#23 Improving Chronic Illness and Elevated Blood Pressure Using Peptide Therapy with Kimberley

A dangerous gym-day blood pressure reading sent Kimberley into a year of urgent care visits, stacked prescriptions, and frustration. What finally changed the story wasn’t a seventh medication—it was a strategy: repair the gut, calm inflammation, and support soft tissue with the right peptides from the right sources.

• We unpack how BPC 157 helped lower Kimberly’s blood pressure to 122/84 and eased pain tied to Ehlers-Danlos, while glutathione smoothed the edges during off-cycles. 
• We talk practical dosing—twelve weeks on, thoughtful breaks, five days on and two off—and why cycling matters for longevity peptides. 
• Kimberly shares how thymosin alpha 1 steadied her immune system and made MCAS flares feel quieter, while daily electrolyte tactics kept POTS symptoms in check. 
• Through it all, she spaces injections, rotates sites, and gives each change six to eight weeks, proving that sensitive systems respond best to patience and precision.

There’s a twist you won’t want to miss: early success with GLP1/GIP was nearly derailed by pancreatitis scares that turned out to be a contaminated “healthy” protein powder. Once she ditched the bad product and worked with a listening clinician, she returned to GLP1/GIP without trouble—and her cardiometabolic markers improved again. 

The message is clear: sourcing and quality control matter for everything—peptides, supplements, and protein powders. Telemedicine expertise pairs best with a functional provider who knows your whole story, from labs to grief and stress.

If you refuse to wear diagnoses as an identity, this conversation lays out a smarter path: start with one peptide, verify the source, build a stack with your care team, and let data and body feedback guide the way. 

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Meet Kimberly And The Blood Pressure Shock

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Peptides are powerful and often misunderstood.

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And we're here to change that one conversation at a time. I'm Dr. Kylie Burton. And I'm Jessica Brigie.

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This is Pep Talk. Peptides Unpacked. Science made simple. Results made real. Blood pressure medication. She was on six different ones. Now she's not on any, and her blood pressure is better than ever. This is Kimberly. Welcome aboard.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

Hi.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

Thank you for having me today. I wanted to throw out the blood pressure stuff because we know that that's one aspect of you adding peptides into your regimen. So walk us back to when you felt crappy and you just knew that there was something different that you could do. What was that moment and how did you feel?

Urgent Care, Six Meds, No Relief

Discovering BPC 157 Safely

Why BPC 157 Helps Soft Tissue

SPEAKER_02 0:58

So when I first noticed how I was feeling, I was actually at the gym and I was walking the track, listening to an audiobook, and I was like, man, something just doesn't feel right at this moment. And so I went over to their little blood pressure arm machine thing, you know, that you see at grocery stores and various places, and it was crazy high. And I sat there for a minute going, okay, I'm at the gym. I'm working out. Is that why? No, I'm I'm walking, right? Like I wasn't doing anything too wild. So I um called my cousin, who's a nurse, and I told her what the reading was at that point. And she's like, you need to go to the urgent care right now. I'm like, okay, okay. You know, so I rush over to the urgent care and they immediately start doing all kinds of stuff, checking everything, running lab work, um, got me on some medication that night. And I spent the next year just adding medication, just continually adding. Nobody could get it under control. Yep. And it just would come down a little bit. Um, at its worst, I was at 190 over 122. Uh, and I'm only 45. So that's pretty high. Pretty high for yeah. That's pretty high for anybody. And it's pretty concerning. Yeah. Like no wonder. And the audio book was yeah, and my audio book wasn't that intense. You know, it was like something's wrong here. So, but over a year we we didn't make a lot of progress. I think the lowest it came down was like 140 over a hundred. Um, with six medications, that's just not enough. And adding in exercise and, you know, changes to how I was eating and trying to be mindful of my stress, like nothing was happening. And then I talked to my brother one day uh last fall. We were taking care of my father. He'd had a huge medical emergency. Um, he had an aortic dissection and I was in the CICU. Um, that's a whole other story of grief that compounds onto my journey. Um, but I was talking to my brother and he goes, Well, have you ever heard of BP15, BPC 157? And I'm like, What? What are you talking about? So he's like, Oh, I've been doing it for ages. I'm like, what is this and where do you get it? So he starts telling me about it. He's getting it, you know, on some black market dealer out of God only knows where. Um, and I was like, Well, I mean, right? I know. I was like, well, listening, don't do that. I was like, that sounds a little sketchy, but I mean, okay, let's look into this a little bit more. Um so after hearing his story and then looking into it myself, you know, going online and asking questions and, you know, just trying to learn about it, I decided to start with BPC 157. And within a couple of months, I started feeling better. And that was only September of 25. And here we are, what is this, February? I think I I messaged Kylie last week and I was like, you're never gonna believe this. My blood pressure was down to 122 over 84. Um, no medications. Just a few, no medications. I was off all of them by December.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

