EPISODE 46: How Peptides Helped This Couple Reclaim Their Health From Breast Cancer with Colin & Aleah Dechant

Welcome back to Peptides for Women podcast!

In this episode, I’m joined by Colin and Aleah Dechant- wellness coaches, peptide advocates, and functional health practitioners- to talk about their deeply personal journey through breast cancer recovery, burnout, metabolic dysfunction, midlife health challenges, and the powerful role peptides played in helping them rebuild their lives and health together.

After Aleah was diagnosed with breast cancer just days after her 40th birthday, the Dechant family chose an integrative path forward that completely changed the trajectory of their lives. What began as a healing journey quickly became a passion for functional medicine, peptide therapy, metabolic health, and helping other women and men feel vibrant again in midlife.

This conversation dives into functional lab testing, hormone dysfunction, inflammation, body composition, emotional resilience, peptide stacks, metabolic healing, relationships, confidence, and why feeling good again in your 40s and 50s is absolutely possible.

In this episode, we cover:

• Aleah’s breast cancer diagnosis shortly after turning 40 and why she chose an integrative oncology approach instead of conventional treatment alone

• How peptides like GHK-Cu were introduced during cancer recovery

• The role of peptides in tissue repair, recovery, and healing support

• Colin’s perspective supporting his wife and family during treatment and how the entire family navigated cancer treatment together

• What functional lab testing revealed about Aleah’s hormones, inflammation, liver detox pathways, and gut health

• High estrogen, poor estrogen metabolism, sluggish detoxification, and inflammatory pathways on DUTCH testing

• How functional testing helped uncover years of hidden dysfunction

• Why Aleah became an FDN practitioner after her healing journey

• Colin’s experience with career burnout after 25 years in management and leaving corporate life behind and relocating their family to Arizona

• The importance of family support and making big life decisions together

• How peptides helped Colin improve energy, sleep, recovery, body composition, and joint pain

• Colin’s peptide experience with L-carnitine, glutathione, BPC-157, and TB-500

• Aleah’s experience using microdosed tirzepatide for inflammation and metabolic healing after cancer treatment

• The differences they noticed between research peptides and pharmacy-compounded peptides

• Why women deserve to feel good AND look good without guilt

• Men’s perspective on aging, performance, energy, and confidence

• How improving health transformed their marriage, family dynamic, and confidence

• The peptide stacks they’re currently using and experimenting with: KLOW peptide stack, glutathione, tirzepatide, BPC-157, TB-500, and more

• Building a wellness business together focused on helping midlife women and men thrive

Connect with Colin & Aleah Dechant!

• Aleah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/functionalhealthwithaleah/
• Colin's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wyw2bcoaching/

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This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice. Always speak with your licensed healthcare provider before starting or changing any medication or treatment plan.