A Complete Guide to Peptides
Peptides are a huge buzzword in the fitness and anti-aging communities lately. What exactly are peptides? And can they actually reverse the effects of aging and improve your physique? Here’s our complete guide to peptides.
What Are Peptides?
Peptides are compounds where two or more amino acids have joined together, with the carboxyl group of one joining together with the amino group of the other. When a molecule of water is eliminated from this bond, it leads to a peptide bond.
If you’ve forgotten your high school chemistry: here’s a more basic definition: peptides are basically just small proteins.
In general, anything with 50 or fewer amino acids is considered a peptide. However, that’s not a strict definition.
There are dipeptides, for example, which consists of two amino acids joined by a single peptide bond. And there are tripeptides, which are three amino acids with…
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Last modified: March 11, 2019
