Specific Messages
A peptide binds a particular receptor, much like a key fits a lock. That specificity is why selection and dosing are decided individually.
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Peptides
Precise signals.Chosen for your goals.
Peptides speak the body’s own signaling language. Your protocol is selected and dosed by your care team after an in-depth assessment that can include a DNA test, so it is built around how you want to feel, recover and perform.
What It Is
Your body alreadyspeaks this language.
A peptide is a short chain of amino acids, the same building blocks that make up proteins. Many of the body’s own signaling molecules are peptides. Insulin is one.
Their size is what makes them so precise. A short chain carries a specific message to a specific kind of receptor, which is why a well-chosen protocol can be so targeted.
At Valere in River Oaks, Houston, peptide protocols are selected and dosed within your program rather than sold as a stand-alone purchase, with your progress tracked at every stage.
Plain Definitions
Peptide
A short chain of amino acids, typically fewer than fifty. Longer chains are called proteins.
Secretagogue
A compound that prompts a gland to release its own hormone, rather than supplying that hormone directly from outside.
Pulsatile Release
Hormone released in the natural rhythm the body uses, subject to its own feedback control, as opposed to a flat continuous level.
Genetic Marker
A specific, known variation in your DNA. The DNA test Valere offers reads a selected set of them.
What Shapes Your Protocol
Chosen for you,not from a menu.
Arrive with a goal: more energy, better recovery, a leaner composition, a sharper mind. Your care team designs the peptide protocol that fits the plan built around it.
Your Goals and History
What you want to feel, do and keep doing, and the health history and medications that shape the protocol designed for you.
Who we helpYour Verifiable Data
Your assessment and regular testing give your care team measurable data to plan around and to track over time.
How it worksYour DNA
A DNA testing kit that reads genetic markers across twelve areas of biology adds one more layer of information about you.
About the DNA testHow It Works
Prompting the systemrather than replacing it.
There are two ways to raise a hormone level: supply the hormone from outside, or prompt a gland to release its own. Some peptides, called secretagogues, work the second way.
Pulsatile Release
Secretagogues prompt the body to release its own hormone in its natural pulsatile rhythm, still subject to the body’s own feedback, as a published review describes.
Short Half-Lives
Many peptides are broken down quickly by the body. That is why timing and schedule matter as much as the peptide itself, and why protocols are reviewed as your data comes in.
Grounded in published science. Every protocol is selected with reference to the published literature, including the same review. Your care team explains the reasoning behind each choice, so you know exactly why every element is in your plan.
Your DNA, In Context
Built around your biology,including your DNA.
Valere offers a DNA testing kit that reads specific genetic markers. Your care team reviews the results with you and considers them alongside your goals, your history and your other testing when building your protocol.
How Your Protocol Comes Together
Four kinds of information.
One plan, built with you.
Your goals
What you want to feel, do and keep doing.
Your history
Your health history, your medications and what you have already tried.
Your testing
Verifiable data from your assessment and regular testing.
Your DNA
Specific genetic markers, read by the DNA test Valere offers.
Your care team brings these together with you, and your protocol is refined as your data comes in, so it stays matched to you.
Inside the Report
Twelve areas of biology.One report, reviewed with you.
The DNA test Valere offers reads genetic markers across twelve areas of biology. Examples of the genes it looks at include FTO, PPARGC1A, GLP1R, COL1A1, GHR, COMT, ACTN3 and BDNF. Each result is shown on a four-level scale, from reduced to strong, with a plain-language note on what it may mean and the everyday habits that support it.
Sample result: Mitochondrial energy
ReducedNeutralIncreasedStrong
Strong
Understanding what this may mean
In this sample, the markers read in this area suggest more room for support through this pathway than typical. Your care team explains what that means for your plan, alongside your goals, history and other testing.
Sample result: Sleep timing
ReducedNeutralIncreasedStrong
Neutral
Understanding what this may mean
In this sample, the markers in this area look typical, so everyday habits such as consistent sleep, nutrition and movement may matter most. Your care team walks you through what that means for you.
Illustrative example of the report format, not a real result. Results describe genetic tendencies. They do not predict how you will respond to any peptide or medication, and they never decide a protocol on their own.
How It Applies at Valere
Every protocol beginswith your assessment.
Chosen for You, Not From a Menu
Your goals, history, testing and DNA results are reviewed before anything is proposed, so every protocol you receive is built specifically for you.
Prescribed for You
Peptides are prescribed individually, at the dose your care team determines, and never sold as a stand-alone purchase.
Monitored at Every Stage
Regular testing and check-ins show how you are doing, with your progress tracked at every stage. Follow-up is built into every program.
Part of a Complete Plan
Nutrition, movement, coaching, hormone optimization and supplement support work alongside your peptide protocol in the same program.
On Which Peptides
Valere works from your goals, not a fixed menu. Every peptide is selected individually from current, permissible options, in line with the latest guidance, including the FDA advisory committee review of July 2026.
Selection is made with your care team at your assessment, and you will know exactly what is being prescribed and why.
How It Works With the Rest
One program.Sequenced around you.
Your peptide protocol sits inside one personalized program, and your assessment sets what runs alongside it, and in what order.
Regenerative & Cellular
Stem Cells
Wharton’s jelly and exosome allografts from umbilical cord sources, used within a program.
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Hormones
HRT & TRT
Testosterone for men, bioidentical hormones for women, with thyroid and cortisol markers reviewed alongside.
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Metabolic health
Weight Loss
GLP-1 medications as one component. Body composition is governed by the hormonal and metabolic environment.
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Focus & clarity
Neurocognitive Enhancement
A cognitive track, scoped during assessment and reviewed with your data.
Explore Neurocognitive EnhancementNutrition, exercise, coaching, hormone optimization, and supplement support are assessed alongside every program here.
See how a program is builtValere selects peptides individually rather than from a fixed menu. Your care team chooses from current, permissible options matched to your goals, history and testing, and tells you exactly what is being prescribed and why.
Some peptide medications are FDA approved for specific uses. Others are prepared by licensed compounding pharmacies, which, as the FDA explains, follow a different regulatory pathway from approved drugs. Your care team tells you exactly what you are prescribed, and the full regulatory notice appears at the foot of this page.
Genetic markers across twelve areas of biology: body composition, mitochondrial energy, GLP-1 and GLP-2 signaling, digestion and absorption, skin and hair, hormonal signaling, stress physiology, cellular aging, exercise and recovery, inflammatory signaling, immune signaling, and brain and cognition. Examples of the genes it looks at include FTO, PPARGC1A, GLP1R, COL1A1, GHR, COMT, ACTN3 and BDNF. Your care team walks you through your results and what they mean for your plan.
Each result is shown on a four-level scale, from reduced to strong, with a plain-language note on what it may mean. Your care team considers those results alongside your goals, your history and your other testing when building your protocol. They add one more layer of precision to a plan built around you, and your progress is tracked at every stage.
Taking growth hormone supplies the hormone directly. A secretagogue prompts your pituitary gland to release its own, in the body’s natural pulsatile rhythm, as a published review describes. Your care team walks you through which approach best fits your goals.
At regular check-ins, with testing that gives your care team verifiable data on how you are doing. Together you decide how to proceed. Follow-up is built into every program, so your protocol keeps pace with your progress.
Peptide protocols are investigational and not FDA approved to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Compounded medications are not FDA approved. Candidacy is determined by physician evaluation. Individual results vary. This page is educational and does not constitute medical advice.
Your protocol beginswith your assessment.
It starts with an in-depth, unhurried evaluation, so the plan you leave with is built entirely around your goals.
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