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0:00Welcome back to the peptide of the week. I'm your host JD denim and I got my co-hosts
0:06across the way mr. William T. Haas what's up brother
0:11How are you I'm good, man? I'm good
0:15Busy all way, you know move. I got my dog here hang out next to me just constantly grunting at me be like
0:23We're gonna leave and go run around or what?
0:26But for Oscar or Oscar
0:31Wake him up
0:32Well, everybody we are here today to talk about the peptide of the week
0:36We're gonna talk about
0:37One of our favorites, but I think it's one of everybody's favorites
0:40If you are if you are over 40 years old one of your best friends should be BPC-157
0:48because
0:49There's Oscar
0:51I
0:56Anybody that follows my channels nose in the last week man. I'm a wounded man right now
1:00I have had a sciatic nerve that's being pinched over the last 10 days and if you have not felt that pain
1:08Feel good because it's brutal. It's brutal. So uh, we'll tell us a little bit about tell us a little bit about BPC-157
1:17What is it? What does it do?
1:19BPC-157 is called that because it well the BPC stands for body protection
1:27compound
1:29It has been just I mean heavily heavily tested
1:34Over the years and because it works and so scientists and companies and everybody is really just trying to find more and more
1:41uses for this thing
1:43It is very very safe
1:46You really can't like overdose on BPC-157
1:50And it was found in our like gastric juices. So
1:54scientists I guess said hey
1:57We have stomach acid and we eat when we eat things that stomach acid just dissolves everything we eat
2:03Well, how come the stomach acid isn't eating us?
2:05Yeah, from the inside out right and and the answer is we have this well this layer of like mucus around
2:12Around our stomach to protect us
2:14But basically that mucus layers pretty much like all made up of this or as heavy heavy heavy heavy concentrations of this this amino acid chain
2:23and
2:24They figured hmm. That's interesting. So these so
2:28Our stomach acid just does eat through right? It eats through this this mucus, but the BPC-157 essentially just kind of like
2:36Heels rebuilds that mucus faster than it can get eaten through so that raised some interesting questions
2:42Of scientists and say well what the hell what the heck else can it heal right in our body?
2:48so they have bottled it up and
2:51Multiplyed a thousand and started and done some tests injecting it into people and found that that heck it works there, too
2:59I would say that
3:02You know it is mostly
3:04It's really gonna work well with your ligaments in tendons
3:09Okay, and it needs to be a it doesn't think of it this way BPC needs to be
3:18Injected locally okay, so it's where it does not travel well through well through our body if you inject it in your
3:26Elbow, it's not really gonna help your foot at all. It's only gonna help your elbow
3:32It
3:33It also doesn't last a very long in our body so doses need to be very frequent so every day and injected locally
3:41It now also there's an oral form right people people out there are selling BPC
3:48capsules and
3:49That is legitimate and that actually can really really that there's improvement studies that it's healing your gut healing leaky gut healing
3:57Ulcers caused by caused by like over-insed use which is a non steroidal
4:04Antifluenter right we're all told that I be profan is bad for for our gut and
4:08Those of us. I don't know who played baseball who took Viox
4:12Which is like a very strong and said
4:16that can
4:17Cause ulcers and can just kind of eat away at your stomach what BPC is literally proven to
4:22Heal those wow so while when taken orally it will help your gut
4:27When administered via like injection and the spot injection somewhere else in your body it will
4:34Heal help heal that injury won't do much for the gut though
4:39Yeah, so I've had some people ask about that in regards to you know
4:42We always suggest spot injection so if it's a elbow
4:46elbow tenonitis
4:47Shoulder into the muscle but they've asked about that in particular like if you take it sub-q would that work to heal your gut?
4:55What do you say on that?
4:57I'd say it's better than nothing. I would I think it's better than nothing. It's got a better chance
5:04Frankly what I would do is is squirt it and water and drink it fast before I would do it sub-q
5:09No, if we really want to look look at just gut healing I
5:14Would do that
5:16Interesting it would work
5:18There you go. So one of the questions
5:21I mean BPC-157 I would say is probably the most widely known
5:27peptide compared to maybe H. J. Maybe has the top seat but uh,
5:32if you where people start to kind of
5:35You have to kind of know which one's better for you in regards to the TB-500 or the BPC
5:41157 because those are the two main healing peptides and I think people get confused on that
5:46So I want to ask you directly what what would be your opinion on what would you use BPC
5:52154 compared to like instead of a TB-500?
5:57Sure good. Yeah, it's a good question
6:01First of all it doesn't need to be an either or
6:04I
6:06Use both is the right answer, but yeah, so I guess the quick thing a TB-500 is more of like a whole body healing
6:13It's gonna be a better like total anti-inflammatory, right?
6:19For the whole body it is going to help everything rebuild and heal it does travel well throughout the body
6:26So a sub-q injection is good for other parts of the body
6:31And in fact if you are injecting it with your BPC and you but you the elbow hurts and you injected
6:37TB and BPC into your elbow great guess what TB travels well through your body
6:41So it will even though injected in the elbow it will help out other places
6:46and
6:47It does last a bit longer so we don't need to do it every day, but it sure as well doesn't hurt every day, you know
6:55So I guess the BPC as if we have a really like acute
7:01Specific injury especially to any ligament tendon right sprained ankles
7:11Tended night is man. I don't know I know a lot of us who are lifting weights
