You’ve probably heard peptides mentioned everywhere, from weight loss shots to your favorite protein smoothie. But what exactly are they? Are they the miracle solution everyone’s talking about, or just another buzzword? And more importantly, do you need them? 

In today’s episode, we break down the science of peptides in a way that makes sense and get real about whether they’re worth the hype. We’ll explore the difference between nutritional, supportive, and pharmaceutical peptides, and why trendy shots like Ozempic may not be solving the root cause of your health struggles. 

If you’ve been overwhelmed by all the conflicting information, you’re in the right place. I’ll cut through the confusion and empower you to make your own decisions.

Conclusion:

The truth is, most of us don’t need to rely on peptide shots to fix our health. Our bodies are smarter than that. By focusing on nourishment, blood sugar balance, and holistic lifestyle changes, you can naturally support your body’s peptide production. 

Whether it’s adding collagen peptides to your smoothie or getting your body’s foundational health in check, it all starts with a balanced approach, not a quick fix.

Stop chasing quick solutions and start focusing on your long-term health.

In This Episode:

00:00 What are peptides?

06:07 The history of peptide therapy

09:00 Nutritional vs. hormonal peptides

13:18 Does your body need peptides?

15:30 Do peptide supplements and GLP-1 alternatives work?

20:43 Can peptides help with hormonal health?

25:43 Final thoughts on the peptides trend

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[00:00:00] Carrie Lupoli: You've probably heard the word peptide tossed around lately, as if it's a word everybody should just know, but what even is a peptide? And more importantly, should you be taking one and get this fun fact that most people don't know? Peptides aren't all scary shots. They're actually also in your smoothie.

[00:00:17] Carrie Lupoli: And a lot of people are using the word peptide because it's trendy, but it doesn't mean that the product that they're trying to sell you is actually a peptide. In this episode, I am breaking down the science in a way that actually makes sense. We'll talk about what peptides are, the difference between them.

[00:00:34] Carrie Lupoli: There's nutritional, they're supportive, and there's pharmaceutical ones, and why Shop site ozempic. Might be solving the wrong problem. If you are feeling stuck in your health, tempted by the quick fixes, or just overwhelmed by what's real and what's hype, you're in the right place. Let's cut through the confusion and get clear on what your body really needs to thrive.

[00:00:53] Carrie Lupoli: I'm Kerry Loli nutritionist, award-winning behavior specialist and unapologetic disruptor of diet [00:01:00] culture. If you've spent decades dieting and still don't have the results you want, it's not your fault. You've just never been shown how to fuel your body with love and science. This podcast is where all that changes and we rewrite the rules where food becomes simple.

[00:01:17] Carrie Lupoli: Freedom is possible and real lasting results. Finally begin. Let's dive in. Okay, so everybody is talking about peptides, but I really believe few people actually know what they are. It's, there was, I think it was like on the Tonight Show, once they had this interview where, you know when they randomly interview people on the street and they ask people if they have gluten, and of course this is California, so everybody, I don't do gluten.

[00:01:41] Carrie Lupoli: I don't do gluten. And the next question is, what's gluten? And. Nobody knew what it was. And I feel like peptide is a little bit like that. It's this word that we're hearing so much about. But if you ask somebody what a peptide is, they don't really know. So are they legit? Are they necessary? Is [00:02:00] it hype?

[00:02:01] Carrie Lupoli: Let's break it down. I want you to think about peptides, kind of like tiny little messengers in your body. They're made up of amino acids, which I liken them to being like the building blocks that make up protein or, or we can think about this like a book, for example, like amino acids might be the pages in a book while proteins are like the book and the words in the book.

[00:02:29] Carrie Lupoli: Are the peptides. They're the phrases. And your body naturally makes peptides all the time. They help with things like telling your skin to make more collagen, which keeps it firm and useful. They tell your body to burn fat or build muscle. They help boost energy. They balance hormones. They help. With your injuries and healing faster, like peptides are a part of what you already produce.

[00:02:52] Carrie Lupoli: When I said that, they're like these like building blocks or puzzle pieces. You can think about it this way. Think about amino acids first. Okay, so [00:03:00] let's talk about what amino acids are. I think people talk about amino acids and I don't even think they know what that is, so let's start with that first. So, amino acids are like the bricks, like if you think about Legos.

