Peptalk: Peptides Unpacked

#14 Ten Weeks on GLP-1s, Zero Alcohol Cravings—Stephanie's Unexpected Breakthrough

• Dr. Kylie Burton & Jessica Briecke • Season 1 • Episode 14

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What if the constant food chatter just… stopped? And what if something even more surprising happened—the urge to drink during stress disappeared too?

In this episode, Dr. Kylie Burton and Jessica Briecke sit down with Stephanie—a woman with 13 years of hard-won sobriety, a history of childhood trauma, and years of high stress that her body couldn't shake. Despite lifting, hiking, and dialing in nutrition, she woke each day to joint pain, swelling, racing thoughts, and a body that wouldn't respond. HRT helped some symptoms, but not enough.

The breakthrough came from a place she didn't expect: a microdosed GLP-1 peptide protocol that calmed her "addictive brain," opened space for better choices, and restored sleep and energy—without high doses.

Within 48 hours, Stephanie noticed the food noise quiet. But something even more surprising happened: the familiar urge to drink during stress wasn't firing. Ten weeks in, she hasn't had one thought of drinking alcohol—something she's never experienced before.

What We Cover:

  • Stephanie's journey: 13 years of sobriety, childhood trauma, high stress, and a body that wouldn't respond despite doing "all the right things"
  • How HRT helped some symptoms, but wasn't enough on its own
  • The real details: insurance barriers, safe sourcing, and why "low and slow" dosing can outperform aggressive ramps
  • Within 48 hours: the food noise quieted—and soon after, the urge to drink during stress disappeared
  • The science behind it: large datasets linking semaglutide with lower alcohol use outcomes, and potential mechanisms like gut-brain signaling, stabilized blood sugar, and dopamine modulation
  • Real results: fewer binges, more steady meals, consistent strength training, and a body that no longer aches getting out of bed
  • A blueprint for stacking tools with intention: anchor protein, fiber, hydration, and resistance work; measure wins beyond the scale; adjust doses thoughtfully; and layer in HRT with expert oversight
  • Addressing low libido in midlife: the role of testing testosterone first, then considering PT-141 for desire and response if needed
  • Why healing isn't linear—but it's absolutely possible when strategy meets support

To connect more with Stephanie, please find her on Instagram @stephiespinkcloud.

For Anyone Who Feels Stuck in the Cycle: Peptides like GLP-1s do so much more than the weight loss commercials tell us. Stephanie's story is proof that th

Want to connect more with the hosts? We'd love it! Connect with Jess at B2BwithJess.com or on Instagram @JessB_LMT_NC. Connect with Dr. Kylie at her other podcast Unshakeable Brain where new episodes are posted weekly.

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Legal Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before starting any new health protocol. Dr. Kylie Burton and Jessica Briecke are affiliates and may receive compensation for referrals. Individual results may vary.

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SPEAKER_00:

Peptides are powerful and often misunderstood. But we're here to change that. I'm Dr. Kylie Burton. I'm Jessica Brickie. This is Pep Talk. Peptides Unpacked. Science made simple. Results made real.

SPEAKER_01:

Today's episode is personal for me and one that so many women are gonna see themselves in. We are sitting down with somebody that is so incredibly special. My good friend from high school, Stephanie.

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For more than 20 years, Stephanie ran a restaurant, which, if you know that world, is a 24-7 high-stress job that never truly shuts off. Almost a year ago, she made a huge life shift into an 8-4 HR role at a hospice, a completely different pace, but her body didn't immediately adjust to the change.

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And her story doesn't begin with work. Steph has lived through childhood trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, alcohol addiction, food addiction, and she has fought her way into a beautiful, resilient recovery. She's also incredibly active in the gym, out on the trails hiking, outdoors, always learning, always striving to age gracefully and take care of her body.

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But here's the reality so many so many women face, just like Steph, even when you do everything right, sometimes your body still feels like it's betraying you.

SPEAKER_01:

For the first few years of her recovery, Stephanie was walking on what she calls her pink cloud. Then it was like somebody flipped a light switch. Life and everything that she was holding together came crashing down.

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Her symptoms tell the story so many women don't say out loud. Joint pain everywhere, inflammation in her face, ankles, and what seemed like everywhere.

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And she did what women like Stephanie always do. She just tried to keep pushing through. She kept hiking, kept working out, kept trying to get it together. But her body wasn't really listening to those signals anymore.

