GHK-Cu sounds promising, but the wound-healing hype is still ahead of the data

Posted by aspiring_codes in Healing & Recovery - 2 points, 0 comments.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4508379

This review looks at GHK and GHK-Cu and why people think it may help with skin repair, wound healing, and a bunch of related cell pathways. It is more of a mechanism-heavy paper than a real world recovery guide.

My take is that this is interesting, but the internet gets way ahead of itself with copper peptide talk. For skin, maybe. For actual tendon or joint recovery, I think the leap gets pretty big pretty fast. I liked that the paper stays closer to the biology, because once you get past that, a lot of the claims I see online start sounding like gym lore with a lab coat on. For my own recovery stuff, I am a lot more cautious when the evidence is mostly about skin signaling and not the injury in front of me. Could just be me being skeptical, but I prefer boring over hype.

Has anyone here found GHK-Cu useful for anything beyond skin stuff, or do you think it is mostly getting over-sold right now?

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