It promotes actin polymerization, supports angiogenesis in healing tissue, and reduces systemic inflammatory markers that accumulate with consistent high-volume training
They do not substitute for one
Where appropriate, we can arrange testing or review recent blood results before treatment
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As of 2024, roughly 60 FDA-approved peptide medications exist, 140 are in active clinical trials, and more than 500 are in preclinical development.4 Google search volumes for compounds like BPC-157 and MOTS-c hit all-time highs in mid-2024, with more than 50 million tagged video views across YouTube and TikTok.5 The interest is not merely recreational: endurance coaches and practitioners at organizations from the US Olympic Committee to Stanford Athletics are paying close attention, because the intersection of peptide science, AI-driven drug discovery, and wearable-data analytics is producing insights that could reshape how we train, recover, and extend competitive careers
Such a positive response would also prove that the cortisone (which may be mixed with the local anaesthetic) is in the correct space and may have a beneficial effect in the longer term