SPEAKER_00:

That's why today's conversation matters so much. Because the moment Stephanie felt her food noise quiet, the moment her mood started to lift, the moment she finally slept, it felt like an answer to prayers.

SPEAKER_01:

So today she's sharing her real experience, the struggle, the shift, the healing, and what peptides have meant to her life, her body, and her recovery.

SPEAKER_00:

Actually, this one is honest, raw, and powerful. Let's dive into Stephanie's story. Jess, take it over.

SPEAKER_01:

Welcome, Steph. Hi. So glad you're here. Before we get started, I want to share with everybody. So I've known Steph my whole life, like I forever. And Stephanie, believe it or not, I mean, we have lots of stories that we can't tell on this. Should never be brought to the light of day ever again. Um, but Stephanie taught me how to drive a stick shift, and she's got the whiplash to prove it.

SPEAKER_02:

True story, true story.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, can I also add, I know how to drive a stick shift, and that's pretty good for my generation. I have two kids driving them.

SPEAKER_01:

Two of my boys, um, they drive manual. And guess who taught them stuff? Yay! I must have done something right along the way. I love getting in their cars and driving. They are fun, still fun to drive. It's like getting on a bike. All right, Steph, let's get right to it though, right? This um you've heard me talk about peptides, probably, and we've had lots of conversations, and and I will say um you are somebody that really knows your body, how to nourish it. You've been in the gym, you've been on the trails, like you are an avid hiker for many, many years. And yet, like we said, like there was something that was really missing for you. So, what even sparked the idea that you were ready to even just talk about it, let alone try it?

SPEAKER_02:

Um, I've heard all the buzz online and um tons of videos, reading, um, but it was, I kind of just got a point where to a point where I had to be open to anything, like anything. Like I felt like I had run out of options. So I became more open to talking with you about it and hearing the science behind it a little more. Um, the only thing I'd heard prior to that is people losing a ton of weight. That's all I heard. Um, like lots of other people, I was able to get it prescribed from my doctor. And unfortunately, my insurance wouldn't um cover it. So that kind of delayed um my start by probably six months, six or eight months. Um so yeah, I guess I was just, you know, it was the house at the end of the block, and I like I knew how to eat, I knew how to exercise, I knew how to try to get proper sleep and cut my stress, and I even started hormone therapy, and so I was taking estrogen and progesterone, and I was doing everything, and I still felt completely not myself in any way. Um, I did have a lot of life situations going on too, but um my body just didn't feel like my body. I've always been pretty healthy my whole life. I don't have any big illness history, and something was just wrong. Like I would get out of bed in the morning and everything just hurt with no explanation. Like I hadn't drank in years. I felt like a champ, and all of a sudden it just shut down.

SPEAKER_01:

So let's talk about that for just a quick second because you hit on a whole bunch of things. Number one, you started your journey with HRT, which by the way, me too, and I love them. Um, I I am so grateful that there's been some changes in how we're gonna approach women's health, and it's gonna be another conversation that we're having and it's more open. So that's amazing. And I'm sure, well, I know this wasn't the first time in your life that you'd faced significant stress. So you know that you were replacing hormones going through menopause, that you were doing that work, you've not been down, you've been down this road before with stress, and yet your body still wasn't favoring you and it wasn't coming back like it normally would, you just thought something's got to give here. It's time to try a new approach. I need a tool.

SPEAKER_02:

All my tools, like I pulled out every tool I had that worked for me in the past, and none of them or any combination of them was working. I needed a new tool.

SPEAKER_01:

I think too, if it's okay if I say this, um, when you talked about the fact that your doctor prescribed you, because they could see that that was an important thing that for you to try, um and to find out that you didn't qualify, right? So, so people that haven't heard this yet, in order to qualify for insurance coverage, um, first of all, not all insurance companies will cover all of the FDA approved medications. So if you're looking at your insurance company, you have to find out what their formulary is, what they'll cover, and what are their um approved reasons. And your doctor needs to know that in order to try. But that said, you still have to be one of really two things for the most part to be covered. You have to have a high enough BMI, which you didn't have, you were carrying extra weight, but you weren't like in this really high BMI state, so they're gonna cover, or type 2 diabetes, which also was not you, didn't mean you didn't have sugar dysregulation, blood sugar dysregulation, but you didn't have an official diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. So the insurance company is not gonna cover it. And so now what? Right? And you know that that means that in order for you to get coverage, if you find a safe place to go, which is hard, there's a lot of noise out there. How am I gonna how am I gonna what am I willing to do? Am I willing to pay for this? And I know that was part of our conversation. Like, this is a this is a big investment, and I don't know what the outcome is gonna be. And I think there's probably a lot of people that are listening to this that can relate to that. Right.

