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I've had a lot of questions about peptides, so today I'm talking to Dr. Adil Khan from the Eternal Medical Clinic to answer all of them. Please enjoy.

Dr. Khan, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Dude, I have so many questions. I think I first heard the word peptide a few years ago and just went in one ear and out the other.

But now I hear about peptides all the time. In fact, I think some of the FDA-approved weight loss drugs that are currently exploding on the marketplace are peptides.

Is that right? Some of them?

Yeah, that's right. So, you know, peptides, so people understand like the first peptide that became really famous was a peptide called insulin.

I think most people have insulin. It was over 100 years ago and it was a remarkable discovery because they're able to put this chain of amino acids, which is a protein, and hence a peptide, and synthesize that to do a specific task, which is obviously insulin lowers blood sugar.

It sends a signal to your body to say, hey, take the sugar from your blood and put it into the cells.

So, basically people once they understand, okay, insulin is a peptide, so what are these designer peptides doing now?

They can send a signal and we can make them to send whatever signal we want, which is really cool if you think about it.

So, that means we can kind of manipulate the body in different ways to kind of achieve the targeted outcome.

And so, obviously with insulin, the outcome is to lower your blood sugar, but now we have peptides that can help with weight loss.

That's a Zempic or Semaglutide. That's the one that became really popular because the Kardashians did it, and then all these people started doing it, and it sold out.

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