Your gut makes a peptide called BPC that repairs damage from food and bacteria, then travels through your bloodstream to heal tissues in your brain, joints, and elsewhere. BPC levels drop starting in your 30s, like sex hormones do. The speaker argues peptide replacement could restore this repair capacity as you age.
It's actually a gastric peptide. It's made by the gut. And if you think about the gut is always being injured. So this is a protective mechanism, right? There's constant injuries going on to the gut from foods we eat, bacteria that we're exposed to, exogenous things that we're exposed to in the air and foods and water. So basically we have this great protective mechanism that's made by the gut to protect the gut, but it also will circulate out of circulation when the need is elsewhere to the brain, to a shoulder, to your knee, whatever it might be. But as we age, that doesn't happen nearly to the degree it happened when we were young. So when you look at BPC levels, just like you look at hormone levels, right? Testosterone or estrogen, progesterone, they decline with age and really starting about the same time the hormones start to decline. So around your 30s, everything starts to drop. So why would we think that you need hormones to repair? Like we know if you have no testosterone, you can't repair, right? If you have no estrogen, you can't repair. Why would we not think that these were necessary repair mechanisms as well? So I think we've kind of not. Thought about it that way. So I like to think about— I know you had, um, Ashley Koff on your show a while ago, and, and she, she just gave a lecture on GLPs I was listening to, and she called GLP-1s a hormone replacement therapy in a sense, right? It's something that, that we should have in us that drops in certain people, or drops with age, and why wouldn't we replace in those people? And I would say the same thing I think about peptides.