[00:03:09] Carrie Lupoli: They're the little brick like in how Legos not together to make something bigger like a car. Amino acids do the same thing. Your body connects them in different ways to build in muscle, to build hair and skin, to take a hold of your hormones, and their enzymes are like tiny little workers that help your body function.

[00:03:26] Carrie Lupoli: There are 20 different kinds of amino acids, and your body uses them in all sorts of combinations to build everything it needs and all these Lego pieces. And you could build a house, you could build a, my daughter has a bunch of Lego flowers. You could build a car. So many different things, right? So the amino acids are like.

[00:03:44] Carrie Lupoli: These Lego blocks, right? And we get amino acids mostly from food, especially these 20. Like we have essential amino acids and those we have to get through food. Okay? So like meat, chicken, fish, eggs, [00:04:00] dairy beans, lentils, nuts, seeds. We can get our amino acids from all of those things. Some amino acids your body can make on its own, but there's others, those essential amino acids that you can only get from food.

[00:04:11] Carrie Lupoli: That's why food matters so much. Like we have to get these building blocks in our bodies. Okay, now I want you to think about proteins. Are like the finished structure, like the car that you're building or the flower that my daughter likes to build. And proteins are big, complicated chains of amino acids, and your body uses proteins to build and repair muscles, to keep your hair and skin healthy, to make your organs work, to make hormones and enzymes that keep your body in balance.

[00:04:43] Carrie Lupoli: Then we've got the peptides. Okay, so now this is where it gets fine. Peptides are short chains of amino acids. They're not as big and as complex as the full proteins. So if a full protein, like if the proteins are the full book, right, [00:05:00] and it's made up of amino acids, that might be like the pages. Peptides are like the short notes, the texts, the the copy in the book, and it sends messages to your body.

[00:05:11] Carrie Lupoli: The peptides are like the messengers and it says, Hey, skin, go make more collagen. Hey, body burn, more fat. Hey, calm down, chill out, relax. Okay, it's these. Little messengers and there's different peptides send different kinds of messages to help your body stay strong. They help your body heal, function, and grow.

[00:05:30] Carrie Lupoli: And so like without these, your body has a hard time. It like can't build muscle and repair itself and it's super important. So it about. These amino acids, those like these tiny heroes that work behind the scene to ke keep your body healthy and strong, and these amino acids form big of the proteins that we need.

[00:05:52] Carrie Lupoli: And then we also have these peptides, which are shortchange of these amino acids. Cut. You don't need to know much more than that, but I just [00:06:00] want you to know how the peptides are related to the amino acids, because especially people that talk about getting more protein in, we talk about. Protein has amino acids.

[00:06:08] Carrie Lupoli: I feel like we use those words a lot and it's helpful to know where it all comes from. All right. Let's do a little bit of a brief history of peptide therapy. And I think what's gonna be interesting in this episode is that you're gonna realize that there are a few different things that are called peptides.

[00:06:22] Carrie Lupoli: We keep thinking about peptides like GLP one and the shot, but I'm betting we don't even realize what. Peptides actually are, and how often you may be taking peptides and not even realizing it. So let's go back though. Let's do a little bit of a history lesson, shall we? So peptides around the 1920s peptide therapies actually began with one of the most innovative, uh, discoveries that is still so important and essential today.

[00:06:52] Carrie Lupoli: Insulin, insulin. Isolated from animal tissues. They, it's, that was their, the first [00:07:00] medical peptide. Insulin is a peptide. It is that crazy to people. It is a hormone. It's a hormonal peptide. And I always talk about like when we talk about balancing our blood sugar, when we spike our blood sugar, when we're on a blood sugar rollercoaster, which most people are, and they don't even realize it.

[00:07:18] Carrie Lupoli: And then by the time your A1C actually gets to be problematic, you've probably been on that blood sugar rollercoaster for two decades. But anyway, but. Every time you spike your blood sugar, you go through something called the glycation and your body has to try to figure out where to store the extra glucose that's coming in.

[00:07:35] Carrie Lupoli: So when your body's got that influx of glucose, it can store it in a few places, but kinda like a tiny closet. Doesn't have a lot of room, so literally your body will release insulin to try to mitigate that glucose spike. It's amazing. But the more and more your body has to do that, the more and more sensitive your body is, and that insulin doesn't get released.

