Peptides Explained: Muscle Recovery, Weight Loss & Anti-Aging Benefits | Alpha Male Podcast

In this episode of the Alpha Male Podcast, hosts Gregg and Heather Krause explore the powerful world of peptides — from their history to their rising popularity in fitness, health, and longevity.

You’ll learn:

• What peptides are and how they work
• The role of BPC-157 and other peptides in muscle repair and recovery
• How peptides are used for weight loss, skin health, and anti-aging
• Why sourcing from certified pharmacies is essential for safety
• Gregg’s personal experience with peptide use and results

This is your complete beginner-friendly guide to peptides, perfect for anyone interested in bodybuilding, longevity, injury recovery, and overall health optimization.

**The antibiotic that was discussed for the possibility of causing C Diff is clindamycin

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Peptides
• 0:35 Introduction to Peptides
• 1:21 History and Basics of Peptides
• 2:15 Peptides in Health and Fitness
• 4:49 Peptides for Weight Loss
• 9:39 Peptides for Muscle and Injury Recovery
• 15:21 Peptide Administration Methods
• 20:03 Caution and Quality Control with Peptides
• 22:53 The Future of Peptides
• 27:45 Sun Exposure and Health
• 32:45 Conclusion and Upcoming Episodes

Transcript

Heather: [00:00:00] Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of the Alpha Male Podcast. I'm one your host, Heather Krause, 

Gregg: and I'm our cohosts. Gregg Krause. Thanks for joining us today. 

Heather: Yeah. And today we wanted to dive in to a topic that I think is really fun, really interesting, and apparently a lot of other people do, because we've got, uh, quite a few questions on it.

Heather: And that topic is peptides. Um, I think it's like you can't even. Do a Google search on anything health related anymore without peptides coming up. So it's definitely an emerging, [00:01:00] um, what would you call it? Like avenue to health. 

Gregg: Yeah. It's definitely picking up a lot of steam. Mm-hmm. And it used to be more, which is the underground, but now mainline main society is picking up and learning more about it.

Heather: Yeah. Um, 

Gregg: here's a question for you, Heather. Do you know how long peptides have been around? 

Heather: So I actually don't, and this podcast will be a little different because I. Usually try to put my 2 cents in, um, when I can. And peptides is just not, and I'm too new to it. So it's, I'm gonna be pretty much picking your brain on it.

Heather: Um, so we're putting you on the spot, um, and you get to answer all kind of my questions and this, you know, kind of just throw out everything. This is gonna be a beginner thing by the way too. We kind of just wanna dive in a little bit, um, because we do have a couple people coming on. I was 

Gregg: just gonna say, we reached out to a couple.

Gregg: Friends of [00:02:00] ours that are health practitioners in this line of work. 

Heather: Yes. So I'm super excited to have them on. So this is kind of like part one of, um, probably a, like many of a series because there's just so many things to talk about. Peptides, I mean, from, you know, muscle regeneration, overall health. 

Gregg: Well, before you go there, you didn't answer the question.

Gregg: Oh, I know, I'm, I'm 

Heather: dodging the question. 

Gregg: How long has peptides been around for? 

Heather: I am gonna guess I'm okay. So I think they've been around for quite a while. However, I find it odd that they have not exploded in the bodybuilding industry as much as they are now. Like I, so that's, that's where my guess, I'm like confused.

Heather: I, or I don't know how I want to answer because I would've expected them to be more in everyday language in the bodybuilding world. A lot. Um, sooner than they are now. 

Gregg: Yeah. [00:03:00] Well, peptides have been around for over a hundred years. 

Heather: Okay. See, I definitely wouldn't have said that. I was thinking maybe like 

Gregg: 30.

Gregg: And the very first peptide, technically for our purposes, 

Heather: I have no idea, 

Gregg: was insulin. 

Heather: Oh, I actually, dammit. I did know that. 

