The Truth About BPC-157: Why 35 of 36 Studies Can't Tell Us If It Works A systematic review on BPC-157 found only one human study, a 12-person case series with no control group, no blinding, and no standardized measures (the lowest level of clinical evidence)
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The effects of NTZ were compared to those of the standard antioxidant, N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), as a well-documented hepatoprotective agent known to inhibit ER stress, and to those of 4-phenyl butyrate (4-PBA), a standard ER stress inhibitor (Soliman et al., 2019)
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The most parsimonious hypothesis is simply that this is a case of a viral protease targeting a cellular gene for cleavage, for which there are abundant precedents, including the proposed M pro targeting of TRMT1 and HDAC2 (9), and HIV-1 protease, which can be toxic to cells, via its action at various cellular targets (15)