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Peptide Therapy

What are Peptides?

Peptides are the building blocks of proteins and are composed of amino acids that work to regulate a variety of biological functions and processes. These naturally occurring peptides act as signaling molecules within the body and instruct other cells and molecules on what functions to perform. Some common functions of peptides include providing pain relief, aiding in soft tissue repair, accelerating healing processes, promoting weight loss and lean muscle gain, reversing symptoms of sexual dysfunction, improving hormone production and cognitive function, increase melanin for tanning, reduce signs of aging, and improve sleep quality.

Different Types of Peptides

CATEGORY: Optimal Health

The liver produces IGF-1 to work in concert with insulin to determine what type of fuel the body uses at a given time. IGF-1 helps transfer glucose through cell membranes for growth and repair of muscle, nerve, and heart cells. Over time, if the liver becomes too fatty, production of IGF-1 suffers, putting more dependence on insulin, which can eventually lead to diabetes. Boosting the IGF-1 peptide keeps insulin balanced as well as providing a host of other benefits.

Benefits include:

  • Reduced body fat with enhanced fat burning

  • Increased muscle mass and strength

  • Improved energy and physical stamina

  • Better sleep and lower incidence of insomnia

  • Enhanced cognitive function

  • Improved calcium retention and better bone density

  • Improved skin elasticity

  • Strengthened connective tissue and

CATEGORY: Weight Management

This is a synthetic peptide fragment that comprises a modified 15 amino acid region of GH (the tail end, which burns fat). Similar to GH, AOD9604 aids in the reduction of obesity. Additionally, it does not stimulate the production of IGF-1.

Benefits include:

  • Promotes fat burning without affecting blood sugar or tissue growth

  • Prompts fat release from obese fat cells

  • Prevents lipogenesis (fat accumulation)

  • Treatment in osteoarthritis, hypercholesterolemia, bone and cartilage repair

  • Boosts the body’s metabolism

  • Less appetite stimulation

BPC 157, composed of 15 amino acids, is a partial sequence of body protection compounds (BPC). Experimentally it has been demonstrated to accelerate the healing of many different wounds, including tendons, muscles, nervous system, and superior healing of damaged ligaments. Those who suffer from discomfort due to muscle sprains, tears, and damage may benefit from treatment with this peptide. It can also help aid skin burns to heal faster and increase blood flow to damaged tissues.

Benefits include:

  • Supports cognitive performance

  • Supports joint health

  • Protects against drug-induced damage

  • Restores the serotonergic transport system

  • Protects dopaminergic system

  • Enhances the GABAergic system

  • Reverse opioid tolerance

  • Accelerated wound healing

  • Ligament healing (knee, rotary)

  • Benefits for ulcers in the stomach

  • Benefits for intestinal damage

  • May help irritable bowel disease

  • Promotes lipolysis

  • Improves overall skin appearance

CATEGORY: Weight Management, Increased Energy, Healing, Optimal Health

CJC-1295 is a 30 amino acid peptide hormone that has shown incredibly promising results as a Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH) analog. CJC-1295 stimulates HGH secretion and can provide a steady increase of HGH with minimal effect on cortisol and prolactin levels. This means increased protein synthesis, thus promoting growth and fat loss simultaneously. Ipamorelin mimics ghrelin and binds to the ghrelin receptor (or GH secretagogue receptor, GHSR) in the brain, thereby selectively stimulating the release of GH from the pituitary gland. This results in increased plasma GH levels, which would affect many biological processes. Unlike other GH-releasing peptides, Ipamorelin only stimulates GH release in a manner very similar to that of Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone. This combination results in a great aid for sleep, energy, stamina, and recovery benefits.

Benefits include:

  • Increased protein synthesis

  • Promotes fat burning

  • Improves sleep quality

  • Increased bone density

  • Accelerated injury recovery

  • Improved immune system

  • Increased protein synthesis

  • Increased energy

  • Increase in lean body mass

CATEGORY: Weight Management, Anti-Aging, Increased Energy, Optimal Health

Ipamorelin is a peptide used to help growth hormone production. Ipamorelin is composed of five amino acids that stimulate the pituitary gland to produce more growth hormone naturally. This results in increased plasma GH levels, which would affect many biological processes, such as in the gastrointestinal tract, heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, adipose tissue, and immune cells. Unlike other GH releasing peptides, Ipamorelin only stimulates GH release in a manner very similar to that of growth hormone releasing hormone.

