Peptide therapy encompasses the use of specific peptide bioregulators to help regulate, support, and reinstate balance to the body’s systems. As we age or experience illness/injury, these regulatory peptides decline, leading to subpar functioning and declining health. Peptide therapy helps replenish the body’s stores of specific peptides to support various processes, functions, and overall wellbeing.
At The Balance - Hormone Medical Clinic, we offer cutting-edge peptide injections tailored to each patient’s unique needs. Our expansive menu includes peptides to promote muscle building, fat burning, injury healing, immune support, gut health, cognitive function, libido & sexual performance, skin health, and much more.
Peptides are short chains of amino acids that act as signaling molecules in the body. Though small in size, peptides play critical communication roles and influence bodily processes on a cellular level.
There are many different peptides used in treatment plans today. Some of the most common include:
And more! Visit our expansive ( "The Balance - Hormone Medical Clinic Peptide Library") for details on all peptide options.
The human body was designed to produce peptides intrinsically to regulate bodily processes. However, as we age or develop illness/injury, our ability to synthesize critical peptides declines.
When regulatory peptides dip below optimal levels, deficiency signs emerge. These can include:
If multiple deficiency signs are present, peptide therapy may help get to the root cause by replenishing depleted peptide levels. Our expansive menu allows peptides to be tailored to each patient’s unique needs and goals.
Peptide bioregulators offer a multitude of evidence-based benefits:
Certain peptides accelerate the body’s natural healing abilities. By signaling cells and tissues to regenerate faster, peptides can promote:
Peptides like BPC-157 and Thymosin Beta 4 (TB-500) demonstrate incredible healing potential. Our clinic leverages cutting-edge protocols harnessing these peptides’ regenerative powers.
Through unique mechanisms, select peptides stimulate muscle growth, enhance athletic performance, and improve endurance. Examples include:
Clinical studies showcase these peptides’ ability to increase muscle mass, strength, power output, and workout capacity - all appealing to athletes and weekend warriors alike.
Excess body fat - especially around the midsection and thighs - proves extremely difficult to budge for most people. Peptides present powerful options:
These specialized peptides attack excess fat through multiple mechanisms while preserving hard-earned muscle. Supporting healthy metabolism and optimizing body composition.
Aging reflects declining peptide activity. As our ability to synthesize key peptides decreases, deficiency symptoms emerge. Peptides like Sermorelin counteract aging by:
In this way, peptides tap into anti-aging pathways influenced by healthy growth hormone levels - our natural “fountain of youth.”
An unhealthy gut contributes to inflammation, autoimmunity, arthritis, food sensitivity, skin conditions, mood issues, and metabolic problems.
Key peptides help heal and reinforce the gastrointestinal tract. For example, BPC-157 regenerates gut lining, reduces gut inflammation and irritability, and heals ulcers. Other peptides improve digestion, nutrient absorption, bowel regularity, and gut-brain access. Supporting healthy GI function from top to bottom.
The central nervous system declines with aging and trauma, contributing to cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Exciting peptides showcase neuroprotective and neuroregenerative abilities, including:
As the standard of care for age-related cognitive decline, these mind-enhancing peptides slow dementia development and help restore peak mental faculties over time.
The wide-ranging benefits of personalized peptide therapy lead to improved function, performance, recovery, metabolism, cognition, immunity, injury healing, longevity, and more based on each patient's needs. The Balance - Hormone Medical Clinic leverages cutting edge protocols to help patients actualize peak wellness.
Successfully navigating peptide therapy requires an understanding of critical logistics - from peptide selection and dosing to injection guidance and timing/cycles. We break down key basics below.
With countless peptides available, deciding which to use can prove daunting. That’s why our clinic starts every patient with advanced hormone blood panels assessing needs on a cellular level. Lab results reveal specific deficiencies to target.
We then map out customized protocols using the peptides best suited to address each patient’s underlying issues and goals via injection therapy. Commonly used peptides include:
Sermorelin - the most popular anti-aging peptide delivering a broad spectrum of benefits. As a growth hormone secretagogue (GHS), it stimulates the pituitary gland to release youthful GH levels that decline with age. Restoring GH to more optimal levels rewinds the hands of time across body and mind.
