602. Peptides Meet Plants: Smarter, Needle-Free Healing for a Toxic World w/ Kyal Van Der Leest
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 158 minutes
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Summary
Most people don't realize just how powerful natural medicine can be—until it heals what pharmaceuticals couldn’t. In this episode, naturopath and medical herbalist Kyal Van Der Leest dives deep into root cause medicine, exposing the flaws in conventional diagnoses and revealing the true healing power of plant compounds, adaptogens, and mycological therapies.
With nearly 30 years of clinical experience, Kyal—founder of LVLUP Health—blends ancestral wisdom with cutting-edge science to help you understand how to address chronic fatigue, immune dysfunction, inflammation, and more. If you're seeking long-term vitality, this episode will challenge everything you think you know about health.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:00) Living Clean in a Toxic World
(00:10:19) What Are Peptides & Why Do They Matter?
(00:23:18) GLP-1, Weight Loss, & the Blurry Line Between Drugs and Peptides
(00:41:37) Escaping Australia, Medical Tyranny, & the Origins of LVLUP
(00:56:27) The Hidden Risks of Peptides, Heavy Metals, & Fast Weight Loss
(01:03:04) Functional Formulations & the Power of Postbiotics
(01:13:22) Brain Fog Fixers & Next-Gen Nootropics
(01:22:14) Liposomal Delivery & Supplement Industry Transparency
(01:30:03) Boosting Natural Testosterone & Muscle Growth
(01:37:07) Liver Detox & Gallbladder Flushes
(01:50:14) Detoxing Microplastics, Heavy Metals, & Environmental Toxins
(01:53:39) Gut Healing, Leaky Brain, & Histamine Mastery
(02:14:38) NAD, Mitochondria, and the Purpose Behind the Formulas
(02:23:43) Supplement Quality & Ethical Sourcing
Resources:
• Website: lvluphealth.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/lvluphealth
• Facebook: facebook.com/LVLUPHealth
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Kyle, what's the main difference you notice between American culture and Australian culture? |
| 0:15.9 | Oh, goodness, it's probably the availability of health here, comparative to Australia. |
| 0:21.6 | In Australia, we're on an island. |
| 0:23.1 | We're very easily controlled, as we may have seen in years past, |
| 0:27.7 | that have come. |
| 0:28.8 | There's been certain things pushed on the population that have been very hard to resist. |
| 0:32.8 | But here, it's in Austin and Texas, especially. |
| 0:35.4 | It's a health hub, of course. |
| 0:36.8 | But the availability of good |
| 0:38.9 | quality supplements, anytime you are in a pinch and you can't cook a meal, there's amazing restaurants. |
| 0:44.6 | They've been there organic, like the well, for example. You can always get fantastic food. And as a |
| 0:49.7 | result, the opposite thing happens when my family and I come to America, we lose weight, we lose |
| 0:54.6 | inflammation, which is kind of the opposite of what you hear. You hear Americans go to Europe |
| 0:58.8 | or somewhere like that and they lose a heap of weight and lose inflammation. But here, you know, |
| 1:03.5 | with our mindset and our education around what nourishing and nutritious food is, we're able to find |
| 1:09.3 | them like whole foods and other |
| 1:11.9 | supermarkets like that. The availability of health here is, it's great. Love it here. We always feel |
| 1:20.3 | better having been to America than when we're back in Australia and New Zealand. |
| 1:25.0 | Do you live in New Zealand now? |
| 1:26.7 | We live in New Zealand now, yeah. |
| 1:27.8 | We moved from Australia about six months ago because essentially they banned one of the |
| 1:32.5 | primary peptides that my company produces, BPC 157. |
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