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Dr. Alex Tatem

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“Biggest trade off right now is you don't know if you're even getting what you want, right? Because you're ordering this from some research compound only. You don't know whether or not they've gotten out all the appropriate endotoxins. You don't know if you're getting what you actually paid for. So that's the biggest thing. And also the thing is that, well, all right, these have a good example of, okay, preventing or helping heal injury. But the thing is that, well, we've got other compounds over here. You know, let's go ahead and just pull Tessa Morland as an example. So this is actually interesting. It's a peptide that is commercially available right now. I could write the script for you. You could go pick it up from CVS or Walgreens. Okay, this is available as a commercial product. And people really like it because it'll help boost growth hormone and it happens to be uniquely good at stripping abdominal fat, okay? Or visceral fat. But the thing is that, you know, the moment you stop taking it for a brief period of time, well, if you haven't changed anything about your lifestyle, you're going to go right back to where you were.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, Love my children. I haven't slept in years. This is life, right? There are trade-offs. And even with great tools, there are trade-offs.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know what I tell patients? I'm like, me too, man. You know, but my alarm still went off at 4 45 this morning so I could hit the gym before I made it to clinic because there are no real shortcuts. There are things that can help, right? GLP1s are the best example of that, right? Okay, this is the closest thing to do a shortcut you're gonna get. But the truth is, is that this isn't gonna go to the gym for you and it's not gonna lift the weight so you can maintain that muscle mass so you get the best possible result and try to hold on to your muscle while losing the fat.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then they'll come in and they'll start talking about energy, sex drive, and that sort of things. And I'm like, okay, if that's it, well, we need to take your testosterone levels, brother. Okay. So instead of looking for peptides, right? You know, you don't walk into a home depot or a lowe's. You'd be like, what tools do I need? And you're like, what are you trying to do, right? And then you start to talk to someone there. You're like, well, I'm trying to build this. Okay, you need a saw. You need a screwdriver. You need this. And some of those tools might be peptides. But some of them may be hormones. You know, some of it may be diet and exercise. And so peptides are just another type of tool that we can use.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The first thing I get asked is what peptides do I need? And then I just look at them. I'm like, what's your problem? What's bothering you?”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If we look at the top four large language models companies, all right, so all the heavy hitters and how much revenue they're generating, it's estimated to be between $58 billion up to maybe $62 billion. Yet the income and the revenue from just semaglutide and terzepatide alone is going to be over $55 billion this year. And so what we have is peptides without even considering all of this happening in the research space or the research use only space, without even considering the peptides that we'll see come from compounding pharmacies, we're already approaching parity with what we're seeing in AI as far as revenue goes. That is the demand that we're seeing in the marketplace.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On a daily basis. And so the truth is that we're talking about this from the angle of biohackers and people that are super engaged in our health. But the truth is that this is going to be able to be used to help our population at large. And, you know, ultimately, hopefully avoid a lot of the terrible disease states that we're seeing overwhelm the medical system right now.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love that. I love eating your greens and going to the gym. But unfortunate reality is that here in the United States, it depends on what database you look at. But obesity rates are estimated to be 40 to 70 percent. Okay, whether you, depending on what BMI cutoff you're using, okay, BMI is not perfect, but it is what it is. And so the thing is that, well, eating greens and going to the gym are not working for us as a society. And we could talk about how we don't have real food anymore. We have food deserts. We have this calorically dense but nutritionally poor food. I'll tell you, the most disturbing thing I see as a surgeon is I'll see a patient come in the door and they're morbidly obese. They're a large individual, but I have to do surgery on them. But the connective tissue, the stuff that's made up of protein that makes them them, that literally holds them together is paper, paper thin because they're eating an incredible amount of calories. They're gaining fat, but they don't have any protein in their diet. And that's not something that's rare.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is wild. And I'll tell you, one of the hardest things that I'm sure you've heard being on the receiving end of this is just the complexity of it. And there are so many levers that are moving at once and trying to get your head around it and balance it all. It requires nuance and it requires a thoughtful discussion with your doctor who's well educated on them. And that's one of the challenges is that there isn't broad, great education on these products right now in the medical space. And so that's something that I'm very passionate about is improving education across my colleagues so that they're not afraid of these anymore.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very soon is kind of the older brother of peptides, the more complex form, biologics called monoclonal antibodies that are specifically designed to inhibit the enzymes that break down muscle. So these are specifically called myostatin inhibitors. There are three that are coming down the pipeline. There is one called the magromab, which is owned by Lily. That is going to bind to the peanut butter to myostatin's jelly, which is called activin. And then you have.