Can you imagine a time when people with diabetes didn’t have access to insulin? Today, about 5% of the the more than 38 million Americans who have this chronic disease have type 1 diabetes and require daily insulin. So they benefit from the first peptide therapy developed more than 100 years ago in 1921 — synthesized insulin.
This incredibly successful synthesization of life-saving insulin prompted researchers to explore peptides further, and now these therapies are being used to tackle everything from obesity to thinning hair.
Here at Lafferty Family Care, Dr. Scott Lafferty and the team offer medical-grade peptide treatments that can help improve your health and slow down the degenerative processes in your body.
Here’s a look at why peptides can be so beneficial to your health and wellness.
Let’s first step back and take a broader look at peptides and their role in your body. In brief, peptides are short chains of amino acids — between 2 and 50 — that play roles in almost every function in your body. Larger chains of amino acids are called proteins, so peptides are the building blocks of proteins.
To give you an idea about all the functions peptides do in your body, here are a few examples:
This peptide hormone regulates extracellular fluid in your body and helps maintain blood pressure.
This peptide is antimicrobial and helps your immune system to fight infection.
A peptide that controls uterine contractions and helps with breastfeeding as it “lets down” milk.
The list goes on, but we wanted to give you an idea of the wide breadth and scope of peptides and how important they are for your health.
Most peptides are produced by proteins and cells in your body. Where peptide therapy comes in is when there's an issue that could benefit from a boost in peptide support.
We started this blog post using diabetes as an example, and it’s an excellent one. Insulin therapy (peptides) helps maintain balanced glucose levels in the body. But the uses of peptides hardly stops there.
Currently, peptide therapies are used to address:
In addition to these serious health conditions, the medical field is also using peptide therapies to address:
As you can see, peptide therapies are already in use, and they’re solving some important riddles. We’re only scratching the surface of the potential role that these therapies can play.
At our practice, we offer targeted peptide therapies to help our patients improve their health in many different areas. Getting the right peptide combinations for your needs is important, and so is how we deliver the peptides.
You might notice peptide powders or supplements, such as collagen, that you can buy over the counter and mix with your favorite smoothie. Unfortunately, this is an inefficient way to introduce supplemental peptides into your body, as your digestive system breaks them down before they enter your bloodstream.
This is why we recommend that you don’t waste time and money on these. Instead, come see us for professional-grade peptide therapies including:
We offer these therapies using an injection route, allowing the peptides to get right into your tissues where they can get to work.
If you’d like to learn more about how peptide therapies can boost your health and fight back against aging and poor health, please contact our office in Rogers, Arkansas, to schedule an appointment.
