A 2015 study by Huang and colleagues in Drug Design, Development and Therapy used a rat alkali-burn model (n=10 per group) and HUVECs treated with BPC-157 at 200800 ng/mL, reporting accelerated wound closure with enhanced granulation tissue, reepithelialization, and dermal remodeling by day 18, alongside increased endothelial migration and vascular tube formation in vitro via ERK1/2 phosphorylation though the abstract does not report numeric % wound closure or p-values
Psychiatry 8 , 222 (2018)
Follows the argument that goes: it doesnt matter about statistical significance etc because my body is unique so it might work for me, and I know and I should be able to choose. Often when it goes wrong, people then claim they should have been prevented from doing a reckless thing
The DPP-4 inhibitor linagliptin restores beta-cell function and survival in human isolated islets through GLP-1 stabilization
Researchers are not measuring weight, A1C, or relapse rate
The distinction matters because adverse events that are not systematically measured often go underreported in clinical trials
