Wendy Zuckerman

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Science Vs · Peptides: The Ultimate Body Hack? · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Plus, could peptides really give you cancer?

Coming up.

Welcome back.

Now let's get into one of the most popular peptides on the market, BPC-157.

This is the so-called Wolverine peptide, but people say it can help you recover from injuries fast.

So where does it come from and should you try it?

BPC-157 stands for Body Protective Compound 157.

So you know immediately that it was not discovered by Hassi's team.

It was isolated from gastric juice in the early 1990s by a Croatian lab.

And what's curious is that humans don't actually make BPC-157.

You can't find it in our DNA.

So the going theory is that maybe a gut bug makes it?

We don't know.

But the big question is, can it heal you?

For this, I called up Keith Barr, a professor of molecular exercise physiology at University of California, Davis.

Yeah, he wanted to see if BPC-157 can really heal tendons and ligaments, which can be very difficult injuries to treat.

So it would be great if all you needed was one cheeky injection and off you go.

And here's how Keith tested it.

His first step is basically building a little tendon in a dish.

Keith's team takes the roughed up cells of the human tendon, embeds them in a gel, puts it all on a tiny bone-like scaffolding, and then yadda yadda yadda, the cells will start to replicate.

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