The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Peptides Vs. Steroids: The Safer Road to Building Muscle & Defeating Fat

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

Peptides Vs. Steroids: The Safer Road to Building Muscle & Defeating Fat Amslifestylemedicine.com/ About the Guest(s): Dr. Maureen Gibbons, affectionately known as Dr. Mo, is an emergency medicine and obesity medicine board-certified physician turned lifestyle medicine entrepreneur. She is the founder of AMS Lifestyle Medicine, a practice dedicated to helping patients reclaim food freedom, improve metabolic health, and lead fulfilling lives. Dr. Mo is also an accomplished author, guiding individuals through transformative health journeys with works like her latest book, "Freedom to Shift: Lose the Weight and Gain Your Freedom." Episode Summary: In this enlightening episode of The Chris Voss Show, Dr. Mo graces the podcast to share her riveting journey from being an emergency medicine practitioner to a leading figure in lifestyle medicine. Host Chris Voss humorously opens the session, promising listeners an engaging and educative rollercoaster, with guests that are sure to leave listeners both informed and inspired. Dr. Mo delves deep into her personal struggles with weight and eating habits, revealing how her own experiences motivated her to pivot into the field of lifestyle medicine. Tackling a variety of topics, Dr. Mo elaborates on the physiological and habitual causes of weight struggles, highlighting the innovative solutions her practice offers. From cutting-edge medications like Tirzepatide, better known as Manjaro, to the significant impact of hormones on weight and health, Dr. Mo provides valuable insights into how her practice helps patients break free from their chains of food obsession. Through AMS Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Mo and her team offer telehealth services, including weight management and TRT programs, empowering people to lead healthier, more balanced lives by providing personalized support and actionable strategies. Key Takeaways: Dr. Mo transitioned from a successful career in emergency medicine to focus on lifestyle medicine, inspired by her personal battles with food and weight. Her practice, AMS Lifestyle Medicine, uses innovative treatments like Tirzepatide and lifestyle coaching to help patients overcome metabolic and weight challenges. Hormonal imbalances are pivotal in weight management, and medications like Tirzepatide can effectively address these issues. Dr. Mo emphasizes the importance of understanding the psychological and habitual triggers of weight issues, offering a holistic approach to treatment. Telehealth services provided by AMS Lifestyle Medicine offer patients nationwide access to personalized care and innovative weight management solutions. Notable Quotes: "I knew that I had credentialed a couple years ago because I had someone in COVID, one of my good friends, replaced her income through telehealth." "Medication's a tool, you know, and that's the big thing in the media. Oh, it's a skinny shot. It's a magic pill. I wish." "For a lot of people, and like I said, semaglutide is a great drug for a lot of people, but for some it's just not." "I'm counting the collagen. Leave me alone." "If you're in there and you're like, yeah, I think you guys are crazy and I don't really like the way you do things. You don't pay."

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reach their audience and maximize their book's success. Today, an amazing young man on the show. We're talking about his book and his story and get into some of the fun things he's done with many of the novels that he's written. We have on the show the book called Rainy Faces. Out September 12th, 2006, we'll be talking about his other books as well. Aroldez Cabrera is on the show.

Aeraldi's Cabrera is on the show. Eraldi's, did I get? get close there? Yeah, that's good. He's on the show with us today. We're going to be talking about his book and everything else. He asked me to call him Eric, but I want to make sure people know how to find him on the show. So you can

Google that as well, and there'll be a link for it on the Chris Foss show as well. He is an attorney who practices law in the state of New Jersey, a former naval officer. He has written numerous romance and adventure novels that take place mostly in the eastern United

States, even if from the auto motorcycle rider this story will leave you spellbound welcome the show eric how are you okay you do i am doing good evidently you're right next to a motorcycle clinic too as well there yeah or the road uh give us any dot coms where do you want people to find out more about you on the interwebs well uh about the story it's you know I thought I would like to I wanted to create a story that dealt with motorcycle rides I for the most part I don't ride but I do have a thing about motorcycles I think that they kind of have gotten a bad rap you know when you hear about motorcycle wrong you everybody thinks that you know

here comes a gang or here comes, you know, life's, it's not like that at all. The motorcycle groups began to arise around after World War II. Most of them were folks that had fought in the war. And they had this passion for, I mean, you know, have people driving tanks and then all of a sudden they have anything to drive. So they chose motorcycles. and that's how they were born

and you know they grew up you have some pretty nice motorcycle clubs out there that do nice things for people so I thought it would be a good idea you know to portray

portrayed him in a novel as I did and you know basically the story is it's it wraps around a little bit of

a little bit of terror, horror, when there's a, there's a group of bad guys and girls that joins the run. And so there's a little bit of drama there. They come from

