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BPC-157 — Expert Claims

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Expert Consensus

Mixed opinionsPending review
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Experts mention
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Recommend
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Mark Hyman Recommends
Pending review18 claimsoralinjection
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Pending review3 claims

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Experts in this data:David SinclairMark Hyman

21 expert mentions

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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

people with reflux it tightens the Lees Junction I have some people get off their reflux medicine that's the bottom of your esophagus where where the kind of reflux happens come back up from the stomach and there's not many things that tighten Lees Junction

Extracted claim

BPC-157 tightens the lower esophageal sphincter (LES junction), and the expert has had patients get off their reflux medication as a result.

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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

if you use growth hormone peptides with basically uh bpc and tb4 you will heal much faster

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Using BPC-157 with growth hormone peptides (such as CJC-1295, Tesamorelin) results in significantly faster healing.

Not yet assessedHigh confidence
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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

number one is u i I love bpc157

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BPC-157 is the expert's top peptide recommendation.

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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

you can take it orally

Extracted claim

BPC-157 can be taken orally.

oral
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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

people with reflux it tightens the Lees Junction I have some people get off their reflux medicine that's the bottom of your esophagus where where the kind of reflux happens come back up from the stomach and there's not many things that tighten Lees Junction

Extracted claim

BPC-157 tightens the lower esophageal sphincter (LES junction), and the expert has had patients get off their reflux medication as a result.

Not yet assessedHigh confidence
MH
Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

number one is u i I love bpc157

Extracted claim

BPC-157 is the expert's top peptide recommendation.

Not yet assessedHigh confidence
MH
Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

if you use growth hormone peptides with basically uh bpc and tb4 you will heal much faster

Extracted claim

Using BPC-157 with growth hormone peptides (such as CJC-1295, Tesamorelin) results in significantly faster healing.

Not yet assessedHigh confidence
MH
Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Direct recommendation

you can take it orally

Extracted claim

BPC-157 can be taken orally.

oral
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MH
Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Evidence-backed claim

there was a study that once they stopped it 3 days later they still had high expression of receptor

Extracted claim

A study found that receptor expression from BPC-157 remained elevated 3 days after stopping the peptide.

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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Evidence-backed claim

there was a study that once they stopped it 3 days later they still had high expression of receptor

Extracted claim

A study found that receptor expression from BPC-157 remained elevated 3 days after stopping the peptide.

Not yet assessedHigh confidence
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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Evidence-backed claim

I actually published the first human clinical trial in pep a lot of uh research in animals but

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The expert states they published the first human clinical trial on BPC-157, noting that most prior research had been in animals.

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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Evidence-backed claim

I actually published the first human clinical trial in pep a lot of uh research in animals but

Extracted claim

The expert states they published the first human clinical trial on BPC-157, noting that most prior research had been in animals.

Not yet assessedMedium confidence
MH
Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Mechanism discussion

there's a receptor called the um fatline C receptor that uh activates your growth hormone receptor so it's a pathway to help growth hormone receptors uh to be activated so that whatever growth hormone you have you can actually uh heal faster

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BPC-157 activates the ghrelin C receptor, which activates growth hormone receptors, allowing whatever growth hormone you have to be used more effectively for healing and repair.

Not yet assessedMedium confidence
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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Mechanism discussion

there's a receptor called the um fatline C receptor that uh activates your growth hormone receptor so it's a pathway to help growth hormone receptors uh to be activated so that whatever growth hormone you have you can actually uh heal faster

Extracted claim

BPC-157 activates the ghrelin C receptor, which activates growth hormone receptors, allowing whatever growth hormone you have to be used more effectively for healing and repair.

Not yet assessedMedium confidence
MH
Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Personal anecdote

I usually give bpc 157 um which is one of my favorite peptides uh it comes from her stomach stomach fluid

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The expert regularly administers BPC-157 injections to neighbors and patients with injuries such as shoulder, elbow, foot, and ankle injuries.

injection📍 administered directly to site of injury (shoulder, elbow, foot, ankle)
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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Personal anecdote

I usually give bpc 157 um which is one of my favorite peptides uh it comes from her stomach stomach fluid

Extracted claim

The expert regularly administers BPC-157 injections to neighbors and patients with injuries such as shoulder, elbow, foot, and ankle injuries.

injection📍 administered directly to site of injury (shoulder, elbow, foot, ankle)
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David Sinclair
Harvard Medical School
Caution / warning

again these are all pretty much experimental they've been shown to be effective in mice but still we have a long way to go before we know if they're truly effective in humans and they're there we always need placebo-controlled double-blind clinical studies which are underway

Extracted claim

BPC-157, like other peptides in this category, is largely experimental — shown to be effective in mice but not yet proven effective in humans, and still awaiting proper placebo-controlled double-blind clinical studies

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Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Passing mention

it comes from her stomach stomach fluid and uh actually the history is kind of interesting about that peptide it's um I really uh anyway I can go into that but it was recently discovered like in 1990s in Croatia

Extracted claim

BPC-157 is derived from stomach fluid and was discovered in the 1990s in Croatia.

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MH
Mark Hyman
Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Passing mention

it comes from her stomach stomach fluid and uh actually the history is kind of interesting about that peptide it's um I really uh anyway I can go into that but it was recently discovered like in 1990s in Croatia

Extracted claim

BPC-157 is derived from stomach fluid and was discovered in the 1990s in Croatia.

Not yet assessedHigh confidence
DS
David Sinclair
Harvard Medical School
Passing mention

the bpc-157 again can be good for for weight loss apparently

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BPC-157 may be beneficial for weight loss

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David Sinclair
Harvard Medical School
Passing mention

bpc157 is used with somax and cerebellisin together

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BPC-157 is used in combination with Semax and Cerebrolysin to combat fatigue and boost the immune system

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