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Peptides - do they have a future in healthcare?

  • 16-06-2021 11:57pm
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    There may of course be some licensed peptides, I just have no idea what they are.

    "Dallas Buyers Club" the film mentioned "Peptide T" as an example of a potentially beneficial chemical which never got state approval.

    Others I see come up frequently are,

    - BPC 157
    - TB 500
    - Semex (this is actually on the Soviet list of essential medicines)

    And a bunch of others, some anti-aging related, some growth hormone related.

    I've read case reports where the former have been used to tremendous effect in injury healing, treating resistant conditions like bowel inflammation and IBS, accelerating post surgical mobility etc.

    .....

    Other classes of peptides which are seemingly being researched - implicating the hormone oxytocin - to apparent good effect in individuals with some kind of social maladaptive disorders like anti-social-personality-disorder and autism spectrum disorder.

    The melanocortin system seems to play a role in this also as of the five melanocortin receptor subtypes, MC1 through 5, activation of some seems to indirectly stimulate oxytocin activity thus peptides like the unlicensed melanotan (synthetic alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone - or the "tanning drug") are also being researched to good effect in social disorders (as well as showing good effect in treating resistent skin conditions).

    I just find it curious that there's an entire class of "underground" drugs so widely used, some users swearing by their efficacy as being dramatically life improving, with pretty much zero state recognition or approval.


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