{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Under Load","title":"BPC-157: The Peptide I Almost Injected","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4dd5abca\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1228,"description":"In August 2024 I was at the worst point of eighteen months of back pain. My wife was putting my socks on for me. I was half-listening to a podcast when I heard a Stanford neuroscientist mention a compound called BPC-157.\nThat afternoon I was on a vendor's website with a bank transfer form open.\nI never bought it, and the reason is embarrassing rather than admirable. This episode is about what happened next, and about why nobody can answer the question I now get asked every week: are peptides safe?\nIn this edition:\nWhy \"peptide\" is a measurement rather than a category of medicine, and how a line drawn at 40 amino acids decides paperwork instead of safety. Insulin is a peptide. So is Ozempic. So is the compound in that vial.\nWhat the FDA advisory panel actually did on July 23, and why the answer is closer to nothing than the headlines suggested.\nWhat the human evidence for BPC-157 really consists of, and why almost all of it comes from one laboratory in Zagreb whose founder has never published a key part of his own work.\nThe trials registry problem, where searching for evidence today returns Phase 2 studies marked \"recruiting\" that state inside their own records that they are fictional.\nThe stacks, the marketing, and what a physician sees when a bundle of untested compounds gets named after a comic book character.\nAnd a section I did not plan to write, about the prescriptions I refuse to sign, and what years of operating on cancers of the mouth taught me about the phrase \"at your own risk.\"\nIf you are already taking something, there is one part I would want you to hear before the rest. It is about blood vessels.\n---\nRead the written edition, with all 25 references:https://www.andreheeg.com\nUnder Load is the Sunday edition of The Upward ARC, written by Andre Heeg, MD, DDS. Evidence-led writing on executive health, longevity and performance under load, for people carrying real responsibility.\nSubscribe: https://www.andreheeg.com\n---\nStudies and sources discussed in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/D6GUGKGhv_DEKkMXOUaw9zVKHR_WqCVlo9ECODchftY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wODc1/MzQxYzZmMTk4MDBl/ODhhM2E4NWIwYTFj/OWExOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}