Peptide Education: Section 1
Introduction to Peptides
What are Peptides?
In short, peptides are amino acid chains that are signaling molecules in your body.
They send messages between cells in your body. Each peptide has its own unique function.
For example: some might act as hormones, while others work as neurotransmitters. Some may even have direct interactions with the body as a response to activities you perform or even something you eat.
Peptides play a major role in how your body responds to diet and exercise. If issues of fatigue, endurance, poor recovery, or injury and healing are concerns, peptides can accelerate improvements. Adequate peptide levels are imperative for performing at optimal levels.
Researchers and clinicians are looking at peptides as a breakthrough in medicine due to their rejuvenating actions for our physical and mental functions.
There are currently over 80 US FDA-approved peptide medications!!
What can Peptide Therapy be used for:
Since peptides are able to improve a number of very precise concerns, they offer a wide range of benefits for overall health and appearance, including:
- Boosts energy
- Builds muscle
- Enhances physical performance
- Burns fat
- Increases weight loss
- Repairs muscles and tendons
- Improves appearance
- Increases sex drive
- Enhances sleep quality
- Sharpens memory and cognitive focus
A example of a peptide that majority of people are familiar with is Insulin.
Insulin signals the muscle and fat cells to take in glucose.
Cells obtain energy from glucose or convert it to fat for long-term storage.
When people do not have sufficient insulin they experience a wide range of health problems.
Insulin was one of the first widely used peptide therapy. Insulin peptide is now synthesized in a lab for those who are diabetic. It’s synthetically produced in a lab but is BIO IDENTICAL to insulin in our body.
So by utilizing this bio identical insulin peptide people are able to effectively manage their diabetes!!
Now we have identified over 7,000 peptides in the human body.
Each having a very specific function and action. It’s true precision medicine. Some of those peptides accelerate musculoskeletal healing, decrease inflammation, improve immune function, heal the gut, heal the brain and on and on and on.
Peptide therapy is essentially utilizes our bodies OWN natural healing ability!!
Unlike many conventional pharmaceutical drugs that only work to SUPPRESS symptoms, peptides can work at a ROOT level to actually heal and repair the problem
Peptides are the future of medicine and are available now.
But your conventionally trained practitioners are not even aware they exist. Without going into a deep rant on the shortcomings of our modern medical system peptide therapies are not first line treatments.
Your primary care doctor was primarily trained heavily in utilizing pharmaceutical drugs and or surgery. They are not trained how to effectively treat the WHOLE body and use the right tools to heal the root problem.
Now we have seen a huge push towards far superior models of functional, holistic and regenerative medicine. Many traditionally trained practitioners are waking up to the vast short comings in the conventional medical model.
But finding those health professionals can still be difficult and often do not take insurance. Because peptides are found naturally in the human body pharmaceutical companies CANT patent those molecules.
It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to get one drug FDA approved.
“various sources indicate that it can cost more than $1 billion to bring one product to the market, including approximately $50-840 million to bring treatments through the stages of Basic Research/Drug Development and Pre-Clinical/Translational Research”
https://www.brightfocus.org/clinical-trials/how-clinical-trials-work/fda-approval-process
If the pharmaceutical company can’t patent they have no way to recover that massive investment.
Which is why you have particular peptides like Bpc 157 that has been around for decades with profound feedback. Yet your GP doesn’t have a clue it exists.
Long winded way of saying peptide therapy is long ways off from reaching mainstream treatments. Some of these peptides will likely NEVER go through FDA approval.
It’s growing rapidly with significant industry interest and budget allocation increases but still tools that are primarily only in the smaller niche of anti aging/regenerative medicine. Which is the best medical niche of them all!!
“The global peptide therapeutics market size was estimated at USD 39.3 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach USD 42.1 billion in 2022″
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/peptide-therapeutics-market.
Lesson Summary:
-Peptides are awesome!! 🙂
-The peptide market is rapidly expanding but remains years if not decades from being mainstream options
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