7:14These are always constantly getting ten nice and elbows tennis elbow golfer elbows
7:20etc
7:21Specific injury that can be healed. That's actual tissue injury
7:26I would say BPC is the way to go right and inject it right into the spot
7:31If we have overall if you're just getting old and everything kind of hurts
7:36And there's no real specific injury, but everything hurts
7:41TB-500 is probably a better bet like you will notice like damn I just feel kind of looser and things are creaking around and
7:48And things are healing a bit better. I'd say that for like muscular tears
7:54Probably TB is better right BPC is really focusing on the ligaments and tendons
8:01But both will help you know will help build muscle or
8:07cover repair muscle
8:10But the answer really is
8:12Both are better they're not me to like why not like what would you not all right like I mean
8:19So I mean you and I just we've been lifted weights forever and we've all of our buddies do and whatnot
8:25I mean we can't even tell you how many people you know get that tendonitis in their elbows man
8:30You ever try to do curls with tendonitis and you're gonna happen so you do 20 days of good BPC-157 in spot injection
8:38It's truly amazing how well it works, you know for some people that you know that doesn't do it within that time just do it again
8:46Because it will it will attack that you know some people just have it really bad
8:50You know if you're listening really heavy weights, you're gonna get some bruises when you start to get over 40
8:56Part of the game if you want to lift weights, you know these two compounds in particular should be your best friend man because
9:03You need them you know dude. I yeah, I literally I have at least 15
9:11Friends that have came to me if saying I just have terrible tendonitis and we and I've given them
9:18This and suggested how they take it and they all are like oh yeah. Yep. That got healed
9:23You know I mean kid before this came out before I knew about it actually
9:28I mean I had ten I get my tendonitis so you happen to get yours here, which I believe it's like a tenant
9:33This is kind of what we call a contentus elbow
9:35I get it more in the belly of the bicep or like down here bad
9:40I mean I was hurtin probably for a year like driving myself like with a towel
9:45Right just putting the pressure on on my own skin. It was killing me both hands, right?
9:50and I ran you know two month vertical and
9:5597% better and it and it hasn't come back now
9:58We also you also don't want to just keep doing all the things that led to that injury
10:03As hard as you can right and then complain then say why isn't it being healing me right?
10:08You also don't want to do nothing
10:11Okay doing nothing does not heal you very well
10:14So if anybody is taking BPC and trying to heal an injury what you want to actually do is you want blood to come to that area
10:23Right? So my suggestion is do lightweight, but slow move slow movements. So this area is getting blood flow, right?
10:29And it needs to be moved and it needs to be in it can't just be immobilized
10:33It needs blood
10:34But I guess here's your stopping point is if you ever feel that being sharp pain. Okay, you did just too much
10:41It should maybe be a little bit of kind of dull
10:45Aching pain is fine like when rehabbing but sharp pain that's your indicator
10:50You did too much and you probably just set yourself back right ten and nine
10:54This is a is a tough thing where where it can be better and better better and feel great
11:00And then you just light it up when it's cold one day, you know, you didn't warm up and you just did something wrong
11:04Boom it just gets it back and it's back to it. I
11:09Remember geez years ago. I don't know maybe six years ago. I don't even know a long time
11:14Long before I had even opened the door to peptides
11:17But you had and I remember how I had that tendonitis and you had given me PPC 157
11:23Remember that and it was a long time ago man and I was blown away by how it works
11:27You know, I'm gonna inject this into my muscle every day and I was like are you sure and it works man?
11:33No, it worked. No, I guess it's to be it's also
11:37Should be noted that if we have injuries kind of like what you're dealing with right which is I
11:43Guess we're assuming it's a slip disc that is now touching your sciatic nerve, right?
11:49There's no really healing that needs to take place for you to feel better
11:55So what needs to happen is that damn disc?
11:59Needs to not be touched inside a nerve, right? No
12:03BPC this so this isn't really a BPC isn't gonna help much because there it's got nothing to heal, you know, if you have a if you
12:10You know if you break your bone in half again, and it's not set and touching itself
12:16BPC TB is not gonna help right?
12:18I don't know you know help wants a structural problems fix and then we can start to heal now
12:23I think that TB-500 probably would help you a little bit because that is really reducing information
12:29and
12:30Any tiny little bit of information is helping that this touch the nerve on that nerve gets touched boy lights up on you
12:37I've had that surgery out of double discectomy
12:40Plus probably 15 other surgeries and yeah, dude. I know it that sucks
12:45Remember you wake up from the surgery and for the first time in like months. You don't feel pain. You're like oh my god. Yeah
12:50Yeah, the mason and then mine was a rough recovery though. I still hurt for about a year after but I you're really coming to
12:57Discectomy. Yeah, I mean the nerve basically that lives with the nerve and just tried to numb the pain band is for so long
13:04The doctor said like hell you have basically a permanent nick in your nerve
13:08and nerves
13:10Take forever to actually heal
13:13Yeah, so it took me a year and then I always I forget I'm feeling good and there's I was like a ball on the ground
13:19And you go like kick it or something or a pine cone and
13:22Straighten that leg out
13:24Absia wake um girl
13:27But now most like most injuries right the best thing I can do right now is like stay active