SPEAKER_02:

I guess it was um even more motivation since it wasn't uh was an investment that I was gonna do everything that you taught me and reminded me about to set myself up for the best success possible. And I've just been blown away, like absolutely blown away.

SPEAKER_01:

How long was it before you started to see things start to shift for you?

SPEAKER_02:

The biggest thing, and sometimes I still doubt myself and question it that like I was imagining it, but now that I've heard the story over and over and over again from so many other people and read so many stories, day um, so today was my 10th injection. Um, the very first Thursday I did it. Saturday, I remember it so distinctly. It just kind of hit me that I wasn't thinking 24-7 about food. And I don't know if I can really emphasize my addictive brain and how that has literally kept me prisoner my entire life. It was food when I was eight or nine years old, alcohol and drugs took over and literally destroyed my life. And when I finally was able to stop that, you know, the food came right to the forefront again. And I can't even describe it. Like I was always thinking about food, where I was gonna get food, going to a different store so people didn't see me buying all the sugar, um, when it was in the cupboard, how much was left, I'll just have a little. I mean, my mind, it was just like alcohol and drugs food. And my mind was absolutely exhausted day after day after day with the food stuff. And then when I would eat, and I I'm a binger, I would overeat. Then it was the guilt and the shame and the just beating myself up. And when I realized that that wasn't happening, it was it was all worth it right then. Even if I didn't lose one pound, it was worth it, it was worth every penny just to shut, just to give me that freedom. Like I can't even. I've been telling everybody, and I will continue to scream it to the rooftop through from the rooftops because that is so crazy to me. And what it's allowed me to do by quieting and clearing the cobwebs and the craziness out of my brain, it's allowing me to make really good, healthy, informed, good decisions about everything that goes into my health, not just food. I'm eating more food now than I was before, and I'm consistently losing weight. I didn't just stop eating. You can't just stop eating. You have to eat, but now I'm making really good choices, and I'm not snacking all the time. I just don't even think about it. How crazy is that?

SPEAKER_01:

I don't even think about it. That's insane to me. It is it is wild. And I think that it's important to say that your decision, because you know, in your case, you were about 20 pounds or so from where you wanted to be. Other people that are listening might be 150 pounds from where they want to be. Um, and they everybody's journey is a little bit different. So somebody might look at you and say, Oh, well, it was only 20 pounds, but that 20 pounds for you made you uncomfortable in your body. You were comfortable with things that you wanted to do, you were having pain throughout your entire body, and your decision for you was not to do a standard dose for weight loss. You went on a microdosing plan. So we're talking about such a small amount in your case of these peptides that have had such a major impact.

SPEAKER_02:

Mm-hmm. Absolutely. Um, and my my uh addictive brain doesn't do a little anything. So of course, I mean literally nothing. I always want more is always better. That's just how I've always thought. And when you initially said go slow, you know, low and slow, and I'm like, whatever. Like, but I did. And then of course, two weeks later, maybe even one week later, I jumped it up to like the the 50. And but I'm not even thinking that that those thoughts aren't in my head anymore. So I've the last four weeks, I've backed it back down because I'm still having the same success without the high dose. So what why? Why not? You know, and that to me is crazy because my brain's never thought to do something less. Like that just doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_01:

It's so you're you sent me a text weeks and weeks ago, and you just said, I have been praying for this my whole life. I've been praying for this feeling my whole life. And so answered prayers and and Kai, and Kylie and I have laughed before. We've talked about land, man, if I could come up with a pill as a as a wellness practitioner, or even as just for me, even you know, in my many years walking this planet, and I've struggled with weight myself at times. Um, if I could come up with that pill to like help people lose weight, we're gonna be a cajillion, right? Like that is the thing that people are missing. And here we are now understanding that we're using these peptides that we naturally make. Right. It isn't like somebody went out and started putting a whole bunch of chemicals together into a into a um you know a dish and said, here we go, we're gonna start injecting people with this fake stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

No, we it's making and I will add that um when I joke about having an addictive brain, I joke about it, but it I really do. Like I do too much work, too much gym, too much, like, and it's helped with so many of those things. And you know, I have within the last year, like with all the changes of my job and just leaving a job that I had for 20 years, it was like grieving a loss, and I wanted to drink a lot. And I can't even rem I haven't one time had the thought about drinking since I started doing this. Really? Not one time, it's never even like because it's never even crossed my mind. Like, my brain is just trained when I'm stressed, a drink's gonna make me feel better. So it's just automatic. And that hasn't been happening. Like the freedom my brain had, like, I can't even I it make like I'm gonna cry because it's really that powerful. And from a micro dose, like that is so incredible. And like I said, if not one other thing happened for me, which isn't the case, I've had lots of other benefits. Um, it would all be worth it just for that.