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. One thing I am concerned about is the rapid weight loss with GLP1 medications. Because the problem is that when you go into such a radical caloric deficit, your body goes into catabolism, which is breaking down tissue. And you want to break down fat, right? But your body isn't that judicious. It's going to break down muscle. And muscle is the most metabolically important tissue that any of us have. And so if you really want to optimize your insulin sensitivity, well, you need to maintain your muscle. And right now, really, the only compounds that we have that are really good at preserving muscle with resistance training is testosterone, right? But that isn't going to be a good option for our male patients that want to get pregnant because testosterone turns off fertility in men, all right. It's also not a great idea for our female patients, depending on their age, testosterone, TRT, is a thing in older women, menopausal won't go into that. But truthfully, testosterone is not the right answer for everybody. And so what we are going to see come down the pipe.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're doing great, and that's what I like about the advent of these GLP ones is they're removing the stigma of a needle. And I look at some of my friends who have been on it. I can't recognize them. They look awesome.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like you would for any nasal decongestant, right? And if you have allergies or something like that. Also for someone like yourself, you travel a lot. You're going in between different time zones. You're balancing multiple obligations at different odd times of the day. I shudder to think what your circadian rhythm looks like, my friend. But that is what we have some of these other compounds that are going to be available for. So if we look at DSIP, okay, that has been shown to be helpful with regulating your circadian rhythm. All right, that is one of the ones that's going to be approved hopefully here soon again in July, right? And then, you know, on top of that, you've got things like Selenk, which is another one that can help calm you as you're going to sleep about an hour ahead of time. And again, help those deep deltaway brainwaves that are so restorative whenever you actually are, you know, resting.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really, really fascinating compound to see back on the market. And then we can actually get more data regarding efficacy across a wide population.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So again, as a physician who likes keeping my license, I wouldn't say necessarily recommend, but I would say if we're looking at how these medications have been used and potentially one that may be legal again coming this July, depending on what the FDA says, intranasal CMAX. And this was one that was originally studied actually in Russia many years ago. And what they found is that this seven amino acid peptide, when it was administered after a TBI, so a traumatic brain injury, all right, or acute injury, that patients tended to bounce back faster. Also, they saw evidence of it improving outcomes after stroke. And it also seems to upregulate the same sort of factors that help with cognition and with connecting sentences and bits of data in your brain. And so it's also one of the, interestingly enough, one of the ones that is available intranasally because it goes through the mucus membranes and gets right where you need it. And so that's going to be a”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I will tell you this when I was going through college and medical school, I was the biggest skeptic. Like, I did not believe any of the health or wellness claims that we saw coming out at the time. And again, that was at a time where we were getting bombarded with stuff about the Atkins diet and this, that, or the other. But then all of a sudden, you start having patients come back to you and they're testifying as the benefits they've seen from these things. You start to actually look at the biochemistry behind them. You're like, there's a lot of science backing this up. This isn't just mumbo jumbo. And so believe it or not, yeah, there are creams that can slow the process of aging, at least from a visual standpoint when it comes to your skin. I have yet to figure out anything that, you know, makes me as energetic as I was in my early 20s, but I'm working on it.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you look online, you can probably find a version of everything. But if we're talking about actual legitimate formulations, the best example of a topical cream is going to be GHKCU. And this is interesting because this is a copper tripeptide that has been found to decrease in expression and concentration as we age. But when it is applied topically, it's highly effective. So putting on a cream on your face, all right. It's been found to be extremely beneficial in regenerating the quality of skin. So complexion, all right, increasing the amount of collagen and elastin, the things that we need to keep our faces taught and youthful, the things that people will pay lots of money to go get lasered to get improvements. Not that it's a replacement for that, but that's a topical form that believe it or not, you could go out and buy today because topical GHKCU is regulated very differently than the injectable form.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honestly, the best peptides for that right now are the GLP1 drugs. Hands down because what you're doing is you are slowing gatric emptying. And so you have a slower absorption of that bowls of food that you've eaten. So your glucose doesn't spike. And so as a result, that increases insulin sensitivity significantly. Now, again, you have to be careful about what peptide you're using for what. A lot of these peptides that boost growth hormone and boost, let's say, IGF1, those can actually increase serum glucose and that may not be what you want if you are someone that is trying to work on your insulin sensitivity.