September 26, 2025 • 33 mins
My experiences with various peptides and weight loss update
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Greetings, and welcome into another episode of the Fasting Guy podcast.
Not sure how long it's been since I did an episode,
but I just haven't had anything to say. And I
don't force myself to produced episodes on any kind of schedule.
I don't think that's beneficial to anybody just hear myself talk.
But I do have a few things i'd like to
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talk about. Now. We're going to update you on our
progress and our health and weight loss goals, and we're
going to talk about peptides today a little bit. So
I guess we'll jump into first of where I'm ating
my health and weight loss goals. So we hit what
we hit one hundred and I think we hit one
hundred and fifteen pounds lost. I think maybe it was
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one hundred and twelve. I'm not sure it was over
one hundred, maybe one hundred and maybe one hundred and fifteen. Yep,
it was one hundred and fifteen. Sorry, we had one
hundred and fifteen pounds lost, and I had kind of
been maintaining that for a few weeks, which is what happens.
Like the more weight you lose, the slower it comes off.
If you're continuing to do the same things. Right, unless
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I were to take some extreme measures or something, it's
just gonna get slower and slower, which I'm fine with.
I read a lot of research.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
On a particular well, it's not a peptide substance, we'll
call it a substance creatine, creatine monohydrate.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I follow Rhonda Patrick touch trust the stuff she says,
and she was talking about creatine and its benefits and stuff.
And it's the most studied, most researched, most taken supplement.
Supplement was the word I was looking for. Sorry, It's
like the most researched, most taken supplement probably ever in
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human history. And it's it's safety is you know, unmatched
in the world of supplements. It's benefits unmatched in terms
of documentation. And one of its benefits is a cognitive function,
the way it assists with cognitive abilities. And so that's
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something I've been into a lot lately. I mean, this
is gonna sound silly, but I just play a lot
of poker. I play a lot of poker, which requires
you to be, you know, cognitively on top of your game,
and I play started playing a lot more later hours.
I was doing it in the daytime, the games just
aren't as good in the daytime. I started the evenings
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and then the overnights is really where the games are.
So my whole sleep pattern shifted. And one of the
things I was watching this little clip from Ronda Patrick
where she talked about all night she loses sleep and stuff.
She'll take like five times the daily maintenance dose of it,
which is like five milligrams a day, which is what
most like bodybuilders to take it like before they work
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out and stuff, because it also helps with that. But
another thing it does is cognitive. It's twofold, and she
was talking about these studies on its cognitive abilities and
when you take five times to dose when you've lost
sleep or you're a little bit groggy, or maybe you're
not mentally on your game or something, if you take
twenty five milligrams of it, how amazing it is. I'm like, Okay,
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I'm going to try it. So I bought some creatine
and apparently it can have digestive you know, implications, and
the digestive tract can cause some discomforting some things, And
so I wanted to get on and taking it every
day thing, a five milligram of day thing. So I
could get used to it, so I don't want to just,
you know, take twenty five milligrams out of the blue.
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So I started doing that, and almost immediately within this,
like the second day, I noticed I was bloated and
my scale went up like five pounds, and I just
felt bloated. And so I started reading some side effects
of it, and it it plumps, it pumps up, plump, plumps, plunps,
plumps up your muscles. It causes your muscles and some
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other fibers throughout the body to take on water and
retain them, which is beneficial in the sense that it's
normally used, especially with like weightlifting, body building, working out
and stuff. If you're somebody that's trying to lose weight
and you don't like to see the scale go. But
it's not all that great. But I didn't stress out
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about it because I don't stress out about water weight.
I just care about fat, right, And this is something
I had to come to terms with years ago. And
I don't know where you're at in your journey and
your understanding of things, but just let me tell you,
one of the best things you can ever do is
come to terms with the scale going up. Because of
water weight and not stress about it. Just don't care
about it, because this will happen, especially with women around
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that time of the month, women will start retaining water
or there'd be times fore they'll drop water. Like all
these things will happen, and the scalers fluctuate wildly. And
it's not fat, like you're not gaining and losing five
pounds of fat in a day. That just didn't happening.
It's water. So for peace of mind's sake, you know,
it's good to understand these things. The main place I
see it is, you know, if I eat, you know right,
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eat eat the way I want to eat, the optimal
way that I want to eat. I just don't eat
a lot of carbs. My carbs are pretty low, protein
is pretty high, and I just won't I just won't
be retaining a lot of extra water weight because you know,
carbs is what brings that on. But then I'll just
have a weekend where I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna,
you know, gonna eat cheeseburger fries today, and then I
haven't had ice cream in three months, and I'm gonna
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have ice cream because I do that, Like I don't
stress out about that stuff. That's been the beauty of
this weight loss journey. Being on a you know, five
I think I've extended to the six years now, but
being on a five or six year plan to maybe
hit a goal weight, I just don't, you know, I
don't stress about being perfect. And now you know, I
don't eat hamburgers and fries and ice cream every day
or every week or every month like you know, but
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I will have it occasionally. And so you know, on
these weekends where I go okay, decently squeaking, I just
want it all, ben, I want the cheeseburger and fries
and I'm gonna have me some ice cream later. You know.
After I do that, I'll just I'll just it on,
you know, four or five pounds of waterweight. It'll just
flood on me. And it's uh, you know, people that
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aren't aware of the waterweight phenomenon will be like, oh god,
I ate cheeseburgers and fries and ice cream and I
gained five pounds of fat. Well, no, you didn't gain
five pounds of fat. That's crazy talk. It's just water.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And if you get back on the get the carbs
out of the way and going back to a you know,
a reasonably good diet. The waterweight to drop off anyway,
So this creatine does that.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The creatine does it, and so I immediately within a
couple of days, gained five pounds. I'm about a week
into it, I guess for the first time, I do
the twenty five milligram dose. Playing some late nights. I
went in and played to play poker at like midnight
and played till like eight or nine the next morning.
And you know, about two hours into that, I took
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twenty five milligrams of it, and then same thing. I
slept the next day best I could and went back
played poker again the like. I did the same thing
of the twenty five milligrams, and I did notice some
cognitive benefits. I wouldn't I wouldn't say it was massive, like,
it wasn't mind blowing. It wasn't like I felt like
suddenly I was Neo in the Matrix if you've ever
watched that movie, Like I didn't have that type, but
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I mean it for sure felt a little bit of difference.
I'm like, Okay, I mean, maybe this is worth it.
But I get back home that Sunday or Monday, I
don't know what day was. I came back home and
I get on the scale, and I mean, now I'm
like nine pounds heavier than I was just you know,
a few days ago, and I don't like it. I
don't like it at all. I just don't like it. Nevertheless,
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it's fine. It's waterweight, but you know you feel waterweight.
You do. You feel waterweight. It's not dangerous, doesn't mean
you've gained fats. You didn't stress about it, but you
feel it. I've quoted this a lot of times. I
found this research study I don't know, fifteen years ago
that for every every pound of weight you lose, that
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takes four pounds per square inch of pressure off your knees.