[00:07:57] Carrie Lupoli: This is what happens with diabetics, which is why if they need [00:08:00] insulin, it's because their body is not producing it themselves. So there's this synthetic addition to the treatment that's helping you stay alive. It's not reversing. It is not a, absolutely not reversing. It is allowing a person to survive and it will just, it slow slows down the death of what, you know, I talk about diabetes should be in the same category as a cancer diagnosis, but the pro, the thing is we know how to, we really do know how to reverse diabetes.

[00:08:29] Carrie Lupoli: It's a lifestyle, which actually sometimes is harder than anything, but, all right, let's keep going back to history. In the 1950s to the 1970s, scientists actually started to decode this insulin structure leading to this synthetic peptide development and the creation of a whole bunch of other hormone based treatments.

[00:08:48] Carrie Lupoli: Okay. Then like in the last 20 or 30 years, we've had really rapid advancements in chemistry and being able to develop these new peptides for aging, metabolism, [00:09:00] immunity recovery, and this is where GT one came in because the surge in GT one in like the 2020. We, we've known about GLP one and the dr. The drug, that type of peptide.

[00:09:14] Carrie Lupoli: But it was typically being used in diabetics for the most part. But then we really were able to see the potential beyond that. So that's where that kind of came in. Now here's the thing. There are nutritional peptides. And then there are hormonal peptides. So everything that I was just telling you about are hormonal.

[00:09:38] Carrie Lupoli: They're typically the injections. And I think when, if you go and research peptides, if you look at different YouTube channels and stuff, they're all talking about the injectable peptide. I'm gonna talk about what they do and why they're so popular right now. But I need people to understand that there are peptides that are [00:10:00] nutritional as anybody takes collagen.

[00:10:03] Carrie Lupoli: Collagen is a peptide. You've probably seen it if like you take collagen, it will say collagen peptides. I usually use a Truvan brand for collagen. Try out a bunch of different brands actually, but it will say collagen peptides on it, and they're made from broken down collagen protein. Right. Essentially providing your body with the amino acids that support skin joint, connective health tissues, bovine collagen, for example, often helps even more with joint pain because it's both like our own, but you're not messaging.

[00:10:33] Carrie Lupoli: Remember we said peptides are like these little messengers? You're not messaging the body to do something new. You're simply providing it the materials it needs to do what it already knows how to do. But in contrast, peptides like ozempic and those kinds of injectable or hormone-based peptides. Are actually signals that override or alter your body's natural rhythm.

[00:10:54] Carrie Lupoli: Okay. And often that's why we have side effects. That's why we have consequences. Things like collagen peptides are [00:11:00] not really, it's not, it's food based. It's well, well, well studied. So collagen peptides come from real food sources like bovine marine chicken. I mean, they function more like a supplement than a medical intervention.

[00:11:12] Carrie Lupoli: You don't need a prescription for that. They're generally recognized as. Safe. Their side effects are minimal or non-existent, and there's a ton of benefits. So there's no reason not to do that if like you wanna enhance those areas. And because they support the body, they're not overriding it. So they're, I, I want you to think about that.

[00:11:31] Carrie Lupoli: It's like a supportive peptide and it gives the body what it needs to repair or rebuild or nourish. And at the end of the day, our peptide, which we make ourselves, let me be really clear about that. We make our own collagen. However, as we get older. That is less efficient, less effective. As we get older, our production can be slowed down, which is why.

[00:11:54] Carrie Lupoli: We can actually enhance it through lifestyle. We don't necessarily need [00:12:00] these extra pieces to it, especially hormonal peptides. So these supportive peptides, like I will always say like a collagen peptide is not going to take the place of you nourishing your body, fueling it, working to balance your blood sugar, but it fills some gaps for you.

[00:12:15] Carrie Lupoli: And that's what we need to be thinking about. I think peptides in general, we should be thinking about as a type of supplement and not. So much like a replacement for what it is that we need to be actually doing. So what are some other nutritional peptides? Collagen, creatine. There's some melt derived peptides, like casein peptides.

[00:12:36] Carrie Lupoli: There's fish derived bioactive peptides. There's a bunch of peptides from plant-based sources that can have some like help with cardiovascular help and antioxidant levels and. This is where I think we really need to be thinking about it. The nutritional, fun, nutritionally functional peptides, they're not medically directive, so they're here to support.

[00:12:56] Carrie Lupoli: They're not an intervention, right? If you have to have [00:13:00] insulin, that is an intervention, but having collagen is about a support. It's rooted in nourishment, not symptom suppression. Big difference in there. Okay. Um, and it's backed by, it's, let me be really clear. It's backed by food science. It's in the supplement realm of products that it's not backed by pharmaceutical pressure.

