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How IV Hydration, NAD+ & Peptides Can Transform Your Health | Andrea Trout

• Eric Winegard • Season 2 • Episode 12

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What if better energy, stronger immunity, faster recovery, and healthier aging were just one IV drip away?

In this episode of The Gold Coast Podcast, host Eric Winegard sits down with Andrea Trout, Part-Owner and Manager of Prime IV Hydration locations across West Boca, Delray Beach, Wellington, Palm Beach Gardens, and Weston.

Andrea shares her fascinating journey from attorney and real estate investor to wellness entrepreneur, and explains how IV hydration therapy, NAD+, peptides, and vitamin optimization are helping people improve energy, strengthen immunity, recover faster, lose weight, and support longevity.

In this episode, you'll learn:

* How IV hydration works and why it can be more effective than oral supplements
* The benefits of NAD+ for skin, energy, and anti-aging
* How peptides like BPC-157 and CJC-1295 support recovery and performance
* Why vitamin D is critical for immunity and hormone balance
* The truth about GLP-1 medications and sustainable weight loss
* How alcohol impacts body composition and motivation
* Andrea's strategy for building and managing five Prime IV Hydration locations

Whether you're focused on longevity, optimizing your health, or building a successful business in the wellness industry, this episode is packed with actionable insights.

Learn more about Prime IV Hydration:
https://primeivhydration.com

Follow Andrea Trout:
Instagram: @sfdrea
Instagram for West Boca: @primeivwestbocaraton
Instagram for Wellington: @primeivwellington 
Instagram for Delray Beach: @primeivdelraybeach

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SPEAKER_00

What's up guys? This is Eric Weigard. Thank you for tuning into the Gold Coast Podcast. Today I have another awesome guest. This one's going to play tricks on you because Andrea Trout owns a chain of prime IV hydration. She's involved with a handful of vocations down here in South Florida. But she also used to be an attorney and a real estate investor, and now she's taking that business acumen into a widely successful hydration business. And I'm excited to hear her story and her journey and how some of these products can help me personally. Welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you so much, Eric. Happy to be here.

SPEAKER_00

Can I tell you my uh Colorado story?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, please.

SPEAKER_00

Interesting Colorado story. So I've never I'd never been to Colorado. So two years ago, my wife and I were like, you know, we have a client out in Denver.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

And we're like, hey, why don't we just use it as a trip, you know? So we flew out to Denver, stayed in Colorado Springs. So we stayed at the Broadmoor for July 4th.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, that's fun.

SPEAKER_00

Amazing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, a little golf, little what's the little non-tennis game? Batman Badminton.

SPEAKER_03

Badminton.

SPEAKER_00

Is it badminton? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And uh they make you wear white.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. And uh, but then so we stayed there for maybe four or five days, and then we drove through the state and went to Beaver Creek.

SPEAKER_05

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00

Have you been out there?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And that's when the elevation got me.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So it's like you go up to eleven or twelve thousand feet, and all the like when I was trying to sleep at night, Phil, I I kept my I kept passing out. Like not sleeping, literally going unconscious. Yeah, and I would wake myself up.

SPEAKER_03

Do you have sleep apnea?

SPEAKER_00

I might have a little bit.

SPEAKER_03

That's why.

SPEAKER_00

You think so? I've never okay. See, look at this.

SPEAKER_03

I'm already Yeah. And were you drinking at all?

SPEAKER_00

Alcohol?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

No, yeah. Actually, um, not when I hang out with my wife, like on a tri not really. Um maybe, maybe one or two.

SPEAKER_03

Because like one beer there, and I don't this is everybody. Like you're you're a bigger dude, but one beer is like three.

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Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And so because your blood's so thin when you're not used to it. So like I had my two little friends from law school there with me in Denver one time, and I and they're both tiny little women. And I forget, and we're like having pre-dinner drinks and wine, and all of a sudden they are like drunk. And I'm like, what's going on? I'm like, oh crap, we are at elevation.

SPEAKER_00

The first night I went there, I did have like six beers.

SPEAKER_03

And it'll mess you up so fast because your blood is so thin, it just hits you so much harder.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. But it got to the point where I was up at Beaver Creek.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I told my wife, I was like, babe, I gotta get back down. Like we had to leave a little earlier.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Well, and that's that's where um, so like the the brand Prime IV started in Colorado Springs randomly. Not anything to do with the fact that I used to live there, and they have a drip that's called um the summit, and it is for people that are getting hit by altitude sickness.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03

Because it it does help you because you're rehydrating and it's giving you certain vitamins that will help that. And and we also have oxygen while you drip, so that of course is gonna make you feel a lot better.

SPEAKER_00

So I'm gonna be a great this is gonna be a great interview because I don't know a whole lot about uh drip. Dave, you got the cameras going, right? All right, awesome, cool. So tell me, so there's different types of drips.

SPEAKER_03

Of course, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

See, I just thought there's one, yeah, one drip. Tell me the different kinds of drips.

SPEAKER_03

Well, it's all based on somebody's health goal, right? So it's and a lot of them have crossover of the vitamins. So they're made from vitamins, amino acids, antioxidants. So the ones everybody knows vitamin C, magnesium, zinc, calcium, um, B vitamins. So B12 is super well known, B complex, B5, B6, taurine. Everybody knows taurine if you work out, yeah. Um or have energy drinks, right?

SPEAKER_00

It's in Red Bull, I think, right?

SPEAKER_03

Correct. And but it's an amino acid, and it does help with energy, like B12. But how they help with energy is converting food to fuel, um, giving your cells the nutrition it needs to convert that food into energy, right? At the cellular level. Um, so we have an immunity drip. How that differs from like the one for workout, it's gonna have more vitamin C, that's more immune boosting. It's gonna have zinc, that's immune boosting, versus the one for workout's gonna have more amino acids. There's definitely crossover, there's amino acids in the immunity armor, but it's going to have more of something based on what the goal is of the of the client coming in.