SPEAKER_01:

So let's talk about Steph's Pink Cloud for a second. Yeah. Right? Because you've been sober now how long?

SPEAKER_02:

Um, August was 13 years.

SPEAKER_01:

Congratulations. Thank you. I mean, I I know it got pretty darn ugly at the end, right? Like before you got sober, things were pretty bleak.

SPEAKER_02:

Pretty bleak, yeah. Um, I was binging for weeks at a time, trying to end my life on a regular basis. Um, I literally could not get out of it. Um, I could share another whole podcast on that, but it was literally it, it destroyed me in my life. And I I honestly am just surprised that I'm still that I survived it. The things that I went through is is just insane.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I'm grateful that you have because you still have work to do here.

SPEAKER_00:

But when you guys definitely I just want to pipe in real quick too. I would imagine that my husband's story is very similar to yours. Aww. And as she, as Jess has told me about your story, especially with the alcohol piece, I'm like, hmm. I never thought that a peptide could influence that, let alone a GLP one. I'm convinced. There are so many individuals out there who, in one way, shape, or form reached out to those things because of life and became addicted and have that person, like you say addictive brain, addictive personality, that's Andrew. It's totally him. I totally so I totally get it from that perspective as well. And I'm just like, that is incredible that these molecules are impacting lives in so many ways, not just weight loss.

SPEAKER_01:

We're only gonna see more and more uncovered, but when you got sober initially, you can explain a pink pink cloud, you know, why you say that.

SPEAKER_02:

So when you're when you're laying in your bed for weeks at a time, literally living one blackout to one blackout, when you're finally able to put the substances down, I literally felt like I was wearing permanent rose-colored glasses. That's the way I described it. Like the the flowers looked brighter, the the leaves, like I saw the world in a different way than I had in years and years and years. And I still had struggles, but it comparatively it was nothing. And um I just Pink Cloud is a perfect decision, you know, a perfect description. I just I just floated through years of sobriety, like just feeling so amazing, like literally flying high, and nothing could touch me. And it I just thought it wasn't gonna stop. And it it it did.

SPEAKER_01:

Did you still have moments of like you're talking now about how like you're not even like the stress and you're not even like the thought of alcohol is not even in your radar these last 10 weeks, right? Yeah, but even when you were on, you know, in those first few years of of sobriety and you were on wearing your rose-colored glasses and on your pink cloud, did you still have those cravings? Like, has that has that honestly shifted in these many years of sobriety?

SPEAKER_02:

1000%. I mean, if I'm being honest with myself and I look back at those years, they were incredibly better than what I had been living, but I still was struggling with um food. I was binging and purging off and on. Um, my seasonal depression was um still like debilitating. Like I struggled every single winter to stay on track with food and workouts and um because my my go-to when when things get hot, I just I withdraw from the world. And um that was still happening. Um, but it like I said, it was just so much better than where I had been.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. I want to read something. I was telling Kylie I had something I wanted to read. So this is something that I found this afternoon on psychologytoday.com. And I wanted to do some reading about um addiction because we're hearing how people are saying the same thing that you are, that they're quieting that addiction, um, whether it is with alcohol or food or whatever substance, whatever, whatever their jug of choice is, right? Food still being one of them. And is is this a thing? And it's being studied, but in this right here, I just want to read this one little short part. Um, psychologytoday.com, and the date on this article, let me just see, is uh December 9th, 2024. So just a year ago, this was written. It's not just antidotal evidence. Recently, two large studies, one involving a survey of more than 14,000 individuals in Weight Watchers Telehealth Weight Management Program, and another being a retrospective observational study involving over 680,000 patients from two distinct study populations, found that an associated between the prescription of GLP1 agonist semaglutide, known as Wagovi or Ozempic, and a reduced risk for incident and AUD, meaning alcohol use dependency relapse among patients with either obesity or type 2 diabetes. So we're seeing that there's such a huge, like this, these are big groups of people. One is 14,000, another is almost 700,000, and they are showing that there was a distinct there was a direct correlation between people that are using just the GLP one and reducing their their relapse.

