Peptide therapy involves the use of specific peptides, which are short chains of amino acids, to promote health and wellbeing. Peptides occur naturally in the body and play important biological roles. Some key points about peptide therapies:
- Peptide therapies aim to supplement naturally occurring peptides that may be lacking or impaired. Common peptide therapies try to promote muscle growth, fat loss, injury recovery, anti-aging, improved sleep, mood and cognition.
- Peptides like sermorelin and ipamorelin can stimulate natural growth hormone production and provide associated benefits like improved body composition. BPC-157 promotes injury healing. Thymosin beta-4 may help repair heart tissue after heart attacks.
- Research shows some promising health benefits of various peptide therapies. However, long-term safety data in humans is generally lacking at this point.
Potential benefits of peptide therapies:
- Grow muscle and lose fat
- Peptides like sermorelin and ipamorelin increase growth hormone levels, which can promote muscle growth and body fat loss
- Speed up injury recovery
- Peptides like BPC-157, TB-500 and thymosin beta 4 appear to play a role in injury healing
- Anti-aging effects
- Growth hormone peptides can help counteract age-related declines in energy, muscle mass, skin quality and other areas
- Improve heart health
- Thymosin beta-4 shows promise for repairing heart tissue damage after heart attack
- Enhance cognition
- Reduce inflammation
- Peptides like LL-37, glutathione and AOD9604 have demonstrated anti-inflammatory effects
- Improve sleep quality
- Some peptide complexes have been shown to enhance deep sleep stages
Potential risks of peptide therapy include:
- Most peptide therapies lack sufficient clinical trials and long-term safety data in humans. Effects and side-effects are not fully characterized.
- Purity and quality control issues - therapeutic peptides are not regulated, increasing risks with certain low-quality providers.
- Possible hormone imbalances - growth hormone peptides could raise IGF-1 levels for example, requiring periodic bloodwork.
- Interactions with medications need to be monitored.
If considering peptide therapy, working with an experienced age management physician that specializes in peptides is strongly recommended for best results and to minimize any risks.
Hormone Wellness Center has over 10 years of expertise in personalized
peptide therapies. Under physician supervision, a tailored peptide regimen can be created to meet your specific health and wellness goals such as building muscle, enhancing cognition, improving libido, speeding injury recovery or boosting immunity.
Our clinic offers:
- Careful patient assessments, bloodwork analysis and follow-up monitoring
- High quality, medical-grade peptides
- Custom treatment plans for men and women
- Ongoing patient education and support
Contact Hormone Wellness Center today for a consultation to see if a peptide plan is right for you.