SPEAKER_00

I you know, I haven't I haven't done many trips. I need to gotta come in. No, I will, I promise. I definitely will. I uh, you know, I'm 45, and I, you know, I'm trying to I I'm having my first child in August.

SPEAKER_03

Awesome, congratulations, thank you.

SPEAKER_00

Beautiful little girl. We've already named her Sophia. Cute and uh yeah, the cutest, right? Um and uh, you know, I'm gonna be an older father. You know, she'll I'll probably be 70 when she gets married, is how I'm thinking. You know, she deserves a young spry dad. So I'm I'm very like I'm very I'm all ears when I'm you know trying to turn back the clock a little bit. Um, you know, so I'm so I'm really interested in in your product for sure and helping you promote it, obviously, if it's helping people. Um would you say so? I got super sick the past couple weeks out of nowhere, it nailed me. I get that it would be good for prevention, but is it something is there a drip that people can do while they're sick that sometimes kind of accelerates the healing or um getting better?

SPEAKER_03

Absolutely. So when you get sick, like your body goes and uses up all the antioxidants and vitamins that are available in it in its storage units. A lot of times you don't have storage of certain ones because many vitamins are water soluble. Anything that's in our IV bag is a water-soluble vitamin. Okay, so vitamin C in particular, let's say um your body needs it, and like you have orange juice this morning, which I don't recommend, but if you have an orange, that's better.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It takes a vitamin C and it's gonna put it to use right away, right? Strawberries have high vitamin C, a lot of things have vitamin C, or you take a supplement, right? So um your body's gonna use it. Oh, we can go fight this because it's using all those antioxidants and vitamins to boost its natural immune system. Uh so the minute I tell people if you're sick, that's when you want to come get a drip. If you're gonna go in a plane, you come get an immunity armor. It's my number one selling drip. I've been in Delaware for just over five years, and we started in December of 2020. So COVID, and it was very much on everybody's mind about their immune systems, right? And so that's why it's the number one best-selling drip, is because everybody's now very aware of our immune systems. So I've had one client, she was sick, kind of like you, your story, two weeks, and she was like, I just couldn't get over it. And she was dragging and she was trying to work, right? And finally somebody said, Go to Prime IV and get this drip. And she did, and she goes, Andrea, I felt so much better. I just kept waiting for the crash. She goes, it never came. Now that's not true of everybody. If you come in on day two of your illness, it might be it still takes you a couple more days, but it's gonna shorten that timeline and help you recover a little more quickly. The other one I will tell people is if, like, say your wife had it and you're like, I can't afford to get this, come get it because it's gonna help your body fight it off better.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, sure. Yes, you know, our immune systems, you know, I I'm I'm kicking myself right now because what if you knew me at 23 years old, I was I was a machine. I was fit, I was athletic, I was strong. If if you asked somebody, hey, do you know that guy, Eric Weingard, they'd say, Oh, you know, the athletic jack dude? I was known to be that guy. I just let myself go, you know, in my late 20s, and I never really I'd say from age 27 to 40, I just I don't know. I like I would work out and play basketball here and there, but I really just I never thought about recovery or health. I was just going professionally. Does that make sense? Sure. I was just that's all I was focused on, and I'm kicking myself now because I I do feel like I have a very weak immune system. You know, I tend to get sicker longer and more often than people. And I will say this, since I've moved down to South Florida six years ago, I maybe get sick twice a year, you know, as opposed to three times a year, and I don't get as sick. But I don't know. I I I know I gotta work on this because my wife is 29 and you know, I was just sick for nine, ten days, which was the longest ever in my life. She's just got a little sore throat, and yeah, you know, but she's been in the house with me, she never got as sick as me.

SPEAKER_03

So have you ever had your vitamin D levels checked? Uh you know, I've been getting a lot of blood work, so so I would look at your labs and smarter people than me, because I I'm not medical, I went to law school, right? But I know a lot. So that's my disclaimer, okay?

SPEAKER_00

No, no lawsuits.

SPEAKER_03

Smarter people than me have said you want your levels like in COVID, the study showed 55 or higher, you didn't die from COVID.

SPEAKER_05

Wow.

SPEAKER_03

Um, we know that it's protective for women against breast cancer. It's like 55 to 85 is the range that most people say. Some natural health people say up to 100.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

You can get too high in it. Most people don't have that problem. And you think, oh, we're in South Florida. You're in the sun all the time. You get it, but what do we do? We put on sunblock, we cover up, you put on hats, and it really has to be a percentage of your skin exposed during the time of day where you're not gonna burn for a like longer period of time, right? If you have darker skin, it's way harder to do it. So, women of color in particular, vitamin D levels are very, very important with the breast cancer, like I was saying.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_03

So, and but it is it's a hormone regulator, it's a master hormone regulator, but it is so important for your immune system, and people don't have any like they're starting to get now, but they don't realize how integral it is to that immune function in the body.

SPEAKER_00

So, how did an attorney?

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_00

This after all that, yeah, right. How did an attorney become a look? Do you own all of these locations?

SPEAKER_03

I'm a part owner in three, and then I help manage the other two.

SPEAKER_00

Wow, okay. So you're involved with six of them? That's that's five. Five, that's impressive. So five prime IV hydrations. So how did an attorney go from legal work to hydration work?