SPEAKER_02:

It's incredible. I have lots of friends that are in the recovery field, and I was speaking to one of them the other day, and she told me that one of her clients told her the other day that she literally forgot to drink. Like, just like people forget the food. Like, that's to me, that is just insane. All the people that that can help is just like it's I can't even comprehend it really. It's literally gonna save lives.

SPEAKER_01:

Literally, save lives for the addict, save lives for the addict that comes across to other people that have made bad choices, like the possibilities of where this is gonna go and how this is gonna take people potentially. It's being studied. I'm not sitting here, nor are you saying that GLP one is out there gonna be the saving peptide for people with addiction. But boy, is it promising. It sure is helping me. I mean, those are big numbers in this study.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, absolutely. It's incredible.

SPEAKER_00:

So aside think about GLP1's having suppressants for like the appetite. If it's a suppressant for the desire to drink as as well, um that might be the mechanism behind it. Just suppressing.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Well, it's changing, I think, the way that dopamine is working in the body. I think it's it's influencing the dopamine. So um because that is being influenced, I think from from a bio biologic standpoint, I think it has to do with the dopamine function in the body. So we know that that these peptides are hitting um our gut inflammation and helping to heal our gut. And our gut is one of those places where we manufacture dopamine, and that is directly correlated with our brain health. We could go on and on and on and on. So if we know that people that are suffering, suffering from substance and alcohol abuse addictions are also looking for dopamine hits. Their dopamine uh regulation is a little bit off. And we're doing, we're using a GLP, one of many things that it does. And it's we're, I mean, it's been around for decades to help balance blood sugar. Um we're just scratching the surface of what it can possibly do in other things. I mean, stuff besides besides the the greatest change for you obviously is how you're thinking about food and not even thinking about you know your go-to stress, what you what you used to use years ago. But what other what other benefits are you seeing personally? Like I know you've had changes, I know you've had gains in the in the gym.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Um so many things. Um, my energy is like through the roof. And like that's how I used to be. I could literally run circles around people in restaurants that are half my age. Like, and I kind of lost that. And I'm like, oh, well, I'm I'm just getting old. Well, excuse my language, but bullshit. No, I'm not. I'm back. And I have my energy, it's just like, I just like want to dance. Like it's like just like I feel like an ADD child sometimes. I just have so much energy. Um, I my sleep is is is so much better. I'm my because my brain's not racing. Like that was my problem. I could not shut my brain off, whether it was food, work, and it's just quieted. I fall asleep like nothing. Um, the joint pain, um, inflammation has gotten a lot better. I still have some like some puffiness a little bit in my face at times, um, which could be my dairy. I don't know. Um, but um just has you well versed. Yeah. I I I've always kind of had a not great thing with dairy. And um, you know, I'm jumping on the cottage cheese bandwagon, and I think it's it's not agreeing with my system personally. Um, so I've been seriously considering trying to to make some changes to a more of a non-inflammatory type um diet and see how I do with that. But overall, like I just feel incredible. I have zero joint pain anywhere. Like my feet used to ache until I got going in the morning. My back, like I constantly carried so much stress in my neck and shoulders. I think a lot of women do. And it's gone. Like I don't have any pain anywhere. Like I feel like I'm 30 years old again. It's ridiculous. It's amazing, but it's just crazy to me that I'm 56 years old and I feel better than I did 15 years ago. That's incredible. It's insane. And it's the honest truth.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, I I so what you're saying is your age is not an excuse.

SPEAKER_02:

Absolutely not. I keep thinking it's the biggest thing that I would like to stress to anyone who's considering it is I like quick fixes too. Like I want to take a pill and have magic, but that's not what I did. The exact opposite. From the day I decided I was gonna make, I was gonna give this a try, I've done everything right to the best of my ability. My diet, I've tried to stay on a good sleep schedule. I regularly um work out. I did a ton of cycling before, but I've switched that up and I've really been focusing on weight training, which is I love too. But um, and I definitely have seen changes. Um, concentration on fiber and um protein. Like I really try to plan those things. Um and I think it's working because water, fiber, protein, like I haven't had any negative side effects either. I have have had no nausea, even at the higher dosage. I've had no constipation or diarrhea. Um, but I'm eating healthy food. My body is working. If I just stop eating, of course I'm gonna get, I'm not gonna poop. Like, what do we think is gonna happen? But if I'm nourishing my body, it my body's probably working better than it has in so, so, so long. But it was all the pieces that you helped me remember that I knew, but I needed to be reminded of. It's all of it.

