Dave Gives Himself a Peptide Injection

Now, I. I had to. To go grab a bottle of water really quick, but I thought I would also grab some syringes here. By the way, if you're watching on YouTube, I'm waving around syringes and I. I may or may not have a bag full of many different kinds of peptides. I have some here. Epitalin. I was going to inject some 141 because I haven't done that yet today. Don't worry, listeners, it does not take effect. Actually, I have some melanotan. I haven't done that in a while. It does not take effect right away. In fact, it's several hours. And I was going to ask you, because it might happen sometimes. If I do PT141, I'm opening the syringes right now. Or if I do melanotan, I get really hot. I don't get nauseous usually unless I do a big dose, but I get, like, flushed. Like, my face turns red and I'm kind of sweaty. What's going on with that?

I think that's just a local histamine reaction. It happens with the growth hormone secretagogues, too. And it's usually again, 10, 15 minutes, and then it goes away. But it can be. It can get quite hot.

So a little bit of Benadryl would fix that if it bothered me.

It usually does. Yeah.

I have a vial of a certain compound here, and this is PT141. I'm not going to be promoting any one supplier over the other because, well, you got to do your own vetting and work with your doctors and stuff like that. So now I'm drawing up a little bit. I wasn't planning on doing this, but you just inspired me.

Well, I'm happy. Inspiration.

Drawing up a little bit of melanotin here just into the vial. And I know how much water I put in this, so this is about the right dose for me. And now I'm going to do something really cool. I'm going to use this paper towel soaked in alcohol. It's like a little wipey that a proper doctor would use. But I'm a biohacker, so I can use a paper towel with alcohol in it. Because the difference is there's no difference. Am I right?

You're right.

Okay. And I'm gonna do on the back of my arm here, by the way, look at those guns. I did a. A thing on electrical stimulation yesterday. We shocked the crap out of my biceps for two minutes and, oh, my God, they hurt today. So now I'm Looking all well defined. But don't worry, it's all fake. And I'm gonna stick the needle in here. And it sounds, it sounds really bad, but it simply doesn't hurt to put a needle in. How's my technique? You can't even tell because I'm off the camera.

I. I think you're looking very good. You want to make sure that it's at a direct.

Oh, you like it going straight in?

Yeah, you put it straight in. Otherwise, sometimes if you don't, the needle is so small that you can end up with a dermal injection rather than subcutaneous. And that can cause itching and irritation. But I thought you did a great job. So those are very nice guns.

Oh, gee, thanks. I was totally joking. There are actual bodybuilders and people who spend way more time than I do. But I'm happy with my almost muscular physique. A lot of people have actually taught me in different doctor's offices. You want to go in at about a 45 degree angle if you've got at least a 1cm needle. But I never could get an explanation for why. You certainly don't want to be like a skin popper right under the skin. No, but you're saying go straight in. Now I'm totally confused.

Yeah, I mean, if the needle is really small, if you have a half inch needle, you have a lot more room to get under the skin. But if you're using an insulin syringe. Yeah, yeah.

So just for people looking at this on YouTube, let's see if I can.

That will most likely go all the way underneath the skin. One of the things that I found is after injecting a certain area over and over, there's kind of this little semi fascial layer that's in the dermis that will tent underneath the needle if the needle is not really sharp. Like you have to pass the needle through the rubber stopper on your bottle. And if somehow the needle isn't sharp enough to go all the way through, there's a little tinting that happens. And I looked at this under ultrasound because I was fascinated.

Oh, cool.

By, you know, people that, that swore they were getting these little, you know, you know, welts or something from their injection site, and they just weren't popping the needle all the way through that little layer that sits in the bottom of the dermis. And, you know, we're all made a little bit differently. Some people really, they just need to get it all the way through. And if you're at an Angle. It makes it easier to get it into the dermis rather than in the subcutaneous tissue, which is where it really belongs.

How many of your patients have a hard time injecting themselves?

Many.

Is it just the first time, or is it every time?

It's usually the first time. And some. I mean, I've actually had patients who were great candidates for certain peptides, and they just. They really wanted them, and they just said, I'm sorry, I don't think I can do it. I've had patients who want to come in and see me and have somebody in my office inject them regularly.