SPEAKER_03

Well, I I really was a real estate investor instead of being an attorney for a long time. I did a little bit in that regard um before in Colorado, like I we were talking before, and I was in Colorado for a while. And then when that business was kind of like winding down for various reasons, we were my sister is um a dentist in California and was a children's dentist and very alternative, and um, we've both been interested in that for ourselves, like you're saying about being more focused on longevity and staying younger and healthy. It's not how long you live, it's how healthy you can live for longer, right? And so a friend of mine who I knew from rural estate was like, Hey, I'm in Colorado Springs, come meet me. I'm opening up a new business and it's a franchise. Well, we had just been at Tony Robbins Business Mastery in Vegas, and my sister had been sick and was like, I'm gonna go get an IV at a place in Vegas because that they kind of started there like at the bigger level, um, where you could just go off the street and get an IV, right? And it in Vegas it was focused on hangovers. Everybody knew it for a hangover. And but she did it for sick to not be sick. And if you've ever been to a Tony Robbins event, you know they're cold, he freezes the room because he runs at a million degrees, and then the hours are insane, like you're up to like midnight, one, two a.m. a lot of nights, and it's high energy, so you really have to have that immune system functioning. Yeah, and she went and got an IV, like I think every day, which my protocols don't allow for that. She never got sick, and and we weren't drinking at all, like you're we were at the event, it just happened to be in Vegas, and it was shocking to both of us that she didn't get sick. So we were like kind of in that space of looking for a new business, and my friend Heidi was said she's opening this new one in Colorado Springs, and from there we just learned about Prime IV. We were the number five in the nation is the Delray Beach location open. Wow, and now there's over 200 open across the country, so that's kind of how we took a left turn into health and wellness.

SPEAKER_00

I I no, this isn't this is cool. Yeah, I I remember, I remember one of my buddies sent me in probably, if I had to guess, 2014, sending me like a Facebook video or an Instagram video, something, and it said, Hey, look, when we go to Vegas next time we're gonna go do this, yeah. Do you think you know we're gonna go get uh we're gonna party real hard and then go, you know, have this custom hydration company come to the hotel. Do you think that was Prime IV?

SPEAKER_03

No, no, no. Prime IV started the first one opened in March of 2020. Okay, okay the the first franchise, the original franchise opened in Colorado Springs. I want to say it was 2018 around then.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

So it's hasn't been there. It was a some surgeon in Vegas that, you know, because hospital workers and people on ambulances and fire trucks, they all do a banana bag. You partied a little too hard the night before, and they would go to work and get a banana bag, which is hydration and maybe some B vitamins. Um, I don't even know what's in a banana bag, which is weird. And they would feel better. So it started with that, and some doctor in Vegas was like, I can sell this. Yes, and he did, and then it's just become a whole thing.

SPEAKER_00

You know, every time you're giving you're making me rethink all these events I go to because I I go to a lot, not a lot of events, but I would say probably five a year, and and there's either 400 people in the room or there's you know, 10,000 people in a room. Yeah, you know, one of the events had Tony Robbins at it, and you know, he he was basically speaking for the entire day, so I felt what it's like to be in that room at 61 degrees, yeah, you know. But he did this whole thing, you know, everybody put their hand on their heart, you know, and uh it was really emotional and spiritual all in one. And uh, but every single event I get sick. Yes, me just being sick right now, or as you know, the past couple weeks I was at an event. Of course I got it there some sort of way. So, so to all of us event goers, you're saying go the day before. Okay, the day like 48 hours before, 24 hours.

SPEAKER_03

I would go 24 hours before you, like the day before you're gonna attend the event. Okay, the day before you're gonna get on a plane, or if you're flying at night, the morning you're gonna get on that plane. If you can swing that. Um, we call it the Tony flu. It's very common because if you go like to his week events, you're literally, it's like 12, 16 hour days, and the room is cold, and you're but your energy is just so high. Like you did it, he had you jumping up and down at some point, like the energy, like rah, you know. Um, so other other events I've been to, they call it the same thing where you just come off of that and you're you know, you're in a room of thousands of people, like we're in an airport, you know, somewhere, and there's just germs. So our body is built beautifully to fight it off. But when we're going so hard for so long, it can be very challenging for that immune system to stay elevated.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, this is I haven't even this is like perfect timing for me. You know, I um my my immune system, you know, uh my wife and I we went to this uh big event literally right after our wedding. So we got married a couple years ago, and we got off the plane from Mexico and we had an event 24 hours later in DC. We went to the freaking event, and of course I was partying for a week straight, having a good time, and then I get to the event, and and the event is very important, it's a huge event, huge networking, huge opportunity to get in front of you know, really high-level people. And um, you know, I got sick as heck, and you know, I had to just force you know, three or four days of just faking it, and and I can conjure up the show, sure. You know, I can just fake it and and nobody knows I'm sick, yeah, but I'm miserable inside.

SPEAKER_03

And then you go to your hotel room and crash at night. Dead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, the I I coffee, I couldn't even feel it. I was immune to it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, so I um what would you suggest? So for someone like me, you know, should I get hydration weekly, bi-weekly?

SPEAKER_03

Is I would suggest starting out twice a month.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um, so every two weeks. And then the other thing I would suggest for you being 45 is what you said, and look really focused on energy and immune system and longevity is something called NAD plus. Have you heard of that?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I do inject it. Okay, perfect.

SPEAKER_03

Great. We daily sub Q in your belly?

SPEAKER_00

Four four days a week, I probably remember to do it. Yeah, fine. 0.25, I think. I think. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. So do you are you feeling that?

SPEAKER_00

Oh no, that that's been a dramatic. So when I'm when I'm consistent with all the peptides that I take, I notice, I notice a dramat, yeah, no, for sure. No, I feel way better than I did five years ago. I just know there's another a couple other levels I can hit for sure.

