Peptide therapy is used all over the world today. Peptides are small proteins or snippets of proteins. Each of them works uniquely to signal for specific cellular or physiological processes. These processes can aid in:
Promote Overall Health and Wellness
- Hormone production and signaling
- Tissue healing and regeneration
- Immune function
- Metabolic function
- Brain and neurological functions
- Reproduction and sexual health
- Mitochondrial function
- Anabolic processes such as muscle building
- Sleep and circadian rhythm
- Fight the effects of aging
At Skinology Medical Aesthetics, we are happy to offer several different peptides in Clearwater help you meet your health and vitality goals.
Peptide Therapy: What Is It?
Peptides are, by definition, composed of amino acids. They are simply fragments of proteins that naturally exist in the body, however, as we age we naturally produce less of these peptides, resulting in decreased cellular efficiency. As a result, peptide treatment emerged to treat a number of ailments while improving bodily function and affecting the hormonal system. Injections, capsules, topical creams, and inhalations can all be used to provide peptide treatment.
Benefits Of Peptide Therapy
Peptides are simple to inject or ingest into the body, allowing them to enter the bloodstream and begin their journey throughout the body almost right away. Additional benefits include:
- Relieves fatigue
- Provides anti-aging effects
- Helps with weight loss and management
- Reduce anxiety
- Helps reduce body fat
- Enhances mental performance
- Promotes rest and better sleep
- Provides skin rejuvenation and hair growth
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Most Popular Peptide Types
BPC-157
BPC-157 are peptides in Clearwater with numerous uses. It is a 15-amino acid peptide derived from body protection compound (BPC) found in human stomach digestive juices. Studies show it accelerates healing of many tissues, including those that typically heal slowly, such as tendons and ligaments.
BPC-157 seems to also balance systemic inflammation, increase blood flow to damaged tissues, and relieve pain.
Benefits and uses of BPC-157:
- Accelerates wound, skin, and tissue healing, including deep burns, ligaments, bones, and tendons
- Protects and heals gut lining
- Promotes many types of cellular repair
- Protects cells and improves cell survival with oxidative stress
- Improves blood flow to injured areas
- Relieves pain from injuries
- Protects neurons and supports healing of brain injuries
- Regulates brain serotonin and dopamine functions, possibly helping with mood
- Improves blood vessel formation
- May help with stress urinary incontinence
- Supports a healthy gut-brain axis
- Supports muscle building in response to resistance training
Side effects:
- Temporary pain/redness/bruises/burning sensation at injection site
- Temporary fatigue and lethargy right after injection, so some people may use it at bedtime
- Rare and temporary side effects include nausea, dizziness, appetite changes, hot or cold flashes, and headache
CJC 1295 - Growth Hormone Releasing Peptide
Growth hormone are natural peptides in Clearwater hormone from your pituitary gland. In young children, it stimulates growth. In adults, it supports muscle mass, fat metabolism, bone health, and heart health. It typically increases during deep sleep in the middle of the night. Also, its levels decline with age, contributing to age-related body fat gain, loss of lean mass, and slowed metabolism.
Growth hormone also stimulates IGF-1, which manages the effects of growth hormones. Both hormones work together on tissue and bone growth. IGF-1 weakly binds to insulin receptors and may enhance insulin action. In adults, IGF-1 also protects the blood vessels and neurons, making it important for cardiovascular, and cognitive and mental health.
CJC-1295 is the synthetic analog of the first 29 amino acids of growth-hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) or growth hormone secretagogue. In a clinical study, CJC-1295 increased growth hormones (GH) by 2- to 10-fold and insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1) by 0.5- to 3-fold over the course of 9 to 11 days. This peptide is typically used in conjunction with other GHRP since it extends the availability of growth hormone in the body.
Benefits of CJC 1295:
- Promotes muscle growth and fat loss
- Slows down aging
- Improves sleep
- Stays in the system for more than a week
- Temporarily increases GHRH
Epithalon
Epithalon is the lab-made version of epithalamin, a natural pineal peptides in Clearwater hormone. It increases telomerase, an enzyme that helps extend the telomeres, which are the end of your chromosomes.
Telomere shortening is a marker of aging and can cause cellular senescence, when the cells can no longer divide and regenerate tissues.
Epithalon also helps with metabolism, hypothalamic sensitivity to hormones, and pituitary hormone productions. It increases lifespan in model organisms including mice and rats.
Benefits and uses:
- Improves stress resistance
- Decelerates aging and cellular senescence
- Regulates and balances hormones
- Lengthens telomeres
- Reduces oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation
- Normalizes T cell function
- Protects neurons
- Normalizes melatonin loss due to aging
- Improves melatonin and cortisol circadian rhythm in older adults
- Promotes healthy DNA repair
- Improves insulin sensitivity
- Increases testosterone
- Stimulates the production of new neuron (neurogenesis)
Side effects:
- The most common reported side effects of Epithalon include redness and itchiness of injection sites, and hand and leg swelling.
GHK-Cu
GHK-Cu is a 3-amino acid peptide (glycine-histidine-lysine) with copper. It’s naturally found in the plasma, saliva, and urine. This peptide is found at levels of 200 ug/ml at the age of 20 and typically declines to 60 ug/ml by the age of 60 resulting in decreased collagen production and hair growth as we age. GHK-Cu peptides in Clearwater is released after tissue injury facilitating wound healing by increasing wound contraction, increasing development of granular tissue, and improves new blood vessel formation. This is achieved by modulating copper intake into cells.