Central New Jersey and they have that particular group had a history of all-resolved crimes in the family. which as you read along, you'll find out why those crimes were never resolved. They joined the Ron, which is the, the Ron is the baby of Ron Mason,

a writer from Boston who wanted to put down, to create the biggest Ron to Daytona Beach ever. So he was able to gather a little bit over 120 writers. And he picked up all the way down from Boston to Delaware in Pennsylvania. And then they went straight down 95 to Daytona. Some interesting things happened on the way. There was a situation of some writers disappearing in the middle of the night, and they were a trace of their bodies or things like that. There's a little bit of horror in there, but there's an ice love story that comes along,

and it happens when the name is Kenny O'Gara. He is a farmer, but he's also a motorcycle builder. He's an excellent one at that, and he's a man of God. And, you know, falls in love with one girl. who's a member of this group called the World Souls. So it was not welcome. He was not welcome in that particular group because he was very religious. But, you know, as they say, love can do miracles.

Love can do miracles. He and his girlfriend fought right along almost to the end. until the end of the right to be together the the person that run that group particular group was Margaret McCartner who had been known for you know being involved in in in in certain certain crimes that popped up through the years and so she didn't want him and he of course wanted Robin who is the girl that he was in love with. Eventually, they got what they wanted. The adventure unfolded and they tried to, they tried to impose on the run. I think the intention of the Rose Souls was to make sure that the

run never ended, that it was, you know, that it would be dissipated, the people would run off, riders would run off because of the danger and because of the unsolved crimes. But it did happen and the story has a nice ending. Roving, the girl, comes from Cape May in New Jersey, which is probably the, if you don't know, New Jersey, it's the last exit on the state parkway. some people call it exit zero because that's that's the end after that comes everywhere and that's where Cape May is located and it's full of history of the times of the revolution the American Revolution and and that's said to do at the end the couple

decides to settle in Cape May where she was raised and where her mother still is Her father is a mystery. Her father remains a mystery throughout the story because he was a writer that was involved with Margaret McCarton. McCarton, who of course was the bad girl in the group. And that was unfortunately had not a very good ending. He ended up, he disappeared in one run. And, you know, never found out what happened with his, you know, what happened, who killed him or, you know.

But amazingly, he was the father of Robin. And, you know, and she was adopted by hailing McManus, who was a nice lady from the central Jersey area. but took her away and raised her in Cape Maine. The novel has a good ending. It's strong in emotions, and it's simple to read. It's very simple to read. I know that from your era there post-World War II, there was the Hells Angels that kind of rose and stuff.

What is your thoughts on, does it kind of fall along the? the same sort of lines. I mean, there was kind of a classic sort of, hmm, what would you say about it? There's kind of a classic look to that, a classic time, sort of romantic period to that Hell's Angels sort of thing. I remember when I was a kid, I would see them, you know, go down the road in California and their bikes

and looking leathery and badass, you know. So, yeah. Yeah, they, I think they, At the beginning, I remember myself when I was a kid. I think most kids who liked the ride wanted to be a Hells Angels member. But, you know, the years passed, and I think that, you know, they have had some, they built up their bad reputation. I don't remember the, I don't know if you, I guess you, you remember Woodstock.

You know, the health angels were providing security at Woodstock. Yeah, for the Rolling Stones. I remember that. I remember that. So, you know, but there are many motorcycle groups, especially in this area, in the eastern United States, that do very nice things for people. Oh, yeah.

When they do Iran, it's for the benefit of, something's a good cost and so it's it's fun it's not all about killing some water or stealing or taking drugs it's it's just about the ride you know that feeling of riding

on a on a breezy day you know it's that's on April yeah people love it my friends have loved to ride they they love to ride so there's that they love the wind going through their hair so God bless them

Now, you've written a lot of other books. How many books have you written, total? Somewhere around 17, I believe. Wow. So, over the course of how many years? Probably 25 years. Oh, wow. Yeah.

So, now, you've been an attorney this whole time. So, like, you're kind of an attorney and stuff. What got you into writing? How did you start out writing? and when did you kind of start publishing? You're kind of like, hey, I think I have a knack for this, I want to take and make it work, yada, yada, yada. I always wrote since I was a kid in high school.

