Body Composition Protocol for Women: Peptides, Growth Hormone, Protein, GLP-1s & The Complete Metabolic Reset | Her Stack Series

Your body after a baby was never a calorie problem. It is a metabolic one. In this Her Stack episode I am walking you through exactly how to restore your metabolism so body composition follows. The goal is not weight loss. The goal is metabolic restoration. Body comp is downstream.

I am breaking down the four drivers that actually run body composition (insulin, thyroid, sleep, growth hormone), the four pillars to address them (nutrition, lifestyle, supplements, peptides), and the exact peptide sequencing for women. Plus my honest take on GLP-1s including semaglutide, tirzepatide, and retatrutide, where they actually fit, and why microdosing makes more sense than chasing the scale.

I also share what nobody talks about. Eating less postpartum often makes body composition worse. Breastfeeding is sequencing, not failure. Growth hormone is the layer women never hear about, so they plateau and blame their age when it was a fixable signal the whole time.

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I TALK ABOUT:

00:00 Welcome back to the Her Stack series

00:53 Updates: working with me one-on-one and my new peptide planner

06:15 Why body composition not weight, and why metabolism not calories

07:01 The four drivers and four pillars framework

09:00 Driver 1: Insulin resistance and why stubborn middle fat is an insulin problem, not a calorie problem

11:30 Driver 2: Thyroid, and why TSH alone misses Free T3 (the worker hormone)

14:50 Driver 3: Sleep, cortisol, and the loop back to insulin resistance

19:32 Driver 4: Growth hormone, the layer nobody talks about that's blunted postpartum and through aging

22:19 The labs to actually ask for: fasting insulin, Free T3, IGF-1, DHEA-S, plus a 2-week CGM

24:30 Pillar 1: Nutrition (protein floor of 120g, leucine at every meal, food order, fiber, and why you should NOT under-eat)

28:06 Why leucine flips the muscle-building switch

35:00 Pillar 2: Lifestyle and biohacking (lift 3x a week, walk 7-10k steps, zone 2, cold and heat, red light, and the fringe tier honestly)

45:30 Pillar 3: Supplements (creatine, magnesium glycinate, myo-inositol, omega-3, berberine, and breastfeeding sequencing)

51:01 Berberine, AMPK, and "nature's metformin"

55:30 Pillar 4: The peptide stack starts here with AOD-9604

56:00 AOD-9604, the growth hormone fragment, why I am personally taking it right now

01:02:00 MOTS-c, the "exercise in a molecule" mitochondrial peptide

01:05:00 5-Amino-1MQ and releasing the brake on fat cells

01:07:00 Sermorelin, the gentle GH entry (what a secretagogue actually is)

01:10:00 CJC-1295, Ipamorelin, and Tesamorelin for post-weaning GH restoration

01:13:00 The GLP-1 honest take: semaglutide, tirzepatide, and the retatrutide question

01:14:00 Why retatrutide is called the triple agonist and where it fits (and where it doesn't)

01:19:27 Recap and wrap-up

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