SPEAKER_03

So you're on peptides, you're doing the NAD. Yeah. So you have this, this is your platform. Great.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

So I would say twice a month with the vitamins and the um hydration, you probably can, if you're doing a multivitamin or any sort of that, that might be able to disappear because we're doing it in the blood versus the digestive tract, which can destroy a lot of those orally. And look, I'm not against oral supplementation, I think it's necessary and has a lot of benefits. We just have to know that it's getting through the stomach acids or it's a lot of it is lost.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um, like 80 to 90 percent of what you see on that label, if it's in there, because there's no regulation, which is fine, but if it's even in that label, is destroyed by the digestive juices. So that's why I the vitamin therapy is so effective because we're bypassing all that and putting the vitamin C, the zinc, the taurine, the amino acids of B vitamins right into the system where it can be utilized. So that's where a lot of people do feel the difference. But the fact that you're doing um sub Q injections of the peptides and then NAD, beautiful. You'll feel a big, a big difference adding in certain vitamins.

SPEAKER_00

Is sub Q the opposite of intramuscular?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, sub Q is in the fat. So it's like you pinch a little belly fat and go right there, like um insulin injection. Intramuscular is where the nurse will put it in the high glute or the tushy, the tushy or the arm, the gel, but yes.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, okay. So so how do that that's that's fascinating. What what is if I put NAD in my uh glute versus my body fat, how does it how does it react in my body differently?

SPEAKER_03

You know what? I actually don't know sub Q versus intramuscular. In our spas, we do intramuscular. Most people that do do it at home do it sub Q and they're doing smaller milligrams. Okay, so it might be that it's going into the muscle um with the higher dosage. Um, I know I've done sub Q a little bit higher, and it was with NAD, have you felt it where you get a little bit of that like side effect? You feel like the breathing tightness, a little rush, yeah. A little rush. Um, I think sub Q you don't uh take it, you take it up more quickly, so you want a little bit smaller milligrams. Okay. With IM we can go up to 250 milligrams. So that is probably the difference. Um, and and honestly, that's something I should probably learn about a little more.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no, it's okay. That's why I'm yeah, that's why we're doing this.

SPEAKER_03

I just know like from the doctors I've learned from that we do the smaller milligrams, like you said, probably like 30, 40 milligrams daily or a few times a week at least, um, sub Q. That's the standard protocol. Whereas I am, we can go to that higher dosage.

SPEAKER_00

Here's where I knew NAD was really working for me. Yeah. Because, you know, a few years ago, my wife said, you know, Eric, you should start doing some of these things. She's much younger than me, right? And I sure she deserves to have a you know a young man too. Like I, you know, if you're gonna date 16 years younger, you know, one of the things that a man should know is, you know, she's gonna expect a youthful dude. Yeah, you know, I can't act like I'm 75, you know. And uh, you know, but now she's uh 29-year-old old lady. Um like it.

SPEAKER_03

I understand it. But it's all good. She's gonna be a mom too, and that it will change everything for both of you.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, we're we're so blessed and excited.

SPEAKER_03

It's exciting.

SPEAKER_00

So so I started uh getting on these peptides, etc. And I and I noticed I started feeling a lot better, but when I noticed the NAD was really working because I hadn't changed anything, but I I changed taking the NAD, and I hadn't seen my mother-in-law in a while, like on camera or Zoom or anything, but this is before she relocated here, and I got on FaceTime with her and she went like that to me. She went, Whoa! And I said, Wow, what's going on? I call her Missy, her name's Melissa, and she goes, You look what are you doing to your skin? You look so youthful and you're glowing. And I was like, I'm not doing anything different. And I realized I was taking NAD for probably eight to twelve weeks at the time. Nice, so I know NAD Yeah is there, is am I crazy that it impacts your skin too?

SPEAKER_03

I believe it. Okay, and I actually have a one nurse that she said she was NAD because she had um and she's young, she's in her 20s, and she's beautiful, or maybe she's in her early 30s, beautiful woman, and she had like pretty severe cystic acne, and her skin is like so beautiful, it's like porcelain. So with the acne, you're really seeing the redness, right? And she switched up her her face products, but she said I started doing NAD and she showed the difference, and it was night and day. And she said she wasn't getting that level of results from just the skincare until she had a In the NAD, so I believe it.

SPEAKER_00

You just made me think of something else too. So when I was young, I could have been on a poster child for acne. Right. It was that bad. So when I was 15, 16, it was literally two like blotches here, blotches here. Yeah. You know, I had to deal with, you know, girls in high school saying, Oh, Eric would be so cute if he didn't have acne.

SPEAKER_02

Lovely.

SPEAKER_00

That's tough. That's tough on a 15-year-old boy with raging hormones, you know. Um, you know, but then I got on Accutane and you know, got rid of it. And, you know, obviously I still have some scarring for sure. There's some little scars there.

SPEAKER_03

Tiny.

SPEAKER_00

It's not too bad. Like you can't tell I had brutal acne, right? And it was all over my chest.

SPEAKER_03

Some people had really bad scarring. Yours is minimal.

SPEAKER_00

But I now that I've noticed, I would still get some acne on my back and shoulders. It's gone.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And now you got me wondering, is it the NAD?

SPEAKER_03

Well, the uh the other thing Accutane can do is I Accutane is really hard on the um intestinal um flora, your I'm just blanked on the word, your microbiome.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So, you know, and especially as you said, you used to get more sick more often, and now you're better, but I bet with what you're doing with the peptides, what other peptides are you taking? Do you mind sharing?

SPEAKER_00

I yeah, for sure. So I take um uh NAD, I take uh BPC157, uh Ipomorlin and CJC1295? Yes, well it's with ipomorin. Yes. So I think just those three.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um, so BPC is very good for your stomach. Um it's a peptide that's naturally made by the stomach, but uh like all the lovely things when we hit 40, they start to decline if we're not paying attention, um, like NAD. But so healing, like if you are having any continued issues, I would focus on and research and get um help on healing your microbiome if you need to, because things like that that we don't even realize, you know, 20 years ago you were on or 30 years ago you were on Accutane, that it can still be affecting you without working to heal it. And maybe you've done a lot to heal it, and a lot of the things you've done with diet and these peptides might might have reinstated some of that healthy bacteria, but um, it's so important, and we know that the brain microbiome connection is so strong because those were the stem cells that form only those two things when we're when we're a baby, so it's really important that brain um gut connection is stronger than we know, and it's coming out now from the studies and stuff, but it's amazing how they can affect each other.