SPEAKER_01:

But you had this tool that helped you do those things, right? Like this was able to clear the cobweb so that you could focus on these things again. Right.

SPEAKER_02:

And be able to make good decisions, you know, even um other things like therapy and and medication that I need to help with my depression and stuff, like those are all things I just couldn't even think about before. And having I've just been able to really think about the big picture and do a lot of things that are really helping me. And it wouldn't have happened without this. Like I'm 100% convinced. And it was fast. Like, I noticed the changes immediately almost.

SPEAKER_01:

Which for you did you said Thursday to Saturday? Yeah, I would say that for you know, people always ask me the the time frame, and I it depends on what you're measuring. If you're measuring, if your only measurement is the scale, which you know, I know a lot of people want. If your only measurement is the scale, you're not necessarily gonna see that right away. Some people do. You may have also. Um, some people might not see that for weeks or even a month or more before they start some some change there. But I I think that people have within, I usually say within 24 to 48 hours, you're probably gonna have some shift in how your brain is working. Yeah, at the very least. So your wins are gonna show up in other ways, not just by measuring what's happening on the scale. And the scale's gonna catch up. Right. It just might not be the first thing that you see.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, fortunately for me, it it I did. Um, and when I when I first started, I remember you say encouraging me to have a scale, but not get crazy with it. And that's another thing. I had to get rid of my scale years ago because I obsessively weighed myself 15 times a day. So I was terrified to go to Target and buy a scale. Do you know how many times I've weighed myself? I weigh myself on Thursdays, which I forgot to do today when I do my injection. I forgot to weigh myself. Like my crazy brain is calm and it's insane to me. Like it seems like such a little thing, but to people who haven't experienced it, but that's just another example how it's like calmed my thinking and that obsessive thinking that I just have had from day one about everything, every single thing. So I've consistently had weight loss um every week. Uh, like I said, today was um my tenth shot. So the start of week 10, I've reduced that down to um almost the dose I started with, the 25, actually, I think it was 30 today. Um and I've still consistently lost weight, a total so far of almost 15 pounds. And I will again say I am eating more regularly and way more food than I was eating before I started this. That's very important for people to know. Like you cannot just stop eating. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, really important. What's really cool too, Kylie, is Steph and I have talked through her journey. I I said to her like a week or so ago, I said, Steph, you have a lot of people out there that you can help. And that there's a business side of this um that you could now, you know, we were worried about the cost in the beginning. Like, is this is this risk reward, right? Like, what is what is the risk of me saying yes to this and is the reward going to be worth it? Because this is this was money coming out of you know your monthly budget that you had to consider. And now here we are 10 weeks later, it's been transformative on so many levels for you. And we're considering business for you because there's so many people you know that you can help. Right. How incredible. Kylie and I just recorded a couple of episodes today that are all about business that would blow your mind. I can't wait for you to hear them.

SPEAKER_02:

Awesome. Yeah, I um I'm convinced that I survived my addiction to help people. Like there has to be a reason for me to go through all those terrible things. And I was shown very quickly in recovery that it's to help other women, specifically women who are struggling with drugs and alcohol. And if I can do it, so can you. And one of the things I learned was you can't keep it unless you give it away. And that's like became my life mission and passion is to just help other people. And if I can give this freedom and help someone learn and show them how it worked for me, how amazing. Like, if someone can be saying the things that I am when they thought when they were hopeless. Like, that's why I'm here. Like, there's no other explanation for me to still be on this planet after what I've done to my body, unless I'm meant to use my experiences to help other people.

SPEAKER_01:

I believe that. Kylie, what do you think? You got something you want to chime in with here?

