Daniel Stickler M.D. - Longevity & Healthy Aging

Most medications work by forcing the body to react. And when the body reacts, you get side effects. Something improves over here, something else gets disrupted over there. Peptides work differently. The body actually recognizes them. It responds instead of reacts. Here's how I explain it to patients...

Of all the regenerative options out there right now, stem cells are the ones I'm most cautious about. The research is still developing and the variables are harder to control. Peptides are a different story. They're small pieces of protein. The body already knows what they are. It recognizes them as...

Most people go through life expecting their DNA to do the work for them. They don't think much about what they eat, how they move, or whether they slow down enough to be present. And I get it. That's how we were all raised to think about health. But everything you do changes how your genes are expre...

Your cells are constantly sending each other messages. I call them packets of emails. They're tiny segments of RNA called micro RNAs. They travel through the body and tell other cells what's happening and what to do. In studies on parabiosis, where we connect the circulation of an old animal to a yo...

Micro RNAs tell your DNA how to express itself. Think of them as messengers. When your body senses a stressful environment, micro RNAs send signals to your DNA. They say, "upregulate this, downregulate that, adjust how you're functioning." Right now, we're in the peptide era. Peptides are changing t...