I ran a couple weeks of BPC 157 for an L5/S1 rupture a couple months ago. Not sure if it made any help (had no symptoms without spinal loading, which I was avoiding) but everything seems back to ~90% now.
Recently started learning a bit more about BPC to address some other nagging issues and came across something that may be concerning. It seems the current theory on why BPC works is that it promotes angiogenesis (i.e. the repair and growth of blood vessels). Basically, you get more blood pumping to an injury and damage is repaired faster.
The thing that caught my attention was that angiogenesis also promotes tumor growth. Has anyone else came across anything similar? I assume the angiogenetic effects of BPC would be relatively short term (and localized), so would tumor even be a concern?
I guess worst case scenario I keep an eye on my low back and make sure no bumps show up…
Wow that sounds scary. I have been using BPC-157 for about 3 months on my flexor digitorum profundus in my forearm. Too many hammer curls and poor grip of the pullup bar.
The typical dose is 250mcg/day. On high pain days I use double that and within a hour the pain is gone. So far no bumps but I will keep an eye out.
Well yea, most compounds that accelerate cell division rates will have an increased rate of causing cancer and/or tumor growth, mitosis typically regulates cell division (or meiosis in haploid cells), the way I see it (however I could be wrong as I’m no expert) is that accelerated cell division increases the liklihood of a cell missing a checkpoint and therefore becoming cancerous and/or tumours. Causes of the above statement are mutations/modifications in genes. You know what else is linked to tumor growth and/ or accelerated progression of cancer, IGF-1, HGH, EPO, Many peptides etc. This is why I don’t use peptides or SARMS, the long term research is lacking, while the same can be said with anabolic steroids, at least I vaguely know the potential consequences, with peptides, SARMS and other untested PED’s it’s alike to playing russian roulette. If date suggest SARMS actually end up being safe LONG TERM then I’ll probably turn over to that side, however AAS have been around for nearly 100 years yet the data on the safety profile of these agents is still severely lacking, the only conclusion I can come to is that use over time likely causes detrimental cardiac remodelling of unknown severity, said cardiac remodelling may very well be able to be combatted with a healthy lifestyle, the right antioxidant supplements (esp since part of the detrimental effect on cardiac function appears to be linked to oxidive stress), otherwise BP control should also help however the fact that cardiac myocytes contain AR… Well there isn’t much I can do about that.
That being said I’ve used one of the peptides before (OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) not saying which one, however it was to attempt to heal cartilage/ soft tissue