That's incredible. Well, for anybody listening, so BPC157 stands for body protection compound. And one of the main things that it does is not only does it repair the gut lining, the smooth tissue in the gut lining, but it targets soft tissue repair. It targets that smooth tissue in our body. So when we're talking about cardiovascular stuff, uh smooth tissue, this is what we're talking about. So no wonder why you were having such a phenomenal response with that one compound, which does so much. It does so much.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

It's one of my favorite. Wow. I still use it.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

Do you cycle it or how do you how what was your journey with it?

SPEAKER_02 4:36

I did cycle. Um, my brother had mentioned that that was something that needed to happen, and he's like, Yeah, you should. I did 12 weeks on.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

Are you doing injections? Are you doing the injection form?

Dosing, Cycling, And Daily Protocols

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Yeah, okay. I do injection form. Um, I did 12 weeks on. And at the time, what he his regiment was, and so I just did the same thing was once a week, 100 units. And so, like every Sunday, I'm like, it's shot day. I'm gonna feel great for the next week. This is great. Um, I've changed that a little bit now when I changed companies of who I get my product from. But anyway, I was doing which is a much more legit source now. Mm-hmm. Yes, a much, much better. And I actually really like the five days on, two days off that we do with it now, that regiment.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

So are you capsules now then? Nope. I'm still injectable. Okay, so I'm doing the capsules and it's the same thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. Two days on two days off.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Yeah, yeah, I I'm really enjoying that. Um, you know what, Jessica? I forgot what you asked me. My brain just cycled out of it. I got so excited about it.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

If you cycled, so you did 12 weeks on and then did you take four weeks off?

Managing EDS, POTS, And MCAS

SPEAKER_02 5:44

There it was. Yeah, I was planning to take four weeks off and I I took two weeks off because I also have Eilers Danlos type three, which is a hypermobility connective tissue disorder. Okay. And that first week off was the most horrifically painful thing I have ever experienced. I felt like a spring had been, you know, when you you wind a spring too tight and then you let it go, it goes boing. Yeah. That's what my joints felt like. And it was like my skin was holding me together. And so immediately after a week, I was like, what is different? What is happening? So, you know, I'm like, oh, I bet it's my BPC. So I started looking because I really wanted to take the break. So I started looking into it and I realized that glutathione might be a good option to kind of help bridge that. So I added in glutathione. Um, and it did amazing. Uh, the way it felt in my body is BPC reminds me of the friend who walks into the room, you know, at a party and they're like, I'm here. And everybody is so excited to see them. And, you know, everybody knows they're there where glutathione is the friend who kind of comes in the room and quietly circulates the edges, and everyone gets a hug and they feel all warm and fuzzy. It's a much more subdued reaction that I feel, but I know it's happening. And so I started that two weeks into my cycle off. Um, and that helped tremendously. It quieted down all of that joint springing apart feeling. Um, so I was able to cycle off for three weeks, but then I got a little bit antsy and I was like, I want it back.