SPEAKER_00

Is there I'm gonna sound like a total uh guy macho right now, but um do you pay attention to like the NBA at all, like basketball or anything?

SPEAKER_03

A little bit.

SPEAKER_00

One of the best players in the league, his name is Luka Doncic. Okay, so he plays for the Lakers, yeah, hurt his hamstring really bad, and the playoffs are starting here in about a week. So he's taking a trip to Europe for some advanced procedure, probably stem cells. Yeah, and that that's just but when I heard it, it was frustrating to me because clearly there's some medical marvel available there that's not available here. Why why is that?

SPEAKER_03

There's a lot of things available abroad or Mexico or Colombia, Europe that are not available here, and it's just regulation. Um, it's again, I don't not to get political, but a lot of times it's pharmaceutical companies lobbying, and they have a lot of politicians in their pockets, as we know. Um, and so they don't want it, you know, like BPC. So BPC is a very um from my experience and education and research, a pretty benign peptide. Like those side effects are very minimal, or then it maybe they're not known. Maybe the part of I think what the other side was.

SPEAKER_00

Seems safe, seems safe.

SPEAKER_03

Correct. Yeah, like our protocol when we had it and it was not on this list from the FDA, you couldn't be you had to be 18 or older and you couldn't be pregnant or nursing. Like most of our other other protocols are far more have far more contraindications than that. This was so minimal. And they took it away. Why? Because it's very effective. Like you probably felt like a little bit less achy in joints if you had that before, like the inflammation goes down.

SPEAKER_01

No doubt.

SPEAKER_03

Digestion improves. Yep, they took it away. It's a lobby. So now, you know, I I don't know if you've been following, but like RFK Jr. has said there's 14 peptides that they're gonna take off this list, and I'm sure that is one of them, and I'm super excited. And we have it, like you can still get it, it just isn't quote allowed by the FDA right now from the compounding pharmacy, so there's ways around it that people do. So you can get it, but my company won't do that until the FDA takes it.

SPEAKER_00

So Prime IV sells peptides too.

SPEAKER_03

We do.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_03

Um, and we have oral ones right now that are a buckle strip, so they're dissolved in the mouth, not not necessarily the digestive tract. Um, but until I'm excited for the injectables to be coming back.

SPEAKER_00

What's the uh I always hear this, what's the wolverine stack for men?

SPEAKER_03

You know, it's so it's BPC 157, and I I'd have to go look it up, honestly. I don't remember what it was now. I think it's the CJC 1295 Ipamorlin.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And the BPC 157, and there might be one more in there. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

It's supposed to make you look like the Wolverine or something.

SPEAKER_03

Well, so what CJC is and ipamorlin, it's um it encourages your body to spike growth hormone. So you work out, you're gonna get a better muscular response on building muscles. The BPC tamps down the inflammation, so inflammation can cause puffiness or um again improving digestion, you can not retain as much water, so it's making that jack look easier for somebody who's working out and lifting weights.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, very cool.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I do I do wonder what the other one is. It's okay, but but there's one that a lot of women like in contrast called Syrmorlin, and the reason they like that because CJC can make you very hungry. Did are you do you feel extra hungry on it?

SPEAKER_00

Um interestingly enough, I don't have crazy food cravings, interestingly enough.

SPEAKER_03

That's good. You're lucky, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

No, it's um you know what we found out, and I'd be curious to hear your take on this. So I was I'm naturally a faster, it actually feels really good for me, and but I've been fasting for kind of a long time, but I also have a coffee addiction, okay? So the amount of black coffee that I drink is is obscene.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And so we were looking at, you know, why isn't Eric losing more body fat? Right? I've just been stuck at a certain weight and I'm not even eating many calories, right? So my wife and I real well, my wife started doing a bunch of research, and what she discovered is that it's very likely that because of the amount of caffeine consumption I have, that even though I'm fasting, I'm spiking my cortisol so high that it's you know damaging fat-burning effects or preventing the fat-burning effects. So I started taking uh drinking a protein shake first thing in the morning, maybe like 150 calories, and then I go do my workout, and then I have another 150 calorie protein shake, and then I go to my you know, chicken and vegetables for lunch, chicken and vegetables for dinner, and I'm down 4% body fat.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So there's definitely like um, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

Um you did it a good way of just experimenting, but you can also put on a continuous blood glucose monitor. Okay, because that'll show you what is spiking your blood glucose, right? It will like because it often is surprised people. Somebody may be spiked by caffeine and somebody else, it doesn't bother them at all.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so is cortis are cortisol this, I don't know this at all. Are cortisol and blood glucose like they're related, correlated.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, cortisol can be from stress, not just um food. But so, but usually they have a correlation, right, to some extent. But we know that keeping the blood glucose stable tends to keep cortisol more stable. Again, stress is gonna probably affect that differently. But if you can keep blood glucose stable, that's when people tend to lose weight.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. Yes. Yeah, I gotta, I gotta get this body fat down. I'm uh I'm at I think I'm at 20% right now.

SPEAKER_03

That's right. But that's it's all right.

SPEAKER_00

It was 30%. Yeah, I got all the way up to 30%.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I could I mine was really good last year because I have I've lost 65 pounds on uh GLP1. Wow and was working out while I was doing it. So when I was monitoring my body fat while I was doing it um using inbody, if you're familiar with that.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And so I knew I was doing great because the problem with most GLP ones, when people lose it, they're losing muscle and you're setting people up for failure. Well, last year I ended up having an emergency surgery and couldn't work out, and um my body fat has gone back up, and it's like everybody's like, you look fine, and I'm like, but I don't feel it. You just feel so different with that body fat going up, and it went up, I want to say about six percent. So, okay, not ideal, but not crazy. It's miserable. I'm I'm like now I'm getting back to working out more consistently, but that flip and it the the weight, like again, it's maybe seven pounds, so it's not a crazy number, but it just makes all the difference.

