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It also activates the sympathetic nervous system, which directly stimulates immune cells

Pickart originally isolated GHK as the "growth factor" responsible for restoring proliferation to liver cells in older-donor plasma, and the copper-binding role was recognized shortly afterward as the molecular basis for many of the activities attributed to the peptide

AMPK promotes autophagy by inhibiting mTOR, a potent negative regulator of autophagy, or by activating unc-51-like kinase 1, which is essential for autophagy initiation [39, 40]

That single interaction has downstream effects across several healing pathways: it supports stem-cell migration to injury sites, promotes angiogenesis (like BPC-157, but through a different mechanism), and dampens inflammatory signaling during the repair phase