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll tell you, but something that blows my mind is that I have so many patients that think that they can just take testosterone and just put on muscle naturally. And it doesn't work that way. You might get a tiny little bit, but you still have to.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So that is an interesting misnomer because that has been a common selling point that you'll see on social media. But as of right now, the only peptide that you might construe that way would be this guy right here in my hand, IGF1 LR3. Now IGF1 LR3 is basically the longer-lasting version of IGF1, which is the downstream effect of growth hormone. I'm sure you've heard of bodybuilders taking growth hormone to increase size and lose fat. In higher doses, it can help contribute to muscle mass. But truthfully, if you're trying to gain significant muscle mass, this is not the way to do it. And so right now, one of the things that peptides can't do for you is independently put on significant amounts of lean mass.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So just a redness of the face that it makes me look like I'm sunburned. And then I come in on the office on like a Tuesday and then my staff's like, oh my gosh, you go out in the yard and do some work this week. I'm like, it's just my face. For example, that's something that a lot of people have reported benefits from GHKCU from. So again, another compound, another peptide that could be beneficial for a patient like myself.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I will tell you this as some, I don't know how old you are, Stephen, but I'm in my 33. God bless you. I will tell you, once you get over 35, man, that is brutal, all right? I sleep on my neck in a wrong way, and I need like a freaking brace for like two weeks. And so as someone who spends a lot of time in the gym, you know, working out, like you start to accumulate all these little aches and pains. And so the idea of, for example, I have a very finicky right shoulder. If I try to do a really heavy bench and I haven't warmed up, I can tweak this and it takes me out of the fight for at least a month. Okay. And I have to do other things. Now, I would have killed at various points in time over the past two years to have had BPC and TB500 to hopefully speed that sort of healing. All right. Also, for example, I suffer from really bad rosacea. It flares constantly.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honestly, because right now there is not a legal framework for me to obtain them. And the truth is, is that I want to be an example for my patients. And that's why I'm out here advocating that we get access to these peptides in a legal, safe way again. All right. And because it's the best thing for everyone.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because back a couple of months ago, I was probably close to about 240 or so, and I was into powerlifting. You know, I still am. But, you know, it's really great to be able to deadlift 500 pounds, but then stairs become really hard when you're trying to walk up. And you're like, I don't know. I kind of like being able to not take a break after two or three flights of stairs. And so I was like, okay, all right, longevity is a priority of mine. I'm going to slim down a little bit. I was like, let me just try this for a little bit. And what I found is that it is incredibly potent and at a very low dose, very, very tolerable.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, what is better, right? So I like this option for many of my patients because it's flexible, all right? So that is something that works for most patients, all right? But then again, this works great for patients too. But what you want is you want an ecosystem where you have choice. So you can make the right choice for the right patient. For a lot of patients, they're going to do exceedingly well on this. And there's so much data to support that. But I also have a lot of patients who get really ill after they do a large dose of Manjaro or of GLP1. And if we take that same dose and we just cut it into multiple doses within a week, we can avoid those side effects.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, Lily has a patent on the Trazepatide molecule in that formulation in your hand. And if anyone violates a patent, that can be pursued in US court. Patent law, right? But what's interesting is that Lily and Novo Nordisk know that that's different in your right hand. It doesn't look the same. You can dose it differently. And they know that if they were going to fight that in court, it would cost a lot of money and take a lot of time. So you know what's a lot easier? Calling your friend at the FDA and getting him to step on the competition so you don't have to. And then who's paying for that enforcement? It's not the lawyers that the pharma company is paying for. It's the taxpayer paying for the FDA through taxes.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“United States from the FDA and trying to shut down compounding pharmacies and prevent them from making these medications even though that ability to customize the fact that this is not an exact copy of what's in your hand right now should protect it under current legislation, but there is now enough pressure from the powers that be and from lobbyists from both Lily and Nova Nordisk, which are the two companies that make the GLP1 medications that we're seeing Marty Macri, the FDA commissioner, has now tweeted more about cracking down on compounded GLP1 medications than he's tweeted about diabetes or heart disease in his entire time in office.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now. Yeah, exactly. Just a vial of Trizepatide as being able, having infinite permutations and dosing ability. Because you can draw this up with a small syringe and do microdosing. So instead of one large dose once a week, because what many patients will experience is they'll have a return of their hunger by the end of the week and they end up losing ground. You can actually, instead of doing a full dose once a week, you could do multiple, many doses throughout the week with this formulation and with this presentation of the medication, all right? But the challenge is that that is the benefit that allows us to be compounded by compounding pharmacies because they're able to provide something that is similar to what's in your hand, right? But it offers more flexibility that may be the right choice for some patients. So personalization in medicine, okay? But the challenge is that if you spend however much money on this, you're not giving it to Lily. And so as a result, we have seen an unprecedented crackdown in the United States.