13:33If I blood flow I've noticed that too man like I mean I'm still lifting through it
13:39I mean is that a good thing or a bad thing. I don't know if I'll tell you this, you know
13:43I took the weekend off, you know, you know this will but you know listeners don't I took the weekend off and I was like
13:48Okay, I'm gonna lay on my recliner and I'm gonna try to get better and try to let this disc try to heal a little bit to where
13:54I wasn't so much pain and I'll be honest with you, man. I
13:57Think it's worse. I think when I'm not moving around I was stiffer. I was in so much freakin pain over the weekend
14:03You know TB BBC know that it's we're past that, you know, like I said, it's it's injured
14:08So but yeah, I mean and then when I start moving around even though it hurts to
14:13Do certain things it gets blood flow
14:16I just think that I feel better when I'm moving. Yeah, that's probably that makes a lot of sense
14:23You know who would you say so give me give us some ideas of people that would be I mean pretty much everybody
14:30But who would you say would be somebody that you would put on BPC somebody comes into our office and they're injured
14:37Who who would you refer to the BPC instead of the TB? Give us some examples, okay? I guess
14:43um
14:44Specific acute injuries that are tissue injuries, right?
14:49Like we like we said before right
14:52tendonitis
14:53Even you know so we separate their shoulder, right or or like I said it dislocates or bib. Well
15:00Guess what the there are tendons tendons and ligaments that hold that joint in place first
15:05So for something to be separated you sense
15:07It's a strain or tear all those ligaments to get get that part out of there. So once it's set it needs to re-heal but you know
15:15Acute injuries and then how about anybody going in for surgery and post surgery no matter what they're cutting you
15:22and
15:24Pre-surgery cool load yourself up with that stuff let it heal let it let it really work as soon as it needs to work and then post
15:30surgery
15:33Just just give it to yourself and high doses. I
15:36Mean those doctors those surgeons that catch up to what you just said
15:41Are gonna thrive dude because you should be they should be
15:44Putting their their patients on you know TV and BPC before and after the surgery
15:50I mean it's but I had to healing for sure pro athletes pro athletes have been getting a BPC and TV injected post surgery for
15:5815 years
16:01Because those doctors those high end doctors are using any me is necessary right to heal guys and get them back on the field
16:07we even have a doctor who
16:10who does
16:11who does like he's a plastic surgeon and does cosmetic surgery and then has like a six week recovery program and then
16:19Started using the TV BPC and his patients in his recovery program and came back and just said dude
16:24this is killing me like you're you're killing my business because I
16:29Have six weeks that I chart get to charge people for their healing and now they're healing it two weeks. This is bullshit
16:37So sorry doc sorry doc. I don't know don't have much sympathy for that, but that's a true story and
16:44Do you just work man? It really really works. I have I take it now
16:50Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but me and I have lots of friends who just you know not a specific injury to be healed
16:57Take the blend
16:59I take a lot of higher dose every other day
17:02And I feel better than I have in 15 years. I've beat my body up over the years, but just I take them
17:08And I think the TB like if you ask me like I'm kind of somebody right now
17:13We're no specific injuries hurting me man. Everything is just kind of creaky and hurts right
17:17Yeah, I would prefer if I had to choose one. I would just be the TB-500
17:21Really? Wow. Yeah
17:24Because it's it just is it's taking care of all a bunch of inflammation. It's powerful. Yeah letting me
17:30my daily workouts recover a bit cover faster and
17:35Everything just hurts less
17:39I'm looking forward to those days man
17:42I'm sitting here on this podcast and just my my sciatic nervous is pinched screaming
17:48I'm holding it together everybody listening to men and brutal man. I uh so who would you say?
17:53Is there anybody because we always talk about this is there anybody that should not be taking it?
17:59Probably not I mean, you know, I guess I always want to say it paid no small children pregnant nursing women, but um
18:07Other than that, no
18:10I don't know there isn't
18:14So let's talk about this then
18:16Because I know both of us we've changed as we continue to learn and grow and deal with
18:22Hundreds of people like they come in our path and we work with different people
18:26Protocol dosages. What would you say would be the proper dosage for just a typical person?
18:32Somebody comes in and has tendonitis and they can't even lift weights. So it's a bad case
18:37What would you say would be what would you recommend? So I would say you need to start off with 10 milligrams?
18:44So get 10 milligram bottle of BPC one by seven
18:49Add two mls of water to it and inject right into that spot
18:55Well, I'm not hitting the bone, but I mean right right into there every single day
18:5910 units which equates to a half of a milligram a day. Yeah for 20 days. Yep
19:06Okay, half a milligram a day 20 days, and then I would give it a break for maybe a week and
19:13Do it again if you're not healed?
19:15The reason you take a break is not because you build a it like it's not because you're gonna
19:20Withdraw or there's some other like a let down is just you know our body made we may build a little tolerance to it
19:26It'll stop working as well if we just continue so it's nice to give yourself a little bit of a break
19:33Now personally so that's that is generally I would give that a go right because there's always to consider is money
19:40You know the stuff isn't free and I think that that is
19:45Any less than that I wouldn't I
19:48Wouldn't do it. I mean I would just like why buy a five milligram bottle exactly
19:54But personally I'm taking about like a milligram to a milligram and a half

