Peptides: The Science, Uses & Safety | Dr. Abud Bakri

Huberman Lab

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Dr. Abud Bakri, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and expert in the science and clinical use of peptides. We discuss the history, uses, sourcing and safety of BPC-157, GHK-Cu, pinealon, epithalon, GLP-1s, retatrutide, melanotan and growth hormone-promoting peptides. We discuss the gap that exists between animal and human data and meaningful differences in the sources for different peptides. For those interested in peptides, Dr. Bakri provides a grounded look at the science, risks and uncertainties shaping the field today. Read the show notes at hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman Lingo: https://hellolingo.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Abud Bakri (00:03:33) What are Peptides?, Receptors (00:06:26) BPC-157, Discovery, Animal Proteins (00:11:19) BPC-157, Animal Data, Regeneration (00:12:27) Sponsors: Eight Sleep & Lingo (00:14:51) BPC-157, Regeneration & Healing, Neurological Effects (00:19:27) Adverse Events, Clinical Trials & Legality of BPC-157 (00:29:41) GLPs & Compounding Pharmacy; Peptides & Gray Market (00:35:25) Manufacturing, Compounding Pharmacies, Gray Market, Black Market (00:41:32) Peptides & Tumor Growth?; Angiogenesis (00:45:17) Sponsor: AG1 (00:47:01) Pharmaceutical Patents, Clinical Trials for BPC-157, Potential Outcomes (00:54:19) BPC-157 Healing, Patient Experiences (01:01:22) Physician Counsel, FDA Legality, Malpractice (01:07:25) Pinealon, Epithalon, Discovery; Sleep & Cognitive Performance, Risks (01:18:17) Sponsor: Function (01:19:55) Pineal Age Deterioration, Epithalon, Eye Health (01:29:38) Thymus, Age Shrinkage; Thymosin Alpha-1, Immune Function (01:38:13) TB-500; Pet Health; Thymic Peptide Doses, Thymulin, Zinc (01:49:13) Sponsor: LMNT (01:50:33) GHK-Cu (Copper GHK), Collagen (01:55:32) Illness Recovery, Thymic Score, Tool: Blood Test & Immune Cell Counts (02:04:01) Growth Hormone Secretagogues, Age Decline, Cancer Risk, Insulin (02:15:36) GHK-Cu, Topical Cream, Red Light Therapy (02:20:25) GLPs, Discovery, Physical & Cognitive Long-Term Effects, Fertility (02:33:53) Retatrutide; Drug Patents & Nomenclature (02:39:03) Peptides: Women Reproductive Disorders; TBI, Neurologic Effect; Safe Sources (02:45:34) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer & Disclosures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	People are now stacking their GLP1 as their insulin sensitivity tool, their growth hormone
0:05.9	or their GHRH, and their antigen modulation therapies as this Trinity stack.
0:11.8	Trinity stack.
0:12.5	To get very fit, very healthy quickly.
0:15.1	So a lot of these transformations you see in CEOs and celebrities and stuff is using a combination
0:20.0	of those three things.
0:38.2	You know, your TRT plus terseptide or redicutide, whatever it may be, and then using a growth hormone modulation, if you can afford growth hormone or test hormone, ipramoriland, and you're seeing people lose a lot of fat, gain a lot of muscle in short amounts of time. Is that healthy? We'll find out. But that is like the celebrity protocol.
0:44.1	Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
0:53.4	I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
0:59.2	My guest today is Dr. Abud Bakri, an internal medicine physician who is also extremely knowledgeable on the science and use of peptides.
1:02.8	When I say peptides, I mean both FDA approved peptides such as the gLP agonists.
1:07.8	You probably know these as things like OZempic, Monjarro, and RetroTurutide, as well as peptides
1:13.0	such as body protection compound 157 or BPC 157, which as you'll learn today has a very
1:20.1	long history of being used in humans for gut health and tissue repair and many interesting
1:26.0	studies in animals supporting its potential use in humans,
1:29.7	but a minimum of formal studies in humans, meaning one.
1:33.9	We discuss BPC 157, what it does and how,
1:37.3	as well as things like growth hormone secretagogues,
1:39.9	like Tessa Morellin, MK-67, and others.
1:43.1	And we talk about things like GHK Copper,
1:45.6	which nowadays many people are using
1:47.6	to promote collagen synthesis and repair
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