Adding Glutathione For Off-Cycle Support

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Yes. I think I and I just want to tell people why I asked that question. Because when we're doing some of these longevity peptides, it's important for certain ones to be cycled because our body natural isn't isn't naturally turned, shouldn't be turned on all the time. We shouldn't be working at this optimal, always on that's not natural in our body. So cycling for 12 weeks, maybe taking a month off and then 12 weeks on again is important for that reason. It's also important the part of the reason why the telemedicine platform that we use, when those prescribers are talking about it, they're talking about five days on and two days off again, because we can't have us always at that top level of everything's on and everything's working and all of that. So everybody's journey is individual, what they need. In your particular case, the BPC is crucial for this diagnosis that you have. When you went back on, did that all kind of come back together too? Did you instantly know, oh thank goodness it's in my body? And yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

Yeah, it was like within a day. And it was a much lower dose because I went from the 100 units once a week to I think it's 20 units daily. That's a big switch on the daily.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

Huge switch. Now you're working with a provider, obviously with the telemedicine, and the provider knows your diagnosis. Yep. Is there a change normally with this what with it? Like I said, it's a cycle. It's 12 weeks and then there's a break, and then there's 12 weeks. Are they looking at you any differently as an individual need, or are they still suggest you're gonna do that cycle of being off? Or no, because in your your this is your case. It is something that you're like, no, we need this like regularly for you.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Yeah, we actually haven't talked about it in depth yet. Um I did share my feedback with them. So I imagine the next renewal that we'll talk about.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Yeah, you know, are we gonna take a break or change that, you know, with with this situation?

Thymosin Alpha 1 And Immune Balance

SPEAKER_02 9:15

I get the impression it'll be fairly uh individualized. Um, you know, I think that's part of the renewal process is just asking questions and making sure how things are going. But yeah, the BPC was like, I've got to continue this at least for a while, continue getting that inflammation down, healing all of those soft tissues. Because on top of the Eiler's Dan Lose, I also deal with POTS and MCAS. Um, so there's a lot of like angry inflammation happening. Sure. And that knocked all that down.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

So um uh yeah, that's a whole other conversation.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

Has has anything because I this is these aren't diagnosed diagnoses that are recent. No, I've had these for a long time for a long time. Has anything else benefited you in the same way that your BPC 157 has?

POTS Basics And Electrolyte Strategy

SPEAKER_02 10:03

No, it's I've had chronic pain. Um, so it started in 2007 when I had both of my hips rebuilt, and that's when they discovered the Eilers Danlos. Um, and then it's sort of in a slow rollout from there. It's like, oh, well, people with Eilers Danlos tend to have these other things. So they start asking questions and you're like, oh yeah, I do experience, you know, POTS symptoms um way before POTS was cool. And I'm like, yeah, that is is that not normal? Is that not normal? You we don't all do that. Um, and it's just kind of been this slower rollout. I have noticed the MCAS has been a lot more flared post-COVID era and then now in this grief era that I'm living in, that has definitely increased my flare-ups there. Okay. Um, which has been an interesting thing to experience and then try to figure out like what's gonna help with that. But as far as like traditional methods, the Eiler's Dan List, I was told, well, you just kind of deal with it and treat symptoms as they pop up.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

And have you added anything else into your stack besides the BPC and the glutathione?

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Yeah, so I do microdose the GLP1 GIP. Okay, and I also um never get this name right. See if I can remember it. Thymosin alpha one.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Yes. I got it this time. Yeah, yes, you gave one. Oh, we love that one. Okay, is that new? Did you just I know that I've started that, I think, in January. In January, okay. And since you added that one on, because we know this is huge for people that don't have a good immune system, people that either get sick all the time or people that get sick that don't heal well, or autoimmune conditions because the immune system is overactive, which can also be the case in some of these things that you have going on. Um, so this is such, we're so excited to talk. We're gonna talk a lot about TA1 this this coming month because we're so excited about that. But to hear you have this experience with all these big diagnoses that so unfortunately are common. Um did that change your I so the BPC helped, right? With your pots and your your MCAS. Um, did the TA1 influence that even further? Has have you found that that's had impact on it, or that one hasn't impacted those two particular things?

