27 Feb How is the GHK-CU Peptide Used in Skin Rejuvenation and Anti-Aging?

What is GHK – CU?

If you’re unfamiliar with what exactly a peptide is and how it can help your skin, that’s ok. For many years they were mostly studied in the scientific community to discover and understand their various benefits to the human body. To put it simply, a peptide is a chain of amino acids, the building blocks of life. Depending on how the chain is made up, it can do different things, such as potentially improve healing, promote weight loss, and in the case of GHK- CU, improve the look of skin and provide anti-aging benefits.

Amino acids are a natural part of the body and essential in many of its natural processes. This is why there is so much hype around GHK -CU. It supposedly improves how the body produces collagen and elastin, which make our skin look young, vibrant, and wrinkle-free. As we age, we lose collagen, the substance that makes our skin look new and full, and elastin, the compound responsible for making our skin smooth and wrinkle-free. As we age, we lose these two substances, and our body produces less of them.

What’s special about GHK -CU is that it is a special type of peptide, a copper-based peptide. GHK is the scientific abbreviation for a peptide, and CU is the name for copper on the periodic table of the elements; thus, GHK-CU copper peptide. We’ll get into the specifics of how this peptide does its thing later in the article, but it’s important to know that there are many different peptides. Peptides have recently become the talk of the town regarding what they can do for the body, including the skin.

How does GHK-CU promote skin rejuvenation and prevent aging?

So far, we’ve heard a lot about peptides and how they are these miracle acids that help our body look and feel better, but what does this peptide GHK-CU do, and how does it work? The answer to that question is both simple and complex at the same time.

The most basic explanation is that the peptide causes rejuvenation by telling the body what to do. In a sense, this peptide restarts the body’s natural rejuvenation process. In more complex terms, this peptide interacts with the skin and enhances the body’s natural production of collagen and elastin. Multiple studies show that this peptide not only improves the look of skin on a superficial level, it improves how the body behaves towards the skin and increases the skin’s overall health.

In this first study that we will look at from the National Institute of Health, data suggests that as we age, our skin loses its ability to heal itself from damage due to damage between the different layers of skin.¹ Additionally, our bodies naturally produce fewer materials needed to keep the skin soft and supple. Based on the evidence from the study, GHK – CU not only helps repair the damage to the so-called “basement membrane,” the membrane connecting the epidermis and the dermis layers of skin, but it also helps restart the body’s natural rejuvenation process.

Another study from the NIH looks at this peptide’s potential to promote anti-aging.² The study results showed that GHK-CU helped improve the look and feel of skin for study participants and that it’s anti-inflammatory and rejuvenation properties were able to slow the effects aging has on the skin, namely elasticity and overall skin health.

Our final study looked at the rejuvenation and healing properties of this peptide.³ Again, not only did this peptide promote the production of new collagen and elastin to help improve the health of the skin, it enhanced the body’s healing process for wounds. It even caused new blood vessels and nerve growth, two key factors in skin rejuvenation.

Are there any side effects to GHK-CU?

There are no known serious side effects to taking GHK-CU as an oral supplement. Oral supplements may break down into individual components, diminishing their effectiveness. On the use of topical creams that contained the peptide, some patients did experience mild skin irritation, including redness, rash, and swelling, but this was easily treated and went away within a few hours.

One thing to note is that while there are virtually no short-term side effects, this peptide is still being researched, and we do not yet have enough data to determine any long-term side effects.

Conclusion

Many products out there promise to give you smooth skin, clear up scars and acne and keep your skin young. While some of these products provide marginal benefits for the skin, none live up to the promises they make about stopping aging and keeping skin full and young looking.

We have shown you multiple clinical research trials that prove that GHK-CU improves skin looks and helps restore the body’s natural recovery process. By taking this peptide, you can improve the look of your skin, your health, and your skin’s function to keep it looking better despite aging and other damage that may have been done to it.