@jd_denham_fit's BPC-157 'healing peptide' claims, fact-checked

Name: @jd_denham_fit's BPC-157 'healing peptide' claims, fact-checked
Uploaded: 2025-07-24T16:46:23.000Z
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BPC-157 is a synthetic pentadecapeptide with a substantial animal-model literature on tendon, gut, and wound healing, primarily from a single research group; no peer-reviewed human clinical trials have established efficacy or safety in people. The FDA's 2022 bulk drug substance guidance determined BPC-157 lacks evidence of safety and effectiveness for compounding purposes, making it a legally restricted compound in the United States. The hosts' discussion of self-injection protocols, route substitution, and overdose safety should not be taken as clinical guidance, and any use would require evaluation by a licensed prescriber familiar with the regulatory landscape.

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BPC-157 is a synthetic pentadecapeptide with a substantial animal-model literature on tendon, gut, and wound healing, primarily from a single research group; no peer-reviewed human clinical trials have established efficacy or safety in people. The FDA's 2022 bulk drug substance guidance determined BPC-157 lacks evidence of safety and effectiveness for compounding purposes, making it a legally restricted compound in the United States. The hosts' discussion of self-injection protocols, route substitution, and overdose safety should not be taken as clinical guidance, and any use would require evaluation by a licensed prescriber familiar with the regulatory landscape.
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The FDA's 2022 bulk drug substance guidance specifically excludes BPC-157 from compounding eligibility, citing insufficient evidence of safety and effectiveness, a regulatory fact the podcast does not mention.
Chang et al. (2011, Journal of Physiology-Paris) support oral BPC-157 reducing NSAID-induced gut lesions in rats, making the gut-healing claim the best-supported specific claim in the episode, but only in animals.
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Dissolving a sterile injectable peptide in water and drinking it is not a validated oral delivery method and should not be treated as interchangeable with a formulated oral preparation.
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What did @jd_denham_fit actually say?

The hosts made several specific claims about BPC-157 that are worth pulling apart individually. They said BPC-157 "can't really be overdosed on," that it works only at the injection site and "does not travel well through the body," that oral BPC-157 can heal ulcers and leaky gut caused by NSAIDs, and that injecting it locally heals injuries but won't help the gut. They also suggested dissolving BPC-157 in water and drinking it as a route for gut healing, calling it better than subcutaneous injection for that purpose. One host said it's one of the most widely known peptides and framed it as something "every warrior over 40" should be using. The sciatic nerve pain backstory added an implicit personal endorsement. TB-500 was briefly contrasted as a "whole body" anti-inflammatory, while BPC-157 was positioned as the site-specific healer of the two.