Benefits include:

  • Promotes fat burning

  • Increased collagen production

  • Increase in lean body mass

  • Improves sleep quality

  • Increased energy

  • Increased endurance

  • Improved cellular repair

  • Increased IGF-1

  • Counteracts glucocorticoid catabolic effects

  • Less appetite stimulation

  • Less release of Cortisol, Prolactin, and

CATEGORY: Weight Management, Anti-Aging, Increased Energy, Optimal Health, Healing

Sermorelin is a peptide analog of Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone used as a diagnostic agent to assess growth hormone secretion to diagnose growth hormone deficiency. It is a 29-amino acid polypeptide representing the 1–29 fragment from endogenous human GHRH, thought to be the shortest fully functional fragment of GHRH.

Benefits include:

  • Increase in lean body mass

  • Increased energy

  • Increased strength

  • Accelerated wound healing

  • Improved cardiovascular and immune function

  • Improves sleep quality

  • Improved bone density

  • Improved skin quality and higher collagen density

CATEGORY: Anti-Aging, Optimal Health, Healing

Thymosin Beta-4 (TB-500) is a cell-building protein, an essential component of cell structure and movement, which assists in joint, tissue, muscle, and ligament repair. Thymosin Beta-4 plays a crucial role in protecting, regenerating, and remodeling injured or damaged tissues. Thymosin Beta-4 is released by platelets and numerous other cells to protect the most damaged cells and tissues involved in an injury. Some studies show it reduces inflammation and microbial growth.

Benefits include:

  • Increase in endurance and strength

  • Improved joint & tissue repair

  • Modulates immune function and inflammation

  • Improved chronic fatigue

  • Improved muscle tone

  • Suppresses muscle spasms

  • Improved autoimmune function

  • Anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties

  • Protects against oxidative damage

CATEGORY: HEALING, OPTIMAL HEALTH

KPV is a peptide that is naturally present in the body as an alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH). Studies have shown that KPV helps to reduce inflammation and tumor growth in the body. This makes KPV suitable for treating inflammatory disorders of the gut and skin.

Benefits:

 
  • Anti-inflammatory

  • Promotes gut health

  • Anti-microbial

  • Aids with wound healing

  • Treats irritable bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer

CATEGORY: ANTIDEPRESSANT

PE-22-28 is a 7-amino acid peptide derived from a naturally occurring peptide known as spadin. Spadin is a peptide that blocks the TREK-1 channel. TREK-1 is present in areas of the brain that control mood, learning, and memory and is, therefore, a target for antidepressants. PE-22-28 is a research peptide undergoing evaluation for potential benefits as an antidepressant.

Benefits:

  • Antidepressant

  • Promotes growth of new neurons

  • Aids in stroke recovery

  • Defends against neurodegenerative diseases

CATEGORY: Anti-Aging, Optimal Health, Healing

Epithalon is the synthetic version of the polypeptide Epithalamin, which is naturally produced in humans. Epitalon decreases the age-related changes in immune and neuroendocrine systems and reduces recurrent infections and chronic diseases. Some of the benefits include regulation of hormones, rejuvenation and strengthening of the immune system, and normalization of uric acid, cholesterol, and electrolyte levels.

Epitalon’s primary role is to increase the natural production of telomerase, a natural enzyme that allows for replicating our DNA so the body can grow new cells and rejuvenate old ones. Young people produce a large amount of telomerase and longer telomeres. However, as people age, the production of telomerase declines, and consequently, cell replication and health decline. This is the main reason people age.

Benefits include:

  • Increase human lifespan

  • Promote deep sleep

  • Delay and prevention of age-related diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and dementia

  • Acts as an antioxidant

  • Improve skin health and appearance

  • Healing of injured muscle cells

  • Restores and normalizes melatonin levels in older individuals

  • Can increase resistance to emotional stress

CATEGORY: Sexual Wellness

PT-141 is used to treat erectile dysfunction or impotence in men and HSDD (hypoactive sexual desire disorder) in women. It affects sexual arousal, aiding enhanced libido levels and penile erections. It acts on the nervous system via the activation of neurons in the hypothalamus to increase sexual desire.

Benefits include:

  • Treat HSDD (hypoactive sexual desire disorder) in premenopausal women.

  • Beneficial for low libido (male & female)

  • Increase energy

  • Beneficial for ED (erectile dysfunction)

  • Enhance sexual satisfaction

CATEGORY: Optimal Health (Sleep)

DSIP (Delta sleep-inducing peptide) is a neuromodulator and natural sleep-promoting nonapeptide with many other physiologic functions. It is predominantly found in the brain and easily passes the blood-brain barrier. It has been used to treat poor sleep, pain conditions, stress-related symptoms, low testosterone (via stimulation of LH), and even sometimes as an antioxidant and anti-cancer protein. It exhibits a pronounced stress-protective action and decreases stress-induced metabolic and functional disorders in human and animal organisms exposed to various stresses. In humans, DSIP directly impacts the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone, luteinizing hormone, and growth hormone.

