How your body uses them
How your body uses them: 5 articles from What Are Peptides. Plain-English answers about peptides.
Why Do Side Effects Happen?
A side effect is usually not the molecule going wrong. It is the same effect, happening somewhere in your body you were not thinking about — and receptors explain exactly why.
What Are Collagen Peptides?
This is probably the most-asked peptide question there is, and it deserves better than either a sales pitch or a debunking. Here is what collagen peptides are, what the human trials actually found, and which parts are still guesswork.
What Happens to a Peptide in Your Body?
Most peptides are taken apart and cleared out within minutes of arriving. Here is what half-life actually means, how your body does the removing, and why a short life is not a flaw.
What Is a Receptor?
A receptor is the part of a cell that a particular molecule fits into, and it quietly explains almost everything about how these compounds work. Here is the picture, including the part most beginners get backwards.
What Is a Hormone?
A hormone is how one part of your body tells another part, far away, what to do. Here is how that message travels, why it only changes certain cells, and why peptides keep turning up in the same conversation.