[00:13:21] Carrie Lupoli: And there's a big difference there. Okay. Because, and this is why I think we're using the word peptides in so many different ways. It's like peptides or peptides. No, no, no. Not all peptides are created equal. Collagen peptides are like bricks for your skin and joint. And then you look at the GLP one, drugs are like.

[00:13:37] Carrie Lupoli: A, a loudspeaker yelling at your brain to stop eating. So one nourishes your body and the other manipulates your body. So let's just talk about peptides in general. Do we need them? Either one. For most people, not really your body, when it's working properly and you're eating well, when you're sleeping, when you're managing your stress, uh, [00:14:00] I call it the six spinning plates.

[00:14:01] Carrie Lupoli: It's stuff I teach my clients in my private practice or I teach health pros to teach their clients and their private practices. There's the problem is so many people do a diet and it doesn't help them. To also think through, how do I manage my sleep? How do I manage my stress? How do I, it doesn't go through all of those things.

[00:14:20] Carrie Lupoli: I, that's why I very much believe in a holistic approach to coaching that we've gotta get into all of these pieces, and then your body can actually work to make those peptides. Now, of course, as I said, as we get older, things will slow down, so maybe you're gonna choose to fill some gaps, but our body is smarter than a supplement.

[00:14:41] Carrie Lupoli: When your body produces its own peptides, it will make the exact, uh, the exact amount that it needs. It will make the right amount at the right time in the right place. Supplements, injections, it can mimic that stuff, but they can't do it with the same precision. It's when you get a tv, I, I, this was like [00:15:00] this when I was a kid, right?

[00:15:00] Carrie Lupoli: You get the TV remote that comes with it, but then you get a universal remote and it like. It like controlled the VCR and the TV and all of that stuff like that one wasn't as precise. Like that one didn't work quite as well as the original one that came at the tv. It might work, but it doesn't always work perfectly, and that's the difference of going with a supplemental route versus.

[00:15:21] Carrie Lupoli: Lifestyle shift and really learning how to become self-aware, like the BS of the diet industry, we can throw out and actually do the BS that really works, right Ma? Understanding how to balance our blood sugar, understanding our behavior and the science of behavior change and our belief systems, and recognizing that our beliefs dictate all the things that we do and why don't we work to make change, and then we can decide if supplementation is actually necessary because it's not going to be.

[00:15:49] Carrie Lupoli: Fix. It's not gonna fix the root of the problem if your nutrition, if your blood sugar, if your habits are all out of balance. So we have to stop thinking like it is. Okay. Now [00:16:00] I have seen a ton of these quote unquote peptide supplements. This is what I have heard so much of, and this is where I wanna clear the air.

[00:16:06] Carrie Lupoli: There are, so there's the nutritional peptides that we just talked about. Like we have these two categories, like the non-injectable that might be in powders and tablets and capsules. And so if you hear product companies, I've seen like lots of friends that are in different, like either MLM businesses or affiliates, and they're like.

[00:16:25] Carrie Lupoli: They're calling it like the GLP one alternative, and they're thrown around the peptide word because it's trendy right now, but they're on the peptide bandwagon and because there's not very much regulation in the supplement world, trust me as somebody that. Has created, which I think is the best digestive enzyme in the world.

[00:16:44] Carrie Lupoli: We got ours as certified by NSS, the Sport Federation, where like Olympians and professional athletes can take it because that's really the only true, like real credible source. We just had a major league baseball team come to us [00:17:00] because they couldn't find anything that their players could take and be confident on.

[00:17:04] Carrie Lupoli: And supplements don't have very much, it's still the wild west. So they can start to say it's like a natural GLP one. And then you start thinking, oh, well if the GLP one is natural and I don't wanna do GLP one, but I want the benefits of the weight loss of the GLP one, I'll just do that. Right. So I want you to think about the fact that there are these like.

[00:17:27] Carrie Lupoli: Supplemental types of quote unquote peptides that are more like herbal adaptogens, right? Maybe they're, they could put some amino acids in there for sure, but they're likely more like some amino acids, herbal adaptogens, some nutrients. So maybe you've got like ashwagandha, maybe you've got B vitamins, magnesium, zinc.