Gregg: Yeah. Insulin is a peptide and. I guess just to throw this out there, right in the beginning, peptides are made up of amino acids, so those tiny little things, it's a combination of two or more peptides together that give us all kind of different medication, for lack of a better term.

Gregg: Mm-hmm.

Gregg: They can affect many things in the human body for, for us and also for animals and everything. [00:04:00] 

Heather: Yeah. 'cause like there is like peptides and skincare is exploding and that's like peptides. There's all different kinds of peptides. Ones that you know, you can find in shelves, in stores and products. Some that are still in, you know, research.

Heather: Um, some that the medical community is just kind of turning a blind eye to, 'cause they're not, I think not ready for it. 'cause it, they probably cure too many things. Um, and it's not in their budget yet to come out with something that helps. So, but there's that, I mean, there's peptides for hair growth, there's peptides for muscle building.

Heather: Tenant. Yeah. Um, yeah. All kinds of stuff, 

Gregg: which is so true. There's over 800. Right now being developed of different peptides, they help different things. 

Heather: Mm-hmm. And I mean, and then like the most popular one that everybody's hearing is ozempic, you know, which is a, I mean, it's, is it a GLP one? Is that what it is?

Heather: Um, that's a [00:05:00] form of a peptide for fat loss. Um, although what 

Gregg: I was gonna say, that has had a lot of side effects. Yes. Because. Which I'll let the experts get into more. But for our purposes right now, it, it not only gets rid of fat, but it gets rid of muscle. Yes. And it messes with your appetite. And this causes a lot of problems down the road if you don't use it correctly.

Heather: Yes. And you 

Gregg: don't exercise why you're doing it. 

Heather: See, and like, I guess I was shocked that. I always felt like it, there has to be some sort of catch with Ozempic because why wouldn't bodybuilders be using it all? Like that would just be a staple and they haven't really, well, some 

Gregg: bodybuilders have, but the thing of it is most [00:06:00] bodybuilders don't get that far outta shape.

Heather: True. 

Gregg: To wanna use something like that. There's other things that they use that have a little bit more success. For burning their lens, bit of body fat off of them. 

Heather: Mm-hmm. And keeping that little 'cause like if you're, if you've noticed, I'm sure people have noticed this, like, 'cause a lot of celebrities are on it, and if you're not doing it the correct way, kind of like the easy way where you just keep upping your dosage to keep getting that fat loss, which you're not supposed to do, which 'cause like the higher the dosage, then the more side effects that you can have.

Heather: Then that's where you start to get like the sunken in face look. You age, you look a lot older because you don't have any fat in your face. You get super tiny, but like skin and bones, you're not looking like what you, we 

Gregg: like to call it skinny fat. 

Heather: Yes, skinny fat. Because your mu, like you said, your muscles getting eaten away too.

Heather: So like there's a lot. 

Gregg: By the way, just a side note for [00:07:00] everybody, we have mentioned this before. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn. 'cause your body has to continue to feed that muscle. Yes. To keep it on your frame. So when you lose a lot of muscle mass, all of a sudden your metabolic rate as dropped.

Gregg: Mm-hmm. So even though you're eating less, you could still get fat because there's not the demand by your body anymore for that amount of calories. 

Heather: And that's why you can't just starve yourself because then you're gonna have to keep going down. You can't just, you know, like, oh, I'm gonna just go down at 900 calories and ride this out for a couple months.

Heather: That's your metabolism will like adjust down and then you can actually start gaining weight on 900 if you ruin your metabolism enough. 

Gregg: Right? And that's why when we put diets together for people, whether they're competitors or not, we kind of. [00:08:00] Rollercoaster a little bit. So if you've been down for a couple, 2, 3, 4 days, we'll bring your calories back up somewhat.

Gregg: Mm-hmm. Just to kickstart that metabolism again so that we're not shutting that down. 