Ipamorelin - emerged as a popular growth hormone peptide due to its renowned safety profile and muscle building, fat-burning, anti-aging effects. Uniquely restores youthful function without negatively affecting cortisol, progesterone or insulin levels.
BPC-157 - lauded as “nature’s heal all” for its incredible ability to repair damage inflicted by injury, illness, surgery and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Accelerates healing by signaling the body to rebuild itself.
CJC-1295 - functions as a long-acting growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) analog, prompting muscle growth and body remodeling. Also enhances cognition, immunity, injury healing, libido, skin/hair health and more.
And other peptides tailored to patients’ needs - injury healing, sexual health, fat loss, mental acuity, sleep, etc. Our medical team narrows down options best supporting each individual’s health goals.
Once peptide selection is complete, injection guidance represents the next step for patients to properly administer their prescribed therapies at home.
All peptides in our program are injectable. While initially intimidating, our nurses provide easy-to-follow instructions detailing injection sites, methods, volumes, needles, sterility, post-injection care, and more based on the custom protocol created for you. We teach patients to perform simple subcutaneous injections themselves.
Ongoing support and additional demonstrations are available to ensure self-administration mastery for all patients. Take-home injection kits provide convenient tools facilitating easy, sterile, nearly painless injections from the comfort of home.
Similar to other injectable therapies, peptides require consistent dosing 1-2 times per day to achieve optimal results. The half-life, timing, and frequency depends on which peptides are prescribed.
Longer acting peptides like CJC-1295 only require dosing 2-3 times per week. Shorter acting peptides like Sermorelin involve daily administration. BPC-157 works best dosed twice per day.
Our providers outline injection schedules for each patient accounting for the half-life of chosen peptides, desired effects, times of day when administration proves most convenient/effective, etc. Instructions provide injection volume, sites, rotation, timing tailored to patients’ lifestyles.
Peptide therapy involves cycling on/off phases - typically 3-6 months long followed by 1 month off. Continual dosing elicits receptor downregulation necessitating short breaks. Cycling prevents tolerance while allowing peptides to keep working optimally long-term.
Cycle lengths also depend on which peptides are prescribed and patients’ underlying issues. For example, gut repair using BPC-157 usually lasts 45-60 days while anti-aging with Sermorelin can run 6 months or longer before a needed off cycle. Our staff personalizes peptide cycling details to each patient’s situation.
In summary, while peptide therapy seems complicated on the surface, our staff simplifies the entire process for patients. We determine ideal peptides to meet treatment goals, demonstrate self-injection techniques, provide easy-to-follow dosing/timing instructions, prescribe everything needed for home administration, outline cycle particulars, and closely monitor progress from start to finish. Patients then actualize the many peptide benefits covered earlier with our guidance.
Below we cover additional peptide therapy details for those interested in the extensive options or considering treatment. This overview showcases just how cutting-edge and versatile peptide bioregulators can be.
Excess body fat - especially stubborn deposits around the belly and thighs - contributes to disease, insulin resistance, inflammation, cardiovascular issues, metabolic problems, and psychosocial distress for millions. Fat loss via lifestyle intervention alone often fails long term. This led to emerging interest in fat-targeting peptides that enable substantial slimming through unique mechanisms.
AOD9604 is a modified fragment of the growth hormone molecule displaying potent lipolytic effects. It directly breaks down adipocyte fat cells leading to meaningful fat loss. However it does NOT influence muscle, cartilage, bone density or cell proliferation making it quite safe. Studies confirm NO adverse effects on circulating glucose, liver/kidney/heart function, blood lipids, IGF-1 levels, etc. This novel peptide offers new hope for frustrating fat loss plateaus when combined with proper lifestyle habits.
Fragment 176-191 also demonstrates significant fat reducing effects without the muscle building, blood sugar elevating, or hunger stimulating side effects sometimes seen with unmodified growth hormone. It induces lipolysis directly with remarkable precision - streamlining metabolic processes, regulating fat storage, and enabling aggressive fat burning cascades in stubborn areas like the abdomen and thighs. Concurrent exercise further amplifies Frag176-191’s lipo-mobilizing effects resulting in astonishing before-and-after physical transformations.