It's so funny that first time. It is a serious. It screws with your mind.

Yes.

Everything you've ever known is don't allow things past your skin barrier. And your body knows this. I mean, every animal knows this. Like nobody wants a puncture wound. Right?

Right.

And overcoming that voice in your head is crazy.

Well, even. Even physicians, when I'm training physicians that, you know, they get a little willy about injecting themselves. So I demo just like what you did. I do that on right in front of all my students. I, you know, just find an area. I show them how simple it is. And I do it in front of my patients, too. When they're. When they're a little uncomfortable, I don't think I can eject myself. I drop some saline, and I just inject myself right in front of them, show them how easy it is. And it seems to take the boogeyman out of it. It's really not a big deal. But, yeah, the first time, you just have to get past that.

And it doesn't hurt with an insulin syringe. It's like you can't even feel it half the time. It's so trivial. But, man, it's that story in your head that I'm gonna die. All right, let's talk about another just awesome peptide. And one. I actually mixed up a fresh vial this morning for my wife because she ate something and it gave her a little bit of gastritis. Can you guess which peptide I'm talking about?

Are you talking about BPC157?

How did you know that? Dr. Heather.

I think that's probably my favorite. Next to epithelin, that is probably my favorite peptide. It is unbelievable. And the Croatians, you know, were the ones who did so much research on BPC157, and we benefited from that. And I'm pretty sure that the Croatians really feel that all you really need to survive is food. Water and BPC157.

Well, I think I'll pull some of that into my next vial because I have a little bit of tendonitis I've been working on. So I'll stick that in my other arm.

Absolutely. It is just a phenomenal peptide. It's a body protective compound. It's isolated from human gastric juice, and it brings the body into homeostasis. So if you're too high on one thing, it brings you back down. If you're too low on something else, it brings you up. And it's incredibly powerful at healing tissue, healing connective tissue, even healing other kinds of tissue. We use it for cognitive. We use it for.

Do you put it in the brain, like cerebral spinal fluid?

No, no, I don't put it anything like that. You want to stick your own spinal fluid? That's. You know, I stick all sorts of.

Stuff in my spinal fluid. It's like. It's. What do you do on weekends?

But, you know, it is using it systemically. It does really, really well for inflammation every place in the body. That is my favorite peptide to use for pain. Absolutely.

It's good for pain. And it was originally for gastric healing is where we discovered it. So you can. It's one of the orally activists. I literally said, lana, drink this. We didn't even have to inject her. And it's systemically active that way. But for healing Crohn's disease, Healing all kinds of stuff.

Yes.

In my case. All right, I can go below the elbow where my tendonitis is, or I can go above the elbow.

Just stick it right in.

Just, like, right up there. Stick it right in or down there?

Just stick it in.

No one's ever told me.

Anyway, this is where it hurts. Where does it hurt?

Where it hurts. All right, I'm gonna do it, like, right there.

There you go.

Okay, now this should be a painful zone. It is a tiny needle. It's like a human hair. I'm just gonna wiggle it in a little bit. You see that? Just don't pass out if you're one of those needle people. So now it's in there. I did 45 degrees again. Cause I'm a bad person. Ow. Okay, injecting this stuff hurts just because of the pressure, right? Cause there's not a lot of fat right there.

Correct.

Okay, that's hurting a hell of a lot because it's right near the nerve.

Reposition your needle.

I could reposition my needle, but that would suck. That means just wiggle it around.

Yeah, just reposition it away from that structure that it's not happy. Is that better?

A little bit. I got half of it in. This is actually the most painful time I've ever done it.

Yeah, you might just be a little too close to something that doesn't like that, or the needle itself may be near something. But BPC is just incredible. And it is one of the few peptides we can take orally. And it actually was shown to reverse, like NSAIDs, non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs, the havoc they can wreak on the GI system. It can reverse that damage.

Oh, that's cool. Because when people take that baby aspirin every day, which is like the worst anti aging advice ever, it shreds their gut after a while. So maybe they should stop doing that and start doing some bpc.