For the past four weeks, I’ve woken up, stumbled out of bed into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, fetched a tiny bottle of something
called “BPC-157” and proceeded to stab myself with an insulin syringe to
inject it into various parts of my body.
OK, OK, lest you be donning a white lab coat and cringing from that simple description, then
I’ll be more specific: a peptide is a compound consisting of two or
more amino acids linked in a chain, the carboxyl group of each acid
being joined to the amino group of the next by a bond like this: OC-NH.
In the case of
BPC 157 powder, the peptide is a sequence of amino acids with a molecular formula of 62
carbons, 98 hydrogens, 16 nitrogens, and 22 oxygen atoms
(C62-H98-N16-O22).
Should you care to know the nitty-gritty specifics, that comes out to a fifteen amino acid sequence of the following:
L-Valine, glycyl-L-alpha-glutamyl-L-prolyl-L-prolyl-L-prolylglycyl-L-lysyl-L-prolyl-L-alanyl-L-alpha-aspartyl-L-alpha-aspartyl-L-alanylglycyl-L-leucyl-;
glycyl-L-alpha-glutamyl-L-prolyl-L-prolyl-L-prolylglycyllysyl-L-prolyl-L-alanyl-L-alpha-aspartyl-L-alpha-aspartyl-L-alanylglycyl-L-leucyl-L-valine.
Yep, that’s the long, fancy name for BPC-157.
BPC, for reasons you’re about to discover, stands for “Body Protecting Compound”. Your body already makes it in your own gastric
juices in very small amounts, where it serves to protect and heal your
gut. But if you can get the super concentrated version and get it into
your system, it has an extremely high level of biological healing
activity just about anywhere you put it
And if many of the amino acids above look familiar to you, there’s good reason. I’ve talked about them before. I’ve used them orally for
quite some time to heal injuries more quickly, to keep the body in
anabolic state during or post-exercise, and to stave off central nervous
system fatigue during long bouts of exercise. I have a quite
comprehensive article about the oral use of amino acid tablets here.
BPC-157 is surprisingly free of side effects, and has been shown in
research that’s been happening since 1991 to repair tendon, muscle,
intestines, teeth, bone and more, both in in-vitro laboratory
“test-tube” studies, in in-vivo human and rodent studies, and when used
orally or inject subcutaneously (under your skin) or intramuscularly
(into your muscle).
BPC-157 is also known as a “stable gastric pentadecapeptide”, primarily because it is stable in human gastric
juice, can cause an anabolic healing effect in both the upper and lower
GI tract, has an antiulcer effect, and produces a therapeutic effect on
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) – all again surprisingly free of side
effects.
As demonstrated in the research studies cited above, BPC-157 also accelerates wound healing, and, via interaction with the Nitric Oxide
(NO) system, causes protection of endothelial tissue and an “angiogenic”
(blood vessel building) wound healing effect. This occurs even in
severely impaired conditions, such as in advanced and poorly controlled
irritable bowel disease, in which it stimulates expression of genes
responsible for cytokine and growth factor generation and also
extracellular matrix (collagen) formation, along with intestinal
anastomosis healing, reversal of short bowel syndrome and fistula
healing – all of which can extremely frustrating issues in people who
have gut pain, constipation, diarrhea and bowel inflammation.
