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Notes on the research
Plain-English overviews of what the published research on individual peptides covers and where it is still thin, with links to the papers themselves. A new article every week.
BPC-157: what the research covers, and what it doesn’t
Where the 15-amino-acid peptide came from, what the cell and animal studies have looked at, and why the human evidence is still so thin.
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Epitalon: the pineal peptide and the telomere question
A four-amino-acid peptide designed from a pineal gland extract, best known for telomere studies in cells. What has been tested, by whom, and what is still missing.
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GHK-Cu: the copper peptide found in human blood
A three-amino-acid peptide that grips a copper ion, first found in human plasma in 1973. What fifty years of research has looked at, and the caveats worth knowing.
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Selank: a stabilised fragment of an immune peptide
How Russian researchers turned tuftsin, a four-amino-acid piece of an antibody, into a longer-lasting seven-amino-acid peptide, and what the laboratory work on it has measured.
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