S13 EP29: Dr. Ashley Froese Answers Your Questions About Peptides
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Peptides are everywhere right now.
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Ashley Froese to break down the science, hype, controversy, and future of peptides in a way that actually makes sense.
We talk about:
What peptides are
What the FDA has to say about them
The difference between peptides and traditional medications
Recovery, muscle growth, sleep, inflammation & fat loss
The peptide research blowing Dr. Froese’s mind right now
The future of personalized medicine
Women, hormones & peptides during perimenopause
GLP-1s & metabolic health
Whether you’re peptide-curious or highly skeptical, this episode will absolutely make you think differently about what’s possible.
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(00:00:46) Welcome Dr. Froese to the Podcast
(00:01:58) The FDA “ban” & why peptides moved to the gray market
(00:05:15) Why Dr. Ashley left traditional medicine
(00:09:44) What peptides actually ARE explained simply
(00:14:30) Muscle building, recovery & growth hormone peptides
(00:16:32) Are peptides reversing aging?
(00:19:38) Where people are getting peptides
(00:25:55) The pricing and will they be covered by insurance
(00:27:47) The research blowing Dr. Ashley’s mind right now
(00:34:00) Addressing the risks and concerns some have
(00:37:56) Women, hormones, perimenopause & personalized medicine
(00:45:40) Rundown of the most popular peptides
(00:56:10) Injections vs pills
(01:04:05) Where to find Dr. Froese
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| 0:00.0 | It comes down to the size of the peptide and the stability. |
| 0:02.7 | Every one of them is a little bit different. |
| 0:04.6 | There are good companies and they're kind of sketchy companies, |
| 0:07.3 | but somebody's got to step up to the plate and talk about like, |
| 0:10.7 | what's the hype, what are the concerns and like, how do we do this safely? |
| 0:14.4 | If you want not only better muscle recovery, physical recovery from whatever you've done the day before, or better |
| 0:22.4 | sleep, better skin and digestion, like growth hormone affects it all. |
| 0:28.0 | We're noticing people's metabolisms raising like more long term, showing even more weight |
| 0:34.9 | loss and less side effects from this peptide and people are just like, |
| 0:38.8 | this is it. |
| 0:44.2 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 0:47.8 | I have an amazing guest for you today. |
| 0:50.6 | Dr. Ashley Froese is a board certified primary care physician and she left traditional medicine |
| 0:58.2 | because she is out there doing health care different. |
| 1:02.9 | Ashley, I am so excited to have you on the podcast today. |
| 1:06.4 | As I mentioned before we started, the amount of peptide questions that we get per day is wild. |
| 1:15.0 | And you have really become a very respected and trusted voice online for peptide info. |
| 1:23.6 | So I want you to be able to give our listeners all of the do's and don'ts, goods and bads. |
| 1:31.3 | What is this hype all about? |
| 1:34.0 | Sure. |
| 1:34.7 | Well, thanks for having me today. |
| 1:37.3 | The hype is all about the fact that peptides, peptides are popular because they work really well. That's the long and short of it. And it's, |
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