So I mean that's pretty dramatic. So like, if you
were to gain ten pounds, it adds forty pounds per
square inch of pressure to your knees. I mean that's
pretty remarkable. So you know, the weight matters in some
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you know, not in a health wise sense, but it
can affect you anyway. I didn't like being eight nine
pounds heavy or whatever it was, but it was fine.
I stuck with it, and I'm like, we're just gonna
keep doing it. You know, I stuck with the five
milligrams a day, and some of that came off, like
four or five of that came off, but we were
still five pounds up from where we were originally just
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sticking with the five milligrams a day. And then I
had another weekend. We're up late, and I did the
twenty five and then the twenty five, and then sure
enough the next Monday, I'm up like another four or
five pounds, which yep, you know, eight to ten pounds
or something over where we were. I mean, ultimately, I
just sided a few weeks ago. I'm like, I don't
think the benefit I'm getting from this is worth me
carrying around an extra let's just say eight pounds on average.
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It's just not worth me caring around an extra eight
pounds of waterweight. Like I feel it, like like when
you carry in extra water, you feel the bloat. And
it's interesting. As I was telling this friend of mine,
My best friend is a woman, and you know, I
was talking to her about it, I'm like, I kind
of know how you ladies feel now where you have
a time with the month where you have no control
over just this bloat coming over you, and how you're
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just because that's what happens. Like, it's just you know,
I get it. That must not be fun at all.
And again I'm not saying I understand everything you ladies
go through, but I, you know, kind of got a
sense of what that would be like. Anyway. For now,
I've kind of quit taking the just kind of quit
quit taking the creatine, which is crazy, by the way,
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because I have a ton of it. I have a
ton of it. I don't know, we may take it again.
On a side note, I started taking another cognitive of
brain thing. It's called medmonic or something, but it doesn't
work in that same weight. It doesn't affect weight or
whatever anyways, So I want to talk about the peptides
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and stuff. So I'm still taking the the turzepetide, which
is getting that commercially, so you know, from Eli Lilly,
I'm getting the actual product, and we're up to the
maximum dose now, which is fifteen milligrams, and I take
that once a week. I will say that I feel
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like the effects of that and what it has done
for me has just become a maintenance now, like it
doesn't help me all that much. And I'll tell you why.
I think that that's Monjaro. Obviously. When I say the
commercial version of reptid, I'm talking about Manjaro. I think
it has another name for weight loss, like if you
get it specifically prescribed for weight loss. I don't know
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it's called zep bound or maybe I don't. I can't
keep up with all the names. Anyways, it's the same thing,
but Manjarro is the name. I guess where they treat
it for diabetes. But it's the same thing. It's just
the exact same drug. I don't know why they call
it different things anyway. The maximum dose is fifteen milligrams,
and so that's what I've been doing now for a
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little while. And you know, I guess it keeps me
in a maintenance thing, but I don't. I don't feel like,
you know, like I'm not getting those massive appetite benefits
from it anymore all that much really, But obviously it
does a lot of great thing, Like the research continues
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to come out that you know, they were hoping it
would show positive things for cardiovascular events and disease and stuff,
and it does. So I mean it's good to take
it for that reason. And obviously I'm just insulin resistant,
pre diabetic, you know, and I'm hoping that at some
point reverse all that, but I am still that and
you know, it helps with all that, and it's you know,
it's easy, and it's once a week and it's you know,
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easy to do in all that stuff. But what I
started doing was ordering red A True Tide. Now red
A True Tide is the next level, you know, the
you know, you had the first one, which is the
semi glue tide, which is which just the GLP one
agonist or whatever, and then they come up with Munjarro,
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which is tzepetide, which is the GLP one and get
I guess g IP agonist, and then red a True
Tide is those two plus it adds another agonist that
I can't think of off the top of my head. But
it's triple action. And it's only on the phase two
like they don't phase one trials, and they've done phase
two trials and I think it's currently in phase three trials.
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But much more weight loss, much better control of this
that and the other. And so I have a peptide
company that I order peptides from it, so I ordered it.
Now the maximum dose on that I think is twelve.
I think it maxes out at twelve milligramds. Like they
start people on a four milligram dose for a week
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or two, and then they move them to eight milligrams
for a week or two, and then they move them
to twelve. It's the final dose. I started getting it
at the five milligram dose, and I would take that,
and I took that for a few weeks. So I'm
taking that and and the Manjarro so I take. I
would take the Manjarro on like Monday, and then I
would take the read True Tide on like Thursday. And
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I did that for a few weeks, and I did
notice a slight improvement in my appetite and and just
you know how I felt generally, and I thought it
was being beneficial. I did that for a few weeks,
and then I moved up to ten milligrams, which is
nearly the maximum dose, and that that's the maximum. Like,
I'm not gonna I'm the place I get it from
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sells it in five milligram files and ten milligram viles,
So I'm not going to try to do a twelve
milligram max dose because I'd have to mix files and
it would just be complicated because you have to reconstitute
it and it gets complicated. So the most I would
take is to ten milligram, So you know, I've been
doing that, which is kind of crazy if you think
about it, Like I'm now taking a maximum dose of
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Manjaro and I'm taking basically a maximum dose of Registrude
tried in the same week. But I am not seeing
like massive results happening. I do like the way I
feel on it, and I will say that I don't overeat.
I just for sure don't over eat. I just last
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weekend is a great example. Hadn't had chicken tenders and
fries and forever, and I'm like, man, I really want
some chicken tenders and fries, and so I ordered them,
and you know, it came with I think it comes
four chicken tenders, and then you know in the little
basket of fries. I mean, by the by the time
I was like halfway through that second chin chicken tender,
I just like I just just didn't feel like I
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wanted to eating it, man, And I wanted it so bad,
and I hadn't eat anything all day, and then the
fry is like it's like half the fries you guys
couldn't eat any more of it. And I will say,
if I were just still on the Munjaro alone, I
would not have that problem. I would be I could
just devour that if I wanted to. So, I mean
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it is added benefits to it. I mean, how do
I feel about the safety of it? I mean, you
know it's taking a risk, for sure, taking a little
bit of a risk. But I mean, you know, peptides
are It's crazy because we just started hearing about peptides
when they came out with you know, with semaglue tide,
the first one the Ozmpic. It seemed like that this
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first time the world ever heard about peptides. But since
that came out and I first heard the word peptide
and I did a deep dive on I mean, peptide
has been around forever. I had like some of the
highest safety profiles of anything ever. And so it's like,
you know, the way they work is it's not like
a drug, Like a drug usually deadened something or block
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something or or does something thing that your body isn't
supposed to do. And you know, all a peptide is
is it's something your body already naturally has and uses
and it just you know, gives you a little extra
it or something. It's I don't know if it's exactly
bioidentical to what your body produces, but just close enough,
I guess. So anyways, there' that's it on the weight
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loss side. Like something interesting happened last week where I
traveled a little bit longer than I thought I was
going to travel, and the day I was leaving to
travel is today. I was supposed to take the Red
True Tide. It was a Thursday, and I just got
busy in the packing and trying to get out and leave,
and I just didn't take it before I left. And
that's not really something I could travel with because it's
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a little vial and you got to take the swabs,
you got to take the syringes and stuff. So I
don't ever travel with that. Like, I just only take
that at home and I try to plant it where.
