{"podcast":{"title":"Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson","slug":"fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256","podcast_index_feed_id":940256,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/forku/","website_url":"https://www.forku.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/788b2349-48f2-498b-af8c-3fc9e102deaa/FU-2026-1.png","author":"Terry Simpson","episode_count":135,"summary":"Fork U(niversity) Not everything you put in your mouth is good for you. There’s a lot of medical information thrown around out there. How are you to know what information you can trust, and what’s just plain old quackery? You can’t rely on your own “google fu”. You can’t count on quality medical advice from Facebook. You need a doctor in your corner. On each episode of Your Doctor’s Orders, Dr. Terry Simpson will cut through the clutter and noise that always seems to follow the latest medical news. He has the unique perspective of a surgeon who has spent years doing molecular virology research and as a skeptic with academic credentials. He’ll help you develop the critical thinking skills so you can recognize evidence-based medicine, busting myths along the way. The most common medical myths are often disguised as seemingly harmless “food as medicine”. By offering their own brand of medicine via foods, These hucksters are trying to practice medicine without a license. And though they’ll claim “nutrition is not taught in medical schools”, it turns out that’s a myth too. In fact, there’s an entire medical subspecialty called Culinary Medicine, and Dr. Simpson is certified as a Culina…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T16:19:44.473681+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256"},"episode":{"title":"The Peptide Bazaar: Real Medicine vs. Vials from the Internet","slug":"the-peptide-bazaar-real-medicine-vs-vials-from-the-internet","published_at":"2026-04-16T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/the-peptide-bazaar-real-medicine-vs-vials-from-the-internet","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256","url":"https://forku.com/episode/the-peptide-bazaar-real-medicine-vs-vials-from-the-internet","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/61d28ff8-6729-4144-ae79-0626c306569f.mp3","summary":"The word “peptide” is doing too much work Let’s start with the simplest truth. A peptide is just a chain of amino acids—like pearls on a necklace. That’s it. Nothing mystical. Nothing magical. However, structure matters. Sequence matters. Biology cares deeply about both. Because of that, some peptides are extraordinarily powerful. Others are biologically interesting. And a growing number are simply… marketed. That last category is where things get messy. Before the hype, there was a miracle Now rewind to a hospital ward in Toronto in the early 1920s. Children with diabetes were dying. Not slowly improving. Not plateauing. Dying. Then Frederick Banting and Charles Best walked in with something crude and experimental. Insulin. They injected it. The children woke up. Not metaphorically. Not in a graph. They woke up. Families watched death reverse in real time. That is what a peptide can do when it actually works. Then came the desert and the lizard Fast forward a few decades. Out in the Southwest—near where I started my first job as a bariatric surgeon in Phoenix—lives the Gila monster. Not exactly a creature you expect to change medicine. Yet inside its venom was a peptide that led, eventually, to drugs like: Semaglutide That discovery didn’t go straight to Instagram. Instead, it went through: receptor biology pharmacology clinical trials outcomes research And the results were real: lower blood sugar meaningful weight loss reduced cardiovascular risk So yes, peptides can be extraordinary. But only when the science is finished. And then we lost the plot Now, enter the modern peptide market. Suddenly, everything is a peptide. Everything promises: healing recovery fat loss anti-aging You’ve seen the names: BPC-157 TB-500 CJC-1295 Ipamorelin MOTS-c AOD-9604 Meanwhile, they a…","meta_description":"The word “peptide” is doing too much work Let’s start with the simplest truth. A peptide is just a chain of amino acids—like pearls on a necklace. That’s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":613,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/episodes/the-peptide-bazaar-real-medicine-vs-vials-from-the-internet/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/the-peptide-bazaar-real-medicine-vs-vials-from-the-internet.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}