The Doctor Youn Show

About an hour ago, I saw Dr. Youn’s YouTube post mentioning he had Gabby Reese on his podcast, and as a big fan of hers, I immediately went to it to listen. Loved it! I appreciate how the conversation flowed naturally, it was without pretense and hype, and I learned a bit more on why it’s important to take certain health care steps. Very inspiring conversation. Thank you!!

Your latest episode is riddled with misinformation and misunderstanding of the basic principles of what drugs are. Not sure if this is intentional pitch to make these products seem more “natural” and therefore healthier and safer. Ask someone who works in the pharmaceutical industry on the development of drugs, including GLP-1 agonists I would like to clarify some things. According to the dictionary and the FDA a drug is “a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease” peptides are drugs and are synthesized by scientists in the pharmaceutical industry in order to mimic the natural GLP-1 peptide our body makes. These are actually very low dosages and they’re not even taken daily. Just because some thing is found in nature does not mean it is safer. Just because something has made in a lab does not mean it is more dangerous. As an organic chemist, I can take any molecule found in nature and make it in the lab and it will have identical properties if it is pure the safety of a compound inherent to the compound and the way it interacts with the body not where or how it’s made. Your guest to use the word peptide multiple times when you’re trying to describe what a peptide is…. Peptides are short chains of amino acids. Multiple peptides connected together or long chains of amino acids are proteins. Babies in the womb are not “bathing in insulin.” insulin is a large protein in the mother‘s blood that cannot cross the placenta barrier into the fetus. This episode really needs a fact checker and siting of some of these claims.

I heard Dr . Youn on other podcasts. So happy to see he has his own!

Love Dr. Youn, his guests, research, and perspective! My favorite episodes are the monthly hot topics with Desiree! Fingers crossed we’ll get these bi-monthly soon! Thanks for all you do!