[00:17:49] Carrie Lupoli: Okay. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with them, but they're being often marketed like a peptide. And I, I, I like them better for sure, because [00:18:00] they are the natural, like working to naturally enhance versus, uh, the medical intervention scream at your body, right. So just like the collagen peptides might be these other quote unquote, they're supplements that are trying to mimic the trend right now, the voice of peptides, but they're designed to mimic the effects of peptides and nudging your body to produce more of what's on its own.

[00:18:28] Carrie Lupoli: Because if like we can help produce peptides with food and lifestyle, then sure there are supplements that are gonna be able to say into the same thing. So I'm not mad at it. I just want you to understand it. It's not a peptide and I feel much better about you doing it, but it's also around the why. It's never going to replace the actual fix.

[00:18:49] Carrie Lupoli: Do you care more about weight loss or health? Because with one, one, when you focus solely on weight loss, you get nothing. How long have you been trying to focus on weight loss? But when you [00:19:00] focus on health, you get everything, and health means all different aspects of your body. I take a variety, like I take collagen peptides.

[00:19:08] Carrie Lupoli: I also take some nutritional quote unquote peptides that like, in some ways marketed that it can be that replacement. But I get it. Like I understand what it is and it's filling the gaps for me in certain things. Okay, so I just want you to think about it. Uh, you could think about like these kinds of either supplements and things like that.

[00:19:30] Carrie Lupoli: Like when you go to the grocery store and you can buy the veggies or you could buy them precut. It's like you can mix and match different herbal herbs and vitamins and things like that. And then some of these, it's just like we put it together for you, like precut veggies, right? But your body still has to absorb them.

[00:19:48] Carrie Lupoli: It still has to, if you get the precut veggies, you still have to cook them. They like 'cause well you don't have to cook veggies. Right? But in general, if like you cook veggies are easier to digest, it's, [00:20:00] it isn't. You are what you eat, it is, you are what you absorb. So you need to have a body that's willing and able to absorb the supplements that you are using.

[00:20:08] Carrie Lupoli: 'cause otherwise it could just go right through you and it's not going to do that. So think about the fact that they don't con, a lot of these don't contain peptides themselves, and they are actually just supplements with the peptide. So just read the label really carefully and I will put in the chat.

[00:20:27] Carrie Lupoli: There's one that I've been really liking. I don't love the monkey because they market, just like I said, this GLP one alternative, but. I really do like the company. I've had multiple conversations with them. They also have a collagen, a liquid collagen that I actually really like. So I will put that information in the show notes so you can go and take a look at a quote unquote peptide like GLP one replacement, blah, blah, blah.

[00:20:57] Carrie Lupoli: That really isn't, but it's filled with vitamins and [00:21:00] minerals and the types of herbs that can help you enhance your own peptide production. So I'm not mad at that, but I don't want you to do it because you think this is gonna be the quick fix. I want you to do it because like, okay, this is gonna fill the gaps of the things I'm already doing.

[00:21:11] Carrie Lupoli: All right. One other thing that I think is really important, because a lot of people talk about peptides for hormonal issues, and as a woman that talks a ton about menopause, I went through menopause at 46. This is a really important thing to think about, remember? It is a guarantee that your hormones as a woman are going to decline.

[00:21:30] Carrie Lupoli: They just are. I think we shouldn't be surprised about this. I don't think we should be diagnosing. Menopause. I just think diagnosis sounds like it's like cancer or diabetes. It's just a natural progression. We don't diagnose fertility when a woman gets her, period. It's just a stage in her life, and I think we just have to understand that it's.

[00:21:51] Carrie Lupoli: Happening and we can look at the symptoms of what we are facing and realize, okay, I'm really reducing the estrogen for [00:22:00] JustOne, those kinds of things. And now there's a lot of companies that are talking about how peptides can help with that. Okay? Because here's the thing, there's no like test for you to say, am I depleted in my peptides?

[00:22:11] Carrie Lupoli: Really? There's only blood work for that. But what you do is you look at symptoms and they're like, menopausal symptoms could mean. That you have peptide issues, right? And so could weight loss or weight gain, and so can cravings and sleep issues like, and we wanna get to the foundation. We wanna focus on blood sugar balance and really understanding how to serve our body as much as possible.

[00:22:34] Carrie Lupoli: Having that healthy balance, understanding what the healthiest version of you does, says stinks and beliefs. And then we can fill in gaps. And I get a lot of questions. Okay. If peptides can help with hormones, maybe I'll try that before I go to HRT Hormone replacement therapy. Now I. Think, and I would lead everybody over to Inner Balance, inner balance.com.

