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Cool squirrel, lol, here's what I have on copper peptides.

Foods Containing Copper Peptides
http://www.livestrong.com/article/549709...-peptides/

A copper peptide is a protein compound that contains the metal alloy copper. Some foods naturally contain copper, considered one of the minerals essential for human health. Foods do not contain copper peptides since scientists produce the copper peptides in the laboratory.

You most commonly find copper peptides as an ingredient in skin care products. Introduced in 1997, copper peptides are often referred to as the most effective skin regeneration product, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Copper peptides help make your skin feel smooth and soft while also making it more firm. As an active ingredient in creams and lotions, copper peptides function as antioxidants, which mean they help protect cells from damage caused by negatively charged particles in the body. Antioxidants may help fight the signs of aging. Copper peptides also promote the production of collagen and elastin, the proteins that give skin strength and flexibility.







Published Studies on Tissue and Skin Remodeling Copper-Peptides

by Loren Pickart PhD
http://www.skinbiology.com/copperpeptide...ation.html



I discovered GHK-Cu in human plasma during experiments that tried to reverse certain effects of aging in animals. Since then, GHK-Cu and certain other copper-peptides, have been found to accelerate the regeneration and repair of many types of mammalian tissues. Studies, at numerous universities and research institutes, have found copper-peptides to:

- Accelerate wound repair (humans, mice, rats, guinea pigs, pigs, dogs)

- Increase skin re-epithelialization (humans, animals)

- Reverse aging effects on skin (humans) - thickens skin, reduces small and large wrinkles, reduces blotchiness and blemishes, improves elasticity, and increases keratinocyte and fibroblast production, thickens the subcutaneous fat layer

- Improve skin graft transplant success (pigs)

- Improve hair transplant success (humans)

- GHK analogs with fatty residue analogs increase hair follicle size, stimulate hair growth and reduce hair loss (humans, mice, rats). Increases hair growth after chemotherapy (rats)

- Stimulate bone healing (guinea pigs, pigs, rabbits)

- Heal injured intestinal linings (humans, rats)

- Heal stomach ulcers (rats)

- Block oxidative injury in tissues.

- Restore normal function in lives damaged by toxins (rats)

- Have profound anti-inflammatory actions (reduces release of oxidizing iron from ferritin, TNF-alpha, TGF-beta-1, IL-1). The actions on TNF-alpha (tumor necrosis factor alpha) are especially important since it is considered to the the "master inflammatory molecule" that plays a causative role in chronic inflammatory conditions (rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, ulcerative colitis, acute alcoholic hepatitis) and possibily atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and neuropathies. Drugs that block TNF-alpha also block the other cytokines involved in the inflammation.