Gumulya Y, Baek J-M, Wun S-J, Thomson RES, Harris KL, Hunter DJB, Behrendorff JBYH, Kulig J, Zheng S, Wu X, Wu B, Stok JE, De Voss JJ, Schenk G, Jurva U, Andersson S, Isin EM, Bodn M, Guddat L, Gillam EMJ (2018) Engineering highly functional thermostable proteins using ancestral sequence reconstruction
In 2023, a study in Nature Medicine examined more than 4,000 people in the United States and Europe and found that those with the highest blood levels of erythritol were significantly more likely to suffer a major adverse cardiovascular event, meaning heart attack, stroke, or death
And, sure, it looks promising in animals, but lets look at this one study done in humans, published in 2021 in an obscure journal that focuses on alternative medicine
Here's what current research says about both options
Mallinckrodt Foundation, and the Anita Palmer Corbin Trust endowed fund
The key issue is not interest in peptides, but rigor in mapping mechanism to clinically validated outcomes and controlled human data