What are peptides?
Peptides are short chains of amino acids — the same building blocks that make up proteins, just much smaller. Your body already makes hundreds of them to act as messengers: they attach to specific receptors on cells and tell them what to do, such as release insulin, signal fullness, repair tissue, or regulate hormones. Therapeutic peptides are lab-made versions of those natural signals, designed to be more stable so a small weekly or daily dose can support a specific function.
- ✓Smaller and more targeted than a protein or an antibody
- ✓Work by binding to a specific receptor, not by broadly altering body chemistry
- ✓Most are injected or taken sublingually because stomach acid breaks them down
- ✓Dosing is individualized and titrated slowly by your clinician
