those ones. And I did fall in the trap of getting that. I think it's called like the PDRN stick, where it's like the little stick that you put like under your eyes and then like on these wrinkle lines. And I will say, I mean, you guys be the judge. I. I feel like it's worked. I feel like this. I've noticed fill in. I don't get Botox, I don't get filler, and I'm reasonably impressed. So I'll. I'll link all these. And I'm not selling any of these. I get no benefit from any of these. I'm just simply telling you what has worked for me. The other brand that I've been really liking is I think it's Jiyu, like J I U. And they're these like evening complexion face wipes. So I've been using those. I have a lot of brown spots and sun damage. I lived in Hawaii for a long time and I just have historically been anti sunscreen my whole life, so I don't really do that. So I do have sun damage on my face and I do feel like those are helping some of my darker brown spots like in here, and they just kind of feel good and they're just nice to have kind of a cleansing wipe in the evening. And then there's this other, which I'm drawing a blank on the name, but there's this like jelly collagen thing that's pink that I've been putting on my skin. And I swear that is working as well. So I feel like I'm on a good enough Korean skincare thing that is affordable. That for me, GHKCU is not something I'm willing to do to myself right now just because of the pain. But I do know so many women who absolutely swear by it and also swear by nad. I haven't tried nad. I am. If I haven't made this clear enough. My body is very, very sensitive. I'm the person where I've gone to get IVs, I've tried multiple times. I immediately flush and I break out in hives everywhere. So I have always just been very cautious about what I'm putting into my body and why. And that is even more so why I feel compelled to explain to you that for somebody that has dealt with off and on autoimmune issues for years of my life, microdosing tirzepatide is the Only thing that has actually gotten rid of that fully, like completely. If I'm doing it, it's gone. I feel amazing. The other one that I'm just starting to cycle is motto. I know that Chris Duffin goes quite in depth into Motsi. And then I also did another episode in season one with Dylan Gemali and he goes into Motsi as well. It's an exercise mimetic, so it actually functions like a metabolism boost. I so far like it. I haven't had any negative reactions to it. I've also done cycles of BPC157. I will say that I've found feel more drawn toward the CLO stack. The CLO stack is now available on the company that I'm with and I haven't tried that yet, but it's something that I plan on. And I know that Kristoffen talks a lot about the CLO stack there as well as KPV specifically by itself. I know Chris talked about how for some people with, I believe, autoimmune conditions, he says that I believe oral KPV for those people is better. I know the company that I'm with, I don't believe we have oral KPV yet, but I am about to start doing the close stack as well. Motsi is something that you don't stay on for a very long time. So I have about three more weeks left of that and we'll report back. But so far I feel honestly amazing. And I at this point, right, it's been a year. My weight is exactly where it should be. My. My skin is exactly where it should be. I feel amazing and I'm sleeping great. I actually eat food and can eat food without having reactions all the time, which for me was not a way that I've lived my adult life. I will. I'm the type of person that if I'm even like a little bit of gluten on, gets on something, I immediately break out in like a crazy bubbly blister rash all the way up my right finger, my right index finger, and then it starts to go all the way up my arm. So, I mean, the idea that I haven't had to deal with that in quite literally almost a year is crazy. And I actually get to kind of participate in normal parts of food culture, which I really haven't for a long time. But I will say just a little warning to any of you who have been on it. I do want to call attention to one thing that I noticed that I had to really reel myself Back on. I told you back in September, when I was living in the Airbnb house, when our house was under construction, I was, like, starting to eat all this food and I had this ravenous appetite, and that was great. I think I. For months, I was so excited that I actually could eat a little bit of grains because I had been Paleo forever, that if you followed me on Instagram, you probably saw that I started making homemade sourdough bread. I am sad to report I cannot eat sourdough even when I make it. I really. I was like the little engine that could. I really wanted to believe that I could eat sourdough, but I can't. Even if I make it, even if I do every single step of the process, even if it's gluten free, I can't. So that was something that I found out the hard way, but I really pushed it way too far, you guys. And for months, because I kept not gaining weight, I was like, oh, I can eat whatever I want. And I do think that after doing that for months, that did catch up with me. And I started to not feel physically feel as good. And as soon as I tried to get cleaner with my diet and a little bit more restrictive, I started to feel a lot better again. So now I'm kind of back at a place where, example, we have a restaurant in town in our marina that my husband and I love to go to, and they have portobello fries. So it's like portobello mushroom fries that are in some sort of. I'm sure it's rice flour, but I know they're gluten free, but they're like breaded in rice flour. Then they have this, like, balsamic drizzle and goat cheese, and they are delicious. A year ago, I would have eaten that and immediately had a rash. I can eat selectively. Like, I'll do that, you know, once if we're going out to a restaurant. But am I gonna be at home and eat everything gluten