If I am going to be traveling, i'll take it
before I leave. The Manjarro I can take because it's
got that. You just get that little stick pin that
comes and you know, as long as you keep it cool,
it's fine. And you can just pack that in something
and wrap it up make sure it doesn't get cracked
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or broken. So I have traveled with that before for sure. Anyways,
I didn't take the Ready True Tide, and then instead
of coming back Monday like I thought I was gonna do,
I actually didn't wind up not coming back for like
a whole extra week. And you know, I travel, I
don't have a schedule, and I'm retired and I don't
have anything to do, so you know, oftentimes I'll go
somewhere for three days and when I'm staying seven days,
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or sometimes i'll go some for a week planning stay
a week, and I always take enough clothes and supplies
and stuff that I can stay like an extra week
if I want, because I just travel a lot. So
you know, next thing, you know, like I've been going
like maybe it's it's almost fourteen days since I've had well,
I was twelve, like twelve days since I've had Manjaro,
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so we're way overdue on that. And then it was
like fifteen or sixteen days since I had any Red
True Tide, And you know, I was trying to analyze
how did I feel or you know, how was I affected?
And I didn't feel that much difference, like I wasn't
super hungry, I wasn't binging, I wasn't binging out on stuff.
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I wasn't you know, plowing through the mountains of food
or anything like. I didn't overeat. I don't know it.
I mean it made me wonder. It made me think, like, well,
I mean, what's going on now, Like has maybe your
bodies healed something? Maybe you're maybe you've reversed some of
that insulin resistance because you've been at this so long
and you've lost that weight, and you've lost the the
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liver fat and and and you know, you know, maybe
you're you know, I don't know, So I don't know.
I got back home and I, you know, immediately this
was four days ago. I got back home, and I immediately,
you know, got you know, stuck myself with the majar open,
and I guess I felt it a little bit maybe
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the next day. I don't know. It's just hard to say.
I don't know. I just I really don't know what
to say about all that. I mean, I'm going to
keep taking it. I feel like it has health benefits
and I don't feel like there's much risk. The Reditru tribe,
there's a little bit of risk because I'm ordering it
from a company that you know, isn't regulated by the
FDA or anything, and it's listed as research peptides and
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they're only supposed to be used for research purposes and laboratories.
So I mean there's a little bit of risk with that,
But I mean I've been buying from this company now
for probably two or three years. I mean, I feel
pretty good with their safety profile. But anyway, so, I
mean that's on that front, on the that's that front. Ye.
So I'm going to talk about a couple of other
peptides that I've tried. So there's one called SLUP or well,
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I mean people refer to it as SLUP three three two,
but the actual name of it, if you want to
research it, it's s lu dash pp dash three three two.
I just call it SLUP. When I first started reading
about it, it was hyped up as exercise in a bottle.
Exercise in a bottle. It's supposed to do the same
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thing to your your cells and mitochondria and stuff that
exercise does, and people who do exercise, like cardio and
stuff said that it's just amazing. If you take it,
you know, thirty minutes before you do your cardio like,
you just won't get tired. You'll have amazing endurance and
it's just incredible. I don't do cardio, but so I've
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tried it. I was just looking at a bottle of
it to remember the exact name for you, and I
don't think, I really I don't think I've just really
realized any benefits from So this is the second bottle
I took. You know, with really experimental stuff like that,
there's not a ton of data on I don't take
it relentlessly. So I got it and took it for
a month, and then I took a month off, and
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then I bought another month's supply and I've got like,
I don't know, probably like fifteen days left in there,
so I'll finished the month out with it, but I
probably won't order that again. The other thing that I
chuck and these two I like, by the way, because
they're PILs, so you don't have to get the bials
and you don't have to get the reconstitution liquid and
have the syringes and all that craziness. So the SLUP
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three three two is a pill. I mean, if you
want to research and try it, I mean if you're
somebody that does cardio, I mean you may love it.
I see. I read all kinds of people that take it,
like thirty minutes for cardio, and they just say it's amazing.
The other thing I tried is called BP BPC one
five seven BPC one five seven, and this is supposed
to help you heal in certain ways, particularly with the gut.
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And I am going to say almost definitively, like you know,
without double blind zebo trials, large groups of people like
you really only given anecdotal information. So that's just what
this is. But I feel reasonably confident. So you know,
if you've tried any of these peptides, these you know,
manjarros or ozimpics or anything like that, you know that
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it is wreak havoc with your you know, go into
the bathroom. Like with me, I've never had constipation as
bad as I had with that stuff. Especially the ozempic
is the worst. The ozempic would just kill me, Like
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I literally just ripped my lower parts out just I
mean it was massive pain. It was. There was one
day I thought I was gonna have to want to
go to the to the hospital and get it medically extracted.
We did eventually wind up getting it out at home,
but you know, without being too graphic about it, it
was not a pretty sight and took me, you know,
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probably two three weeks to heal from it. That's how
bad it was. And so you're constantly trying to figure
out ways how to combat that, right because you're liking
the effects you're getting from hunger management, weight control, control
class seem it control, like it's all great, but like
it's like if I if I have to go through this,
I just can't. I just literally can't keep doing. I
tried many several different type of things. So did the
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stool softener pills you can just buy forget what's in
stool softener pills itself. I didn't know what the compound
was called, but I can't remember it right off. There's
a bottle right here. Maybe I can read it and
tell you, but this is just a generic stool softener
from from publics. But it's docusate sodium, docusate sodium. Anyway.
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I mean that kind of maybe helped a little bit,
But the thing is like you have to take it
like a like a medicine, Like you have to be
on it every day, right, you just take a dose
every day to try to maintain. But even that it
helped a little, but I would just still have really
bad days. Then I did the mirror laxe, so I
would do a dose of me real Acts every day.
Well actually it started like a half a dose because
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like I don't I don't want it to be a laxative.
I just wanted to try to make things work better,
you know, get kind of work, kind of didn't work whatever.
And then I I knew that I had used what's
called epsom salts. Epsom salts is just you know, you
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can look up on it, but it's like like a
form of magnesium and some other stuff that just it
draws a lot of water into your intestines and you
can you know, if you're constipated, you can you can
flush it out pretty quick. Boy, that stuff acts within
like thirty minutes. So I was doing some research on
that and ran across magnesium oxides. So magnesium oxide is
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not a very bioavailable form of magnesium. Your body doesn't
absorb it and uptake it and use it, and it
mostly just goes through your digestive system, whereas you know,
the other forms of magnesium like magnesium, glycinate magnesium. I
don't know all the different forms, but you know they
get up up regulated and taken up into your cells
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and used in stuff, so it has a laxative effect.
So I bought this big bottle of and it's really cheap.
By the way, Neutral Cross is the brand I bought.
But it's seven hundred and fifty milligrams of magnesium oxide.