Heather: Yeah. 'cause you want, you don't want your body to start thinking like, oh, are we in starvation? Again, it goes, your body goes back to like caveman days. We never really evolved out of it. And you don't want it to start thinking like, oh, are we, is there a food shortage?

Heather: And we can't, you know, so then it'll start powering, like powering your body down so it operates more efficient, which you, you do not want an efficient. Body because that means that you're only burning a little bit of calories to keep it running. You want an inefficient body, like from an energy standpoint.

Heather: So it's burning all, all kinds of energy to keep it, because then you stay lean. 

Gregg: Right. And, and if you ever notice when you eat at Thanksgiving and you really stuff yourself besides [00:09:00] feeling bad, you feel really hot. Mm-hmm. And that's because your metabolism went up. It's trying to handle all the food. Yeah.

Gregg: So that's something we monitor with our clients who are trying to lose weight, get ready for a bodybuilding show or whatever, the beach. Mm-hmm. A reunion, whatever, um, to make sure their body temperature doesn't drop too much, because if it stays low, your metabolism has slowed down. That's not what we want.

Heather: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's a good point. 

Gregg: But I guess getting back on topic with the peptides, um, once again, with it being amino acids, that's what makes up our bodies. That's why peptides are so perfect for helping to heal up our body, [00:10:00] to help improve our body. Um, you know, whatever it is we're trying to do. 

Heather: Yeah.

Heather: It's like what's found in chicken, you know, like what makes up, like the protein in chicken or beef or whatever. 

Gregg: Well, protein amino acids are a little bit bigger than what we're talking about here with the peptides. 

Heather: Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, see. But this is why I shouldn't be putting my 2 cents in. So what, so they're smaller.

Heather: Are they more broken down or are they No, 

Gregg: they're just smaller in stature. And then once again, uh, we talked about the essential amino acids and 

Heather: mm-hmm. 

Gregg: How many amino? That's the protein amino acids. 

Heather: Oh, these 

Gregg: are, 

Heather: I did not know that. 

Gregg: Different ones that are a lot, they're smaller and they could be put in many different combinations, and that's why.

Gregg: Like for instance, they can help heal you up if you have a soft [00:11:00] tissue injury. Like let's say you sprained your ankle or you got a bummed shoulder. Um, one peptide that's got a lot of parentally, we've known about this for a long time, but it's bp. 1 57 

Heather: I, Joe Rogan's a huge proponent of that. I feel like he talks about it, that he's done it on his podcast.

Gregg: I, my one healthcare, um, person that I work with has used that on me when I had shoulder problems and everything. Oh, and by the way, we always recommend you go through a medical person. If you're dealing with peptides and everything else, because it is a medication. 

Heather: And also this is by no means medical advice and all of this is just no for fun entertainment purposes only, and take it as you will.

Heather: Um, [00:12:00] so with like, 

Gregg: well, I'm gonna go back to bp. 

Heather: Yeah. I want, um, 

Gregg: it's what makes up kind of your gut. Um, enzymes and everything. And the peptides in there. That's what PP 1 57 is. They take the amino acids, put it in a certain order, and this is what gives it its healing process. 'cause just like that in our stomach, it's always helping healing our stomach up from all 

Heather: the abuse.

Heather: We 

Gregg: do that, 

Heather: okay? From 

Gregg: what we eat or what we drink. Different things along those lines. Um, matter of fact, which just reminds me, um, my one brother just went to the dentist and they gave him a, a antibiotic and the [00:13:00] antibiotic rec is good, probiotics, and he end up getting c diff. So just a shout out to everybody.

Gregg: You gotta be careful when people are giving you, um, medication to see if it has a side effect on you. 

Heather: Yeah. 'cause um, this one is, I guess the dentists are told to give this antibiotic out. Like if you have like a tooth infection or something. And 'cause it's an easy antibiotic to give and they give it to you and it, there's like a high percentage that you can get c diff on it, which is not fun.

Heather: Like you would 

Gregg: be. Well, my Michelle, my wife, Heather's mom got it a long time ago. And 

Heather: from the dentist 

Gregg: Yep. 

