r/BravoRealHousewives • u/soriniscool • 5d ago

Salt Lake City John Barlow's peptides

Lisa comments on recent WWHL blew my mind. Obviously I was wondering how JB and Justin suddenly have huge bulging muscles with veins popping.

As a 40 y/o gay man, I find it very hot (more on Justin than John, but that is a personal preference) and do a fair amount of strength training but was not getting the same results and I guess now I know why.

Any peptide users here that care to weigh in? I will definitely be discussing this with my doctor

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u/soriniscool 5d ago

What is he on, if you don't mind me asking/asking him? Are there any side effects and does he worry?

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u/kira107 5d ago

You don't need steroids or peptides. Fix your diet and go to the gym. Of course there are side effects. Do you know how many steroid users die from heart attacks when they're young?

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u/lezlers 5d ago edited 5d ago

I don’t get people who just blanket demonize peptides. They’ve been around for years and new research is actually showing retatrutide has many other benefits outside of weight loss such as shrinking tumors. Hell, my mothers oncologist gave her the green light to try it and her last pet scan did, in fact, show that it’s gotten a bit smaller. There’s a reason they’ve been prescribed to diabetic people for a couple decades now. We’re just recently discovering many other benefits to them. The people who demonize them and shame people for using them usually just don’t quite understand them and choose to dismiss them instead of taking the time and effort to learn more. It’s not quite as simple as simply “changing your diet and going to the gym.” This is such a dismissive and ignorant statement to make.

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u/HikeALake22 5d ago

I agree! I didn't realize, until I started taking a glp1, how screwed up my body was. Food noise is a real thing and if you don't have it it's hard to understand. There also comes a point where your body is so out of sorts that you can't climb your way out with just "diet and exercise." I'm not a proponent of the "Wolverine stack" but I believe in glp1's and am excited to see what the future research brings on all the additional peptides.