And when I first started out, I was taking one
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of them at lunch and then taking one of them
at night, and boy did it work great. Boy, I
mean it worked great. Now, I'm not going to say
we had like, well, some days it would be like
pretty bad diarrhea, but some days it would just be
what I just call loose stool, like you know, not
normal loose but not like full blown diarrhea type stool.
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But we did that for a while and then I
backed the down to just one a day, and I
usually take it at night, So I'll take it at
night when I go to bed. And since I've done that,
I may have only had something resembling like constipation one
or two times. And I use this thing. I use
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this app to track all these different things that I track.
It's called symptom tracker and UH I track. I have
this chronic pain that comes and goes on my right
flank that I track my bowel movements, how many a day,
whether they're looser, they're hard, what level of loose or hard?
If there are hard as they're blood and steel. I
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you know, I'm in the older man's and we're starting
to suffer from vphs, which effects the stream. So I
track my stream because I do supplements for that, try
to figure out which one's help. I have a demon
on my leg. I track that I will occasionally have
a headache, and I like to know when the headache
comes because if I identify what caused it. I have
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an angling on hernia that I try to maintain without
getting surgery, so I track that. I track low back pain,
I track neck pain. I track my fast blood glucose,
and then I track what things I take, so if
I take something, I track it so that way you
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can correlate symptoms and effects by what you're taking. Because
because this app, you can go back and go, Okay,
I want to compare. I want to compare the days
that I took uh Manjarro, So I did this, I
did this a long time back, but I was like, Okay,
I want to track manjaro and constipation, and it'll compare
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the two and you could look. You could go back
and you can go back and look at a week
and look at ninety days. You can go back and
look at a year. And I've been using this thing
for like a year and a half now, but I
went back and looked at like ninety days of tracking,
and you could see it like clockwork. You would see
the dose of manjarro happened this day, and then for
the next two or three days it's constipation. Like it
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just was like clockwork. It's amazing when you can look
at it and compare it. And then when I started
doing the magnesium, you know, I could go back and
I could look and see when I'm on the magnesium,
and then I don't see any constant pay I mean,
it's just it's I'm a nerd guy, like I like
stats and stuff like that. So anyways, if you're having
problems or anything like that, I highly recommend you get
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you something. It's really cheap. It's uh, this bottle I
got has got two hundred and forty capsules in it.
So and I'm just taking one a day. So at
one a day, I mean it's two hundred and forty
days now. Occasionally, and I like to stay on top
of things. Occasionally I'll go a day without a bowel movement.
If I go a day without a bowo movement, red flags, buddy,
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that sends up red flags, and I do not want
that to progress any worse. So I will immediately take
an extra magnesium, so instead of just taking the one
at night. So let's say you know, I took one
at night and then I went all the next day
with no bow movement. That next night for bed, I'll
take a magnesium, but then the next morning when I
get up, I'll take another magnesium and we're going to
get a bow movement going, because you know that is
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that is the warning sign for me. When I miss
the day of a biot movement, that is the warning
sign that some bad stuff maybe down the pipeline, and
I just like to head it off. At the past. Well,
it's a lot of stuff to update you on. I
don't know, looking back at the beginning of this, I
don't know if I gave you a resolution on the
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bloating and waterweight. But since i've come off of the creatine,
you know, the waterweights come back down to normal. I'm
still not as low as my low, so you know,
I was at one hundred and fifteen loss. That was
the low we hit. Like right now, I'm at around
one hundred and twelve pounds, so you know, we've gained
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like three but it fluctuates a little bits down a
pound up a pound. I mean basically what that means
is I'm just kind of maintaining my weight. I guess
the final thing I'll hit on, since the name of
my podcast is the Fasting Guy Podcast. The one thing
that I have not been good about lately is I
kind of got off track with the internet fasting every day.
So I would say for like probably close to a year. Man,
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I just had an unblemished record where it just I
just didn't eat, Like I just never ate between before
noon at the earliest, but easily be one two in
the afternoon, and you know, then we would be through
eating at you know, six, seven, eight, nine o'clock at
night at the latest. When my poker schedule changed, it
threw all that out of whack. And so I'm like
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ninety percent sure that's the reason we've really had the
stall with the weight loss is because I'm eating at
such weird hours now and it changes so like like
on on Friday and Saturday and Sunday, like I may
I may not eat anything till like eight o'clock at night,
and then my next meal will be like two or
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three in the morning. I mean, there's nothing good about that.
Like metabolically speaking, that's not good. Your body doesn't deal
with that well, especially if you have insulin resistance, it
doesn't deal with it well. But I mean that's the
hours that I'm up, so that's when it happens. But
then you around Sunday we started getting back on track,
and then by about Monday, I'm kind of into a
daytime routine. And now, you know, because of my eating
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over the weekend was so weird. Now on Monday, it's
just it just it's very difficult to make it all
over into the afternoon. D Like I'm hungry when I
first get up. Why well, because for the past two
nights I've been eating it like nine at ninety three
in the morning, and so yeah, now I actually slept
during those hours somehow miraculously, and now I'm up at
you know, eight nine in the morning on Monday and
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now I'm starving. So it's just a weird thing to
be in. Like, you know, if you're a shift worker,
you know how hard it is to to do any
kind of a reasonable eating plen So I mean, that's
kind of where we're at. So the interimute of fasting
has been all for a while, and I don't know
I need to I was thinking about this last week
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and maybe I'll do it up wait updating a few weeks,
you know how this goes. But I was thinking the
other week and like, since I can't do the internete
fasting thing, and it's just it probably isn't going to
work as long as I keep the schedule we're going,
I need to just do an I just need to
do extending fasting, right, I need to do like I
need to like fast for two days. I need to
do something to incorporate fasting in. So I don't know,
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we'll see how that goes. I mean it'd be good
if because I've been returning home from traveling and playing
poker and going on these trips, I've been either getting
home on on a Monday or a Tuesday. So you know,
if I get home on a Monday. It would be
really really good to just force myself to fast all
through Monday and all through Tuesday and not eat till
Wednesday morning. So I'm just getting a nice weekly fast,
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and I don't know. It's gonna be hard to do though.
It's hard to go from being up all night and
eating crazy hours to coming into a normal sleeping schedule
trying to fast two Days's just it will be difficult
to do, but I'm thinking about it, thinking that might
be the solution. I would like to see a few
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more pounds drop off, because I've been stalled that this
basic weight now for months, maybe two months, maybe three months,
which again which I'm fine with. I don't stress out
about it. As long as we're not gaining weight, I'm fine.
But I would like to see a bumping and you know,
start losing a little bit more weight. But there you go.
It's a long, convoluted update with a lot of information
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on a lot of stuff. I don't know if you
enjoyed it. I don't know if you've got anything out
of it. But yeah, if you want to research any
of those things that I talk about, I'm not gonna
say I'm not gonna say the name of the peptide
place because there's issues with government regulations and they come
after them sometimes. But you know, if you're somebody that's
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followed me on social media and you want to know
about it, you can shoot me a message and I'll
tell you where I get the get those compounds from.
But yeah, you can do that, all right. I hope
that your journey with your health and your weight loss
and all that is going well, and we'll talk to
you in the next episode.