I wrote for the newspaper. And thereafter, when I was in the Navy, I also wrote. We had two manuals that were published every month, I think, and I always contributed an article. It was about legal. It was legal lease and stuff. So being an attorney, it's a hard career, you know, especially doing what I do. I do a lot of litigation and immigration.

I don't do any civil law or matrimonial or nothing like that. I only do immigration and some criminal. so it's hard you know you have to work hard these days those fields are very very difficult

this days and so you started publishing books and you like you like pretty much the novel genre is there any other genres I think mystery

and I think you mentioned romance maybe a little most of them are romance I've written I think Lost Generation is probably with one of my best. And then I have, after that, I got into writing those stories. For some reason, they may come out easy from me. I don't know what it is about that. I don't need to search

for the words too long. It just comes out of me. It pours out at times. I'm glad I did it. I love it. writing levels and you know and nothing's going to change that yeah nothing's going to change that uh so the uh now so do what do you think influenced your ability to write your your uh your writing skills there what do you feel like you know basically uh you know i mean was there anything in your childhood you were courage to write or somehow you you just kind of found it i i think in my case it comes from uh some my DNA i believe i think i got it from my mother you know we were both the same as far as writing uh we we could ride on the spot if you know what i'm saying uh i don't have to think too much to put together a couple of pages, put a short story together.

And that's how she was. So I think, I think it was inevitable that the only conclusion I can make is I got it from her. My father was not a writer. Definitely not a writer, huh? No, no. So, all right. What else should we talk about?

Is there, on your website, do you do any consulting, teaching, help people, you know, learn stuff and stuff, things like that? Yeah, well, I'm involved in a lot of pro bono work, you know, from being an attorney, like type of thing, and participate in any good cause that it comes across. Do you do, do some of the work that you do as attorney, does that filter into your writing and stuff like that where, you know, sometimes, you know, like, we've had a lot of attorney. and detectives and police officers and people that are in the military, you know, that have been on the show and they go on to be novelists and they use a lot of their stuff from their experience in the law and, and experience of life and war to weave into their stories, if you will. Any of that? Yeah, well, definitely for being a lawyer, you need to be a good writer.

You know That's true for all those documents You guys got When you do appellate at work I mean that's A lot of documents Yeah Yeah

So yes I use it It pays off What's in the future works for you Any new books you're cooking up Or the plot lines you're working on That you can disclose Yeah

I'm right now Working in another Another novel It's pretty well advanced It's, you know, it's a love story. It takes place right here in Central Jersey. So it's just another, one more of the same. And I have a couple of thoughts about what I will do after that.

I probably will hit other areas, you know. I like the mystery, Mr. Field. You know, that's what this book is. little bit about that that is that is good you know that that's something i love to do what do you what do you get back from your readers on what what are the aspects they really like most about your books they um the readers mostly respond to um you know the the the um the growth of the of the characters and in a like uh for instance i have a an novel uh it's called glorious uh cradle And I get comments like, well, you know, she came from being a little girl in the South to being a heroine at the age of 40 who was a master in changing, you know, her carriages and somehow did a little bit of stepping outside of the wall.

and you know but eventually uh disappeared uh went to live in another country so yes uh i get i get comments about that and also the use of uh women characters i do that a lot i somehow i think i i get better results with a woman character in my novel than if i was using a male really yeah i think i think i seem i seem understand the female mind it will be better than the male one well I mean if you can write for it I mean I think women consume more books than men yeah if I understand the numbers correctly and of course the lot of they they like romance novels like mysteries they like all that stuff and so yeah good stuff for all that well it sounds like we got

everything in the can that we need to have in the can is anything more you want to tease out audience or discussed with the audience while you're here? No. Just keep it up. Keep it up. Yeah. Well, we expect you to do that. We'll keep up buying the books and you keep up writing them.

How does that sound? That sounds great. There's probably no end to, you know, if you've written this many books so far, you're probably going to be writing for quite some time here in the future, right? Yes, I think so. Well, we'll look forward to that. Anyway, thanks for coming on the show. Give us your dot coms as we go out.

that people can find out more about you on the interwebs. Yes. My website is Eric's Books. Ericbooks.com. Ericbooks.com. And then let's see.

Thank you for coming in the show. We really appreciate it. Thank you for having it. Thank you. Thanks, Eric. And thanks for honest for tuning in. Go to Goodreads.com, Fortess, Chris Foss.

LinkedIn.com, Fortess, Chris Foss, Chris Foss, 1 on the TikTok and all those crazy places in it. Be good to each other. safe. We'll see you next time. Take care. Thank you. I'm out, man. Great.