Hew Health Field Notes
Vol. I August 2026
Published from Destin & Orlando
Read in 47 states

Field Notes.

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

II Recent Dispatches
Dispatch 17 Aug 2026

CJC-1295 & Ipamorelin: What Patients Should Know

CJC-1295 and Ipamorelin: What Patients Should Know Before Starting a Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptide Protocol Growth hormone-releasing peptides sit in an odd corner of modern medicine. Patients hear about them from friends, podcasts, and gym conversations long before they ever hear about them from a physician. By the time someone books

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read
Dispatch 16 Aug 2026

Peptide Protocols: What High Achievers Should Know

Peptide Protocols Explained: What High Achievers Should Know Before Starting Peptides have moved from bodybuilding forums into mainstream conversations at dinner tables and boardrooms. Executives ask me about BPC-157 the way they once asked about creatine. The interest is warranted, but the marketing around these compounds has outrun the science,

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read
Dispatch 15 Aug 2026

Peptide Protocols for Cellular Recovery | Hew Health

How Peptide Protocols May Support Cellular Recovery in High-Performing Adults The executives, surgeons, litigators, and founders I see in our practice share a common frustration. They recover from workouts more slowly than they did at 35. Sleep feels less restorative. A tweaked shoulder that used to resolve in a week

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read
Dispatch 14 Aug 2026

Peptide Protocols & Hormone Optimization Together

Peptide Protocols and Hormone Optimization: How These Approaches May Work Together for Peak Performance In our practice, the patients who ask about peptides are almost always the same people already thinking about hormones. They've read something, a friend mentioned it, or they've noticed their recovery from

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read
Dispatch 13 Aug 2026

Regenerative Medicine for Wound Healing | Hew Health

Wound Care Innovation: How Regenerative Medicine Supports the Body's Natural Healing Response A wound that refuses to close is one of the more humbling problems in medicine. You can have the right dressing, the right antibiotic, the right offloading strategy, and still watch a diabetic foot ulcer or

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read
Dispatch 12 Aug 2026

Muscle Preservation & Weight Management After 40

Muscle Preservation During Weight Management: Why Patients Over 40 Need a Different Strategy The scale rewards you for losing muscle. That is the uncomfortable truth I explain to nearly every patient in their forties and fifties who walks into our practice frustrated by a weight plateau. When you drop pounds

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read
Dispatch 11 Aug 2026

Hormonal Fatigue in Women 35–55: Estrogen & Progesterone

Estrogen, Progesterone, and Energy: Understanding the Hormonal Drivers of Fatigue in Women 35–55 Most women I see in this age range have been told their fatigue is normal. They are working, raising children or caring for parents, sleeping poorly, and drinking more coffee than they used to. The exhaustion

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read
Dispatch 11 Aug 2026

Chronic Knee Pain: Non-Surgical Regenerative Options

Chronic Knee Pain and Regenerative Medicine: Exploring Non-Surgical Options for Active Adults Most of the patients who come to us for knee pain are not sedentary. They are runners in their forties who suddenly cannot tolerate a five-mile loop, tennis players who feel a grinding sensation on the stairs, cyclists

Matthew Koucky · 5 min read