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Not I haven't noticed a whole lot yet, other than I feel like I don't I haven't documented it, but I feel like my uh MCAS flares are quieter.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

Yeah.

Identity, Mindset, And Living Better

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Um, they're not gone, but I it seems like they're less intense.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Yeah, that's I I mean that's what we would kind of expect to be the journey with TA1, is that that kind of quiets quiets some of that response down. Right.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

You know, with with MCAS, I know we all know what we're talking about. Can you explain a little bit, Kimberly? Because I don't think a lot of people know what MCAS is and they even pots. The three of us.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

Yeah, so we know, yeah. So the MCAS is mass cell activation syndrome, I believe it's syndrome. Um, and it's these I don't understand the the science-y part of it as well, but the way I understand it, it's a cell that overre or cells probably that overreact to things that I'm exposed to.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Yeah, um create sort of a histamine. You're right, yeah, histamine response too much. Right.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

Yeah, it's like I'm it feels like my body is telling me I'm allergic to everything around me right now. Um that's a so I do take I do take an H1 and an H2 blocker almost daily. Can't say that I notice a lot with them. Um if a flare comes on and it's really, really high, then I if I take it, it does get a little bit quieter. Um but as far as like maintaining it, doesn't really help a whole lot, I don't think.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Right.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Um and it's so person to person because we react to everything very differently.

Coordinating Care: Telemedicine And Functional Medicine

SPEAKER_00 13:58

It is. And and I would imagine with the BPC and working on healing the gut, which can be very much tied to both of these diagnoses, really is also having an impact on all of it. Now you add the TA1 supporting that immune system, it's huge. And then POTS, because people want to know this, yeah, pots is post-orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Nice, such yeah, see, I'm like, I think I got that one. Um, I have it fairly well managed through electrolytes. So for for me, and everybody's journey is a little bit different, but um, for me, when it's electrolyte imbalances are really, really key. I cannot get enough sodium. Yeah, I'm that crazy person that adds salt to absolutely everything, and your eyes bug out when you watch me. Um, I'm drinking electrolyte fluids all the time. I'm taking a little, you know, sodium tablets all day long, and I will still be at the very end of normal. Like at the lab I go to 130 is is the very, very lowest that they will call normal. And I'm sitting there at like 129, 130 all the time.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Well, the thing is you have this, but you also have this blood pressure.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

You had the high blood pressure. That makes sense, right?

SPEAKER_00 15:10

So that is really wild to me that you have both of these issues that uh came up for you. Um, so for people that are listening, what she's she gave the the the name of what POTS is, but basically it it is a blood pressure imbalance. Um, I know I have really good friends that had suffered terribly from it, and they have to, you know, when it's really bad, they have to go to the ER and get saline. Um that is the best.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

If I could get saline at home, I would just be like, here, hook me up.

GLP1/GIP, Protein Powder Pitfall, And Advocacy

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Yeah, yeah. So that that salt component, that electrolyte component, which I talk about in my work all the time, is so important. But somebody with pots, the more salt, the better. And by the way, anybody that's listening that has cardiovascular issues and you're told typically to not have salt avoid sodium. No, no, that is not the truth. Yeah, it would never work for me. So, okay, so you have quite a beautiful stack.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Yeah, this is what's working well right now. Um, I'm constantly looking for others that may help. Um, yeah, just I'm curious.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

You're giving yourself long enough to react to each one. Yes, because with my start one, yeah, see how your body does, then add the next, see how your body does, then add the next to see like that's a great yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

I try to give six to eight weeks at least to see what I feel and how it interacts with the other things. And I try not to have my because like the BPC is daily, the thymosin is daily, and then like a week off. Um, but I try to not do them all at one time either because my body is very sensitive. So any vaccines that I get, I can't have them together. So like TDAP, I have to have that separated out. I can't do it all at once. So I'm also gonna try not to put too many things at one time into my system uh in a given day. I may do, you know, 8 a.m. and then noon and four if I've got three to do, but I try not to do it all at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 17:07

And different injection sites, I'm assuming, too.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

Yep. And and I find that the injection site really is dependent on which one I'm using too. Like my GLP1 GIP, I cannot do it in my abdomen. It has to be in my leg.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

Well, why is that?