Greetings, and welcome into another episode of the Fasting Guy podcast.
Not sure how long it's been since I did an episode,
but I just haven't had anything to say. And I
don't force myself to produced episodes on any kind of schedule.
I don't think that's beneficial to anybody just hear myself talk.
But I do have a few things i'd like to
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talk about. Now. We're going to update you on our
progress and our health and weight loss goals, and we're
going to talk about peptides today a little bit. So
I guess we'll jump into first of where I'm ating
my health and weight loss goals. So we hit what
we hit one hundred and I think we hit one
hundred and fifteen pounds lost. I think maybe it was
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one hundred and twelve. I'm not sure it was over
one hundred, maybe one hundred and maybe one hundred and fifteen. Yep,
it was one hundred and fifteen. Sorry, we had one
hundred and fifteen pounds lost, and I had kind of
been maintaining that for a few weeks, which is what happens.
Like the more weight you lose, the slower it comes off.
If you're continuing to do the same things. Right, unless
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I were to take some extreme measures or something, it's
just gonna get slower and slower, which I'm fine with.
I read a lot of research.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
On a particular well, it's not a peptide substance, we'll
call it a substance creatine, creatine monohydrate.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I follow Rhonda Patrick touch trust the stuff she says,
and she was talking about creatine and its benefits and stuff.
And it's the most studied, most researched, most taken supplement.
Supplement was the word I was looking for. Sorry, It's
like the most researched, most taken supplement probably ever in
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human history. And it's it's safety is you know, unmatched
in the world of supplements. It's benefits unmatched in terms
of documentation. And one of its benefits is a cognitive function,
the way it assists with cognitive abilities. And so that's
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something I've been into a lot lately. I mean, this
is gonna sound silly, but I just play a lot
of poker. I play a lot of poker, which requires
you to be, you know, cognitively on top of your game,
and I play started playing a lot more later hours.
I was doing it in the daytime, the games just
aren't as good in the daytime. I started the evenings
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and then the overnights is really where the games are.
So my whole sleep pattern shifted. And one of the
things I was watching this little clip from Ronda Patrick
where she talked about all night she loses sleep and stuff.
She'll take like five times the daily maintenance dose of it,
which is like five milligrams a day, which is what
most like bodybuilders to take it like before they work
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out and stuff, because it also helps with that. But
another thing it does is cognitive. It's twofold, and she
was talking about these studies on its cognitive abilities and
when you take five times to dose when you've lost
sleep or you're a little bit groggy, or maybe you're
not mentally on your game or something, if you take
twenty five milligrams of it, how amazing it is. I'm like, Okay,
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I'm going to try it. So I bought some creatine
and apparently it can have digestive you know, implications, and
the digestive tract can cause some discomforting some things, And
so I wanted to get on and taking it every
day thing, a five milligram of day thing. So I
could get used to it, so I don't want to just,
you know, take twenty five milligrams out of the blue.
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So I started doing that, and almost immediately within this,
like the second day, I noticed I was bloated and
my scale went up like five pounds, and I just
felt bloated. And so I started reading some side effects
of it, and it it plumps, it pumps up, plump, plumps, plunps,
plumps up your muscles. It causes your muscles and some
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other fibers throughout the body to take on water and
retain them, which is beneficial in the sense that it's
normally used, especially with like weightlifting, body building, working out
and stuff. If you're somebody that's trying to lose weight
and you don't like to see the scale go. But
it's not all that great. But I didn't stress out
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about it because I don't stress out about water weight.
I just care about fat, right, And this is something
I had to come to terms with years ago. And
I don't know where you're at in your journey and
your understanding of things, but just let me tell you,
one of the best things you can ever do is
come to terms with the scale going up. Because of
water weight and not stress about it. Just don't care
about it, because this will happen, especially with women around
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that time of the month, women will start retaining water
or there'd be times fore they'll drop water. Like all
these things will happen, and the scalers fluctuate wildly. And
it's not fat, like you're not gaining and losing five
pounds of fat in a day. That just didn't happening.
It's water. So for peace of mind's sake, you know,
it's good to understand these things. The main place I
see it is, you know, if I eat, you know right,
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eat eat the way I want to eat, the optimal
way that I want to eat. I just don't eat
a lot of carbs. My carbs are pretty low, protein
is pretty high, and I just won't I just won't
be retaining a lot of extra water weight because you know,
carbs is what brings that on. But then I'll just
have a weekend where I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna,
you know, gonna eat cheeseburger fries today, and then I
haven't had ice cream in three months, and I'm gonna
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have ice cream because I do that, Like I don't
stress out about that stuff. That's been the beauty of
this weight loss journey. Being on a you know, five
I think I've extended to the six years now, but
being on a five or six year plan to maybe
hit a goal weight, I just don't, you know, I
don't stress about being perfect. And now you know, I
don't eat hamburgers and fries and ice cream every day
or every week or every month like you know, but
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I will have it occasionally. And so you know, on
these weekends where I go okay, decently squeaking, I just
want it all, ben, I want the cheeseburger and fries
and I'm gonna have me some ice cream later. You know.
After I do that, I'll just I'll just it on,
you know, four or five pounds of waterweight. It'll just
flood on me. And it's uh, you know, people that
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aren't aware of the waterweight phenomenon will be like, oh god,
I ate cheeseburgers and fries and ice cream and I
gained five pounds of fat. Well, no, you didn't gain
five pounds of fat. That's crazy talk. It's just water.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And if you get back on the get the carbs
out of the way and going back to a you know,
a reasonably good diet. The waterweight to drop off anyway,
So this creatine does that.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The creatine does it, and so I immediately within a
couple of days, gained five pounds. I'm about a week
into it, I guess for the first time, I do
the twenty five milligram dose. Playing some late nights. I
went in and played to play poker at like midnight
and played till like eight or nine the next morning.
And you know, about two hours into that, I took
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twenty five milligrams of it, and then same thing. I
slept the next day best I could and went back
played poker again the like. I did the same thing
of the twenty five milligrams, and I did notice some
cognitive benefits. I wouldn't I wouldn't say it was massive, like,
it wasn't mind blowing. It wasn't like I felt like
suddenly I was Neo in the Matrix if you've ever
watched that movie, Like I didn't have that type, but
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I mean it for sure felt a little bit of difference.
I'm like, Okay, I mean, maybe this is worth it.
But I get back home that Sunday or Monday, I
don't know what day was. I came back home and
I get on the scale, and I mean, now I'm
like nine pounds heavier than I was just you know,
a few days ago, and I don't like it. I
don't like it at all. I just don't like it. Nevertheless,
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it's fine. It's waterweight, but you know you feel waterweight.
You do. You feel waterweight. It's not dangerous, doesn't mean
you've gained fats. You didn't stress about it, but you
feel it. I've quoted this a lot of times. I
found this research study I don't know, fifteen years ago
that for every every pound of weight you lose, that
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takes four pounds per square inch of pressure off your knees.
