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Elena Zinkov

Elena Zinkov

Naturopathic physician, author of Crave Reset, and co-founder of Proactive Health: A Naturopathic Clinic in Bellevue, WA, specializing in hormone optimization, longevity, and peptide therapy.

Jun 11, 2026

10:26
It sounds like, am I correct in what you had said before, that you actually do utilize peptides and HRT together? And is that something that is the same for men and women? Yeah.
10:40
Absolutely.
10:42
So for example, I mentioned growth hormone, releasing hormone and peptides, and the classical ones are sermoralin and epimoralin as an example.
10:53
And when I put someone on HRT, let's say estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, just sort of the classic trio, right, of HRT.
11:04
For men, it may be just testosterone as an example.
11:09
Most men don't need any more estrogen or progesterone.
11:12
True.

8 MINS LATER

19:04
Recently, maybe two weeks ago, as I was preparing for our conversation, I was scrolling through Facebook and happened to notice a video of someone being interviewed about... a potential problem with peptides that i had never heard any person that i follow who's praising peptides left and right all over social media i have heard no one even broach this concern that they could potentially fuel cancer growth so the question is then are these different peptides some of which you've even described as like research grade are they possibly dangerous

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