BPC-157 and the Angiogensis "Cancer Risk"
By this point, most of you have probably seen the clip from the Shawn Ryan podcast and if you've researched BPC-157, you've seen the warning about it promoting angiogenesis, therefore it must feed cancer, therefore it's dangerous. This is what all of the fear mongerers try to push to support their narrative. But this argument leaves out some pretty important context about how cancer and angiogenesis actually work. Angiogenesis is normal. It's how your body heals. Every cut, sprain, or torn muscle triggers angiogenesis to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the damaged tissue. So it's not some process that only occurs with the use of BPC-157 and instead is a very fundamental part of being alive and healing. What they constantly leave out of the argument is that tumors already drive their own angiogenesis. This is where the "BPC157 = cancer fuel" argument really falls apart. For a cancer to grow beyond roughly 1mm, it has to build its own blood supply [1]. So what does it do and how is it going to create this for itself? It produces its own chemical signals and secretes them into surrounding tissue! When these signals reach endothelial cells, it binds to receptors on their surface, activating relay proteins that travel into the nucleus and switch on the genes needed to grow new blood vessels [1]. Without that vascular support, tumors can become necrotic or even apoptotic [1]. In other words, the tumor manufactures the trigger itself to keep themselves from dying. Some have called this the "angiogenic switch" where proliferating tumors activate an angiogenic phenotype to meet their oxygen and nutrient demand, along with the release of anti-apoptotic factors from the new vasculature to aid in their survival. To progress, tumors actively shift the balance of the body's endogenous angiogenesis inducers and inhibitors toward a pro-angiogenic outcome [2]. So these cancer cells aren't just sitting there waiting for you to inject BPC-157 to create a trigger for their growth. They are the trigger!