Heather: For a tooth infection. 

Gregg: And luckily our, our one main doctor down in Columbus, he knew right away what it was and got her on probiotics and got her. Healthy [00:14:00] in a hurry. Otherwise it could be drawn out and not too much fun.

Heather: You know what? For the life of me, I cannot think of what the antibiotic is, but for everybody listening, we are gonna put it in the comments so you guys know, just in case you guys ever go to the dentist and they give you that antibiotic, like take it at your own risk. Um, because that is a huge side effect.

Heather: I would ask for a different one if it were me, but go ahead with the um, yeah. About Uncle Doug with getting there. Oh, well 

Gregg: he ended up getting in and now luckily he went to the doctor, the emergency room and they figured out what it was, but he was very sick there for a while, not having a glue what was wrong.

Heather: And that's the thing, lasts for like weeks. I mean, it's not just like a couple days like, and it's sometimes it can be like an uphill battle too, because you have to rebalance your gut. So like it's. It's not like, oh, it just kind of just stops and goes away. It's like you gotta kind of work through it.

Gregg: Right. And make sure you [00:15:00] get on some good probiotics. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. To build up that again, which brings me back to the BPC. Yeah. 1 57. That's been around for quite a while and like I said, I have used that through my doctor and it really worked quite well. Um. I guess I should point this out now.

Gregg: Peptides can come in many different ways. They can be injectable with an insulin syringe, and it's either, um, directly into the muscle or into the fat tissue. Those are two ways of delivering the peptide. Uh, another way is. It's aerosol. They have some that are in sprays. 

Heather: Yeah, I saw that like in your nose too, that you get too, you up your nose, right?

Heather: Yeah. 

Gregg: Because you have a lot of, [00:16:00] um, blood vessels and everything in your nose, which gets in your system that way. 

Heather: I definitely need, that's like my type of one, or like the oral because I tried giving myself a shot one time in like the stomach with an insulin needle. Yeah. And I almost 

Gregg: back don you to do that.

Gregg: Yeah. 

Heather: Yeah. And I almost passed out. Like I'm talking like cold sweats started to spin, fell down. Um. And then your advice was just sit down next time when you do it. So needless to say, I can't, I think it was like when I went to like, actually like push the stuff in. I lost it. Like I just, I hate needles.

Heather: I've always been afraid of 'em. When I was little I had a nurse. Um, it was like one of those routine like shots you get, um, going into kindergarten. This, right, 

Gregg: I remember that. 

Heather: Yes. This huge. Badass nurse. I got scared. I jumped off the table and you know, like those little rooms that you sit in, I ran around and she gr she chased me, grabbed my arm, [00:17:00] stabbed me in the arm with a needle.

Heather: And ever since then I've had issues. So it's been like a long time. Um, and I've never outgrown the fear. That's why 

Gregg: mom and I never worried about you being a drug addict. 

Heather: No. No way. Or tattoos. I don't have tattoos or I've never done intravenous drugs. So. I guess it helped, 

Gregg: but anyway, with the way you could take peptides, either intermuscular skin fold, um, through your nose or orally, uh, capsule or pill, and those are the three we'll call delivery systems.

Gregg: Mm-hmm. That peptides can come into. 

Heather: And so now with BPC 1 57, like I know it helps with like soft tissue injuries and then like, since it comes from the gut, like what it, you said, like it also helps repair your gut too, because I do feel like a lot of people have gut issues and I'm, you know, a lot of [00:18:00] food intolerances, leaky gut, things like that.

Heather: So like, 

Gregg: which will help you all that up. 

Heather: Mm-hmm. Now did you notice a difference, like a noticeable difference when you took it for your shoulder? 

Gregg: It took a couple days, but it definitely, it helps get the inflammation out of there. And once again, the mobility came back. Uh, it's not a miracle drug. It's not like, boom, you took it and it's miraculously fixed.