free? Because I've convinced myself that I can. No. So I'm back to being Paleo, knowing that every once in a while, I can partake in something that has a little bit of greens, as long as I don't push it. So my kind of warning to those of you who may be microdosing tirzepatite is it can almost give you a false sense of confidence that you can kind of do whatever you want. And eventually that does still catch up with you. And it certainly did catch up to me. If you have not tried this and you're curious or you are just starting. Here are some very important reminders that I will give you just from my experience doing it. Number one, if you're just doing it to get skinny, don't do it. That's it. That's not a good enough reason. There needs to be something underlying that you really want to transform. Weight by itself is not going to be enough to push through. I think the nausea, the nausea for the first two weeks is it was bad. It really was like first trimester all over again and you do just have to get through it. So for me, in getting through it, I was able to get myself mentally where I'm like, I already feel like crap. So this nausea is temporary and it's in pursuit of something better. And when I eventually popped out of it, obviously it felt amazing. The other thing that's super, super important to remember is that you have to keep your protein up. And this is something that can be really challenging, especially for people like me who are just not naturally big eaters. Really. You have to get 90 grams or more of protein, depending on your body weight. Likely even more than that. I'm about £111. I need 90 or more. So getting your protein up is very important. If you've been anywhere near the health and longevity space lately, you've probably heard the word peptides thrown around everywhere. Some people are calling them the future of medicine. Others are warning you that the space is going to get messy fast. The reality is that both things are probably accurate to some extent. Peptides are rapidly moving into mainstream healthcare. Clinics are prescribing them, biohackers are experimenting with them, and regulatory conversations are evolving quickly. Which means one thing is becoming very clear. Your education on peptides matters. That's why I wanted to tell you about a program created by Ashley Madsen. Ashley is a double board certified physician assistant and a longevity clinician who's been prescribing peptides in clinical practice for over a decade. She's also one of the few educators in the space who approaches the topic from a clinical physiology perspective. Not strictly hype. Her course is called Peptides for High Performance. It's a self paced online program designed to help people understand how compounds actually work inside of the body. In the course, she breaks down things like metabolic peptides, mitochondrial optimization, growth and hormone support, regenerative repair and sexual vitality, but through the lens of real clinical strategy and safety. This isn't a peptide stacking course. It's about truly understanding the mechanisms of the physiology and how to use these peptides responsible in an industry that is evolving quickly. So whether you're a clinician, a serious health professional, or a biohacker who just wants to understand what you're really experimenting with, or maybe you just want to understand where the healthcare system is about to transition. This is one of the most grounded educational courses I've seen yet. Enrollment is open now and if you use the code busy300, you're going to get $300 off the program. Just head to the show notes and enroll. Most of you guys know I own a supplement company called Golden Ratio. I personally love our protein powder. I have it every single morning, 30 grams per scoop. The website's my golden ratio dot com. Every time I do that at least I'm like, I know I'm starting my day with something. And then there were times, especially navigating the nausea that I would do that twice a day just to make sure I'm getting the volume up before I'm trying to get it through meat and whatever else. So getting your protein up is really important. And shout out to Danny Angelo, who is my mentor in the peptide space. She emphasized over and over again how important electrolytes were and she is right. When I was first starting, for the first few months I was consistently having at least two electrolyte drinks per day spread out and it helped so much. So if that is something that you are starting, I would really encourage you to find a good electrolyte that you like and do that at least twice a day. It will help you level everything out. And the other one that I thought was really interesting, that didn't occur to me initially, but I figured it out the hard way. So I'm going to pass this nugget to you so that you don't do it is I'm not naturally, because I'd been paleo for so long, I'm not naturally a carb centric person. I don't like, I don't crave pasta and bread and like crunchy things. So I actually had to be reminded that I have to eat carbs while you're microdosing tirzepatide. So I actually started to eat more carbs intentionally because it actually helps the whole process. So that was something that I had to very intentionally introduce. And obviously from my perspective, I now know that I do better with grain free carb sources. So for me those are things like sweet potato chips, sweet potatoes, potatoes. I do really like the bonza chickpea pasta. It's really high protein content and it does really well with my body. So even like last night, I didn't have a huge appetite and I had. What did I make? I made like a Greek salad with rotisserie chicken in it. And I knew that I needed to get an additional carb and a little bit of extra protein. So I made the bonza chickpea pasta. And I just kind of forced myself to eat the right portion to just make sure I kept my protein and carbs up. So there are little things like that that you will