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly, right? But think of that as paint by numbers. Okay. This section is this color. This section is that color. All right. Think of this as”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A little bit different. A little bit different. This is an auto injector pin. And so what you do is you're able to actually ratchet the dose there on the right side and then you pinch an inch in your skin and then push it up against and it'll auto deploy. And so there's nothing that you need to do. You don't have to learn how to drop medication and inject. Whenever you're administering peptides at home, especially for patients that have obtained them from research use only markets, they usually come in just little vials that need to be drawn up with a needle, okay? Now the benefit of that is that you can do custom dosing, right? But the drawback is that, well, you have to know how to calculate that and put it together. This may be the most controversial thing we have on this table. And by farmers estimate, it might be the most dangerous thing to their entire business model because this is tricepatide, the exact same thing that you had in that pen, but this is made by a high quality 503A compounding pharmacy. And the reason why this”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so this is a prescription Manjaro pen. So Manjaro is the brand name for Trazepotide. All right. Trazepotide being the leading GLP1 product right now from Lily. So this produces more weight loss per milligram than any other product that we've got out right now.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just underneath the skin. As I tell patients, just pinch an inch, inject under the skin. We do that for a lot of other medications as well.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Break it all apart. Now, there are some very unique exceptions to that. There's a form of BPC 157 that actually is tolerated in the gut, but by and large, the overwhelming majority of these have to be injected either subutaneously or into the muscle. And that's usually a preference.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ground up in individual pieces, right? The thing is that your gut is designed to break up any sort of protein that you ingest orally into these little pieces. And so if you were to say, I don't know, drink some of, you know, this TB500, your body wouldn't be able to tell the difference in between that and a piece of chicken.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a great question. So, what's interesting is that, as we mentioned, peptides are just made up of building blocks of amino acids. And if you were to go make yourself a protein shake, what is that going to look like from a LEGO standpoint? It just looks like this, a handful of LEGOs in your hand, right?”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. It's just not a good idea, right? And so what happened is we banned these and the gray market stepped in. And so these are companies that will sell peptides that have on the label for research use only, all right? And the idea is that that takes them out of the FDA's jurisdiction because they're not selling it for people to inject into themselves out of the FDA's hands. I'm just creating a vial of this magical juice that you can use for your rat, okay? That's the idea. We all know that's not what's really happening. But because there isn't any quality control, it's kind of like getting gas station sushi. Like, yeah, you can do it, but you don't really know if it's sushi and it may not end very well for you. And so, again, not saying that there aren't some people who have gotten good results with research use only peptides, but again, it's not standardized, which is why I think moving this back into the 503A compounding world is the best thing for everyone.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, this is, well, this is important to talk about, right? Because we have to understand what's going on in the marketplace. The moment that these drugs were banned or these medications were banned in 2023, it was kind of like the United States experiment at banning alcohol. It didn't go very well, right? All of a sudden, you know, the mob came around and we started seeing unregulated saloons and unregulated alcohol production. And it was contaminated with all the stuff that you didn't want.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like CMAX is a great option for that. And then DSIP and Epithalon both have roles in regulating sleep and recovery. Yeah, pretty wild.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Okay. And then we have the brother to that, which is TB500. This vial over here. This improves blood flow to an injured area. You could think of this as sending the soldiers, as sending the cells that are required for rebuilding that tissue matrix that was damaged by a tear or a cut. All right. On top of that, we're also getting something called KPV. May not have it here, but that is another peptide that has been linked to angiogenesis and tissue repair. We're also getting MOT-C. And some patients will call it exercise in a vial. It improves your VO2 max and your exercise tolerance by regulating the energy pathway, basically making more ATP, the energy that we all use to move, it makes more of that available. All right. We're also going to get DCIP epithalon and CMAX, which are all peptides that affect cognitive function. So improving thinking.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So today we got a press release from the FDA saying that in July they are going to consider seven peptides for removing from category two back to category one.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so we are going to see exponentially more of these products come down the pipeline from pharmaceutical companies in the form of commercial products.