Gregg: I mean, it took time. Um, by the way to, just to clarify this. If it's an injectable peptide, it comes in a powder form. In a bottle in a vial, and you have to mix in, um, I back statin water into it. Oh yeah. So you have to make sure you don't just turn your faucet on and get water from there and put it in, [00:19:00] that not be good at all, but you have to mix it.

Gregg: And once again, they have calculators. A lot of websites or your doctor will tell you so you know how much water to put into it. Sterile water. Okay. Not dap water. Um, to get the right amount and how much you pull back on the insulin needle to make sure you have the right dose. 

Heather: Yeah, that's an, that's an important point.

Heather: 'cause I remember when I got, um. Some stuff and I, it was like a powder and I was like, what the heck? I thought I got like a liquid. Um, so that can be super confusing, especially if it's like your first time kind of diving into 'em. 

Gregg: Right. And BP one 50, BP C 1 57 also comes in capsule form. 

Heather: Oh, that's nice.

Heather: Where, 

Gregg: yeah, that's some of the, um, peptide places, the compound pharmacies. And Oh, by the way. That [00:20:00] just brings up this point I should bring up right away. You'll see a lot of peptide places on the internet. We have to make sure it's a certified Yeah, compound pharmacy place that's making the peptides and it has to be third party tested and there's a code number that they have to follow a certain thing.

Gregg: Which I'm not gonna bore you with that. I'd have to look it up to read it to you, but just be careful because I guess it's just like the Yahoos buy you who buy drugs off the street. Yeah. You got some guy who failed chemistry class. They can use stuff to put in your arm or whatever. So make sure you go to legitimate places and your doctor or healthcare provider.

Gregg: Should be able to tell [00:21:00] you different peptide places to go to. Mm-hmm. 

Heather: Yeah. 'cause I mean now you have to be careful about buying supplements on Amazon. I mean, because people are making counterfeit ones for popular brands. And I mean, you really wanna do your due diligence because you have no idea who's putting up that website, you know?

Heather: And especially with peptides. 'cause some can be harder to get. It's still kind of a confusing, you know. Topic and some not all doctors are on board with 'em and everything, so, um, and some pharmacies don't want to, you know, touch 'em. So it is hard, it has created a black market for 'em. So you do have to definitely be careful 

Gregg: and that's why I would make sure you find a good, um, healthcare professional out.

Heather: Yeah. That's the best way to do it, 

Gregg: because they usually work with a compound pharmacy. 

Heather: Mm-hmm. 

Gregg: I know we worked with one. Down in the Columbus area and they're phenomenal. Yeah. Where all their stuff meets all the standards [00:22:00] and then some. 

Heather: Mm-hmm. No, that's a really good point. So is there anything else that BPC 1 57 can do?

Heather: Like is there any 

Gregg: Well, the good news is, I mean, you could take it and mix it combinations with other PEPs to even heal it up a little bit quicker, but. I'm gonna save all that for when we bring the guests on, okay? So that they could give you the different protocols, but it's something you can use for a period of time.

Gregg: I'm talking maybe four or five, six weeks, and then you wanna get off of it. It's nothing you wanna stay on all the time, but that's just one example where it helps heal you up. And get you back doing what you wanna be doing. Um, another peptide which works [00:23:00] is they have a lot of peptides that help with fat loss, but does it more from stimulating your own growth hormone.

Gregg: So as you're born, your body produces growth hormone. Once you get in your late teens and twenties, your production of growth hormone, which helps build your bones, your muscles, all that stuff starts to slow down and eventually you're not producing much anymore at all. But they have, um, peptides now that'll help stimulate.

Gregg: Your growth hormone system so that your body will start pulsating growth hormone out again. 

Heather: Oh, that's cool. 

Gregg: And once again, growth hormone will help build [00:24:00] muscle tissue, strengthen your bones. 

