BPC myths I want to officially file under 'no, it doesn't do that'

6. BPC-157 'heals old injuries from decades ago.' The asymptomatic old injury is asymptomatic for a reason — your body adapted. BPC isn't going to undo 15 years of compensation patterns.

7. 'You can feel BPC working within 24 hours.' The acute anti-inflammatory vibe is real but the healing claims take weeks. If you feel 'healed' in 24 hours, it wasn't broken enough for BPC to be the variable.

8. 'BPC-157 has no side effects because it's a natural peptide.' Many natural peptides have side effects. Absence of reported side effects is not evidence of absence. Also it's synthetic, not natural in vial form.

Excellent additions. This is going in my link locker for newbie questions.

9. 'BPC is safe to combine with anything.' We barely know what it does by itself in humans. Combinations are speculation on top of speculation.

The biggest one I don't see yet is "BPC-157 healed my injury" without any baseline measurement or control. Like, did you actually get imaging before and after, or are you just comparing how you feel now vs when you were limping? Half these claims fall apart the second you ask "compared to what" and "measured how." People take BPC for a shoulder issue, do PT, rest it, maybe sleep better that week, then credit the peptide. There's no world in which we can separate the variables without actual tracking.