Others are immune modulators, with peptides known to move macrophages from an inflammatory state to a repair state, reducing local cytokine production
NO / eNOS axis modulation BPC-157 normalizes nitric oxide production, a vascular and mucosal protective effect demonstrated in ischemia-reperfusion and gastroduodenal injury models
On his podcast, Andrew Huberman, MD, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford Universitys school of medicine, shared a potential, and slightly gory, origin story for BPC-157
It combines two tissue repair peptides in one spray: BPC-157 promotes healing through angiogenesis (VEGF-driven blood vessel formation) and cytoprotection (nitric oxide modulation), while TB-500 promotes healing through actin sequestration that regulates cell migration and tissue remodeling
The frustrating part is that most guides skip the details