Why would a patient trust a peptide more than a statin? STAT Dr. TLDR: BPC 157 has not been proven to cause cancer. But it has also not been proven safe in people with active cancer, recent cancer, premalignant conditions, suspicious lesions, or high Peptide Therapy 101: Can BPC 157 & Thymosin Beta 4 Accelerate Ortho Recovery? BPC 157: Tendon Repair and More Frontiers Pharmacokinetics, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of body protective compound 157, a potential drug for treating various wounds, in rats and dogs I spent 4 months reporting on the peptide BPC 157 and its unlikely journey from a research lab in post communist Croatia to today's MAHA movement. Ask me anything. : r IAmA