SPEAKER_00

Let me ask you a crazy question. And the reason I'm asking these questions is to come up like yeah, like sometimes when I ask a question and you give a cool answer, and then we edit it, a lot of times it really gets some good visibility.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

So what would you would you rather be muscular and fat or no fat, no muscle?

SPEAKER_03

I mean, it's such a loaded answer, right? Because as a woman, I it it's so hard to be fat, and I've been fat in this world, so I say that as somebody who is for most of my adult life was a fat woman. You are treated so different in this world. It so I would answer now for my health and longevity, fat and muscular. Okay, I will never go back to that. I was an athlete, I was an athlete in high school, like even though I was like chubby overweight, whatever you want to call it, like I was a good athlete. I played sports in high school, and like kind of like you said, from your late 20s into 40s, like I tried, I had some definite significant things that were I just ate as the the coping mechanism, which we know is never healthy. Yeah, um, and so it just packed weight on. And then I also took it off where I just was helping take care of my dad. I stopped drinking because we didn't have alcohol around him. I was hiking, I was cooking really healthy, and I I've lost a hundred pounds in my life.

SPEAKER_04

Wow.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, pretty much 95. And so that first 30, I didn't even know it. I stepped on the scale one day, was like, wow, I've lost 30 pounds. I really didn't even know it. And then I just got to that place where it was really challenging, and that's where the GLP one helped me. I say the fat and muscular because I know longevity-wise, muscle is anti-aging. You will stay younger longer with muscle, you'll burn more calories, you can eat more. It's just better than no muscle and no fat. Like, not good.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no doubt.

SPEAKER_03

Not that the models, yeah, they're not healthy. No, they they look it and you know, in my opinion, they don't even look good. But if it's super skinny and and fat.

SPEAKER_00

No, I I like, you know, I don't mean to be raunchy here, but I like a little jiggle in my girl, you know.

SPEAKER_02

Most men do in my experience.

SPEAKER_00

For sure.

SPEAKER_02

Most men do.

SPEAKER_00

Well, we'll block that one out.

SPEAKER_02

No, look at me.

SPEAKER_00

See, I'm blushing about it. Oh, it's all right. My wife knows I love her to death. Um, so yeah, so I think, you know, my um, I'm just always being selfish here thinking about my journey. I think I was always, as a man, I was like, eh, I because I'm very muscular, I was like, eh, I don't mind being overweight because I'm muscular. I don't mind having a lot of fat because I'm muscular, you know, uh, but I'm that's changing now because I care more about health, right? Right. Um, you know, I will say I see a lot of these people on these um oh GLP1s, right? Trizipatide. And listen, I know it's a a medical marvel, and and it, and I think used the right way, you can lose 95 pounds, you can, you know, really look healthy. I you know, I have one friend that lost a hundred pounds on it, and he and he looks great. Um and it's changed his life. He's he's much healthier. But some people I've I just noticed when when they do it, they don't they don't look they look like a crackhead.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_00

And they and and I know they're thin, but I look at them and I'm like, you don't look healthy to me, dude. So like what's what's the what's the fine line of using the drug to get healthy?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

What's that fine line?

SPEAKER_03

Well, it's it's any lifestyle change that you're gonna make, you have to do more than the one thing, right? For the most part. So if somebody's like going to the gym and starting to work out, but they're not changing anything in diet, you're never gonna see the same results. If you're, you know, living on a diet of processed food and very little nutritionally dense foods, which tends to be fruits and vegetables, healthy wean proteins. Um I like fruits, some people don't. I think fruits are very good for us, and they have minerals and um vitamins that you just, especially in South Florida, with it's so hot, like fruits to me are amazing. And for the most part, I would say most people didn't get fat from eating fruit or vegetables, right? It's processed crap, right? And we all know it. Yeah, and it's designed that you can't stop eating it, like it's literally designed that way. So it's it is a battle. And I do, again, as an overweight person, a lot of my life, I do understand there are times like you were saying, you were eating not too many calories and not losing, not losing. It's not as simple as calories in calories out when biochemistry is out of whack. And there's so many things right now that affect our biochemistry to make it out of whack. Um, so it is knowing, hey, I probably need to give my body a little fuel before I go work out. You didn't do a lot, 150 calories, like protein protein focused. Um, somebody else might need a little, like there's a doctor out there, Stacey Sims, who talks about it for women, and she says working out fasted for women is horrible. I want to believe her, I feel better when I work out fasted. I don't like eating before I go. So sometimes I'll do a little something, but most of the time it's so hard for me to do. So it's kind of figuring out what's right for us, um, but learning how to change those lifestyles. So for me with the GLP one, I'll say one more thing and then I'll let you ask again. But the the hardest part, and it is hard because they make you tired. They make you very especially the the first two, um semaglutide and terzepatide, they you the fatigue was real. So working out was a challenge, but I did it, and it is the number one thing that made me lose body fat over muscle. So figuring out, and that's where I think the vitamins and the hydration helped me because I do it a lot. So the making sure my B12 was high, making sure my B vitamins were high, the taurine, the hydration, and I was making myself eat and protein, not a lot, you couldn't eat a lot, especially in the beginning. I could not at three bites I would be done, but I would do it and make myself eat more frequently, um, healthier, you know, healthier choices.

