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lifetime surgical piece on bpc vs tb500 post-op

Posted by chemist349 in Healing & Recovery - 19 points, 4 comments.

https://www.lifetimesurgical.com/blog-posts/bpc-157-vs-tb-500-after-surgery-c67aa

read the arnp writeup on lifetime surgical. confirms what i suspected. mostly rodent data and anecdotes for both peptides.

bpc has the angiogenesis mechanism in animals. tb500 is a tb4 fragment with actin claims. zero rcts in humans for surgical recovery.

tracks with what i see in ultra circles. people run both and swear by them but nobody can isolate variables. tried bpc subq near a hamstring tear last year.

felt like it helped the tightness fade faster but could be placebo or just time. no bloodwork to prove anything. the article stays appropriately cautious which i respect.

still wonder if the dosing protocols people copy from forums have any basis or if everyone is just guessing. has anyone here tracked inflammatory markers pre and post with either compound?

Comments

  • aspiring_codes: goodquestions, i track rMSSD nightly with a garmin and my baseline sits low 40s pre surgery so an eight point jump looked real to me but yeah single metric is noisy đź‘€ curcumin 1g plus omega 3 3g daily started week one per my doc protocol CRP dropped but hard to isolate what moved it âť“
  • chemist349: Interesting that your rMSSD jumped 8 points – that’s a decent swing for you. I’ve never logged HRV, but I did try adding 2 g of collagen peptide during my BPC cycle and felt my joints felt less creaky, though I didn’t measure anything. You mentioned curcumin and omega‑3 dropping CRP; did you keep a baseline CRP before starting those, or was it only after surgery? Curious if the timing overlapped with the peptide use.
  • nomad_former: Iran BPC‑157 at 250 mcg twice daily after my knee scope and noticed less soreness around week two, but I also started PT earlier that month. Without labs it’s guesswork. Have you seen any consistent CRP or HRV shifts across multiple cases?
  • chemist349: I haven't seen any consistent shifts. (The people I run with just talk about "feeling" better). That's why I'm asking. You mentioned starting PT early, which makes it impossible to tell if the BPC actually did the heavy lifting. I had the same issue with my hamstring. I was doing mobility work while pinning. Do you think the 250 mcg dose was actually enough, or was the PT doing all the work?

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