So I mean that's pretty dramatic. So like, if you
were to gain ten pounds, it adds forty pounds per
square inch of pressure to your knees. I mean that's
pretty remarkable. So you know, the weight matters in some
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you know, not in a health wise sense, but it
can affect you anyway. I didn't like being eight nine
pounds heavy or whatever it was, but it was fine.
I stuck with it, and I'm like, we're just gonna
keep doing it. You know, I stuck with the five
milligrams a day, and some of that came off, like
four or five of that came off, but we were
still five pounds up from where we were originally just
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sticking with the five milligrams a day. And then I
had another weekend. We're up late, and I did the
twenty five and then the twenty five, and then sure
enough the next Monday, I'm up like another four or
five pounds, which yep, you know, eight to ten pounds
or something over where we were. I mean, ultimately, I
just sided a few weeks ago. I'm like, I don't
think the benefit I'm getting from this is worth me
carrying around an extra let's just say eight pounds on average.
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It's just not worth me caring around an extra eight
pounds of waterweight. Like I feel it, like like when
you carry in extra water, you feel the bloat. And
it's interesting. As I was telling this friend of mine,
My best friend is a woman, and you know, I
was talking to her about it, I'm like, I kind
of know how you ladies feel now where you have
a time with the month where you have no control
over just this bloat coming over you, and how you're
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just because that's what happens. Like, it's just you know,
I get it. That must not be fun at all.
And again I'm not saying I understand everything you ladies
go through, but I, you know, kind of got a
sense of what that would be like. Anyway. For now,
I've kind of quit taking the just kind of quit
quit taking the creatine, which is crazy, by the way,
(09:51):
because I have a ton of it. I have a
ton of it. I don't know, we may take it again.
On a side note, I started taking another cognitive of
brain thing. It's called medmonic or something, but it doesn't
work in that same weight. It doesn't affect weight or
whatever anyways, So I want to talk about the peptides
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and stuff. So I'm still taking the the turzepetide, which
is getting that commercially, so you know, from Eli Lilly,
I'm getting the actual product, and we're up to the
maximum dose now, which is fifteen milligrams, and I take
that once a week. I will say that I feel
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like the effects of that and what it has done
for me has just become a maintenance now, like it
doesn't help me all that much. And I'll tell you why.
I think that that's Monjaro. Obviously. When I say the
commercial version of reptid, I'm talking about Manjaro. I think
it has another name for weight loss, like if you
get it specifically prescribed for weight loss. I don't know
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it's called zep bound or maybe I don't. I can't
keep up with all the names. Anyways, it's the same thing,
but Manjarro is the name. I guess where they treat
it for diabetes. But it's the same thing. It's just
the exact same drug. I don't know why they call
it different things anyway. The maximum dose is fifteen milligrams,
and so that's what I've been doing now for a
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little while. And you know, I guess it keeps me
in a maintenance thing, but I don't. I don't feel like,
you know, like I'm not getting those massive appetite benefits
from it anymore all that much really, But obviously it
does a lot of great thing, Like the research continues
(11:38):
to come out that you know, they were hoping it
would show positive things for cardiovascular events and disease and stuff,
and it does. So I mean it's good to take
it for that reason. And obviously I'm just insulin resistant,
pre diabetic, you know, and I'm hoping that at some
point reverse all that, but I am still that and
you know, it helps with all that, and it's you know,
it's easy, and it's once a week and it's you know,
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easy to do in all that stuff. But what I
started doing was ordering red A True Tide. Now red
A True Tide is the next level, you know, the
you know, you had the first one, which is the
semi glue tide, which is which just the GLP one
agonist or whatever, and then they come up with Munjarro,
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which is tzepetide, which is the GLP one and get
I guess g IP agonist, and then red a True
Tide is those two plus it adds another agonist that
I can't think of off the top of my head. But
it's triple action. And it's only on the phase two
like they don't phase one trials, and they've done phase
two trials and I think it's currently in phase three trials.
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But much more weight loss, much better control of this
that and the other. And so I have a peptide
company that I order peptides from it, so I ordered it.
Now the maximum dose on that I think is twelve.
I think it maxes out at twelve milligramds. Like they
start people on a four milligram dose for a week
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or two, and then they move them to eight milligrams
for a week or two, and then they move them
to twelve. It's the final dose. I started getting it
at the five milligram dose, and I would take that,
and I took that for a few weeks. So I'm
taking that and and the Manjarro so I take. I
would take the Manjarro on like Monday, and then I
would take the read True Tide on like Thursday. And
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I did that for a few weeks, and I did
notice a slight improvement in my appetite and and just
you know how I felt generally, and I thought it
was being beneficial. I did that for a few weeks,
and then I moved up to ten milligrams, which is
nearly the maximum dose, and that that's the maximum. Like,
I'm not gonna I'm the place I get it from
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sells it in five milligram files and ten milligram viles,
So I'm not going to try to do a twelve
milligram max dose because I'd have to mix files and
it would just be complicated because you have to reconstitute
it and it gets complicated. So the most I would
take is to ten milligram, So you know, I've been
doing that, which is kind of crazy if you think
about it, Like I'm now taking a maximum dose of
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Manjaro and I'm taking basically a maximum dose of Registrude
tried in the same week. But I am not seeing
like massive results happening. I do like the way I
feel on it, and I will say that I don't overeat.
I just for sure don't over eat. I just last
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weekend is a great example. Hadn't had chicken tenders and
fries and forever, and I'm like, man, I really want
some chicken tenders and fries, and so I ordered them,
and you know, it came with I think it comes
four chicken tenders, and then you know in the little
basket of fries. I mean, by the by the time
I was like halfway through that second chin chicken tender,
I just like I just just didn't feel like I
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wanted to eating it, man, And I wanted it so bad,
and I hadn't eat anything all day, and then the
fry is like it's like half the fries you guys
couldn't eat any more of it. And I will say,
if I were just still on the Munjaro alone, I
would not have that problem. I would be I could
just devour that if I wanted to. So, I mean
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it is added benefits to it. I mean, how do
I feel about the safety of it? I mean, you
know it's taking a risk, for sure, taking a little
bit of a risk. But I mean, you know, peptides
are It's crazy because we just started hearing about peptides
when they came out with you know, with semaglue tide,
the first one the Ozmpic. It seemed like that this
(15:38):
first time the world ever heard about peptides. But since
that came out and I first heard the word peptide
and I did a deep dive on I mean, peptide
has been around forever. I had like some of the
highest safety profiles of anything ever. And so it's like,
you know, the way they work is it's not like
a drug, Like a drug usually deadened something or block
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something or or does something thing that your body isn't
supposed to do. And you know, all a peptide is
is it's something your body already naturally has and uses
and it just you know, gives you a little extra
it or something. It's I don't know if it's exactly
bioidentical to what your body produces, but just close enough,
I guess. So anyways, there' that's it on the weight
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loss side. Like something interesting happened last week where I
traveled a little bit longer than I thought I was
going to travel, and the day I was leaving to
travel is today. I was supposed to take the Red
True Tide. It was a Thursday, and I just got
busy in the packing and trying to get out and leave,
and I just didn't take it before I left. And
that's not really something I could travel with because it's
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a little vial and you got to take the swabs,
you got to take the syringes and stuff. So I
don't ever travel with that. Like, I just only take
that at home and I try to plant it where.
