What Is It?
Three amino acids (Glycine, Histidine, Lysine) carrying one copper ion. Already present in your blood, plasma, and saliva. Discovered in 1973. By age 60, your levels drop 60% from age-20 levels.
How Does It Work?
Loren Pickart's 1973 experiment — young plasma added to old liver cells, and the old cells started making younger proteins. He spent 15 years isolating what was doing it. It was three amino acids carrying one copper ion. Five mechanisms: stimulates collagen and elastin production, carries copper (a cofactor for hundreds of enzymes), reduces inflammation, promotes new blood vessels, and activates DNA repair genes. Affects approximately 4,000 genes — more than estrogen, retinoids, or vitamin D.
Primary Benefits (research suggests)
- Supports skin regeneration and wound healing
- Hair growth research
- Bone density and GI health support
- Legal in cosmetic creams worldwide
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- Split regulatory status — legal topical, FDA Category 2 prohibited injectable (2023).
- Oral delivery fails due to GI degradation.
- Single-source research dominance (Pickart wrote most papers).
- For research purposes only.
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