Heather: I mean, it's anti-aging. I mean that's like the mountain of youth basically. 

Gregg: Yeah, that's one of the big ones they use.

Gregg: Um, it also like anything. You gotta be careful 'cause if you get too much growth hormone, it can make you insulin. Um, resistant. Resistant, yeah. Basically where your body, it, it's on overload. So like anything you want to use it, not abuse it. 

Heather: I think that that's probably the biggest, um, issue. And when you hear about like certain side effects, like especially going back to really quick, like with Ozempic, you hear about all these crazy side effects and a lot of 'em, it does go back to people abusing it and using too much.

Heather: And I think, you know, a lot of times people do that, they get a good result on, you know, this much. And then it's like. I'm gonna get a better result with, you know, five [00:25:00] times that amount and, 

Gregg: and, and they forgot to clean up their diet. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're, they're not doing any of this. They forgot to exercise.

Heather: And so when we're talking about all this stuff, I mean, it's, everybody wants a magic pill to know how to look great, feel young, feel, you know, have their brain working great and all that. And it, there is no magic pill that's gonna do that. It's like. Getting your diet, your exercise, your lifestyle, you know, de-stressing your sleep on point and then adding this stuff in little by little.

Heather: It's when, 

Gregg: oh, I'm gonna interrupt you. You grow, the hormone gets released at night all so job, she's asleep. 

Heather: Oh, that's a good point. That's why 

Gregg: with, um, different growth hormone among releasing peptides. It helps people that are having a hard time falling asleep. 

Heather: Oh, and I, I gotta believe if you're up all night, [00:26:00] you're not gonna get the benefits out of that because your growth hormone's not gonna be releasing.

Heather: Because again, your body is, everything's like made on, like, to put this in like layman's terms, it's like on a timer and every like. Every little thing like needs like a, a something signals the next like little timer thing to go off and like release. And so if you're not sleeping, you mess up like all these different cycles.

Heather: So you're not gonna get that growth hormone release if you're partying and drinking your face off and then taking these peptides, like there's nothing that's gonna counteract a terrible lifestyle, just so you know. Everybody's aware. 

Gregg: Yeah. They're not magic. They're 

Heather: mm-hmm. 

Gregg: They help you. 

Heather: Yeah. Like, and 

Gregg: they could be a big help if you're doing a lot of the work yourself with the diet, with exercising 

Heather: mm-hmm.

Gregg: Getting enough sleep. 

Heather: Yeah. That's, that's really gonna get you what you want. 

Gregg: Right. Is 

Heather: all of that. 

Gregg: [00:27:00] And like I mentioned, they have hundreds of peptides out there in the experimental stage right now. Um, they even have them for. Stroke victims. Um, we just got in with my wife's mom, Marge. Um, she's 99. She just got in with a stroke.

Gregg: Mm-hmm. And, um, she's recovering right now and we're looking into talking with some of the doctors, some of the peptides they have that could possibly help heal their brain up. Mm-hmm. So. Once again, peptides eat, hit a whole wide range of things. Um, they even have peptides that can give you a suntan. 

Heather: Oh yeah, I know.

Heather: I, what kind of, I thought that was cool. I kind of wanna try it 'cause I definitely need some, um, I need a good tan. I know mine, I'm like so [00:28:00] white compared to you. And I used to be like the same color as you. Then I don't know what happened. And in my, my, um, you work indoors. I know. That's what I think it is.

Heather: Oh, so side note, I don't know if you got my little Instagram message when I sent you this. They did a study, I guess on mice and they gave the mice like it was two different groups and they fed 'em the exact same way. And the only difference was that the one mice group, um, got sun like. Like the adequate amount of sun and the other group did not.

Heather: Do you see this or No? Okay. And the group that got the sun lost, like we're the leanest and lost the most weight, meaning that the sun even plays a role in fat loss goals. Because my guess is that, 'cause the vitamin D plays such a big role in all so many systems, you're actually like. Turning on your body like to make it work like it's supposed to because your body's actually made to stay lean.

