I was a year postpartum and I barely recognized myself.
I've always been someone who takes her health seriously. I lift weights. I walk. I eat well. I invest in my wellness. But after losing our son Gabriel, a high-risk pregnancy with Isaiah, and the postpartum season that followed — my body was somewhere I had never been before.
I was over 20 lbs heavier than my pre-pregnancy weight, running on empty, dealing with hormonal swings I couldn't get ahead of, inflammation that made recovery from workouts feel impossible, and a gut that felt completely off. I was doing everything right and getting nowhere.
People I trusted in my community started sharing that peptides — and specifically microdosing tirzepatide — might provide the relief my body and mind so desperately wanted. So I started paying attention. I accessed it through a local functional medicine practitioner. It worked. The results were real and they came quickly. But it was expensive, sourced through a compounding pharmacy, and completely out of reach for most people. I knew this couldn't be the only way.
Around the same time, my mother — who is nearly 70 — was recovering from a rotator cuff injury. I started researching peptides more deeply for her, specifically for healing and recovery. What I found was a world that was genuinely difficult to navigate. Research-grade peptides are widely available online — but they're not manufactured for human use, quality control is inconsistent, there's no medical oversight, and the information is all over the place. For every legitimate resource, there were ten sketchy ones. I wasn't willing to put my mother through that. Or myself.
That search is what led me to EllieMD. A telehealth platform offering medically supervised peptide therapy — the highest quality available, with proper oversight, individualized protocols, and a philosophy rooted not just in weight loss, but in longevity, cellular health, and feeling genuinely well for the long term. It was everything I had been looking for and couldn't find anywhere else.
I switched my own protocols over to EllieMD. The results continued. So much benefit, so quickly, that I became obsessed with understanding the science behind it. I completed a clinical peptide education certification through Peptide University at the Human Longevity Institute — because I wanted to understand what I was experiencing and be able to educate others responsibly.
Today I help people across the world gain access to tools that can genuinely be life-changing. EllieMD is currently available in the US, with HRT and at-home diagnostics coming soon. This is functional medicine the way it should be — accessible, supervised, and focused on the whole person.
This page is my honest account of what I use, why I use it, and how you can get started. I'm not a doctor. I'm a woman who did the research, got certified, lived the experiment, and wants to share what she found.