The Glow Peptide Stack: My Results! BPC-157 + TB500 + GHK-Cu

The peptide stack known as GLOW has been getting a lot of traction on social media recently and I believe for good reason as it's leaning on your body's own repair signals that already kick in after say heavy training or an injury. I did cover it just recently so I'll give you a very quick overview and then I'll go into a recent cycle of mine as well as talking about concerns about the GHKCU part of the blend it degrading a bit faster. So the other two peptides in the GLOW blend are BPC-157 and TB-500 and they both push angiogenesis and microcirculation and on top of that they increase cell migration into those damaged tissues and this is done by via actin binding especially in the case of TB-500 it's been shown in studies to do this. Then the GHKCU adds a connective tissue element to it as it up shifts fibroblast activity. also upregulating collagen and elastin synthesis and on top of that it's been shown in vitro it's got gene expression benefits for anti-inflammatory benefits as well as antioxidant too. In addition across all three you see a modulating effect with matrix metalloproteinases otherwise known as MMPs and so that means it just helps with the either breakdown of the extracellular matrix or the rebuilding of it and that's where a lot of this cancer talk that people bring up comes from all these overlapping areas and but there's no evidence of this in healthy athletes you know like short-term increase in cancer incidence. Obviously there's not a lot of data on it you know either individually with these peptides or doing the GLOW stack itself but when you just look at the data it's more suggesting you know if you've got existing cancer yes these pathways all can support cancer you know growth. It's a case of not pouring fuel on an existing fire not that the fuel itself starts the fire and yeah I mean that's a whole separate video in itself about cancer prevention but if you're doing all the lifestyle kind of things you're lowering your risk anyway for example it depends what meta-analysis you look at but between 10 and 17 percent of people who regular regularly do strength training there's a lower incidence of cancer by that region and then yes if you've got really healthy mitochondria because you've got a member of mitochondrial dysfunction that drives cellular senescence and that's a that's a parameter of cancer toxin overload these kind of things all come together so if you're just doing if you've got a good lifestyle good supplements doing the right things then you're just lowering your risk already of getting cancer. A useful way to think about the cancer worry is if you compare say a 20 year old athlete to a 40 year old one obviously they heal much much faster yet of course they have lower cancer incidence a 20 year old and simply put you know the cells operate in a more youthful environment for one you know the damage might the dna damage is massively lower in a 20 year old so much less mutations and then just the epigenetic modulation as well operates that again in a more youthful state so pathways like p53 tumor suppressing pathways like that much more competent in someone young and then of course you know just chronic inflammation is lower at that age too so if you're doing all things to reduce this as well as that that i mentioned about senescent cell burden trying to keep that down as well if you're doing things to mitigate all of that then you can operate more like a young athlete pushing yourself that bit harder and to top that off if you've got good amino surveillance again that gives you peace of mind i'm a big believer in making your own luck with cancer around 93 of it is down to environmental factors rather than just poor genes my previous global end video i did cover my injuries like my back it was like a minor one i was doing things that triggered it for example just sitting uncomfortably you know with poor posture for long periods of time whether that's in social situations on a bench or doing say life admin on a weekend and i wouldn't realize till i stood up that my back i've been really like arched over another uh implicating factor was just uh not not the weights really that that could probably aggravate it a little bit from the weekend like during the week that's when i train monday to friday but even like carrying my racing simulator because it's very very heavy for one but it's also the weight is not balanced either so i was carrying it like you know about 10 plus meters so all these little things come together i've been trying to limit them but i started the glow stack doing a dose of uh two milligrams of the ghkcu daily which is a typical dose and then the 400 micrograms so both the bpc157 and tb500 and doing that i was planning on doing that over 25 days but in the final shot i did a triple one so that makes it 22 days and i'll come back on onto that with you know ghkcu and the peptide degrading but what i actually noticed was even within the first two days i was noticing like an alleviation of pain just very subtle of course but i did mention my previous video i was having to have massages like deep tissue ones to try and alleviate the pain and but i was still keeping up the training no matter what but i've not had to have any massages since starting the the glow blend check out our 12 month rejuvenation program where every three months we look at 225 different bar markers and get your future vitality optimized there's even a six month break clause if your situation was to change myself i'm very wary of the placebo effect i mentioned about those two days because on that second day i was doing weights and i was forced to actually increase the weight on my lunges i've been on the same um weight for like since january so it was due to go up and for for reference the the weights in my gym they either go in 2.5 stages you know so it could be five up to you know depending like 40 kilograms and then i've got another range of weights that go from uh like six up to 20 so in two good kilogram stages so up until now i've been stuck on 18 kilograms for quite some time i made a small jump in january from 17.5 to 18 but i've been it's been long overdue for me to crank up the weight to 20 and after the second day that someone was already using the 18s and this is the first time i tried it on 20s so i gave it a go and interestingly i felt okay i wasn't