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DDT Method Podcast — Peptides, Performance Enhancement and Advanced Protocols with Drew Donaldson · April 28 · 1 hr 12 min

Peptide Industry Insider: What's Actually Coming Next

Join the DDT Method School community for $10/month — over 50 exclusive videos and articles, with new ones every week: https://www.skool.com/ddtmethod Brandon Eisenlauer returns to DDT Method after spending 3-4 years on both the front-end and back-end of the peptide industry. He's now the founder of Adera State, a brand built to drag peptides out of the research-chem vial era and into the mainstream — through transdermals, nasal sprays, pouches, and blends engineered with a pharmaceutical-chemistry R&D team. In this episode, Brandon and Drew lay out exactly how the peptide and supplement industries are about to be rewritten — what stays, what dies, and the 18-month window before everything changes. They get into why "feeling it" is the worst way to judge a peptide, why pharma is often ahead of the biohacking space (not behind it), and what the next generation of mainstream-friendly peptide products actually looks like. Key Takeaways: The peptides everyone's stacking that Brandon says is already behind the curve Why "feel" is one of the worst ways to judge whether a peptide is working The 18-month window before the supplement industry looks nothing like it does today The molecular size cutoff that determines whether a peptide can go transdermal — and what to do above it Why a 60-70% effective topical can beat a 100% effective injectable for most users What RFK actually means for peptide access — and why it's not what the research community thinks The unspoken reason injectable GLPs and topicals are heading in opposite regulatory directions The new Adera State product Brandon is most excited about (and the unusual delivery vehicle behind it) The "social performance" stack he gives to people who need to be on for work Where the research-chem industry actually ends up by 2027 Connect with Brandon: Adera State: https://aderastate.com Biohacking U (free education library): formerly paid, now 100% free Connect with Drew Donaldson: DDT Method School: https://www.skool.com/ddtmethod Coaching: https://ddtmethod.com/application

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Join the DDT Method School community for $10/month — over 50 exclusive videos and articles, with new ones every week: https://www.skool.com/ddtmethod


Brandon Eisenlauer returns to DDT Method after spending 3-4 years on both the front-end and back-end of the peptide industry. He's now the founder of Adera State, a brand built to drag peptides out of the research-chem vial era and into the mainstream — through transdermals, nasal sprays, pouches, and blends engineered with a pharmaceutical-chemistry R&D team.

In this episode, Brandon and Drew lay out exactly how the peptide and supplement industries are about to be rewritten — what stays, what dies, and the 18-month window before everything changes. They get into why "feeling it" is the worst way to judge a peptide, why pharma is often ahead of the biohacking space (not behind it), and what the next generation of mainstream-friendly peptide products actually looks like.


Key Takeaways:

  • The peptides everyone's stacking that Brandon says is already behind the curve
  • Why "feel" is one of the worst ways to judge whether a peptide is working
  • The 18-month window before the supplement industry looks nothing like it does today
  • The molecular size cutoff that determines whether a peptide can go transdermal — and what to do above it
  • Why a 60-70% effective topical can beat a 100% effective injectable for most users
  • What RFK actually means for peptide access — and why it's not what the research community thinks
  • The unspoken reason injectable GLPs and topicals are heading in opposite regulatory directions
  • The new Adera State product Brandon is most excited about (and the unusual delivery vehicle behind it)
  • The "social performance" stack he gives to people who need to be on for work
  • Where the research-chem industry actually ends up by 2027


Connect with Brandon:

Adera State: https://aderastate.com

Biohacking U (free education library): formerly paid, now 100% free


Connect with Drew Donaldson:

DDT Method School: https://www.skool.com/ddtmethod

Coaching: https://ddtmethod.com/application

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