Derek
Derek is the founder of More Plates More Dates — a channel and site covering performance-enhancing-drug literacy, hormones, hair loss, and fitness — and a co-founder of the telehealth company Marek Health and the supplement brand Gorilla Mind. His peptide material is a thin sliver of a 2,000-video catalog, and SGV distills only that sliver: 21 episodes where, as he presents it, he ranks interventions by evidence and harm, with lifestyle fundamentals first. He is a seller in the markets he teaches about; SGV carries that disclosure permanently and never reproduces his discount codes.
moreplatesmoredates.com/Derek built More Plates More Dates from a blog into one of the largest performance-pharmacology education channels on YouTube, covering hormones, performance-enhancing drugs, hair loss, and fitness. The peptide videos in this SGV library are rarely peptide-only: in his telling, the peptide discussion arrives inside wider conversations about testosterone, growth hormone, supplements, and lifestyle, and his consistent move — as he presents it — is to rank interventions, with sleep, diet, and natural optimization before pharmaceuticals.
His method, across these episodes, is harm reduction: bloodwork before and during any use as a principle, skepticism toward self-reported results, and the refrain — as he puts it — that no enhancement is risk-free. His GLP-1 episodes present the drugs as genuinely effective appetite tools whose risks, including muscle loss and post-cessation rebound, he argues are under-discussed in influencer coverage; on hyped compounds he asks what the human evidence actually shows versus what sellers claim. He follows the regulatory fight over compounded GLP-1s and restricted peptides as a market story as well as a science story.
Disclosure, standing and permanent on this page: Derek co-founded Marek Health, a telehealth clinic selling hormone and peptide-adjacent services, and Gorilla Mind, a supplement brand — businesses that sell into the topics he teaches, promoted across his catalog, which also carries his own discount codes. SGV reproduces none of his codes or purchase links as recommendations, presents his positions attributed to him — never as SGV’s conclusions and never as medical advice — and publishes no dosing, protocol, or sourcing information from his catalog, which includes personal-protocol and celebrity-cycle content SGV summarizes at topic level only.
Self Growth Videos distilled 21 peptide-relevant episodes from his roughly 2,000-video catalog. Nothing here characterizes his hair-loss, dating, or general fitness content, and SGV does not present him as a peptide specialist — he is a performance-pharmacology commentator whose peptide videos were subsetted for this shelf, where they contrast with the clinician-educators who teach toward supervised clinical use.
Derek (More Plates More Dates) resources
His official site, the supplement company he co-founded, and the SGV library — official links only; his discount codes are never reproduced here.
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Common questions
Who is Derek of More Plates More Dates?
Derek is the founder of More Plates More Dates, a performance-pharmacology education channel and site, and a co-founder of Marek Health (telehealth) and Gorilla Mind (supplements). He is not a clinician; SGV presents him as a PED-literate educator and commentator, with his seller affiliations disclosed.
What does Derek teach in the SGV library?
The 21 peptide-relevant episodes from his catalog: GLP-1 realism, growth-hormone topics, and harm-reduction principles, all as he presents them. His positions are attributed to him, presented as education — not medical advice — and SGV carries no dosing, protocol, or sourcing detail and none of his discount codes.
Where can I watch Derek's episodes?
The Self Growth Videos library carries 21 of his peptide-relevant episodes, each with a written summary and key takeaways, at selfgrowthvideos.com/derek-more-plates-more-dates/videos/. His full catalog is on the More Plates More Dates YouTube channel.