[00:22:57] Carrie Lupoli: Dr. Sarah Dura, she's literally the [00:23:00] country's leading doctor on hormones, understanding bioidentical hormones versus synthetic hormones. I am on HRT through Inner Balance, love, love them, love everything she stands for, because I actually think, especially with what she teaches and what she talks about, it is just something that like most women.

[00:23:17] Carrie Lupoli: Should likely look into. Um, it's not the stigma that it used to be, and I would never tell everybody, go do that. I just want you to do your research. And I don't want people to be scared of that and think, oh, I'll just go do a peptide and then I don't have to do HRT because HRT is scary and bad. If not, it replaces our declining sex hormones that are absolutely necessary.

[00:23:36] Carrie Lupoli: It actually not only helps with hot flashes and mood changes and sleep disruption, but it also helps with your bone health, vaginal dryness. It actually helps with. Like long-term disease and it really does help restore your level, like your hormonal levels to a more youthful state. And peptides can support symptoms, uh, by improving symptoms affected by hormone decline, but it's [00:24:00] not actually helping to replace.

[00:24:03] Carrie Lupoli: Does that make sense? Inner balance.com do that, and I just think the lifestyle and then really digging into hormonal balance are really big pieces of the puzzle. Remember, I talk about the six spinning plates, nutrition, exercise, training, nutrition, exercise, hydration, managing your sleep, managing your stress and supplementation.

[00:24:21] Carrie Lupoli: So this whole thing falls under the level of supplementation. But if you're gonna build a house, you need the foundation first, right? So you need the nutrition, then you need to do the strength training and the hydration and the sleep and managing your stress are all the walls and the things that you really need to build a house.

[00:24:41] Carrie Lupoli: Supplements are like the last piece of it. Maybe it's the roof, maybe it's the furniture. But you can't do that really truly. Although we know that there are some supplements that like we probably, most of us really need. I'd say most people are the deficient in [00:25:00] like vitamin D and magnesium. And there's certain things that, like most doctors will tell you is you can just go ahead and feel pretty good about, but it's not gonna be the foundation.

[00:25:09] Carrie Lupoli: It never is. So the bottom line is peptides are cool, they could be useful. Peptides in our body are cool. The peptides that that your body makes, they're cool. Adding a supplemental peptide like a booster or a helper could be something that you do. You gotta think about, do you? The objectable is an intervention, but.

[00:25:35] Carrie Lupoli: Peptides that are nutritional or supplements that are trying to mimic the peptide talk, they're nutritionally based. And while supplements are wild west, I'd be very careful anytime I recommend something, I be very careful about sourcing, about knowing the people that are making the products. I, if you see something on my website, I've had multiple conversations with them.

[00:25:57] Carrie Lupoli: And that can fill gaps. Okay? [00:26:00] But when you are doing the foundational stuff of building that house, your body can make the peptides it needs naturally. Why do we do that first before we go down this idea that it's gonna be a quick fix? Those are the biggest pieces I think that we really need to understand and recognize that where peptides fall in the whole.

[00:26:19] Carrie Lupoli: Realm of our body, the fact that we already make them, and not that there's different kinds of peptides. There's our medical that are injectable, mostly injectable. There's other ways, and then there are the nutritional, when it comes to hormonal balance, when it comes to menopause, for example, I would ask you to consider, don't just automatically assume HRT.

[00:26:45] Carrie Lupoli: Certain types of HRT, which I will not get into all the details of are is a worse option than starting with peptides. I just. I don't assume that. So that's where I stand with this. I hope this clarifies things for [00:27:00] you, and that's what I mean, like you're probably doing peptides in your smoothie if you're throwing collagen in your smoothie.

[00:27:05] Carrie Lupoli: Uh, so understanding what is, is the first key to be able to make your own decisions. I always say, I'll never tell you what you can or can't do, but I'll educate you. So you are empowered to make decisions for yourself so you can essentially be your own tion coach. So remember, wherever you are on your journey, there's a place for you to be able to take a hold of your health.

[00:27:21] Carrie Lupoli: 1% of the time is all it needs. It's not about being perfect, it's about being consistent. Be about being educated and about being self-aware of who you are, what you want, and why you want it. I'll see you next time.