Heather: Your body's [00:29:00] not made to be fat. No. Let me though, like clarify this, like, and this is more toward like a with women thing that, uh, than men is that I'm not talking about like we're meant to be skin and bones. Like we're meant to have a healthy amount of fat on us to keep our hormones and everything intact.

Heather: I mean, same with men, but your number's a lot leaner than ours is, but you're not meant to like your body when all, um, everything's running on like full cylinders. You. Should not be fat at all. It's when things start to like aren't working properly. That's what happens. You almost, if ev, if your body's working correctly and you're not eating shit, it takes a lot of work to try to gain weight because I mean, if you're eating like good like chicken and broccoli, how much chicken and broccoli do you have to eat to like gain weight?

Heather: Like it's a 

Gregg: lot. That's very hard to do that. 

Heather: Mm-hmm. 

Gregg: And that's one of the [00:30:00] things we have to. Look at with people is to have 'em roll back how much crap they eat, where if they eat the good stuff, they'll feel full and they end up losing weight. And just piggyback it off of what you said about D, vitamin D, vitamin D and vitamin D three and all that.

Gregg: Have so many health benefits. 

Heather: So many, 

Gregg: yeah. I know according to some experts, you're supposed to go outside and cover yourself from ETO toe and sunan lotion and 

Heather: which is all chemicals, but go ahead. 

Gregg: Right. And they cover you up with all these, your clothes and everything else where, I mean, they're even saying, and I think I might have mentioned this before, Heather and I did like people that wear sunglasses all the time.

Gregg: Their, their [00:31:00] eyes need to get some sun to also help with 

Heather: them, like processing the vitamin D Well, and the little cones in your eyes when it sh, like when it knows that you're out in the sun, then it brings like the protective cells to your skin so you don't get burnt, you get tanned. So you actually have a more, um, it's more probable that you're gonna get a sunburn if you have sunglasses on as opposed to not.

Heather: Obviously if you've been like, um, trapped in your house for months on end and then you like go to Hawaii and like bake in like the sun in the summer without sunglasses, you're still gonna get burnt because you're not used to the sun at all. But like if you, the correct way to do it is to like. As it gets warmer, like spend more and more time out in the sun, but like get your skin used to it and then Right.

Heather: With some 

Gregg: skin exposure. 

Heather: Yeah. But you know, but you should not be covering yourself up in like the middle of [00:32:00] July. You know, like, unless again, you've been, this is your one day a year out in the sun, then it's like, I don't know what to tell you, but, and you, I would watch all that sunscreen that you're putting on and start looking at the labels because a lot of that is filled with crap.

Heather: Just like an FYI. Coconut oil is a natural sunscreen. It does not have chemicals in it. It's great moisturizer for your skin. So I would try that, um, and see if it works for you before I sprayed myself down with all kinds of chemicals. 'cause that's just going right into your skin. It's like your pores are open, your skin is the largest organ on your body and you are just like inviting all that crap in and it's gonna get absorbed.

Gregg: Yeah. Well. I know we used up a lot of time today talking about different things, but we will get more in the depth with the peptides as we continue on and we'll bring in some different experts to talk about it. 

Heather: Yeah, no, for [00:33:00] sure. So I'm um, definitely stay tuned 'cause I'm really excited about that to hear.

Heather: 'cause I. Like I said, I know like, uh, one, 100th of the information on peptides and I can't wait because there's so many things that they do. I want to start trying 'em 'cause um, I wanna look like this forever. So I'm like all about anything I can do anti-aging. 

Gregg: Yep. It does that also. So thank you very much for joining us today.

Heather: Yeah. And don't forget to like, share, subscribe guys and any questions that you have, um, you know, about peptides, about any of the past episodes. Definitely shoot us an email. It's info at the alpha male podcast.com. Thank you. Thanks guys. See you next time. Yep.