Instagram Facebook 0 Home News Turning Back the Clock: Why St. Johns County Patients Are Choosing Physician-Led Peptide Therapy By Rebecca Rosenberg on July 31, 2026 on 9:50 am Updated on: 07/31/2026 Aging rarely announces itself with one d
Instagram Facebook 0 Home News Turning Back the Clock: Why St.
Johns County Patients Are Choosing Physician-Led Peptide Therapy By Rebecca Rosenberg on July 31, 2026 on 9:50 am Updated on: 07/31/2026 Aging rarely announces itself with one dramatic change.
It shows up as daily fatigue, the workout that takes three days to recover from instead of one, or skin that suddenly sags.
Peptide therapy has become wellness medicine’s most talked-about answer — dominating podcasts, social media, and gym conversations from Ponte Vedra to St.
Augustine.
But with online sellers and a dizzying menu of compounds, the hardest question isn’t whether peptides sound promising.
It’s knowing which ones make sense and where to get them from.
An emergency room physician, Swanson founded New Beauty Company Aesthetics with his wife, Recia Swanson, a longtime trauma and ER nurse.
They are a husband-and-wife team who built their St.
Johns County med spa into a family-owned alternative to the national chains.
“Peptides are signaling molecules your body naturally makes to communicate with itself,” Swanson said.
“They’re simply short chains of amino acids.
The only difference between a peptide and a protein is length.
They’re very simple molecules.” The compounds themselves are an active area of clinical research, studied for their role in tissue repair and age-related decline.
Recia Swanson and Dr.
Terrell Swanson of New Beauty Company Aesthetics consulting with a patient at their physician-led med spa in St.
Johns County, Florida A Menu Built Around Your Goals At New Beauty Company’s St.
Johns County practice, the most requested therapies fall into a few categories.
Wolverine — a blend of BPC-157 and TB-500 — supports the body’s ability to heal.
“It’s used for tissue, tendon, and ligament repair and regeneration,” Swanson said.
“Athletes love it, and BPC-157 also supports gut health.” Glow takes it further.
“Glow is essentially Wolverine to the max,” Swanson said.
“It adds KPV for its anti-inflammatory properties and GHK-copper, which supports collagen formation.
That’s where the skin health comes in.” For body composition, the practice offers growth hormone-stimulating peptides.
CJC-1295 with ipamorelin is prescribed for patients working to maintain lean muscle mass, especially while losing weight on GLP-1 therapy.
Tesamorelin is used in carefully selected patients targeting stubborn visceral fat, Swanson said.
And for longevity seekers, there’s NAD+ and MOTS-c.
“Your NAD levels drop by roughly 50 percent every 20 years,” Swanson explained.
“Think of it as a leaky bucket.
A lot of places just keep pouring NAD in with infusions — they never fix the leak.
We start with an all-natural oral supplement that helps plug those leaks, then top it off with NAD injections.” The patient lounge at New Beauty Company Aesthetics, a physician-led med spa in St.
Johns County.
Swanson doesn’t just prescribe that regimen.
He’s on it.
“I take NAD and MOTS-c myself, primarily for energy and focus,” he said.
“You feel it within minutes — and it’s a completely different kind of boost than caffeine.” He’s not the only one at the practice.
Spa director Dee White pairs MOTS-c with her regimen as well.
“The first time I took it, I noticed such a difference in my energy level,” White said.
“That 3 o’clock slump where you want to take a nap?
It didn’t even dawn on me that I was tired.” Ask Swanson where the peptide trend goes wrong, and his answer is immediate: sourcing.
“People buy peptides online without vetting where they come from — sometimes from other countries,” he said.
“Patient safety comes first.
We work with nine U.S.-based 503a compounding pharmacies that operate under strict government oversight.
This helps ensure sterile preparation and accurate and consistent dosing.
People should be very careful about what they inject in their bodies.” Recia Swanson said that oversight is what separates a medical program from a shopping cart — a perspective shaped by her years as a trauma and emergency room nurse.
Dr.
Terrell Swanson and Recia Swanson, RN, at New Beauty Company Aesthetics in St.
Johns County.
“This is a physician-led practice with trained providers,” she said.
“The plan has to be coordinated with everything else a patient is doing, and you have to know exactly where your medication comes from.” For patients already on hormone replacement therapy or a GLP-1, New Beauty Company can oversee all of it — one practice, one physician-led plan.
Swanson offers a simple test for anyone considering peptides anywhere: “Ask two questions.
What are your pharmacy sources?
And are they taking a full medical history — your medications, your goals, any history of cancer?
If a provider isn’t asking those questions, run the other direction.” Every patient starts with a consultation covering medical history and specific goals, whether that’s training for a triathlon, healing a nagging ACL, losing visceral fat, or simply sleeping better.
Prescribed peptides are shipped directly to your home with full instructions, and most protocols cycle three months on, one month off, with follow-ups to fine-tune your plan.
New Beauty Company serves patients in Ponte Vedra, Nocatee, St.
Augustine, St.
Johns County, and Jacksonville.
Book a free consultation at NewBeautyCompany.com.
Peptide therapy is not appropriate for everyone.
Some compounded therapies have not been evaluated or approved by the FDA.
A consultation is required to determine candidacy, risks, and potential benefits.
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Peptides referenced: BPC-157, TB-500, Ipamorelin, CJC-1295, MOTS-c, Tesamorelin, Growth Hormone, GLP-1.
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