SPEAKER_00:

You know, Steph, I was on a client call a couple days ago. One of my last clients I've taken in this year, and she's really concerned about her son. Her son is an alcoholic. Um, we didn't get into much of it, but I was reading through his labs as well as the other son and herself, and I said, you know, I've got this podcast coming out. I need you to listen to it because I knew we were gonna be recording with you. I said, You need to listen to her story because we're all told about GLP1's influencing weight loss. We're not told about these other powerful aspects. And she almost started breaking down in tears because she's so worried about her 28-year-old son and his alcohol habits. And I thought, you know, I cannot wait to share your story with as many people as we can get ears on, and then to see you go out and flourish and share your story more because, like my husband, like her son, um it's needed. I can't imagine what skill.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I can't imagine if this had been available to me when I was trying to stop. So I feel like so oh, I don't know, if privilege, I don't, I'm not sure what the word is, but like if I can help bring this idea to people that are in that living hell, like I just can't even imagine how powerful that could be.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, not just for the individual, but for the moment for the family, like the families as a general unit, and then anybody else that they have impact on. Absolutely. I don't know how my husband still survived either, but he's still here. He still has stories to tell. And I don't know what goes on in his brain, but I can tell you it's probably very similar to yours. And if I can calm that down using a tiny dose of GLP1, I do have a really quick question. Do you only use a GLP one or do you have a uh stack?

SPEAKER_02:

Nope, that's it. Um, I've been Jess and I have talked recently about um I just got um my doctor ordered some blood work to check my hormones because I'm convinced that I still need some testosterone. Um and she has thank goodness agreed to help me work on that. So once we have the results back, I I'm I would bet money it's low. Um, because libido, uh as embarrassing as it is to say, that has that's the one piece that has not changed for me so far through hormone replacement therapy and GLP1. I still am missing that piece.

SPEAKER_00:

Um so wait, let's let's pause here. Yeah. Jess, you're on hormone replacement therapy and peptide therapy. Stephanie is gonna be a great combo for you. If you're listening, it's probably a great combo for you as well for all the absolutely.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It is, it is a it if you're patient, which I hope that people are, and if you are a woman of a certain age, and by the way, you do not have to be in menopause to start your HRT journey journey. In fact, the sooner you start it, the better your um so HRT stacked with peptides is it's literally life-changing. When it comes to what Steph is talking about and having low libido, that's a really common problem that a lot of men struggle, but more women struggle with it. You know, we've we've done our job, we've gone out and maybe made babies, and and now we're in a later stage of life. Hormones are changing, things are different, different. We've maybe we've been with our partner for a long time.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, yeah, they're all over.

SPEAKER_01:

There's a lot of things, or maybe we've never really had some of that. So there could be some signaling that's just missing in general. So there are peptides that are out there that Steph and I have talked about. So she's gonna start with her HRT. We're gonna check that first, but it could be, and she's open to it, especially after having this experience, that there is a peptide called PT141 that is specifically geared towards people that have low libido. It also enhances sexual response. So it isn't, and I'm not talking about in the same way that a Viagra pill works. I'm talking about just in general, the way that you would respond to your partner, your sensation, even orgasm, all of these things might change with this peptide because the signaling just might be missing. So we're gonna see in Steph's case if it is hormone and and it could be both, by the way. So it could be that the testosterone is low and um will start there and go slow, and you want to work with an HRT expert, not just anybody, somebody that's really knowledgeable in that, or you could really get messed up quickly if you're doing the wrong thing. Um, and then stack on these peptides if if she's not getting the results that she wants by adding what might be what might be missing testosterone. So this PT141, specifically men and women for libido and sexual enhancement is a really great idea. So it is a hard topic to discuss, but it's so important, and it's so important in relationships with self and with our partner. Right.

SPEAKER_02:

I I've even read um the sweet spot is the testosterone and the PT 141. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

That's like the icing on the cake, you know. It's really good. And it's a slow thing. Like that's why I say, and I and I think that you have you have come to a place in your life where you are always like foot on the gas. Like you're realizing in this journey that the foot doesn't need to be on the gas all the way, it can be a little bit, and let's see how we're going along in our journey, and then we can add in the next thing on the next stop. Um, because we want to know if we do it all at once and we go hard really quick, we don't really know what we're responding to. Right. So if you're working with practitioners and you walk in the door and they say, take this hormone and this hormone, this hormone, and by the way, here is your peptides for this, and they want to give it to you all at once. That's just a disaster waiting to happen. And you won't know what's right and what's wrong because you did it all too much too quickly. So your approach to this, which I know is a is like a little bit of a detour from how you normally would respond to things, is brilliant.

SPEAKER_02:

But it hasn't been, it hasn't been difficult either. Right. Like it's been easy to make better decisions. It really, really has. And that it's just it's just immeasurable how how much it's changed my life.

