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(These events are not well-reported for bacteriostatic water specifically, but benzyl alcohol hypersensitivity can occur.) Hemolysis (red blood cell destruction): Important: Bacteriostatic water is a hypotonic solution
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Mechanistically, this may relate to GHK-Cu's ability to upregulate matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-1, MMP-2), enzymes that can fragment collagen if their activity exceeds the body's ability to rebuild
Most of these are phages and prey on our gut microbes without affecting us directly (Cryan et al., 2019) but they nonetheless have been reported to affect their hosts gut-blood barrier (Fitzgerald et al., 2019)
In addition, a previous study showed that C cells in human thyroid tissue do not express GLP- 1R [23]