Does the science back this up?

Some of it, partially. The foundational origin story is roughly accurate, but the clinical evidence in humans is still thin, and several mechanistic claims are oversimplified to the point of being misleading.

BPC-157 is a synthetic pentadecapeptide originally derived from a protein found in gastric juice. The idea that it plays a role in protecting gastric mucosa has preclinical support. Sikiric et al. have published extensively on BPC-157 in animal models since the 1990s, showing effects on wound healing, tendon repair, and gut injury across dozens of rat and mouse studies. The problem is that almost all of this work comes from one research group in Zagreb, and human clinical trials are essentially nonexistent in the peer-reviewed literature. A 2018 review in Current Pharmaceutical Design by Sikiric et al. summarizes the animal data favorably, but acknowledges the jump to human application hasn't been formally validated. The "you can't overdose" framing is not supported by human safety data because there is no published human dose-escalation trial to draw from.

What did they get wrong (or right)?

They got the local-versus-systemic distinction partially right, and that's worth crediting. There is animal evidence suggesting that subcutaneous or intramuscular injection near an injury site produces more pronounced local effects. Albano et al. (2021, Biomedicines) noted that local administration in tendon repair models showed tissue remodeling effects. But the claim that BPC-157 "does not travel well through the body" and that an elbow injection "won't help your foot at all" is stated with a confidence the data doesn't support. Distribution pharmacokinetics in humans are simply unknown.

The oral BPC-157 claim is the most defensible part of the episode. Several animal studies do show that orally administered BPC-157 reduces NSAID-induced gastric lesions. Chang et al. (2011, Journal of Physiology-Paris) showed protective effects against indomethacin-induced gut damage in rats. Framing this as "proven" for humans, though, oversells the evidence considerably.

The suggestion to dissolve injectable BPC-157 in water and drink it is the most reckless moment in the episode. This is not a validated administration route, and repurposing a sterile injectable peptide as an oral solution is not the same as a formulated oral preparation. That's a safety concern worth flagging.

What should you actually know?

BPC-157 is a peptide with genuinely interesting preclinical data, but the gap between animal models and human clinical outcomes is not a minor footnote. It's the whole story right now. The FDA has not approved BPC-157 for any indication, and in 2022 the FDA issued guidance indicating BPC-157 cannot be used in compounded preparations because it has not been proven safe and effective. That regulatory reality gets no mention in this podcast episode.

If you are considering BPC-157 for injury recovery or gut health, the conversation needs to happen with a licensed provider who can review your full health picture, not be initiated by a podcast episode framed around identity and performance culture. The "warrior over 40" framing is marketing language, not clinical guidance.

BPC-157 research is almost entirely animal-based, with no large-scale human RCTs published as of 2024.
The FDA's 2022 guidance on bulk drug substances excludes BPC-157 from compounding eligibility, which the hosts do not address.
Dissolving injectable peptides in water for oral use is not a validated or regulated practice and introduces contamination and stability risks.
The "can't overdose" claim has no human pharmacokinetic data behind it.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers based on this video and our medical team review.

What does the video say about virtually all bpc-157 research?

Virtually all BPC-157 research is in rodent models; as of 2024, no large randomized controlled human trials have been published establishing efficacy for injury healing or gut repair.

What does the video say about the fda's 2022 bulk drug substance guidance specifically excludes bpc-157?

What does the video say about chang et al. (2011, journal of physiology-paris) support?

Chang et al. (2011, Journal of Physiology-Paris) support oral BPC-157 reducing NSAID-induced gut lesions in rats, making the gut-healing claim the best-supported specific claim in the episode, but only in animals.

What does the video say about the 'can't overdose' statement has no human pharmacokinetic?

The 'can't overdose' statement has no human pharmacokinetic or toxicology data behind it; no published dose-escalation trial in humans exists.

What does the video say about dissolving a sterile injectable peptide in water?

Dissolving a sterile injectable peptide in water and drinking it is not a validated oral delivery method and should not be treated as interchangeable with a formulated oral preparation.

What does the video say about the local-administration concept has some animal-model support (albano et al.,?

The local-administration concept has some animal-model support (Albano et al., 2021, Biomedicines), but the absolute claim that site-specific injection has zero systemic reach goes beyond what human data can confirm.

Sources & references

[1]Albano et al. (2021)
[2]Chang et al. (2011)

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