like i didn't actually give it much consideration before you know thinking about my back so i was already interesting and like i said i'm very wary of the placebo effect i kind of that's why i really just listen to bar markers sometimes in my own detriment where i think something's like just playing up in my mind rather than actually just listening to my body more but yeah i was actually fine doing that and since i've been staying on the 20s fine the first one i first workout i did but i just did three sets rather than doing the full five i normally do with lunges and then i've got up to four sets with it and yeah interestingly my back i did notice a little bit of extra aggravation in my back over that weekend period that was on a friday where i did the lunges so but yeah and it was just interesting another like further in on during that following week i was doing lower back and then i'd actually forgot that i'd actually injured my back i was like doing it i was like wait a minute i was training my back i was like oh yeah of course i've hurt my back previously and like i say it is subtle the doses i'm doing especially some people do report a more pronounced effect with glow doing higher doses of it i mean when you actually look at it the ghkcu that's like a driving factor people worry about copper toxicity and only about 14 of it is elemental copper so that would be around seven milligrams if you're getting like i did a 70 milligram vial so 50 milligrams of the ghkcu 10 milligrams of both bpc and tb500 then over that period of time like i said i did some people go up long do longer cycles of it maybe doing the two milligrams daily like i did so that's 25 days and it's just very unlikely to have copper toxicity at those kind of doses i did measure mine and this is like last year i was about a month after a ghkcu cycle doing the 50 milligrams over the 25 days approximately and my copper was actually on the low side interestingly aside from the better muscle recovery on top of that my cardio i've been hitting multiple personal bests and that's not down to the glow particularly because i've been doing the anti-hypoxic drug called hypoxin so not only is my you know i've got better oxygen usage but also better lactate clearance for my muscles but it's just interesting an association that i've not noticed any inflammation in my back because in the past in past uh kind of cardio boosting cycles of my back has actually hindered my performance a bit something else i have noticed over multiple tb500 cycles is uh just a slight anabolic effect i believe this is more indirect than anything well we've got a slight direct part with you know increased uh satellite cell migration and activity so those damaged muscle fibers you know that repairing faster but then also just indirect things if you're just able to train that bit harder more volume then of course over time that helps i mean this is now it's been quite a long period since i've had uh like i've been doing you know five day training weeks for a long time now like quite a number of months you one for like four day training week apart from that very very solid training so all that coming together over a long period of time over this cycle yeah i have noticed normally i hover between 80 80.5 first thing in the morning and i've been hovering more from 80.5 to 81 and a lot of other people report that kind of uh very slight anabolic effect when doing tb500 agreed it's just an association in a recent video i did look at my breakfast measuring the calories i've got a big shock not only in calories but the amount of protein as well so i've been playing around with my macros reducing nuts and seeds to you know cut down the calories because when i compared a year ago to this year my breakfast had jumped up by over a thousand calories 1050 and not that much more in a way of being satiating but just those really calorie dense foods just increasing that like nuts and seeds so i've reduced that but my muscle mass hasn't reduced interestingly i'm finally to touch on ghkcu breakdown so yes uh copper ions they they degrade faster you know like if they're exposed to increased ph or low ph as well or just oxidation in general just from being in water there is no clear-cut evidence on the ghkcu blend it degrading faster that i would love to see that data someone reconstitutes a vial and tests it 10 days 14 28 days after but yes there there is like some you know it's it does have some plausibility so we just don't know yet on how much faster it could degrade and so that's where like you know doing these things we're doing over three to four weeks i think that is you know like it's more of a rule of thumb yes some some peptides are if it was a single peptide some of them you know are less sensitive i've even gone up to like 10 weeks of some vials of certain things but yeah i would never do that with a glow blend and so yeah that that leads me on to like you know doing the cycle of it yeah for me yes 22 days it seemed to be i was still getting like it was still giving a little bit of that copper sting even on that 20 22nd day when i did a triple dose of it you've got to remember there are multi-peptide serums that contain ghkcu an example is the ordinary they do a multi-peptide and it is uv protected for one but yeah i mean people do get good results with it i prefer doing peptide serums like the ghkcu individually so you're not competing for pept transporters on your skin but yes that just to reiterate that it's uv protected so that is a factor peptides in general very very light sensitive so yeah if you've got it in the top shelf of your fridge for example yes you might just get the vial out very quickly and do your shot of it but if that fridge is being opened 20 times a day some people leave the door open for 30 seconds a minute and it depends where your fridge is positioned if it's near the window then you're going to get light exposure again and again so if you're trying to really minimize the degradation in general it's trying to limit that exposure so keep it in a darker spot so to summarize the glow stack doesn't replace good training practices like warming up and warming down not overdoing the weights for example having bad technique so if you like that video then check out this one on that individual peptide tb500 or another option i've got a video on kpv doing that orally thanks for watching see you next time