SPEAKER_02 17:22

I mean, I know that people yeah, I get really, really sick even microdosing it.

unknown 17:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

I get the GLP one flu really badly. Uh so it's just the way that my body processes it, depending on where I inject.

Quality Sourcing, Clean Labels, And Safety

SPEAKER_01 17:35

I mean, you have MCAS, it's MCAS. I've always said MCAS. Um, so like you're gonna react, which is smart of you to know. But as we're listening to your story and hearing your story, not only are the peptides so powerful and so cool for you, but I love the fact that you did not just accept your diagnosis and just be like, well, this is how my life's gonna be. Um so this is the label next to my name. That part is like the first mental barrier that people have to overcome if anything is going to work for them. Because I know POTS has flared around recently in the last couple of years as the cool thing now, and where fibromyalgia had its turn a couple of years ago as well. And it's like if that's your identity, nothing's going to work for you. So you cannot suck it on as an identity. You just need to say, okay, well, my symptoms fit underneath this umbrella. What can we do about it? And then move forward on how can I feel my best, no matter if I'm 45 or 55 or 95. I don't care. I want to feel my best. What do I need to do to do that? And peptides are a great way to do that. Yes. Yes.

Start With One Peptide And Build

SPEAKER_02 18:48

And they also have really supported a larger goal of mine in living with these diagnoses. I um I was blessed to have my son almost 12 years ago. And prior to him, I had had nine losses. And so when I found out that I was going to have my son, um, not only was I elated and terrified all at once, right? But I was also determined that I am going to get to live his life with him and do all of those toddler things and all of those little kid things and all of those middle kid things and not be sidelined because of my joints are hurting, or I'm having a flary day with my pots, or like I'm not gonna do it. This is my opportunity that I didn't think I was gonna get to have, and I will not miss out on any of it.

Resources, Where To Find Us, Closing

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Um, so beautiful. Life is so precious, and um, he, you know, he's one of your many reasons to do these things and not be stuck in these things. But I think there's an awful lot of people that are gonna hear what you just said and they can completely relate to it. Kylie knows I say all the time peptides are allowing us to live longer better. And you totally gave one of the most important reasons. So somebody that is walking their journey and feeling like there's no hope, this is something that these longevity peptides or other healing peptides, or um even the GLPs, because they go farther beyond weight loss, um, is something to consider because whether you are in an age like you are, where you are a mom that wants to be a parent and be present and active in their child's life, or you want to be a grandparent that is an active grandparent. At the end of the day, we all want to live longer, better, and be the best version of ourself and be in the moment and enjoy every aspect of life. I really appreciate you sharing that. That's really beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to miss anything that he does and asks me to be part of. You know, it's a beautiful journey.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

So some days are tougher than others. Yes, we're we're coming into 12. There are days that I'm like, what did I sign up for? Right. Listen, mine are all older. I get it. So even those days as adults, you still think, whoa.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

Mine are younger, and I'm still like, I'll can I just sleep in my bed all night long, please. I don't know. That day will come or have someone else in it.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

Um you'll be you'll miss it.

SPEAKER_01 21:15

That's a great story. Cabri, as we finish up your story here, which is incredible. Like, congratulations on what you've accomplished and are still accomplishing. I want to touch note on when you say that you are working with a practitioner, is this through the LE, the telehealth medicine company?

