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The stories you\u2019ve heard are true. Researchers first isolated BPC-157 from a protein in human gastric juice \u2014 and if you\u2019re not a scientist, you\u2019re probably just as likely to be icked out by that as you are to find it fascinating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can buy some quality BPC-157 from our lab here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about it, though. Most therapeutic peptides are super fragile. Not BPC-157 \u2014 basically the peptide equivalent of the brave support workers who keep Antarctica\u2019s airstrips safe and functional. It survives and actually thrives in the most hostile of environments. (It doesn\u2019t get much trickier than a bath of concentrated hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes, does it?) Because nature evolves smartly, and something<\/em> has to heal and maintain the gut\u2019s delicate tissues with all that gastric juice swimming around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When researchers first realized such a thing (such a \u201cbody protective compound\u201d) had to exist, they hunted around for it in the hope that it could also heal other tissues. That\u2019s BPC-157, and the starting hypothesis turned out to be correct. BPC-157 doesn\u2019t only heal in the gut. Its protective action extends to tendons, ligaments, muscles, skin, nerves, and even the brain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it does is riveting. Faster healing. Better inflammation management. The ability to quickly cook up a support network of new blood vessels to make sure wounds and damaged areas get the nutrients, growth factors, and oxygen they need to recover. But researchers are also spell-bound by how BPC-157 gets that done. Most peptides work on one or a few receptors, but BPC-157 seems to be a \u201chealing mothership.\u201d Nobody quite knows exactly how it works yet. That\u2019s exciting \u2014 because it means BPC-157 might well have applications beyond those already studied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A (Very) Brief History of BPC-157<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t need to be a scientist to understand that, if gastric juices can \u201cdemolish\u201d any of the foods we eat \u2014 including, for example, hearty steaks and pork rinds \u2014 it\u2019s quite the miracle that they don\u2019t also destroy the stomach itself. It\u2019s even more surprising that the stomach heals itself from injuries and damage quite quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Croatian researchers led by Dr Predrag Sikiric knew gastric juices had to have some sort of \u201cmaintenance crew,\u201d and they were determined not to stop until they found it. They eventually succeeded, but the gastric tract\u2019s natural \u201cBody Protective Compound,\u201d a larger protein, wasn\u2019t quite ready to be researched as a potential healing treatment just yet. That took shortening the chain to keep the active sequence and ditch the rest. BPC-157 is the shorter, more manageable 15 amino acid chain born of this process \u2014 and the research team couldn\u2019t be more excited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years after they succeeded in creating the compound, the team looked back and wrote: \u201cThe peptide was subsequently described as a cytoprotectant with the radical property of being stable in gastric juice and therefore accessible for both gastric and intestinal protection after oral administration.\u201d [1<\/a>]\n\n\n\n

That, they added, \u201cis both provocative and amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is, all the more so because BPC-157 doesn\u2019t work through one pathway or receptor (like so many other peptides). It\u2019s a body-wide \u201chealing manager,\u201d and now, thanks to the research team that developed it, it\u2019s now available for the study of healing\u2026 pretty much anywhere in the body. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, What Does BPC-157 Do?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BPC-157 heals<\/em>. Not through one single mechanism or receptor, but by getting a \u201cflurry of healing\u201d that hits all stages of defense and recovery. The research overview you\u2019ll get to right after explains what it\u2019s been found to heal so far, but it really helps to know how this is possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it\u2019s not fully clear how this peptide actually works, four main effects can be seen in healing studies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n