Juan Leija, 38, had a problem: he was a personal trainer and a serious lifter whose elbow pain prevented him from doing some of the most fundamental lifts. “I’d been dealing with tendinitis for a year,” he remembers, “but it had been extreme for about six months. It felt like there was something broken in there.” Just as Leija was starting to worry about his ability to train, a friend of his who owns a wellness clinic told him about something called BPC-157. It’s an injectable peptide compound that, his friend said, could do for Leija’s elbow what a year of conventional and alternative therapies couldn’t: make the pain go away.
“I went home and looked it up,”
