In Western cultures where youth is celebrated, there is no shortage of anti-aging solutions, comprising a multi-billion dollar industry that doesn’t always deliver. Despite a plethora of invasive and artificial interventions meant to turn back the clock, the aging process is inevitable. Nevertheless, there are many natural and non-invasive steps you can take on your own to optimize your health, slow signs of aging, extend longevity, and enhance your quality of life.
One natural anti-aging solution gaining popular traction is peptide therapy. Learn about peptides, their role in longevity, and how peptide therapy can supply your body with key elements it needs to combat aging and optimize health.
What are Peptides and Where Do They Come From?
Peptides are short chains of amino acids that your body uses to support a broad variety of biological processes, including cell signaling, hormone production, and tissue repair.
Peptides are made in the body’s cells via protein synthesis, where ribosomes in cells translate genetic information from mRNA to assemble amino acids into peptides or proteins. Enzymes facilitate the formation of peptide bonds into task-specific peptides that support a broad range of vital biological functions.
Peptides serve numerous functions in human biology:
- Serve as signaling hormones that regulate various functions. For example, the peptide hormone oxytocin plays a vital role in childbirth and human bonding, and insulin regulates blood glucose levels and metabolism.
- Serve as neurotransmitters, facilitating neural signalling between the brain and body about pain, temperature, hunger, and more.
- Antimicrobial peptides support the immune system by disrupting microbial membranes, protecting the body from infections.
- Certain peptides inhibit the actions of enzymes, to maintain metabolic homeostasis.
Peptides are synthesized from amino acids, derived from dietary proteins. While amino acids are abundant in animal-based proteins, modern diets are often protein-deficient, limiting the availability of amino acids for peptide synthesis, depriving the body of peptides needed for tissue repair and maintenance, and metabolic support.
Peptide Therapy to Combat Aging
Peptide therapy is a growing trend in alternative medicine that uses specific peptides to target various biological processes that govern the rate of aging. Unlike many anti-aging solutions that address the outward symptoms of aging, peptides work at the cellular level to build, repair, and maintain tissues, stopping tissue degradation before its symptoms manifest as wrinkled skin, wasting muscles, and fragile bones.
Peptide therapy combats aging via several mechanisms of action:
- Promotes collagen synthesis, for stronger fascia and connective tissues, and firmer, more youthful skin.
- Neutralizes free radicals via the antioxidant properties of some peptides, reducing damage to cellular DNA.
- Supports cellular repair and function.
- Accelerates wound healing.
- Regulates and balances hormone levels, for reproductive health and energy production.
- Reduces systemic inflammation and inhibits hypertension.
- Regulates gene expression and protein synthesis.
- Combats certain types of cancer.
The use of peptide therapy as an anti-aging solution is still in its early stages, with large volumes of research emerging that link certain peptides to specific health conditions. However, you don’t need to be sick or even see a doctor to benefit from peptide therapy. Peptides are proteins, not drugs, and most do not require a medical prescription.
Popular Therapeutic Peptides and How They Fight Aging
Collagen Peptides
Collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals, and the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of connective tissues. Fascia, ligaments and tendons are made up mostly of collagen fibers, providing structural integrity throughout the body. Collagen also forms the ECM of your skin, keeping it smooth, supple, and wrinkle-free. Collagen peptides help to maintain skin elasticity, firmness and hydration.
Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptides (GHRPs)
Growth hormones support lean muscle mass, promote fat metabolism and ramp up energy production. Sarcopenia (muscle wasting) is a key sign of aging. Low muscle mass slows basal metabolism, reduces energy production, and promotes fat storage as energy supply exceeds energy demand. When combined with exercise and a protein-rich diet, GHRPs can help reverse sarcopenia and speed up basal metabolism, making you stronger and more energetic. GHRPs include Ipamorelin (CJC-1295), Thymosin Beta-4 (TB-500), Epithalon, and BPC-157.
Anti-Aging Benefits of Peptide Therapy
Peptide therapy stimulates the body’s production of certain hormones and proteins that typically decline as you age, providing multiple benefits that potentially slow the aging process. However, poor lifestyle habits can negate any benefits, and peptide therapy should be used in conjunction with healthy practices such as quality sleep, regular exercise, and a clean whole-foods diet.
Anti-aging benefits of peptide therapy include:
- Improved skin tone, texture and appearance, with reduced wrinkles and increased elasticity.
- Muscle-building benefits that increase strength, boost energy production and elevate basal metabolism.
- Improved cognition, and potential protection against neurodegenerative disorders.
- Enhanced sleep quality.
- Improved hormonal balance.
- Increased libido.
- Enhanced immune function.
- Reduced inflammation and hypertension.
- Improved cellular insulin sensitivity.
Improved skin tone, texture and appearance
Muscle-building benefits
Improved cognition, neuroprotection
Enhanced sleep quality
Improved hormonal balance
Increased libido
Enhanced immune function
Reduced inflammation and hypertension
Improved cellular insulin sensitivity
Peptides Combined with NAD+ IV Therapy Put the Brakes on Aging
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is a vital coenzyme found in every cell in the human body, playing a central role in numerous biochemical processes. NAD+ plays a key role in cellular biology, including energy production, DNA repair, and regulation of gene expression, metabolic functions, and aging processes. Like peptides, your body makes NAD+ from dietary precursors, but NAD+ levels decline as you age, hovering at about 50% of peak by age 50.
Combining NAD+ IV therapy with peptide therapy, along with lifestyle optimization, can dramatically improve your health and combat signs of aging.
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Trending anti-aging peptides
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