The bottom line: don't risk you life for a bigger bum
After activation, platelets in PRP can release a variety of growth factors, including transforming growth factor (TGF), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), insulin-like growth factor (IGF), basic fibroblast growth factors, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), epidermal growth factors, and many others
Its current replacement is pentadeca arginate (PDA), which is essentially the same molecule (same 15-amino-acid backbone), but isnt scheduled
S6K proteins are representative downstream effectors of mTOR pathway (Wei et al., 2020)
Beyond the absolute contraindications, several situations call for heightened caution in the class framing and are firmly a clinicians domain: a history of pancreatitis or symptomatic gallstones, significant gastrointestinal motility disorders (such as gastroparesis, which slowed gastric emptying can worsen), diabetic retinopathy that is not stabilized, severe renal impairment where dehydration from GI side effects raises risk, and any concurrent use of insulin or a sulfonylurea, where the additive glucose-lowering can produce hypoglycemia
Its not about a temporary look