SPEAKER_00

A big change I've had to make is alcohol.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So I'm not even it's not, I don't have a six-pack by myself. Uh occasionally what I would do is on a Friday, you know, I'd have a glass of bourbon or wine with my wife on you know, Friday at 4 30. I want to disconnect for a couple hours. So I've I've gotten away from really recreational drinking. It hasn't been a part of my life really the past couple years, but where I was still drinking was networking.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, and you know, I go to these events, and you know, I'm not saying it's the right thing, but there is something about two guys having a bourbon together, talking shop, and you know, uh talking about what bourbon you like, and you know, having a certain cocktail crafted a certain way, cheersing it. There, there is an element of a bond to it and and a masculinity to it.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_00

And and it's about in your talking business and you're connecting with that person.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And I felt I had to kind of keep doing this, right? And and it was really exhausting.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, it's maybe two nights a week, and I'm like, oh God, I gotta have a couple bourbons right now, and then but I would go do it, I would go do it. But what would happen to me is it's not that I have anything, I don't think there's anything ethically or morally wrong with somebody that wants to have a drink. But for me personally, it just doesn't work with my body type, and I can't lose weight if I drink. I don't feel motivated the next day, and my motivation the next day is I say, screw the diet. All right. I just say, oh, I'll just order this or I'll just eat this. And you can't, what I've realized, you can't like eat good for five days and then blow off the weekends. No, it doesn't work like that. You know, you gotta be like, for me, for me, my body type, I gotta be like 27 days on one day cheap, maybe, right? It's not even like one day a week, it's like one day a month. So the the the lifestyle change that I've had to commit to is, you know, I just it's just very rare lately that I have a even a social drink.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So but I think that is also commentary on on social behavior. There's an almost an expectation, and I do a lot of what you do, I network a lot, and it is very challenging um to not drink. And it's such a it, a it's a habit, right? And habits we know are very hard to change. B, it is like that little bit of that relaxation from alcohol that does happen. We know it's true, where you now feel a little more relaxed in that environment, or like you said, the bonding part of it, right? Um, and I do think it's changing. I think the younger generations are we know it, the alcohol sales are dropping, they've shifted. Um, it definitely is changing in that regard. So, but you know, like anything, it's slow, and the alcohol companies don't like it. So they try, you know, to put new ways of putting it out there, or they're investing in now. I was at the bowling alley last night and they were advertising at a bowling alley, zero-proof mixers. I was like, this is an element that it is changing.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, no doubt. Right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So um, I I think like kind of what you've said, like you had to make a choice for yourself and how you were feeling that I can bond with that person in a different way. I can still do it, but it takes a shift in our minds, and it's it's all less because nobody's gonna say to you, unless you have a real problem, Eric, you shouldn't have a couple burdens a week. Nobody's gonna say that to you. Yeah, right. So it and my I have a friend, she's completely stopped drinking, and um, she had an experience recently where she had a couple drinks and she was like, Yeah, I realize I don't ever need to do this again. And she's like, I'm done done. Yeah, um, and so and I've heard that more and more people my age, and I'm like you in my 40s, I'm a little older than you, but so many people from my generation are now starting to make a different choice around alcohol, no doubt, and um so it's coming. I do think it's gonna be slow, but it's coming.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I think uh if you knew who I was when I was night, I was an animal, and and all my friends were, yes, you know, so and and I just became, you know, my identity, and it still kind of is a little bit, is I'm kind of the fun guy, right? You know, so so even when I go to these networking events, it's a lot of pressure to be like the fun guy, you know? And um, or at least the smiling guy kind of deal. It does help having a drink, but but it's just too important for me now.

SPEAKER_03

Um did you ever watch Friends? Bobby the Fun guy? The guy that dated Monica.

SPEAKER_00

Of course I've watched Friends, but I don't know Bobby the Butler.

SPEAKER_02

He was the and he was fun until he stopped drinking. He was like the most boring boyfriend and Monica ever dated anyway. It reminded me of it. No, you're okay.

SPEAKER_00

No, I've been going through that. Trust me.

SPEAKER_02

It was a great character.

SPEAKER_00

I gotta check him out. I will go watch it. No, I I um it's but I will say, since I've you know gone down this path, and it's it's really just been you know, it's been dramatically reduced the past two, three years of my life, but it's really just been this year. I think I've had drinks maybe um on my gender, I had a gender reveal at the Addison and Boca. We did it big, you know. Oh I you know, I was like, you know, I'm gonna have a couple Buddy Marys. I was I enjoyed myself that day. So so I'm not saying I'm never gonna drink again. I just it's it's gonna be really few and far between.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, it's gonna be few and far between. Um, yeah, so you know, the other thing too is uh, you know, now that now that I'm gonna have be a father and I'm buzzing about it, you know, I don't know if I want my child to see her dad drinking either. That like I'm just I'm just thinking to myself, and it's it's okay if you guys do out there, but but I just want my daughter to grow up being fit, healthy, and finding, you know, social interaction, you know, being positive without alcohol. Like I want to be the best example setter for her. You know, I want to go to the gym with her.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right? When she's 13 and we're we're she's a volleyball player or whatever. You know, I want that to be our bond, not her craving to have her first drink of alcohol.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

SPEAKER_00

Um, but no, I'm I'm I'm personally excited for this journey because now I'm actually losing, I think it's a big part of why I'm losing body fat too.

SPEAKER_04

For sure.

SPEAKER_00

You know, um and you end up just being more stressed.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Like, you know, do you know what the young kids call it? The scaries. Do you know what the scaries are?

SPEAKER_03

No, I heard. Heard this.

SPEAKER_00

You ever have too much alcohol on a Saturday, and then Sunday morning you wake up and you're like, Oh, did I lose something? Did I do did I do something wrong?

SPEAKER_03

Stupid. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they call it the scaries. And I would get the scaries, and like it would just kind of get worse and worse and worse. And like, you know, I'd freak out about my company on Sunday morning, like, I gotta get to work.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, versus just enjoying and relaxing the day.

