Keto / low Leptin recovery?
Hello! I’m new here, a very happy to have found this group. Has anyone else here had experience using peptides to regain stability after years of ketosis, fasting and low Leptin? I was a follower of Dr. Courtney Hunt’s protocols and had some pretty amazing healing of autoimmune issues by cycling ketosis and fasting. But ultimately, my Leptin tanked to .2 and my testosterone flatlined. Even though my DEXA scan showed near perfect body composition, my body was reacting to the deprivation that got me to that point. I’ve been trying to rebuild stability in my body for a year by re-introducing carbs and building muscle, but my appetite is now outpacing my burn rate pretty significantly and I’m trying to avoid going back to keto and fasting again as a solution. I think my body may still want to go back to a set point from 6 years ago (before I starting fasting to heal Long Covid an hashimotos) when I weighed 40 lbs more and was somewhat sedentary. Now I’m trying to figure out if I can nudge my body into a recomp, and then into maintenance with peptides rather than with fasting and eating loads of fat, all without setting off the alarm bells of low Leptin and everything downstream of that. I’m considering Ipamorelin/Tessamorelin, I’m also considering Tirz and Reta of course, though I’m a little wary of the mechanism of action something akin to fasting, or beinf being satiation of appetite or slow gastric emptying as that is already a problem . . My practitioner recommended NAD+ and SS31, and patience. I’d love to hear other opinions on what to stack for recoup when you are NOT high Leptin. Thanks 👋