Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.

And today on the podcast, it's time for a five-minute

Friday, and I'm going to teach you all about peptides and what they can do for your skin.

So if you've never used peptides on your skin, you need to incorporate this amazing ingredient

into your skincare routine. You can use peptides both orally by mouth or topically.

And I'm going to talk first about what we can do to help use peptides to reduce skin problems.

So we've studied peptides for many years. They're very thin. They're very small molecules that

penetrate the surface of the skin easily. They improve

redness at the skin because they often have antioxidant effect. They improve skin firmness, skin

elasticity, and they also have anti-inflammatory effect. There are different classes of peptides.

And a peptide is just a very small, small molecule, sometimes composed of

just several amino acids bound together by a peptide chain. And because of its small size, it's able

to permeate the skin tissues very nicely. And it's often in a thin, water-based type solution. So it

absorbs highly effectively. So there are four different type of

peptide molecules. There are carrier peptides, neurotransmitter inhibitor type of peptides,

enzyme inhibitors that stop breakdown of products and signaling peptides. So it sounds very

technical and very high concept, but the basic concept is

carrier peptides help to stabilize trace elements that are really important in your skin,

like magnesium and copper. And these are things that we need in our skin to grow good elasticity,

good collagen development, good wound healing. Copper peptides and copper

tripeptides are very important in anti-aging skin care, and you will find them there often because

of their wound healing abilities. Neur retransmitter inhibitor peptides are the type of peptide products,

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