Wendy Zuckerman

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

And Keith says you wouldn't see new blood vessels popping up on what's basically a disembodied tendon in a dish.

So to find out if this peptide really does increase angiogenesis and more broadly helps you heal from injuries, we really need to test it in a human body, right?

Not just human flesh.

So what studies do we have here?

Let me tell you.

So in 2015, a placebo-controlled safety trial for BPC-157 was registered on the U.S.

government's website for clinical trials.

The results were never published.

Another study from 20 years ago of 46 people with ulcerative colitis either got a BPC-157 enema or a placebo each day for two weeks.

And it looked like maybe the BPC-157 group did better overall.

But the thing is, most of the findings weren't significant.

And then there's a doctor who, by the way, wrote a book called The Fountain of Youth with Peptides.

And he has a clinic in Florida where he injects people with peptides.

And he gathered up 12 of his patients who he'd injected with BPC-157 because they had knee pain and asked them basically, do you remember how bad your pain was?

Is it better now?

Nine out of the 12, so 75%, said that three months to a year later, yeah, the pain was better.

Now, we have no idea if the peptide was the thing that improved their knees or the passing of time, which, you know, is supposed to heal all wounds, or perhaps it was the placebo effect.

I talked about this with Dr. Dhrav Kula, a physician and health policy researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.

And he told me that the placebo effect can be huge, particularly when it comes to knee pain.

Yeah, there are literally studies where doctors give someone an anesthetic, slice them open, basically stare at the ceiling for a bit and then sew them back up.

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