SPEAKER_02 21:33

Um, yes and no. I have a uh functional medicine doctor that I work with as well, um, who follows me a lot closer in the entirety of my health journey. And then my telehealth medicine providers, we, you know, we touch base. Um, but that is part of working with them, is you have to have a provider outside of the company as well.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Yeah, that's part of the medical intake form. They want to know that does your provider know that you are yeah walking this walk. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:02

Yeah. So I personally use my my um functional medicine provider more because I can sit down with her for 30 to 60 minutes and whenever I want to and we talked through things like just this week um I called her because I was noticing my I was having more flares. And so I was like, okay, what's what's different? You know, because like I said, my grief and losing my dad has been very impactful in how my body is responding to everything. So I it was the questions were like is this a grief response? Is this a different part of my grief? Is there a change that we need to make to any of my dosing? You know, what do we think? Where in the telehealth provider arena, um we talk more one-on-one about one peptide and how that's making me feel versus the entire story.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Yeah. So I lean into both of them.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

And maybe it's functional medicine. Like I've got a friend who's doing her micro dosing and she's working with her primary care physician, getting labs done, all those things, monitoring it. And then she goes through the telemedicine company as as far as specific questions and dosage information about the peptides. So it is like really a team effort in addition to like you are the leader of your team. It is you and it's the same with so many people. This is why a lot of us get into the practitioner space is because we walked that journey and now we had to go do it for ourselves so we can share with other people. So adding in that telemedicine company that we all love and and know um and work with that they're part of the team.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

And you know what Kylie I just remembered there was one other thing that um I had made note that we were going to talk about with my my peptide journey it was the GLP1 GIP because I actually started on a compounded outside of our telehealth company um two years ago, I think now and that was before the BPC. Way before the BPC. Okay. And I started on that and it was going great. Like oh my gosh excellent my lab work all improved. So I started this journey in functional medicine because my father had his first heart attack at 46 and he had a widowmaker and he survived. Wow and I genetically match him like step for step. So as I've gotten into my 40s my lab work has trended almost identical to his and as I'm sneaking into 46 this is not something I want to experience. So I've been working on it for about five years with my providers and one of them finally suggested have you thought about you know a GLP1 at that point. So we started on it. And as we all know protein is a very important component and so I I started on a protein powder to try to get more in my day and I ended up hospitalized and everybody it was for pancreatitis so everybody immediately assumed it was GLP1. And this happened to me twice within a couple of months. So then they were like nope we're done no more GLP1 for you. Yes your labs look great everything was improving like my cardiac function looked so good. I was it was great. I went through some serious mourning when I had to go off of it because they told me I was allergic to it. I was just like you've got to be kidding me how am I going to make this happen? How am I going to continue to keep this healthy trend? And I I'm going to use the word thought but it wasn't like fighting right not mad thought but I had to really advocate for myself for the next year and found a a different provider in the same practice who was willing to listen after I had done some research it wasn't the GLP one the protein that I was using they are actually their company is under a massive pile of lawsuits for the ingredients in their protein powder causing people to be hospitalized. Yes. And so when I showed her this data she was like well okay I'm willing to to work with you on this to try another GLP1 GIP because I don't want you doing it by yourself. And I feel like you're gonna try it anyway. Yep. And I was like yeah you're right I am and I would rather you know about it and me not have to go rogue. I'd rather work with you. And turns out that wasn't the problem. I've been back on the GLP1 GIP for four and a half months and I haven't been hospitalized once. So it was definitely this this protein powder so I guess my my caution to that is be careful and mindful and do your research on what products you use on any of them proteins, peptides, supplements research it because I sure didn't on that first one I took them at face value and it cost me.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

I I watch people regularly that are that are trying to pour protein into their body um sneak it in right because we have to hit markers in order to to preserve muscle in our body it's really important. And when your appetite might be suppressed a little bit it's hard hard to do that. So I get I get why people are doing it. I'd use a protein powder however I use a protein powder has like three ingredients right like it's clean it's whatever you get a protein powder read that package on the back line or anything else even your supplements turn it around and find out what is in it because there's a large possibility it is full with a lot of fillers and a lot of things that you do not want in your body. So it's not that protein powder is bad. However there are a lot of bad protein powders out there.

