Funding This work was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Capacity Building Grant and a UNSW Faculty of Medicine Research Grant
Individuals interested in using glutathione as part of their hair care regimen should consider it as one piece of a broader strategy focused on nutrition, lifestyle, and possibly other evidence-based treatments for hair loss
The strongest human evidence is for topical dermatology and wound-related research, not systemic anti-aging or injectable peptide therapy 2, 3
And even after people enroll, Milne wrote in an email to Undark, the substances short half-life would make it difficult for the researchers to ensure that participants are sticking with the trial protocol and not supplementing with gray market BPC-157
The tripeptide modulates over 4,000 human genes (31.2% of the genome) and plasma levels decline from approximately 200 ng/mL at age 20 to less than half by age 60 (Pickart & Margolina, 2018)
however, the reported bioavailability values range from 10 to 98% 192,199,211