SPEAKER_01:

Ugh man, this has been so good stuff. This is I'm grateful because I know you. Obviously, I've known you for a long time. We don't have to we don't have to say how many years, but many. Um but I'm so grateful that I I know that your impact through sharing this and coming on here and being brave and talking about your story is going to have a ripple effect that you can't even begin to imagine. Because what Kylie and I are creating is a is this platform and this podcast that not only Kylie and I will share, and I hope that you will share your story too, but people that are working with us and building business with us, they're going to be sharing this. Your story, you are not, you you can't even begin to imagine what this podcast and the influence and impact you are going to have on so many lives that you will never even know. It's incredible.

SPEAKER_00:

That's all I could ever hope for. Along with that, when you do pull the trigger on the business side and it's overwhelming to think I have to learn all this stuff stuff about peptides and act, you don't. That's why we've created this, is so that people like you can share this podcast and continue to do what you do in the space that you do it, knowing that this is here to help educate your people, and then they can go back to you for that assistance.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, and people people want to talk to someone who's done it, who's lived it. Like those are the people I don't want a mechanic to teach me how to stop drinking. Like, I want to talk to someone who was in the in the ditch and got out of it. And how did you do it?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah. And one of our favorite things with this podcast and this journey we've been on the last few weeks recording it is to hear stories like yours that are that go so far beyond weight loss, and to understand that not only were you able to calm the mind down, but you've been able to make better decisions, completely shift your entire nine to five schedule. Really, for you, restaurants, like five to midnight schedule. Um, and and along with changing your life, you're changing all the lives around you. And then what a business is, is just sharing your experience, sharing your wealth, sharing your journey. It just so happens to come that you get to have some income with that. Right. And the more impact you have, the more income you also get to get.

SPEAKER_02:

Right. It's a dream. I would love it.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, Steph's story is one that stays with you. The strength that it takes to walk through trauma, to rebuild your life, to recover, to push through pain and symptoms that still showed up. It's something that so many women are living with silently. And hearing her share openly reminds us that healing is never linear. Sometimes your body just needs a different kind of support.

SPEAKER_00:

Today, what we saw in Stephanie, the relief from food noise, the emotional shift, the decrease in inflammation, the sleep returning, none of that was overnight magic. It was her body finally getting the signals it had never been it had been using for years.

SPEAKER_01:

If Stephanie's story resonated with you, if you heard pieces of your own journey in hers, if you are struggling with symptoms that your doctor can't explain or you've been trying to push through for too long, you're not alone. There is hope, and there are safe, supported options to help you feel like yourself again.

SPEAKER_00:

Like we've always been mentioning, safety matters. Who you work with matters, sourcing matters, support matters. If you take one thing from this episode, let it be this. You deserve guidance, not guesswork.

SPEAKER_01:

So here's your next step. If somebody that you trust shared this podcast with you, go back to them and they can help you start this journey safely.

SPEAKER_00:

And if you don't have a person yet, you landed upon us right here. You can start your journey with our telemedicine team. They prioritize real medical oversight, proper dosing, FDA regulated ingredients, and ongoing support. There are no shortcuts, no gray areas, just safe, reliable care. Get started at drkylieburton.com slash peptides.

SPEAKER_01:

And if Stephanie's story sparked something deeper, if it opened your eyes to what's possible personally or professionally, stay tuned because we have bonus episodes coming with women who have turned their healing into impact, income, and purpose. And in my three decades in wellness, I've said this multiple times now, I have never been more excited than I am about where we are today in peptides and helping people physically, emotionally, and yes, even financially. Steph, where can people find you? Because you are really great on your social medias. Um, can people follow you somewhere? They sure can. Pinkcloudhealing.com. And what about on your Instagram? Are you showing you have uh Insta that you share?

SPEAKER_02:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, it's actually um gosh, you put me on the no, are you Steph's Pink Cloud? Is that what it is? I think it's Steffi's Pink Cloud. Yes. We'll put it in the show notes so people can find you and learn more about your story too. That'd be great. Um, if you want to follow me, you can find me at my website, b2bwithjess.com, or follow me on Instagram at just b underscore lmt underscore nc. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here, and thank you for choosing hope.

SPEAKER_00:

To find more on me, go to unshakable brain, my other podcast. This is pep talk, peptides unpacked. Science made simple, results made real. Let's get you started on your peptide journey. Let's get you started on your business journey. I'm Dr. Kylie, and we'll see you next time.