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L-ascorbic acid needs a pH of around 2-3 to penetrate effectively, and at that pH copper can dissociate from the GHK peptide, diminishing both ingredients
The peptide mimics a naturally occurring substance derived from the pineal gland and has shown powerful longevity-enhancing effects in both animal and human studies
Sources: Anisimov VN, et al
1 2 What follows is a careful map for researchers and educated readers: what GHK-Cu is and where it came from, why the scalp might respond to it in principle, what the laboratory and human evidence actually shows, which popular claims fail to survive scrutiny, how the compound compares to the two therapies that do have pivotal human trials behind them, and where the honest bottom line sits
There is no pill form of PT-141 available for the reasons noted the peptide would not survive digestion in a useful form