Benefits and uses:
- Supports wound healing
- Promotes balanced immune and inflammatory responses
- Antioxidant properties
- Collagen synthesis, which improves skin elasticity, density, and firmness
- Stimulates hair and nail growth
- Repairs skin sun damage and hyperpigmentation
- Activates anti-aging genes
- Skin regeneration
- Stem cell and keratinocyte growth
Side effects:
- Side effects include possible copper overdose or toxicity. The copper accumulation can turn the lower part of the nail called the luna blue. GHK-Cu is typically limited to four cycles per year.
GHRP-6 – Growth Hormone Releasing Peptide
Growth hormone is a natural peptide hormone from your pituitary gland. In young children, it stimulates growth. In adults, it supports muscle mass, fat metabolism, bone health, and heart health. It typically increases during deep sleep in the middle of the night. It’s levels decline with age, contributing to age-related body fat gain, loss of lean muscle mass, and slowed metabolism.
Growth hormone also stimulates IGF-1, which manages the effects of growth hormones. Both hormones work together on tissue and bone growth. IGF-1 weakly binds to insulin receptors and may enhance insulin action. In adults, IGF-1 also protects the blood vessels and neurons, making it important for cardiovascular, and cognitive and mental health.
GHRP-6 peptides in Clearwater causes the greatest release of growth hormone. However it also stimulates release of prolactin resulting in increased hunger. It doesn’t cause desensitization and also has less prolactin and cortisol issues than GHRP-2. It also binds to ghrelin receptors and stimulates appetite.
Benefits and uses:
- Increases ghrelin in the stomach, stimulating hunger and appetite
- Increases lean mass and strength
- Restores growth hormone levels in obesity
- Improves stage 2 sleep
- Improves joint health
Side effects:
- Strongly increases appetite
- Temporarily increases cortisol
- Redness and itchiness at injection site
- Swelling in the hands and legs
- Bloating
- Prolonged use and oversaturation of receptors may increase anxiety and depression
- Hot flashes
Hexarelin
Growth hormone is a natural peptide hormone from your pituitary gland. In young children, it stimulates growth. In adults, it supports muscle mass, fat metabolism, bone health, and heart health. It typically increases during deep sleep in the middle of the night. Also, its levels decline with age, contributing to age-related body fat gain, loss of lean mass, and slowed metabolism.
Growth hormone also stimulates IGF-1, which manages the effects of growth hormones. Both hormones work together on tissue and bone growth. IGF-1 weakly binds to insulin receptors and may enhance insulin action. In adults, IGF-1 also protects the blood vessels and neurons, making it important for cardiovascular, and cognitive and mental health.
Hexarelin is a synthetic growth hormone-releasing peptides in Clearwater that stimulates GHRH release. It’s one of the strongest that also increases cortisol and prolactin. However, it does not increase appetite, making it a helpful peptide for fat loss.
Benefits and uses:
- Antagonizes somatostatin, allowing for muscle growth
- Potently stimulates the release of GHRH with longer lasting effect than GHRP-2 and GHRP-6
- Boosts mood
- Boosts stress resilience
- May protect neurons
- Improves bone growth
- Increases anabolism and tissue regeneration
Side effects:
- Increases corticotropin-releasing hormone, cortisol, and prolactin
- Higher risk of desensitization
- Reduces delta brain wave and slow-wave (deep) sleep
- Injection site redness and itchiness
- Fluid retention in hands and legs
Ipamorelin
Growth hormone is a natural peptide hormone from your pituitary gland. In young children, it stimulates growth. In adults, it supports muscle mass, fat metabolism, bone health, and heart health. It typically increases during deep sleep in the middle of the night. Also, its levels decline with age, contributing to age-related body fat gain, loss of lean mass, and slowed metabolism.
Growth hormone also stimulates IGF-1, which manages the effects of growth hormones. Both hormones work together on tissue and bone growth. IGF-1 weakly binds to insulin receptors and may enhance insulin action. In adults, IGF-1 also protects the blood vessels and neurons, making it important for cardiovascular, and cognitive and mental health.
Ipamorelin are a 5-amino acid peptides in Clearwater that stimulates the pituitary to secrete GH, boost IGF-1, and inhibit somatostatin. Therefore, it supports growth and repair of muscles.
It is the mildest and most popular GHRP because it can increase GH without desensitization or any increase in cortisol and prolactin even at large doses. It also doesn’t increase hunger. Therefore, it’s the most popular GH secretagogue.
Benefits and uses:
- Increases growth hormone and IGF-1
- Suppresses somatostatin without increasing hunger
- Increases bone growth
- Supports muscle growth and repair
- Supports gut recovery after bowel resection
- Supports fat loss and body composition in combination with the right training and nutrition
Side effects:
- Side effects can include redness and itchiness of the injection sites and hand and feet swelling.
Selank
Selank is a 7-amino acid peptide created by joining Tuftsin with another three amino acids to make it more stable. As a synthetic analog of Tuftsin, a 4-amino acid that is part of immunoglobulin G, it has some immune-stimulating effects.
Benefits and uses:
- Anti-ulcer and promotes a strong gut mucosal barrier
- Promotes healthy relaxation response by increasing the effects of GABA
- Increases BDNF in the hippocampus, possibly boosting mood and cognitive function
- Improves sleep vs. wakefulness balance
- Helps regulate inflammation, especially through IL-6 and helper T cells
- Supports antiviral immune function
- Helps with insulin resistance and metabolism
Side effects:
- Excess doses can lead to desensitization.
Schedule your peptide therapy treatment in Clearwater
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