Cycle: 8-12 Weeks/4 weeks off
Timing: before bed
Frequency: 2x per Week
Uses
- Reduces Inflammation: KPV acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory agent, specifically calming overactive immune responses and soothing chronic or systemic inflammation.
Benefits
- Reduced inflammation, systemic and localized
- Gut lining support with direct anti-inflammatory action, strongest interest in IBD-pattern and IBS-pattern complaints
- May calm inflammatory skin conditions, eczema and psoriasis patterns (early research)
- Wound healing support
- May reduce gut permeability ("leaky gut" protocols)
- Antimicrobial activity observed in lab studies
- Well tolerated in wellness practice, gentle profile
Contraindications
Immune and inflammatory
- Immunosuppressive medications or immune-compromised status (flag for clinician review, KPV damps immune signaling)
- Active serious infection (flag for clinician review, anti-inflammatory action could mask or blunt response)
- Organ transplant recipients (flag for clinician review, immune pathway interaction)
Cancer
- Active cancer (flag for clinician review)
- Cancer history in remission (flag for clinician review, lighter concern than the healing peptides, melanocortin pathway rather than angiogenesis)
Pregnancy and fertility
- Currently pregnant
- Breastfeeding
Other
- Prior allergic reaction to KPV or melanocortin-related peptides
- Severe kidney or liver disease (flag for clinician review)
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