BPC157

What Is It

BPC-157 is a peptide – a chain of amino acids. More specifically, it is a pentadecapeptide which means it’s composed of precisely 15 amino acids.

The term BPC stands for Body Protective Compound. Why so? Well a small amount of BPC-157 is actually secreted in the body’s gastric juices in order to protect and repair the stomach and gut. But as several recent scientific studies have demonstrated, this multi-functional substance confers many other health benefits.

Hence the desire to create a synthetic product highly-concentrated in BPC-157 that can simultaneouslypromotewound-healing and remedy many dysfunctions in the body.

Clinical Research

One research team tested the regenerative potential of this pentadecapeptide on damaged Achilles tendons in rats. BPC-157 was found to « promote the growth ex vivo of tendon fibroblasts as well as cell survival ». (14) In other words, BPC-157 is able to accelerate the growth of tissue-constituting cells. It can also optimise growth hormone receptor function in fibroblasts. (15)

Another study on rats which had suffered crushed muscles and had been given BPC-157 (administered intraperitoneally or topically) showed that this peptide improved muscle recovery(16). An acceleration in healing of acute ligament damage was also observed

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