Just as Leija was starting to worry about his ability to train, a friend of his who owns a wellness clinic told him about something called BPC-157. It’s an injectable peptide compound that, his friend said, could do for Leija’s elbow what a year of conventional and alternative therapies couldn’t: make the pain go away.
“I went home and looked it up,” Leija says. Evidence was scarce, but enthusiasm wasn’t. Satisfied users—athletes, fighters, soldiers, and gym rats among them—referred to it as the Wolverine peptide for its healing powers.
BPC-157 is part of a growing list of compounds called peptides gaining interest in fitness, wellness, and antiaging circles.
