The Fight No One Scheduled: GLP-1s vs. Peptides

On this episode of the 40+ Fitness Podcast, Coach Allan breaks down the fight playing out right now in Washington, DC, between GLP-1 medications and peptides.

The two keep getting mentioned in the same breath, but they sit on opposite sides of the evidence line. GLP-1s like semaglutide and tirzepatide are tested medications with known dosing and documented side effects. Peptides like BPC-157 and TB-500, the so-called Wolverine stack, are not approved for human use and live in a gray market built mostly on rat studies and anecdote.

Coach Allan walks through the recent FDA Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee panel that recommended approving 6 of 7 peptides even after the agency's own scientists raised safety concerns, and he points out what it means for you.

Time Stamps:

02:54 GLP-1s and peptides, framing the fight

04:26 Peptides and the gray market

05:20 The cheating debate around weight-loss drugs

06:07 The peptides: AOD-9604, BPC-157, TB-500

07:00 Branding and hype: the Wolverine stack

08:50 How both sides market GLP-1s and peptides

09:54 RFK Jr. and what the FDA is for

11:04 Follow the science, not the phrases