Benefits include:

  • Improvement on disturbed sleeping patterns

  • Improved LH and GH release

  • Decreased production of cortisol production

  • Decreased production of somatostatin production

  • Reduction of chronic pain

  • Regulation of your circadian rhythm

Selank is a heptapeptide which is a derivative of tetra-peptide Tuftsin. The human body produces Tuftsin naturally, which comes with a broad range of benefits. It is one of the latest substances used for its many anti-anxiety (anxiolytic) effects. Selank is a precursor to the tetrapeptide known as Tuftsin. This tetrapeptide can efficiently improve and transform your immune system.

Benefits include:

  • Superior learning aptitude and memory processes

  • Better sensory awareness

  • Improved curiosity

  • Enhanced mental concentration

  • Regulation of the activities of noradrenergic and serotonergic brain systems.

  • Decreased anxiety and stress levels.

  • Better antiviral functioning without any adverse side effects.

  • Improved cerebral energy

  • Better and steady mood as well as feelings of gratification and happiness.

 

Category: Anti-aging, Healing, Optimal Health

GHK-Cu (Copper) occurs naturally in human plasma, and it declines with age. This decline coincides with the noticeable decrease in an organism’s regenerative capacity. GHK-Cu functions as a complex with copper, stimulates collagen production, accelerates wound healing and contraction, improves the take of transplanted skin, and possesses anti-inflammatory properties.

Benefits:

  • Improves skin’s elasticity, firmness, and overall appearance

  • Reduces hyperpigmentation and skin spots

  • Improves collagen production

  • Reduces inflammation

  • Improves wound healing and reduces infections

  • Increases hair growth and follicle size

Category: Optimal Health, Healing

Thymosin is a small protein the thymus gland produces to stimulate disease-fighting T-cell development. The thymus is an integral part of your immune system, where individual T-cells are made to respond to the millions of bacteria, fungi, or viruses that potentially invade the body. Thymosin Alpha-1 is an excellent immune modulator. Commonly prescribed for treating chronic viral diseases, Thymosin Alpha-1 increases innate immunity factors and helps fight harmful autoimmune processes. It controls inflammation associated with chronic diseases, which can cause excess fatigue.

Benefits:

  • Modulates immune function and inflammation

  • Improves chronic fatigue

  • Suppresses tumor growth

  • Improves autoimmune function

  • Contains antifungal and antibacterial properties

  • Protects against oxidative damage

  • Increases vaccine effectiveness

  • Helps eliminate unhealthy cells and stops infection or cancer growth

CATEGORY: ANTI-AGING, WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

Mots-C is a 16 amino acid peptide, which is naturally produced by the mitochondria in your cells. Mots-C regulates metabolic processes in the body, notably, it converts glucose into usable energy.

Mots-C increases the uptake of glucose in skeletal muscle and turns on the AMPK pathway without stimulating insulin. Boosting the metabolism of glucose helps to prevent metabolic-related diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Mots-C also helps turn back the clock on aging because it reverses cellular decline by promoting the renewal of cell components.

Benefits:

  • Controls insulin sensitivity

  • EnhanceS physical performance

  • Increases energy

  • Helps with weight loss

  • Improves cell function

CATEGORY: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Kisspeptin is a peptide hormone made in the hypothalamus that controls the levels of other reproductive hormones. Kisspeptin stimulates the release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH).

 

GnRH triggers the release of luteinizing hormone (LH) and stimulating hormone (FSH). These hormones play a crucial role in reproductive health as they contribute to the secretion of the sex hormones oestradiol in women and testosterone in men. Kisspeptin is also known as metastin because of its benefits in preventing the spread of cancer.

Benefits:

  • Promotes reproductive health

  • Improves male and female fertility

  • Helps regulate the metabolism

  • Regulates sexual behavior

Pegylated Mechano Growth Factor (PEG MGF) is a derived form of the IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor-1), which stimulates myoblasts division and allows for muscle fibers to fuse and mature. This is a process necessary for growth of adult muscle. The distinction between IGF-1 and MGF is that MGF stimulate myoblasts division through stimulation of different receptors. Research has demonstrated that PEG-MGF helps increase the muscle stem cell count, so that more may fuse and become part of adult muscle cells.
 