SPEAKER_03

Um anxiety producing.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, never, never like an actual panic attack. Um, but so so you you were in where did you grow up?

SPEAKER_03

California.

SPEAKER_00

Where in Northern California?

SPEAKER_03

Uh it's mostly the Sacramento area. My and then my grandparents lived in a town called Ukaya, which is like from San Francisco, you go about three hours north. So Medicino County, yeah. Um, beautiful area. If you've never been up in that part of California, it's so beautiful. They used to have orchards, now they've torn everything out and put grapes in. Um a lot of it was known back in the 70s, there was a lot of pot there now that's everywhere, but back then it was known for that. Medicino County was known for pot. Um, still probably has a bit of that reputation, but that was not my grandparents.

SPEAKER_00

So I've been to Sacramento. I I've been in on the Sacramento, Modesto.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Um have you ever been to oh, there was like this cute, have you ever been to Murphy's?

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah, the little town at the foothills. Yeah. Just like a little bit um east of Modesto. Yeah, I I went to high school in Lodi.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

So you know Lodi just north of Modesto a little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, cool. Now I haven't been the as far north as I've been in California as I've so if you go to San Francisco and you cross the Bay Bridge.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, Salito.

SPEAKER_00

That area's beautiful. Yes, whatever those areas are, yeah. That's as far north as I've been.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's worth it. Like if you're and your wife ever wanted a great trip, even if you're not drinking, wine country is one of the most stunning pieces of earth I've ever seen. Yeah, I bet. It's amazing. And I recommend spring or fall.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, no, we're looking to do a baby moon somewhere, and we're so beautiful. Yeah, we're really thinking about it. Uh where where we're gonna spend, you know, a week or so somewhere. I need a week off. Yeah, yeah. So what's so tell me what's your what's your vision for for these franchises? Are you looking to expand? Are you just looking to get the current ones that operating at max capacity? Like what's kind of your vision for the next few years?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I mean, we're just growing our locations. So a lot of our locations, like we have one in West Boca that's at Glades and 441, so in Mission Bay, um, and then we have one in Wellington, and um, I mean, Delray, like I said, it's been there five and a half years. I have one down in Weston and then one in Palm Beach Gardens. So those everyone but Delray is a little bit newer. So growing those is certainly like what I'm working on right now. And awareness is key. There's a lot more um health and wellness out there in the world, and I think we do what we do really well, A, because all we do is the IV hydration and therapy. We don't add on all this other stuff, which has its place. It just, I like that we focus on it. We know it, the IV stuff, really well. Um, that space. And so I am out there, you know, networking, helping people with their business. We do a lot of um collaborations with other businesses like yoga, my friends Atha in Delray, um, my friend Nancy Reagan at Bellarina Spawn Delray. Like we do a lot of collaborations like that, um, doing some with the women of Wellington chamber in Wellington. So there's many more I could say, but there's all of my locations are partnering like that. Um, because you know, a lot of people want to do like a yoga, have a little girl's facial, get a B12 shot or a small mini Ivy. We're doing events like that where you can really have a nice night out. Again, it's not alcohol focused. A lot of times we'll have like bubbles there or something, but alternatives too. So um focusing on partnerships like that and just building the brand here in South Florida.

SPEAKER_00

Um, random question.

SPEAKER_03

Sure.

SPEAKER_00

Now that I'm thinking about your business, did you have a logo up at Johnny O's Gym, Johnny O's gymnasium?

SPEAKER_03

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, because there's something out there. Yeah. But maybe it's another one. You know, you know, would you do something like this with us? Like I'm I have this um this one business we're gonna kind of do, like take a bunch of our employees and go do, I don't know, it's like coal plunge, cryo, you know, kind of like a wellness day. Could I could I set up like a time where we come to West Boca or Del Rey and do like an IV day?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And the other thing we'll do for businesses, like where you guys have a few employees that are actually, you know, on out of the house now, which is sometimes rare. We'll come on once a month and do like a free injection for you and your employees. So, and we'll do it for three months in a row, as long as you let us like if we have other injections to sell and we can give them at a discount. But like the first month we'll give everybody a free B12 injection. You want to add on a vitamin D, you can. And we'll come do that. We educate and bring some of our like oral buckle strips. So businesses that are interested in that, absolutely reach out. We can do that um in our locations. But if you want to bring them in and have a block out, we love it. We've had no like um bachelor parties, you know, wedding parties, um, guys on a guys' trip, just people like that come in and book block out just appointments for themselves and sit in our massage chairs.

SPEAKER_00

Well, yeah, like like you just said, uh I want to, you know, I used to work at this company and their idea of bonding was let's go to the bar.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know, they literally used to say this we raise the bar and then we go to the bar. Uh and it was just this culture of just alcohol, and you know, it ends up being way more than alcohol. You got some 20 somethings all getting together.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But I I don't I've never wanted that culture. I've wanted, you know, if we're gonna go do some team bonding stuff, it's gonna be a fishing trip or a hydration trip, uh, you know, get together. So we'll we'll definitely uh we'll we'll definitely come do something with you here this in April. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Do me do me a favor. Do you have anything else that you want to no? I think that was good. Uh look into the camera. Okay. And uh just you know, if somebody's interested in learning more about uh Prime IV hydration.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Um and they live somewhere somewhere in South Florida, where's the best place to find you online?

SPEAKER_03

So the best place to find PrimeIV Hydration is PrimeIv Hydration.com. You can search by locations for South Florida. Um, you can also check out PrimeIvdelray.com. That is just a landing page with my five locations. Um, it does cover all the five locations I mentioned, even though it's Delray. And I am on Instagram at sfdreya.com if you would like to connect with me personally.

SPEAKER_00

Thanks again for tuning into the Gold Coast podcast. I'm your host, Eric Weingard. Like and subscribe and forward this to someone that you think might find some value. Thank you.