The characteristic dark blue color of reconstituted GHK-Cu provides a visual quality check
A standard serum B12 test measures both fractions together, so a total result mostly reflects how much haptocorrin is circulating, and haptocorrin is made by white blood cells
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Many commercial "copper peptide" products actually contain Pal-GHK rather than GHK-Cu, but the two compounds have different physicochemical properties and may not behave identically in skin
Three authors (K.B., C.B., and L.M.) independently searched MEDLINE, Embase, and PsychINFO from 1960 (or 1974 in the case of EMBASE) to March 30th 2023, identifying 159 papers in total (111 with duplicates removed)
Serious side effects are extremely rare in research studies and user reports