Peptides Won't Work Until You Fix These Hormones First, Dr. Hogan Warns

I think the biggest thing with the ones that I hear about when people tell me that they, when they, when they do order them offline is the reconstitution part, because no one knows how to do it.

Like even when I was getting them from the pharmacy a long time ago, that a lot of them would come on reconstituted, but now pretty much every pharmacy, like the majority, it comes constituted to where you don't have to mix it yourself.

Gentry can never figure it out.

And she's one of the smartest people I know, but she's like, I don't understand.

I'm like, look, says that there's 10 milligrams in the bottle.

So no matter how much liquid we put in there, there's still 10 milligrams in the bottle.

But people can't grasp the concept.

And so I hear that's where a lot of the adverse effects comes from when they are buying them online because they don't know how to reconstitute it.

And so they'll end up taking too much or whatever they end up doing, mixing it wrong.

And so that's where I hear a lot about people saying they got side effects from something or from peptides.

I mean, yeah.

Well, you have some guy from the gym or some – yes, you're buying a research peptide.

Again, you still have no idea because you're not supposed to be using it.

So you really can – yeah, they can put data online.

They can put whatever they want.

But you're just trusting this company that says, you know, we ran this study.

We ran this data analysis on this peptide, and this is what it is.

And so the hardest part for me is just trying to guide patients in that realm and just – learning reconstitution.

So I'd say there's pluses and minuses to it being reconstituted.

We run into the same thing, whether it's testosterone, pulling up your testosterone in our office and trying to teach our patients dosing.

That's a whole other realm.

But yes, to take a liquid and reconstitute and make sure you're doing it correctly can be a hassle.

The problem is once you mix that.

The shelf life goes way down, right? Correct.

So most shelf lives, depending on pharmacy, I would tell you 60, 90 days.

I think the biggest thing with the ones that I hear about when people tell me that they, when they, when they do order them offline is the reconstitution part, because no one knows how to do it.

Like even when I was getting them from the pharmacy a long time ago, that a lot of them would come on reconstituted, but now pretty much every pharmacy, like the majority, it comes constituted to where you don't have to mix it yourself.

Gentry can never figure it out.

And she's one of the smartest people I know, but she's like, I don't understand.

I'm like, look, says that there's 10 milligrams in the bottle.

So no matter how much liquid we put in there, there's still 10 milligrams in the bottle.

But people can't grasp the concept.

And so I hear that's where a lot of the adverse effects comes from when they are buying them online because they don't know how to reconstitute it.

And so they'll end up taking too much or whatever they end up doing, mixing it wrong.

And so that's where I hear a lot about people saying they got side effects from something or from peptides.

I mean, yeah.

Well, you have some guy from the gym or some – yes, you're buying a research peptide.

Again, you still have no idea because you're not supposed to be using it.

So you really can – yeah, they can put data online.

They can put whatever they want.

But you're just trusting this company that says, you know, we ran this study.

We ran this data analysis on this peptide, and this is what it is.

And so the hardest part for me is just trying to guide patients in that realm and just – learning reconstitution.

So I'd say there's pluses and minuses to it being reconstituted.

We run into the same thing, whether it's testosterone, pulling up your testosterone in our office and trying to teach our patients dosing.

That's a whole other realm.

But yes, to take a liquid and reconstitute and make sure you're doing it correctly can be a hassle.

The problem is once you mix that.

The shelf life goes way down, right? Correct.

So most shelf lives, depending on pharmacy, I would tell you 60, 90 days.