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Biokinetics is a South African profession, and its literature base is unusual: half exercise physiology, half rehabilitation. A biokineticist supervising final-phase rehab in Pretoria East reads the same mitochondrial-biogenesis and muscle-regeneration papers that a sports scientist does, but applies them to a knee replacement or a cardiac patient rather than a sprinter.
That overlap is where research peptides enter the reading list. Several of the compounds we supply were discovered or characterised in exercise models: peptides whose levels change with training, peptides studied for glucose uptake into working muscle, peptides studied for the GH pulse that follows deep sleep. This page lays out that literature honestly, with its gaps.
Nothing here is a programme or a recommendation. The compounds are supplied for laboratory research only.
The exercise side of the field studies skeletal muscle as an endocrine and metabolic organ. Mouse studies measure treadmill running capacity, glucose disposal into muscle, AMPK activation and mitochondrial biogenesis after an intervention, and human studies track circulating peptides before and after training blocks. The mitochondrial-derived peptide MOTS-c is the clearest example: its plasma level responds to exercise, which is why it sits inside exercise-physiology research rather than beside it.
The rehabilitation side studies disuse, sarcopenia and recovery from surgery. Here the GH/IGF-1 axis dominates: how a growth-hormone secretagogue affects lean mass and bone in glucocorticoid-treated animals, how GHRH analogues altered slow-wave sleep in human sleep labs, how IGF-1 feeds collagen synthesis in connective tissue. A smaller strand covers cellular energy and redox state in deconditioned tissue.
Research context only — what each compound has been studied for in published work, not what it does for anyone. Independently tested by Janoshik Analytical.
A mitochondrial-encoded peptide whose circulating level responds to exercise. Mouse work reports improved running capacity, AMPK activation and better glucose handling in muscle. It is one of the few research peptides that belongs inside exercise physiology by discovery, not by analogy.
View product and certificate →A selective ghrelin-receptor agonist studied for a pulsatile GH release without a cortisol rise. Animal research reported it counteracted glucocorticoid-induced loss of bone and muscle, which is why it appears in disuse and rehabilitation reading lists.
View product and certificate →A GHRH analogue and a GH secretagogue in one vial, the two arms of the GH pulse that researchers combine in study design. GHRH administration increased slow-wave sleep in human sleep-lab studies, which links this pairing to recovery research.
View product and certificate →The rodent muscle-crush and tendon-transection literature. Studies report myoblast proliferation and faster functional recovery after mechanical muscle injury, the same models that underpin post-operative rehab timelines.
View product and certificate →A coenzyme, not a peptide: the redox cofactor for the sirtuin and PARP enzymes. It is studied in muscle mitochondrial ATP synthesis and in deconditioned tissue, and precursor trials have tracked metabolic endpoints with mixed results.
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It was characterised in metabolic and exercise research. Human studies show its plasma level changes with exercise, and mouse studies report changes in running capacity and muscle glucose uptake. That is the literature; it is not a performance claim.
Yes. Compounds are supplied for laboratory research only and are not for administration to clients. We do not provide protocols.
IGF-1 downstream of GH is studied for collagen synthesis and lean-mass maintenance, and GH secretagogues have been studied in animal models of glucocorticoid-induced muscle and bone loss. It is a research axis, not a rehab tool.
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