figure out as you're doing it. And you just kind of have to find your little pockets of what you know you can do. And for me, the bonzo chickpea pasta is a really easy one because you can very clearly track the protein and the carbs on that. So you just need to find carb sources that work for you, that work work with your body. And you have to just make sure that you're keeping that up. If you're not naturally a carb centric person, those are all the things really that have mattered the most to me. And of course, always taking it at the same time once a week and being really intentional about doing that on an empty stomach is very, very important. I know everyone talks about rotating their injection site all the time. I'm just either left of belly button or right of belly button. Left, right. I don't know people. I've seen people like try to do it under their arms and in their butt and their thighs. I'm just left of belly button fat or right of belly, but button fat. And I just keep it right there. It's quite a bit easier. And I'm historically terrible at remembering to take supplements. I'm not really a supplement person. I hate swallowing pills. And I will say injecting myself once a week, easiest thing ever. It's like, really, it takes no time at all. It doesn't hurt, especially with the tirzepatide and as I said, the ghkcu, that was not the case for me. It actually very much hurt afterwards, which is why I'm just gonna be a baby and not do it until my skin gets older, which hopefully won't happen for a while. The other things that I do religiously that I will break down to you today are, number one, having my Healing Sauna, which I know Healing Sauna has been a sponsor of this show pretty much the whole time we've had the show shout out to Dan from Healing Sauna. And I do have a discount code where you guys, get 300 off. The code is B G heal like H E A L. Having this sauna in my house has completely changed my life. I'm not the kind of person. And I have actually a sunlight and sauna in my office, right? So I have like the big wooden gorgeous one. Do you know how many times I use it? No offense to sunlight and. Sorry. You know how many times I use it? Almost never. Because you have to plan ahead. You have to turn it on and preheat it and then you have to know when you can get in. My lifestyle is just not that way. I have this. I have a moment and then I have to seize the moment. And if I'm seizing the moment, that means that I don't have time to preheat it. And with healing sauna, I have not had to do that. I literally turn it on. I get in, I zip myself up and I'm usually in there for about 15 minutes. Come out full sweat. There's ceramic foot panels on the bottom. It's amazing. You have little armholes. So if you have to use your device, you can use it here. I try to let that be my meditation and prayer time where I just. Just tune everything out and just go quiet. But if you have to answer something, there are hand holes for you to unzip, but it goes to full heat immediately. And I don't know anything else that does that. So that is part of my nighttime routine that is non negotiable. The other part of my nighttime routine that is non negotiable is I do the vibration plate for 20 minutes, 10 minutes on P4 and 10 minutes on P5. And I do this in front of my gigantic tight club red light panel. The tight club red light panel that we have is amazing. And it has so many different settings. I always use the IR FR1 and the natural setting on it is for 15 minutes. So I have to double it, right? Because I'm doing 10 minutes on my front and 10 minutes on my back. 10 minutes. I do P4, 10 minutes on my back. I do P5. Just do the same thing every night. And usually at least two nights a week, I also am doing dumbbells while I'm on the vibration plate. That is something I've been able to keep incredibly consistent, which with my lifestyle consistency is hard to come by. Like, I'll get notified that I have to travel somewhere for a podcast interview. I don't. It's hard for me to know what I can commit to. And this routine at night is something I've been able to commit to. And I, I will say I started this routine simultaneously with starting the tirzepatide. So I do think that this, this whole cluster together and being consistent with this whole cluster very much is helping. I don't think that, you know, the vibration plate and the sauna completely by themselves without the tirzepatide would have done the whole thing, but they're all supporting each other. Like, the muscles on my legs look smooth. There's no more lipedema. I don't have any of that anymore. I don't have that like cellulite looking stuff on my stomach. I look like I'm supposed to look, I look healthy. And more importantly, I feel great. And I had gone a few years really not feeling so great, you guys. I felt really down in the dumps about where my body was at and where my just physical health state was at, given how hard I was working on it. Right. That's what we have to go back to is like, it wasn't like I was like, you know, slamming down potato chips on the couch, being like, woe is me, nothing's changing. I was trying everything. And I swear to you, the harder I tried, the more I counted or tracked or whatever, the worse I got. Straight up. I mean, I got myself into a place where I was really very depressed about it. And I don't get depressed. I'm like, not a, I'm not a sad, negative, skewed person at all. I was very, very sad. So that is my now year update, which is I physically feel great at 41. I definitively feel better and look better for sure than I did at 35. And with the bonus help of the sauna and the shake plate and the red light and the supplements that I take. And overall, you know, just living an emotionally regulated life. I think it's only up from here. I'm feeling really good about where I am at 41. And I would encourage some of you that might be scared maybe. Like I was, I like, you know, I've been anti the