BPC-157, NAD, and the Truth the Wellness Industry Isn't Telling | Dr. Rachele Pojednic
6/8/202655 min
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Rachele Pojednic, PhD, Chief Science Officer at Restore Hyper Wellness and faculty at Stanford Lifestyle Medicine, to cut through the noise on one of the most talked-about topics in women’s wellness: peptides and NAD. Dr. Pojednic pulls back the curtain on what peptides actually are, why most of the ones being sold online right now have almost no human data behind them, and the very real risks of buying from the gray market. She also explains why NAD IV drips are largely a waste of money (and sometimes genuinely miserable), wh...
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First 90 secondsAmber Taylor· Host0:05
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Proof of Practice. Our guest today is Rachel Podgednic. She has a PhD in exercise and nutrition, and we are really excited to talk to her because, well, not only is she smart, we're gonna be talking all about peptides, a little bit about NAD. And in a time where peptide talk is everywhere, I think a lot of us are trying to figure out what, what could we use? Do we really have to stack it? All these kinds of things. And the hope is that we're always taking this scientific information and giving you a practice for everyday real life. Rachel, welcome to the show. I'm just curious, y- peptides, I think for people who've been on the fringe, it's probably a solid eight years that at least, you know, BP-157 has made its way into someone's vernacular, or you have an injury or something like that. But are you surprised at kind of how mainstream people are not only talking about peptides, but just how they've, they're sort of everywhere now?
Rachele Pojednic· Guest1:01
I don't think so. I think in the world that I live in- Mm-hmm ... which is longevity, and as you have described, the- Mm ... longevity space has been, you know, sort of doing the peptide thing- Yeah ... for quite some time, or at least experimenting on themselves- Yeah ... in this space. And so it's not so unusual given the context that I live in, but I think that the general population is kind of being taken by surprise by how in their face they all of a sudden are.
Amber Taylor· Host1:28
Mm.
Rachele Pojednic· Guest1:29
And part