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And with recovering the gland in your brain that's responsible for melatonin and regulating your sleep wake cycles. So the question isn't what can peptides do? It's kind of, well, what can't they do? And if they can't do that yet, can we develop a peptide that can accomplish that task? And the answer is probably and simultaneously while there may be resistance from pharmaceutical industry in these peptides, the ones that we're most interested right now, they have signed multi-billion dollar deals with other pharmaceutical companies that are involved in peptide development aided by AI to try and fast track their own peptide products.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The best way to think about it is like this so peptides are almost like an app on your phone. So imagine before we had apps. I'm old enough to remember trying to log on and do my banking online before we had apps. And gosh, it was so painful, right? Like there are ways to accomplish things, but they were very inconvenient and in a roundabout way. And now all of a sudden, we have these apps on our phone that can do just about anything except fold your laundry, right? You know, there's some limits to it, but I mean, really the sky's the limit from an electronic standpoint. And really, that's what peptides are. So the thing is, is that we have peptides that can help you lose weight, like the GLP1 drugs. We have peptides that can improve skin quality, like GHKCU. We have peptides that can help heal your gut, like BPC157, particularly effective in ulcerative colitis, which is something that's being investigated with the FDA's planned upcoming meeting on it. We also have peptides that can help with sleep.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Their numbers because losing weight is really, really hard, regardless of all of the education and resources I try to give them. But now we have peptides in the form of GLP1 drugs like semaglutide and terzepatide. And I just saw a patient last week who increased his sperm count 10 times over and is now in a normal range because he's lost 100 pounds due to using terzepotide, exercising, and improving his diet. He has totally changed his life.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my gosh, I have a best story for you. So one of the most frustrating things about my practice is treating infertility in young men that have significant metabolic dysfunction. These are young men that have a low sperm count, right? So they can't get pregnant because they just don't have the numbers to make it happen. And you're looking at them and they're morbidly obese, okay? They have high insulin resistance. All right. And their endocrine system has been damaged by that obesity. So they don't have low testosterone levels and their brain is not making enough of the signals to stimulate their testicles. Now, we have medications that we can use to help stimulate that to make more of that signal stimulate the testicles, right? But really what is eating at them, what is causing this is not that chemical imbalance. That's the symptom. That's not the problem, okay? And treating symptoms doesn't really get you very far. And so I would have patience that I would take care of and we would never see a significant improvement.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I think what we're seeing is the forbidden fruit effect because this was banned and all of a sudden, oh, well, why'd they ban it? Well, they wouldn't have banned it if it weren't working, right? And we're also seeing the effect of TikTok and short-form content being spread very rapidly, very virally. And that's been going on for two years now, combined with new emphasis from administration leadership and HHS and RFK.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whenever I'm treating them and taking care of them, but also when I'm talking to others and I'm speaking out about these issues, like I want access to these medications because I care about the patients who benefit from them.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The Illuminati. Yeah, and so I don't actually think that there's necessarily a group of maniacal individuals, you know, the Legion of Doom, you know, plotting to take away your health, but at the same time, I think that there are these large organizations that really couldn't care less about your health. They are prioritizing what's important for them. And regular people just get caught up in the mix. And what's challenging is that as a physician, I took a Hippocratic oath. I care about my patients. And so those are the people that are in front of me every single day that are seeking to improve their lives, to recover from injury. I have fertility patients that are just dying to start their family. And I have patients that are suffering from hormonal imbalances that haven't felt right in years. I treat erectile dysfunction in men that have been struggling for years after prostate cancer treatment. I mean, these are people that are broken and hurting. You want to be able to help them. And so I feel that as a very strong personal calling that I have to be the advocate for that patient, both in the room.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting because I try to walk a very fine line between what I can prove versus what I suspect after being in this space for a long time. And ultimately, I don't think it's accurate to characterize pharmaceutical companies or really any other entity as being evil or bad. The truth is maybe a little bit more ominous. The truth is that they are these large machines that are designed to prioritize profit over everything. And that's everything”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, this is the medication or the peptide that can aid with healing after an injury. So it's not necessarily there's direct competition. But at the end of the day, your average patient going throughout their daily life only has so much money that they can spend on medicine. $10, $15, however much money that goes to this doesn't go to a prescription drug from a commercial pharmaceutical company. And so there is real concern that potentially that was at play during that decision.”
2026-04-20 · The Diary of a CEO · The Peptide Expert: Big Pharma Are Hiding This Powerful Peptide From You! - Dr. Alex Tatem · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT