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Why GHK-CU is a looksmin during puberty and can decrease IGF-1 and DHT and can shrink your adult height and penis size:
How GHK-CU works: GHK-Cu is a peptide (chain of amino acids) that carries copper to repair your body's damaged cells. It acts like a reset button, signalling older cells to act younger boosting collagen and and elastin production. By doing this it rapidly rebuilds healthy skin and hair in your body.
Why it's effects are probably negligible or won't work for you during puberty: There is no strong human evidence showing GHK-Cu gives major anti-aging or regenerative benefits to teenagers anyway. During puberty, your body already has naturally high collagen production, stem-cell activity, wound healing, growth hormone, testosterone, and IGF-1 levels. Most of the “benefits” people use GHK-Cu for like skin repair, collagen increases, healing, hair support, anti-aging are already happening at high levels naturally during teenage years. That means the effects are probably negligible for most teenagers while the theoretical hormonal risks still exist. So the risk-to-reward ratio makes little sense.
What the studies show about GHK-CU's effects on IGF-1 Production: There is evidence that GHK-Cu has the ability to supress certain IGF-1 pathways. A 2014 gene-expression review reported that GHK suppressed 6 out of 9 insulin/IGF-1–related genes, proving it can decrease IGF-1 signaling. Another 2017 pulmonary fibrosis study found that GHK reversed disease-induced increases in IGF-1 expression through the IGF-1/TGF-β pathway.
Why IGF-1 is incredibly important during puberty: IGF-1 has a crucial role in height velocity/height growth and final adult height and bone formation in general. It's also very well known that it helps in sleep, muscle growth, and recovery which is all incredibly important for a young man's development during puberty, so unless you want to be a short, frail, skinny, framelet stay away from GHK during your main developmental stages.
What the studies show about GHK-CU's effects on DHT Production: There are also studies showing copper ions can inhibit 5-alpha-reductase activity, the enzyme that converts testosterone into DHT. The study was performed on human skin enzyme models and surprisingly, copper was the only cation to actually inhibit both types of DHT type 1 and type 2. DHT is heavily involved in male puberty, including facial structure changes, voice deepening, body hair, and genital development, so if you use GHK-CU during puberty you risk stunting your penis growth and remaining with a child-like voice and facial structure.
How GHK-CU works: GHK-Cu is a peptide (chain of amino acids) that carries copper to repair your body's damaged cells. It acts like a reset button, signalling older cells to act younger boosting collagen and and elastin production. By doing this it rapidly rebuilds healthy skin and hair in your body.
Why it's effects are probably negligible or won't work for you during puberty: There is no strong human evidence showing GHK-Cu gives major anti-aging or regenerative benefits to teenagers anyway. During puberty, your body already has naturally high collagen production, stem-cell activity, wound healing, growth hormone, testosterone, and IGF-1 levels. Most of the “benefits” people use GHK-Cu for like skin repair, collagen increases, healing, hair support, anti-aging are already happening at high levels naturally during teenage years. That means the effects are probably negligible for most teenagers while the theoretical hormonal risks still exist. So the risk-to-reward ratio makes little sense.
What the studies show about GHK-CU's effects on IGF-1 Production: There is evidence that GHK-Cu has the ability to supress certain IGF-1 pathways. A 2014 gene-expression review reported that GHK suppressed 6 out of 9 insulin/IGF-1–related genes, proving it can decrease IGF-1 signaling. Another 2017 pulmonary fibrosis study found that GHK reversed disease-induced increases in IGF-1 expression through the IGF-1/TGF-β pathway.
Why IGF-1 is incredibly important during puberty: IGF-1 has a crucial role in height velocity/height growth and final adult height and bone formation in general. It's also very well known that it helps in sleep, muscle growth, and recovery which is all incredibly important for a young man's development during puberty, so unless you want to be a short, frail, skinny, framelet stay away from GHK during your main developmental stages.
What the studies show about GHK-CU's effects on DHT Production: There are also studies showing copper ions can inhibit 5-alpha-reductase activity, the enzyme that converts testosterone into DHT. The study was performed on human skin enzyme models and surprisingly, copper was the only cation to actually inhibit both types of DHT type 1 and type 2. DHT is heavily involved in male puberty, including facial structure changes, voice deepening, body hair, and genital development, so if you use GHK-CU during puberty you risk stunting your penis growth and remaining with a child-like voice and facial structure.
