Dr. Abud Bakri

And then they were like, what's causing the actual biological effects?

They identified BPC-157, the 15-amino acid peptide that's causing all these effects.

There's actually more peptides in gastric juices that some other scientists may or may not have already identified.

This field of peptides is going to be very interesting because almost every organ has a signature of peptides.

Like if you think back, Dr. Vladimir Vulevich in 1850s, 1880s, finds carnosine and carnitine in muscle of cattle.

So you can think about the first peptides that are found are carnosine and then carnitine is the amino acid that have positive effects on strength training and performance and different

effects there.

But that was the whole idea is like, hey, there's muscle peptides that may have muscle effects, right?

Gut peptides may have gut effects.

Yep.

So they did all kinds of horrible things to these mice.

They would sever tendons and then give them BPC through oral or injectable intraperitoneal administrations, and they'd have faster healing times.

They would sever ACLs of the mice.

They would do burn wounds.

So when a patient has a burn wound in the ICU, they end up having crazy gastric ulcers.

But if they were able to put BPC on topically for the mouse, they would have no gastric ulcers.

They name it as this anti-stress compound.

It's how they look at it.

Now, when they do that Achilles paper on the mice, that's what explodes the bodybuilder interest and leads us to today where we are like, oh, MSK injuries must be BPC, tendons and muscle injuries.

But the original idea of BPC was to use it as a gastric treatment, not to use it as a musculoskeletal.