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Collino M, Pini A, Mugelli N, Mastroianni R, Bani D, Fantozzi R, et al
Collagen also has the ability to alter the gut microbiota while increasing the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and acting as a source of prebiotics
Many people use this combination for skin brightening, pigmentation support, and overall skin health
The risk is not only the sequence Even where a molecule is biologically plausible, the product introduces a second layer of risk such as sterility and endotoxin contamination, incorrect peptide identity or concentration, degradation during storage, aggregation and immunogenicity, synthesis-related impurities, injection-site infection or granuloma, unpredictable systemic exposure and an absence of long-term carcinogenicity and reproductive data
It remains one of the few endogenous peptides whose receptor target has not been definitively characterized, making it an active subject of mechanism-of-action research