V, you know, been that way since I was 19. So the idea that I am injecting myself with something once a week, believe me, it was like a stretch for me mentally to get to. But there, there are great sources out there. Most of what's out there is absolute garbage from China. So you have to be very, very, very careful. Absolute full transparency. I've been a partner with LEMD for the last year. I absolutely love it. I love working with them. The CEO is Fantastic. Everybody that is on board with that company, they're some of the most delightful humans I've ever met and they very much take seriously the health of their clients and maintaining the right processes through the 50503A or whatever pharmacies. And I know that in the last year they've really made a push to have their own compounding pharmacies. So they've really, I think, been a leader in the market with doing it right when there are so many discount suppliers out there. So I love this company. I have probably about 200 or more clients that are under me at Lemd. Many of them have grown exceptional businesses with Lemd. And you know, whether you are interested in peptides or you're with another company that you think might be kind of sketchy and you don't want to do it the sketchy Chinese route anymore, LEMD is a fantastic company. So you can learn all about what I do with peptides at LE M D so E L L I E M D dot com busygold and there you'll be able to see their primary products. There are other products that you're able to see when you set up an account. So some of the things like I talked about like the MOT C and the CLO stack, you can't see until you set up an account. And I believe it's free to set up an account. So if you go to that website, the lemd lemd.com busygold as long as you go there and you set up an account, you should be able to see all the other products on the back end and they have a lot of great other products like sexual health products and things like that. And I don't know if it's out publicly yet. In fact, let me look at this text message before I say it out loud. I don't want to misspeak. Okay. No, it's not launching till next week. So we have something big with LAMD launching next week that I think is going to completely revolutionize this part of the women's health industry. But it doesn't launch till next week. So I can't actually say anything yet. But depending on when this episode comes out, I will piggyback it in the show notes. But whatever you choose, just know that I think there's a lot of shaming out there in the space right now and there's just so much noise of people that are like pro peptides or anti peptides. People are like anti that people can sell or like advocate for peptides. I full Transparency. I am absolutely a partner with lemd. Even if I weren't, I would boldly share that it has personally transformed my life and my health. And as I stated very plainly on this episode, I did get off of it for a little while. And it I'm not going to be doing that again because for me it's not just about trying to be skinny. It's about actually physically feeling good. And after a while I did not physically feel good. And I don't want to suffer through my life. That doesn't sound like fun to me. And now that I know how good I can feel and how free I can feel in my body and in my eating habits, I don't want to go back. So now it just becomes a process of what is the absolute lowest dose I can take and still have the maximum benefit. And I think that's where I've shared with you. I'm at and I will always be transparent and share with you if that changes. So if you are interested, you can go to LEMD busygold and you can learn more about those sort of projects or products. And also there are microdose and then full dose. I have only ever done the microdose. I've only ever recommended the microdose. I ultimately when you do your doctor intake, they will determine what they think you need. But I can only attest to my personal experience with microdosing specifically. So if you have any other questions, obviously you are welcome to reach out to me. I'm very active on my Instagram dms. Jump in, say hi, I'm happy to help you make any decisions there. And also if you're listening to this and I work with a lot of people who are social media influencers, doctors, nutritionists, and you want to be a part of lemd, also reach out. I'm happy to help you do that as well. It's an amazing business model that just kind of comes alongside you and everything else that you're doing. And as a female CEO and founder, I always do like when there are other female led companies out there that are crushing in the industry and certainly LEMD is led by one of those. So if you have any questions, reach out and I will do my best to catalog all the different products that I talked about today and just drop them in the show notes and again on all those ones, like I don't make any commission. I don't, I don't work for any sort of Korean skincare products, but I do love them and I'm somebody who previously was paying an arm and a leg for, you know, supposed medical grade skin care and Korean beauty all day long. Every day is not even a close call. So. So I will drop everything in there and thank you for letting me just be a little bit more relaxed in storytelling today and kind of sharing a little peek into my life rather than being in the seat of teacher. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Share it with somebody who is curious about microdosing with tirzepatide or any of the other peptides and or is interested in the business side of peptides. I'll see you guys next week. Your brain isn't broken, it's running. An old code break method is a system that maps your neurological patterns, decodes your emotional distortions and rewires your behavior fast. No talk therapy spiral, no getting stuck in your feelings, just logic based rewiring in 20 weeks or less. Head to breakmethod.com and see what your brain is really up to.