More and more people are hearing about peptides and how they might help injuries heal faster and stronger without surgery. In this video, I answer the question from a viewer about a rotator cuff tear and whether a commonly used peptide - BPC 157 - would be enough to help that injury heal on its own, without surgical repair.
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More and more people are hearing about peptides and how they might help injuries heal faster and
stronger without surgery. In this video I answer the question from a viewer about a rotator cuff
tear and whether a commonly used peptide, BPC-157, would be enough to help that injury heal on its
own without surgical repair. My name is Dr. David Geyer, triple board certified orthopedic surgeon,
sports medicine specialist, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine expert. I help you feel,
look, and perform your best regardless of age or injury. This video is part of my Ask the
Doctor video series based on questions you've left me in the comments of the videos on my
YouTube channel. The question, just like I said, very simple. I want to take only BPC-157 for my
rotator cuff tear. Is it enough to heal the tear? First, a couple disclaimers before I answer. One,
this is not medical advice. I am not giving you medical advice in this video, any videos on any
of my social media channels or on my website. This is meant for educational and informational
purposes only. Also, peptides are considered experimental by the FDA. I am not giving
advice on you or encouraging you or pushing you to take peptides. I just know so many people
are going online looking for information about peptides and I want to give at least what I feel
is honest and my educated perspective on them. I am not pushing you to do them. If you want to do
peptides, talk to your doctor. I strongly advise you to talk to your doctor, potentially get the
peptides from your doctor. I've got many other videos on that and other aspects of peptides.
But as it pertains to BPC-157 for a rotator cuff tear, I've done other videos on BPC.
It's a peptide naturally made in our stomach lining, stomach juices that has been shown in
animal studies to be very effective at getting muscle tendons and ligaments to heal. Very
limited human data, especially randomized placebo-controlled human studies on BPC for
really any orthopedic injury, but it potentially could be helpful. Even in animal studies,
to my knowledge, it has not been studied for rotator cuff tears,
but potentially could be helpful. Would giving it just by itself as a subcutaneous injection,
even if you put it in, say around the deltoid, be enough to get it to heal? I'd be skeptical of that
quite honestly. And again, we don't have data that shows that it would help. I feel it'd be
more effective at decreasing pain, maybe improving function. But if you were to go in six months
later, would that rotator cuff tear still be there? My educated guess there, and again,
it's that just because we don't have studies, my educated guess would be yes, that would still be
torn, but maybe be doing a little bit better. As far as regenerative treatments go, I would expect
what would be more helpful would either be a regenerative treatment like PRP, platelet-rich
plasma, where you get blood drawn, the platelets are isolated through a centrifuge and centrifugation
to take the platelets out, and then it's re-injected into that area and the growth
factors are released. Or what I like even better, autologous exosomes, same process,
you get your blood drawn, but in this case, the blood is sent to a lab where they can isolate
the exosomes, replicate those, turn them into hundreds of billions of exosomes that's sent back
to your doctor or orthopedic surgeon, and then somebody like me injects it into that shoulder
around your rotator cuff to get it to heal. And I think autologous exosomes are the next
thing past PRP, and I think there's a lot of potential, but this is very early, and even then,
those are considered experimental. I'm not necessarily promoting. But back to the peptides,
I do think potentially there's a role for decreasing pain, improving functions,
but could it be helpful in addition to a regenerative treatment or in addition to a
surgery, maybe to speed recovery, decrease pain, improve strength? Yes, potentially so. That's,
again, a very good question to talk to your doctor who is certified in peptides, does peptides
a lot, and prescribes them from a licensed approved compounding pharmacy. Okay. If you
have an orthopedic injury, whatever that injury is, rotator cuff tear or otherwise, and you want
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