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Healing & Recovery BPC-157: Known as a "Body Protection Compound," this peptide is derived from a protein found in the stomach
Its effect on abdominal fat reduction also contributes to improved metabolic health
They found that, indeed, there was a modest beneficial effect on kidney function even in people without kidney disease, and a larger beneficial effect in slowing rate of kidney function loss in people with kidney disease, explains Shuchi Anand, MD, MS, an associate professor of medicine (nephrology) at Stanford Medicine
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While these results in mice need to be replicated in people, and over a longer term, efforts to get those confirmations have already begun