If I am going to be traveling, i'll take it
before I leave. The Manjarro I can take because it's
got that. You just get that little stick pin that
comes and you know, as long as you keep it cool,
it's fine. And you can just pack that in something
and wrap it up make sure it doesn't get cracked
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or broken. So I have traveled with that before for sure. Anyways,
I didn't take the Ready True Tide, and then instead
of coming back Monday like I thought I was gonna do,
I actually didn't wind up not coming back for like
a whole extra week. And you know, I travel, I
don't have a schedule, and I'm retired and I don't
have anything to do, so you know, oftentimes I'll go
somewhere for three days and when I'm staying seven days,
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or sometimes i'll go some for a week planning stay
a week, and I always take enough clothes and supplies
and stuff that I can stay like an extra week
if I want, because I just travel a lot. So
you know, next thing, you know, like I've been going
like maybe it's it's almost fourteen days since I've had well,
I was twelve, like twelve days since I've had Manjaro,
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so we're way overdue on that. And then it was
like fifteen or sixteen days since I had any Red
True Tide, And you know, I was trying to analyze
how did I feel or you know, how was I affected?
And I didn't feel that much difference, like I wasn't
super hungry, I wasn't binging, I wasn't binging out on stuff.
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I wasn't you know, plowing through the mountains of food
or anything like. I didn't overeat. I don't know it.
I mean it made me wonder. It made me think, like, well,
I mean, what's going on now, Like has maybe your
bodies healed something? Maybe you're maybe you've reversed some of
that insulin resistance because you've been at this so long
and you've lost that weight, and you've lost the the
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liver fat and and and you know, you know, maybe
you're you know, I don't know, So I don't know.
I got back home and I, you know, immediately this
was four days ago. I got back home, and I immediately,
you know, got you know, stuck myself with the majar open,
and I guess I felt it a little bit maybe
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the next day. I don't know. It's just hard to say.
I don't know. I just I really don't know what
to say about all that. I mean, I'm going to
keep taking it. I feel like it has health benefits
and I don't feel like there's much risk. The Reditru tribe,
there's a little bit of risk because I'm ordering it
from a company that you know, isn't regulated by the
FDA or anything, and it's listed as research peptides and
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they're only supposed to be used for research purposes and laboratories.
So I mean there's a little bit of risk with that,
But I mean I've been buying from this company now
for probably two or three years. I mean, I feel
pretty good with their safety profile. But anyway, so, I
mean that's on that front, on the that's that front. Ye.
So I'm going to talk about a couple of other
peptides that I've tried. So there's one called SLUP or well,
(19:41):
I mean people refer to it as SLUP three three two,
but the actual name of it, if you want to
research it, it's s lu dash pp dash three three two.
I just call it SLUP. When I first started reading
about it, it was hyped up as exercise in a bottle.
Exercise in a bottle. It's supposed to do the same
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thing to your your cells and mitochondria and stuff that
exercise does, and people who do exercise, like cardio and
stuff said that it's just amazing. If you take it,
you know, thirty minutes before you do your cardio like,
you just won't get tired. You'll have amazing endurance and
it's just incredible. I don't do cardio, but so I've
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tried it. I was just looking at a bottle of
it to remember the exact name for you, and I
don't think, I really I don't think I've just really
realized any benefits from So this is the second bottle
I took. You know, with really experimental stuff like that,
there's not a ton of data on I don't take
it relentlessly. So I got it and took it for
a month, and then I took a month off, and
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then I bought another month's supply and I've got like,
I don't know, probably like fifteen days left in there,
so I'll finished the month out with it, but I
probably won't order that again. The other thing that I
chuck and these two I like, by the way, because
they're PILs, so you don't have to get the bials
and you don't have to get the reconstitution liquid and
have the syringes and all that craziness. So the SLUP
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three three two is a pill. I mean, if you
want to research and try it, I mean if you're
somebody that does cardio, I mean you may love it.
I see. I read all kinds of people that take it,
like thirty minutes for cardio, and they just say it's amazing.
The other thing I tried is called BP BPC one
five seven BPC one five seven, and this is supposed
to help you heal in certain ways, particularly with the gut.
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And I am going to say almost definitively, like you know,
without double blind zebo trials, large groups of people like
you really only given anecdotal information. So that's just what
this is. But I feel reasonably confident. So you know,
if you've tried any of these peptides, these you know,
manjarros or ozimpics or anything like that, you know that
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it is wreak havoc with your you know, go into
the bathroom. Like with me, I've never had constipation as
bad as I had with that stuff. Especially the ozempic
is the worst. The ozempic would just kill me, Like
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I literally just ripped my lower parts out just I
mean it was massive pain. It was. There was one
day I thought I was gonna have to want to
go to the to the hospital and get it medically extracted.
We did eventually wind up getting it out at home,
but you know, without being too graphic about it, it
was not a pretty sight and took me, you know,
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probably two three weeks to heal from it. That's how
bad it was. And so you're constantly trying to figure
out ways how to combat that, right because you're liking
the effects you're getting from hunger management, weight control, control
class seem it control, like it's all great, but like
it's like if I if I have to go through this,
I just can't. I just literally can't keep doing. I
tried many several different type of things. So did the
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stool softener pills you can just buy forget what's in
stool softener pills itself. I didn't know what the compound
was called, but I can't remember it right off. There's
a bottle right here. Maybe I can read it and
tell you, but this is just a generic stool softener
from from publics. But it's docusate sodium, docusate sodium. Anyway.
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I mean that kind of maybe helped a little bit,
But the thing is like you have to take it
like a like a medicine, Like you have to be
on it every day, right, you just take a dose
every day to try to maintain. But even that it
helped a little, but I would just still have really
bad days. Then I did the mirror laxe, so I
would do a dose of me real Acts every day.
Well actually it started like a half a dose because
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like I don't I don't want it to be a laxative.
I just wanted to try to make things work better,
you know, get kind of work, kind of didn't work whatever.
And then I I knew that I had used what's
called epsom salts. Epsom salts is just you know, you
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can look up on it, but it's like like a
form of magnesium and some other stuff that just it
draws a lot of water into your intestines and you
can you know, if you're constipated, you can you can
flush it out pretty quick. Boy, that stuff acts within
like thirty minutes. So I was doing some research on
that and ran across magnesium oxides. So magnesium oxide is
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not a very bioavailable form of magnesium. Your body doesn't
absorb it and uptake it and use it, and it
mostly just goes through your digestive system, whereas you know,
the other forms of magnesium like magnesium, glycinate magnesium. I
don't know all the different forms, but you know they
get up up regulated and taken up into your cells
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and used in stuff, so it has a laxative effect.
So I bought this big bottle of and it's really cheap.
By the way, Neutral Cross is the brand I bought.
But it's seven hundred and fifty milligrams of magnesium oxide.
