s. Go here and do that. Now, you've probably heard of insulin. Insulin is a peptide. Oxytocin, the hormone that you that increases in your body when you hug someone, is a peptide. It's a signal. It does something. It really does many things. But all of these are used to complete a task. What is a very common peptides that's prescribable? Ompic. Ompic was a peptide many, many years before it was ever a drug. The name is semigutide. You've probably heard of the stronger variant, now mangaro. Well, mangjaro was a peptide called tzapatide way before it was ever mangaro. There's many of these that do many different things. There's about 10 to 15 classes of them, and they all serve a different role. If you're trying to help with pain, if you're trying to help with hair growth, if you're trying to help with sexual dysfunction, if you're trying to help brain activation, if you're trying to help reset the metabolism, if you're trying to help with weight loss, there's different ones for different things. And some of them you can mix and match, and some of them really need to be done on their own. This is a brief introduction video series about different peptides and how they work. But this is very important because you're going to start hearing about this and basically think about it this way. This is a brand new class of medications, but they're natural in the body. So unlike say testosterone where you inject it and your body stops making it, that does not happen with peptides. When you inject it, your body's like, "Oh, I got more of them." And it starts to use them. If you don't inject it, nothing happens. you just don't have more that day. Now, the caveat is a couple of them do have an impact after you stop injecting them like growth hormone for instance. But in general, these are very safe and very benign. Now, at appropriate doses and with appropriate measures in importantly where you're getting them, where is the sourcing? Are they from some random website online or are they prescribed like by a doctor like myself? I've been prescribing peptides since 2020, much longer than the majority of physicians. There's probably only a handful that have been prescribing longer than me. And I'm comfortable with them. I have thousands of patients over the past six years that are on peptides. Many of them are on five to 10, maybe even 15 peptides over the course of several years. The majority of them are very safe, assuming you use the right dose, you're timing it correctly, and you're using it properly. These are a very exciting class of medications and very soon these will be easily accessible from a physician that knows exactly what they're doing and how to help optimize your body. Whether it's weight loss, whether it's sexual health, whether it's anti-aging, whether it's decrease pain, whether it's to help your skin, there's so many different things that these can do. And for the most part, they're very safe, very effective. But unfortunately, the majority of them are injectable. Why? Because the stomach in an oral form really beats them up and they never get to their target. There's some that are oral that do okay. There's some that are intraasal that are predominately for the brain. But in general, peptides are safe, effective options that have been around for hundreds of years, but really been used by the biohacking community for the past 30 to 50 years. And now we'll start to see them come to light and when used appropriately can be really helpful for your health journey. This is the beginning of a series. Stay tuned for more videos.