Ep. 638 Midlife Hormones and Peptide Therapy with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer | Menopause, Perimenopause, Hormone Health

Today, I’m thrilled to connect with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer. Dr. Gajer was previously an academic emergency medicine physician who pivoted after realizing ER medicine was functioning less as a place that saves lives and more as a place that manages chronic conditions that should have been caught and addressed years earlier. That observation led her to leave ER medicine and take over an established Northern Virginia internal medicine practice focusing on hormone optimization, peptide therapy, and preventative longevity-oriented care.

In our conversation today, we discuss how perimenopause is treatable and suffering through it is optional. Dr. Gajer explains how she manages body composition changes, weight loss resistance, bone health, and orthopedic-related complaints in midlife. We take a deep dive into the sourcing and research limitations of peptides, exploring healing peptides, growth hormone-promoting peptides, and thymic peptides, and also discussing immunosenescence, bioregulators, mitochondrial RNA-coded peptides, pheno age testing, and using low-dose ketamine, when appropriate, for mental health challenges.

Stay tuned for a fascinating conversation about the science and limitations of research on peptide therapies, and what Dr. Gajer is looking forward to in the near future.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

The health struggles Dr. Gajer experienced that led her to explore integrative therapies

Why women may wake up at 2 or 3 a.m. during perimenopause

How hormone changes in midlife can contribute to weight loss resistance

Why Dr. Gajer encourages women to have their bone mass assessed earlier than conventionally recommended

How declining estrogen and estradiol can contribute to orthopedic-related symptoms during perimenopause and menopause

What women need to understand about sourcing peptides and the limitations of peptide research

The different ways in which growth hormone-promoting peptides, thymic peptides, epitalon, and MOTC work

How GLP-1s can be helpful for midlife women beyond changing their body composition and assisting with weight loss