CJC-1295 is a growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) analog functioning as a long-acting GHRH (typically lasting at least one week from a single dose). It stimulates the body’s own natural growth hormone pulse known to readily induce fat breakdown while preserving lean body mass. CJC-1295 also contains Drug Affinity Complex (DAC), increasing functional half-life substantially. This improves pharmacokinetics considerably over conventional short-acting GHRH peptides. In doing so it provides a convenient once or twice weekly fat burning shot.
And several others...many peptides indirectly support fast loss secondary to accelerating metabolism, increasing fatty acid oxidation, regulating appetite satiety signals, building calorie burning muscle, and more. But the peptides above DIRECTLY induce lipolysis for remarkable effects.
Increasing muscle mass, size, density and power output appeals to athletes, weekend warriors and aging adults alike - especially when difficult to achieve naturally. Peptides present compelling options:
IGF-1 LR3 contains the long R3 insulin-like growth factor-1 chain bonded to albumin for extended half-life and activity. This allows it to remain stable in the body much longer eliciting muscle building effects for 20 hours or more with just a single dose. It demonstrates perhaps the most potent anabolic muscle building capabilities out of all available peptides. IGF-1 LR3 markedly boosts nitrogen retention, protein synthesis, glycogen synthesis, cell hyperplasia, anti-catabolic activity and myoblast fusion - all factors underlying increasing muscle mass. Concurrent proper exercise unleashes this peptide’s full muscle boosting capacity.
Follistatin functions uniquely by instead inhibiting myostatin - the molecular brake preventing muscle growth and power gains in the body. It performs this action via several cellular mechanisms. In studies, mice lacking myostatin developed muscles twice as large as normal mice with little to no body fat. The same premise applies to humans. Accordingly Follistatin-based peptides allow tremendous muscle hypertrophy changes previously unattainable without significant side effects.
PEG-MGF is a PEGylated Mechano Growth Factor peptide variant developed specifically to extend active half-life after production in response to muscle tissue overload and damage. This prolongs MGF bodybuilding effects substantially. Studies confirm MGF plays critical roles regulating satellite cell proliferation, differentiation and fusion in myogenesis pathways underlying muscle growth. Athletes often inject PEG-MGF to intensify hypertrophic expansion and boost recovery.
And more...peptide muscle builders are numerous signaling increased protein synthesis, training capacity, power output, vascularity and more according to their various mechanisms.
Healthy libido and sexual function decline with aging. Stress, medications, illness, injury, and lifestyle habits also contribute. For decades men relied on erectile dysfunction drugs while women had few options - until peptides emerged as compelling solutions for both sexes.
Bremelanotide PT-141 for example now treats male and female sexual dysfunction safely and effectively. Research confirms PT-141 significantly improves sexual desire, arousal intensity, pleasure and duration by activating neural pathways controlling sexual excitement and inhibitors. Both men and women experience an awakening of their passions, sensitivity and sensuality.
Kisspeptin-10 is another revolutionary peptide sexual enhancer with incredible promise restoring intimacy for couples. Animal models reveal it potently stimulates GnRH neuronal activity inducing LH and testosterone secretion in males along with LH and estrogen release in females. This peptide bioregulator signals the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis upregulating the entire sexual response program regardless of age or underlying dysfunction.
AOD 9604 outlined earlier for fat burning in fact aids male sexual performance as well. Studies show it indirectly boosts circulating and free testosterone levels while enhancing nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation activity. This optimizes hormonal balance while inducing penile engorgement to strengthen erections and prolong intercourse. AOD-9604 simultaneously augments sexuality while streamlining physique aesthetics.
And several others...including prolactin hormone inhibitors, dopamine receptor stimulants and additional hormonal modulating peptides reinstating youthful intimacy and enjoyment.
Peptide therapy research has uncovered an intriguing link between certain peptides and lifespan extension in animal models. Short protein fragments called oligopeptides seem to help regulate cellular processes that decline with age when administered properly. More research is still needed, but these early findings suggest peptide treatments could one day slow aspects of aging in humans through similar biological mechanisms.