And when I first started out, I was taking one
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of them at lunch and then taking one of them
at night, and boy did it work great. Boy, I
mean it worked great. Now, I'm not going to say
we had like, well, some days it would be like
pretty bad diarrhea, but some days it would just be
what I just call loose stool, like you know, not
normal loose but not like full blown diarrhea type stool.
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But we did that for a while and then I
backed the down to just one a day, and I
usually take it at night, So I'll take it at
night when I go to bed. And since I've done that,
I may have only had something resembling like constipation one
or two times. And I use this thing. I use
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this app to track all these different things that I track.
It's called symptom tracker and UH I track. I have
this chronic pain that comes and goes on my right
flank that I track my bowel movements, how many a day,
whether they're looser, they're hard, what level of loose or hard?
If there are hard as they're blood and steel. I
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you know, I'm in the older man's and we're starting
to suffer from vphs, which effects the stream. So I
track my stream because I do supplements for that, try
to figure out which one's help. I have a demon
on my leg. I track that I will occasionally have
a headache, and I like to know when the headache
comes because if I identify what caused it. I have
(26:49):
an angling on hernia that I try to maintain without
getting surgery, so I track that. I track low back pain,
I track neck pain. I track my fast blood glucose,
and then I track what things I take, so if
I take something, I track it so that way you
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can correlate symptoms and effects by what you're taking. Because
because this app, you can go back and go, Okay,
I want to compare. I want to compare the days
that I took uh Manjarro, So I did this, I
did this a long time back, but I was like, Okay,
I want to track manjaro and constipation, and it'll compare
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the two and you could look. You could go back
and you can go back and look at a week
and look at ninety days. You can go back and
look at a year. And I've been using this thing
for like a year and a half now, but I
went back and looked at like ninety days of tracking,
and you could see it like clockwork. You would see
the dose of manjarro happened this day, and then for
the next two or three days it's constipation. Like it
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just was like clockwork. It's amazing when you can look
at it and compare it. And then when I started
doing the magnesium, you know, I could go back and
I could look and see when I'm on the magnesium,
and then I don't see any constant pay I mean,
it's just it's I'm a nerd guy, like I like
stats and stuff like that. So anyways, if you're having
problems or anything like that, I highly recommend you get
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you something. It's really cheap. It's uh, this bottle I
got has got two hundred and forty capsules in it.
So and I'm just taking one a day. So at
one a day, I mean it's two hundred and forty
days now. Occasionally, and I like to stay on top
of things. Occasionally I'll go a day without a bowel movement.
If I go a day without a bowo movement, red flags, buddy,
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that sends up red flags, and I do not want
that to progress any worse. So I will immediately take
an extra magnesium, so instead of just taking the one
at night. So let's say you know, I took one
at night and then I went all the next day
with no bow movement. That next night for bed, I'll
take a magnesium, but then the next morning when I
get up, I'll take another magnesium and we're going to
get a bow movement going, because you know that is
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that is the warning sign for me. When I miss
the day of a biot movement, that is the warning
sign that some bad stuff maybe down the pipeline, and
I just like to head it off. At the past. Well,
it's a lot of stuff to update you on. I
don't know, looking back at the beginning of this, I
don't know if I gave you a resolution on the
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bloating and waterweight. But since i've come off of the creatine,
you know, the waterweights come back down to normal. I'm
still not as low as my low, so you know,
I was at one hundred and fifteen loss. That was
the low we hit. Like right now, I'm at around
one hundred and twelve pounds, so you know, we've gained
(29:43):
like three but it fluctuates a little bits down a
pound up a pound. I mean basically what that means
is I'm just kind of maintaining my weight. I guess
the final thing I'll hit on, since the name of
my podcast is the Fasting Guy Podcast. The one thing
that I have not been good about lately is I
kind of got off track with the internet fasting every day.
So I would say for like probably close to a year. Man,
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I just had an unblemished record where it just I
just didn't eat, Like I just never ate between before
noon at the earliest, but easily be one two in
the afternoon, and you know, then we would be through
eating at you know, six, seven, eight, nine o'clock at
night at the latest. When my poker schedule changed, it
threw all that out of whack. And so I'm like
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ninety percent sure that's the reason we've really had the
stall with the weight loss is because I'm eating at
such weird hours now and it changes so like like
on on Friday and Saturday and Sunday, like I may
I may not eat anything till like eight o'clock at night,
and then my next meal will be like two or
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three in the morning. I mean, there's nothing good about that.
Like metabolically speaking, that's not good. Your body doesn't deal
with that well, especially if you have insulin resistance, it
doesn't deal with it well. But I mean that's the
hours that I'm up, so that's when it happens. But
then you around Sunday we started getting back on track,
and then by about Monday, I'm kind of into a
daytime routine. And now, you know, because of my eating
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over the weekend was so weird. Now on Monday, it's
just it just it's very difficult to make it all
over into the afternoon. D Like I'm hungry when I
first get up. Why well, because for the past two
nights I've been eating it like nine at ninety three
in the morning, and so yeah, now I actually slept
during those hours somehow miraculously, and now I'm up at
you know, eight nine in the morning on Monday and
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now I'm starving. So it's just a weird thing to
be in. Like, you know, if you're a shift worker,
you know how hard it is to to do any
kind of a reasonable eating plen So I mean, that's
kind of where we're at. So the interimute of fasting
has been all for a while, and I don't know
I need to I was thinking about this last week
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and maybe I'll do it up wait updating a few weeks,
you know how this goes. But I was thinking the
other week and like, since I can't do the internete
fasting thing, and it's just it probably isn't going to
work as long as I keep the schedule we're going,
I need to just do an I just need to
do extending fasting, right, I need to do like I
need to like fast for two days. I need to
do something to incorporate fasting in. So I don't know,
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we'll see how that goes. I mean it'd be good
if because I've been returning home from traveling and playing
poker and going on these trips, I've been either getting
home on on a Monday or a Tuesday. So you know,
if I get home on a Monday. It would be
really really good to just force myself to fast all
through Monday and all through Tuesday and not eat till
Wednesday morning. So I'm just getting a nice weekly fast,
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and I don't know. It's gonna be hard to do though.
It's hard to go from being up all night and
eating crazy hours to coming into a normal sleeping schedule
trying to fast two Days's just it will be difficult
to do, but I'm thinking about it, thinking that might
be the solution. I would like to see a few
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more pounds drop off, because I've been stalled that this
basic weight now for months, maybe two months, maybe three months,
which again which I'm fine with. I don't stress out
about it. As long as we're not gaining weight, I'm fine.
But I would like to see a bumping and you know,
start losing a little bit more weight. But there you go.
It's a long, convoluted update with a lot of information
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on a lot of stuff. I don't know if you
enjoyed it. I don't know if you've got anything out
of it. But yeah, if you want to research any
of those things that I talk about, I'm not gonna
say I'm not gonna say the name of the peptide
place because there's issues with government regulations and they come
after them sometimes. But you know, if you're somebody that's
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followed me on social media and you want to know
about it, you can shoot me a message and I'll
tell you where I get the get those compounds from.
But yeah, you can do that, all right. I hope
that your journey with your health and your weight loss
and all that is going well, and we'll talk to
you in the next episode.
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