SPEAKER_02 27:56

I have not heard of that that is a wild experience but I'm really glad that you stayed strong and knew that this was something that was helping you that is an important piece to your and the only way that I figured it out was we got dad home from the hospital in early September and they the doctors had been, you know, he needs more protein he needs more vitamins blah blah blah and I'm like oh I have this great protein powder. So I bought it and I was giving it to my dad and to myself and we were both sick within like a day. I was like oh what is wrong with both of us and I was starting to feel the same way I did when I yep and I was like wait a second. So then I started researching you know what was going on obviously we took us both off of it started researching um that company more and that's how I figured out this is probably what it is. And then just being very grateful that I have a medical team that was willing to be like okay I hear you and yeah thanks for sharing this with me and let's move together cautiously.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

Yeah I think that's a really big part of your story too because there's an awful lot of um peptide illiterate practitioners that are out there that they only see how um GLPs specifically were being used really in my opinion irresponsibly um not the the educational component wasn't there supporting people and their their foundations which has to be part of the journey and so people were losing rapid weight they were looking terrible they weren't getting the nutrients they they needed so the automatic is peptides are bad or the opposite is yeah go on a peptide but we're gonna rev you up really fast and we're gonna get this weight off from you which is also not good. But if you're getting that bad information and you know that it's something that may align with you then you fight with you know bring information to your practitioner and if they're still not listening whether it's about GLPs or anything else run. Go find that person that's willing to hear you and be your own advocate and I hope that in this platform with this this podcast that Kylie and I are doing we are able to provide people with stories like yours and bring the information forward so that people can feel strong and confident in their decision to bring that to the forefront.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

And along with that I do know that our telemedicine company has a protein powder that you can also order from them. And along with that concept ingredients matter. Where these are sourced matters. I had a message from a practitioner who I know pretty well and she says Kylie I'm really hesitant about peptides because every time I muscle test them in my office they don't muscle test strong and she said now granted I've never had any of them come from your telemedicine company so I don't know how they work but anytime I get them patients bright bring them in I muscle test them they they never test positive and I and there's a problem not just in the protein powders but there's a problem industry wide of where these are being sourced. And the not just the dosage but the where where they're getting their raw materials from um and that goes along the lines of everything in the wellness industry. Doesn't matter if it's protein doesn't matter if it's peptide supplements like oils all the things you got you get what you pay for and obviously we want to feed our bodies the best of the best that's why we're doing it. So we all three of us recommend the best of the best and we have more incredible information coming out about where our materials are coming from and why you need to come in come through with us. But we're on board with this company for a reason. Multiple reasons but one of those is the source of where they're getting their materials from and the quality of the peptides and then that assistance support whether you're wanting to jump on a consultation with um the provided practitioner to get started like Kimberly started with her GLP GIP combo and then she did BPC 157 and then she's added on from there. You want to start with the right thing that's for you and then add on from there but just start with one that's all it is I started with BPC 157 and I've added methylene blue for the cellular healing component and the brain power like my brain needs help after what I've been through whose brain doesn't uh and then the BPC like I had no idea that it had the cardiovascular component and I'm all I'm already thinking like wait I could have this person and this person luckily one person that's most important to me is already on it. So I'm curious to see what's happening with his cardiovascular stuff.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

But they're so multifaceted that they're fascinating and give him you know give him a shot no pun intended all right guys so Kimberly can they go find more about your story anywhere um no actually I've never been asked so this is it because the exclusive yeah exclusive interview with Kimberly all about her peptide journey and not just overcoming her health problems with peptides but experiencing the diagnosis the grief and then managing it and improving not taking those diagnoses on as an identity I love it.

SPEAKER_01 33:20

Uh Jess where can they find you?

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Well as of right now as we just have mentioned previously right now you can find me on Instagram JessB underscore L M T underscore N C. I promise guys I am changing that handle it is a mouthful to say but find me there. You can also if you want to work with your peptide journey you can find me on my website which is b2bwithjess.com backslash peptides you can find me at drkylieverton.com whether that's starting your peptide journey or whether that's somebody who maybe you're a health professional and you want to incorporate these top of the line peptides into your practice or to your online audience as an affiliate you can also get started at drkylieverton.com if you have been sent here by somebody else please go back and get their resources for peptides um but we are so glad to have you guys on board and we cannot wait to share the next story with you.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

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