 

Benefits:

  • Decrease of fat mass of the body

  • Endurance increase

  • Improvement of immune defense and skin

  • Bone strengthening

  • Lowering of cholesterol level

  • Accelerated recovery

What are the Benefits of CJC-1295?

Week 1:

Quality of Sleep

Week 2:

Recovery from Workouts

Week 3:

Mental Clarity

Week 4:

Skin Elasticity

Month 3 to Month 6:

Body Composition
  • Increased Bone Density: As we get older, our bones get brittle, that is why injuries are more common.

  • Increase in Muscle Mass

  • Strengthens the Cardiovascular System: More muscle mass = higher metabolism = less body fat

  • The Ability to Burn Fat: With an increase in muscle mass allows the body’s resting metabolic rate is boosted leading to more calories burned throughout the day.

  • Increased Sex drive: Sex his huge. Not being able to function properly sexually can really take a toll on your mental well-being.

  • Improved Recovery and Repair from Injuries: Being on a proper bio-identical hormone replacement therapy program leads to an overall improved state of well-being. This adheres to recovery time (soreness) and acute musculoskeletal injuries.

  • Strengthens Immune System: It is a tremendous benefit when you are trying to attain optimal health and that is achieved by having a strong immune system.

  • Improves cognition and memory function: It is an improved overall benefit to the body, this includes focus and feeling mental clarity and sharpness throughout the day.

  • Improves Insulin Sensitivity-CJC 1295 and Ipamorelin: Improves insulin sensitivity thus reducing the body’s triglycerides. High blood sugars are reduced which helps burning more body fat.

Our Conclusion on CJC 1295 / Ipamorelin peptides:

The effects of CJC-1295 have been researched thoroughly. It is beneficial in building muscle, losing body fat, and boosting energy levels. It does all these by facilitating the production of more growth hormone for your body.

CJC-1295 is a releasing factor for growth hormone and is therefore considered a Prohibited Substance under Section S2 of the WADA Prohibited List. This substance has potential performance-enhancing effects, it is readily available, and there is reason to believe that it is being used within the bodybuilding community.

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FAQ's

CJC-1295 can help individuals over the age of 30 to have more energy, a faster metabolism, and stay in better shape as you age. It’s not a hormone itself, so it is a relatively safe and low-risk option when all things are considered. However, it requires a prescription and is delivered via an injection, so there are some important points to cover regarding the CJC-1295 benefits and side effects trade-offs.

One of the biggest reasons why CJC-1295 is being embraced by so many in their anti-aging fight is because of the relatively low rate of side effects. Most people tolerate CJC-1295 quite well, and side effects are generally mild if present at all. The most frequent side effect was injection site reaction – usually skin complaints or mild pain at the site of injection.

CJC-1295 and Ipamorelin are typically combined in therapy because the are known to work well together. CJC-1295 takes anywhere from 1-4 hours to reach peak serum in the blood, while Ipamorelin works much quicker. Ipamorelin is cleared from the body more rapidly as it’s half life is about 2 hours. The combination of both peptides ensures a rapid onset with Ipamorelin and lasting effects with CJC-1295. These 2 peptides are incredibly specific at increasing growth hormone levels when compared to other peptides. Other peptide can increase levels of cortisol (as seen with stress, can increase hunger) but neither Ipamorelin nor CJC-1295 have an effect on other hormones which is a great advantage.

Most prescribers direct that CJC-1295 be taken once daily, via subcutaneous injection (above the muscle, below the skin) in the stomach or abdominal region. Other prescribers recommend a “5 days a week” plan, either with skipping days every 2 or 3 days, or weekdays on, weekends off for injections. There is competing evidence as to the efficacy of these two dosing regimens, but in both cases, the effects of CJC-1295 – higher circulating levels of human growth hormone – tend to last for upwards of a week following administration and continue at that level so long as the administration continues a few times a week.

The effects of CJC-1295 have been researched thoroughly. It is beneficial in building muscle, losing body fat, and boosting energy levels. It does all these by facilitating the production of more growth hormone for your body.

Research has shown that administering CJC-1295 once weekly helps to increase plasma GH concentrations (2-10 times more) for a period of up to 6 days after injection. Further, it increases IGF-1 levels by 1.5 to 3 times, for a period of 9 to 11 days, with no adverse side effects.

CJC-1295/Ipamorelin is injected subcutaneously or under the skin. The injection is taken at night to mimic the natural release cycle of growth hormone.

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