Researcher Loren Pickart, PhD, who first isolated GHK from human plasma, described it as having a "profound effect on the reset of human genes toward a more youthful state." More recent genomic analyses confirm that GHK-Cu shifts gene expression patterns in aging tissue toward patterns characteristic of much younger tissue effectively acting as a biological reset at the cellular level
Torquato, P., Ripa, O., Giusepponi, D., Galarini, R., Bartolini, D., Wallert, M., Pellegrino, R., Cruciani, G., Lorkowski, S., Birringer, M., Mazzini, F., Galli, F., 2016
One particular study suggested that the mechanism in which glutathione switches from eumelanin to pheomelanin production contributed to an individuals risk of acquiring skin cancers brought about by sun exposure
Ates I, Arikan MF, Altay M, Yilmaz FM, Yilmaz N, Berker D et al (2018) The effect of oxidative stress on the progression of Hashimotos thyroiditis