MOTS-c: The Peptide That Makes Your Cells Think You’re Exercising
Dr. Alex Tatem — MOTS-c: The Peptide That Makes Your Cells Think You’re Exercising
Channel: Dr. Alex Tatem · Our label: Clinician; paid clinician face of Superpower (disclosed) · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=JI2jCDqCpi4
What this video covers
Did you know that there’s a peptide that your body makes that’s encoded in DNA that has nothing to do with your dad? You know, that guy that you haven’t seen since he left you a cigarettes when you were five. And as logic would hold, if you didn’t get it from your father, that can only mean That’s right, my lab rat legion. At long last, we finally have a peptide that lets me combine my two loves of early 2000’s hip hop references and modern biohacking.
Summary drawn from this video’s own transcript (banked in our research library, pulled 2026-11-07). Claims below are the speaker’s — attributed, not endorsed. This site publishes no dosing, protocol, or sourcing information.
Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- And on July 23rd, 2026, it’s going in front of an FDA advisory committee that may or may not give it a path back into legal compounding pharmacies.
- Most peptides like BPC-157, TB-500, growth hormone releasing hormone, and basically all the ones we’ve covered on this channel so far are coded in your cells’ nuclear DNA.
- But, for the sake of this video, just know that the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee, the PCAC, is re-evaluating MOTS-c for compounding eligibility at their hearing on July 23rd and 24th, 2026 at FDA White Oak.
- MOTS-c is on day one alongside BPC-157, KPV, and TB-500.
- And we still don’t have any randomized studies showing that injecting MOTS-c into healthy adults safely improves any clinical outcome over a meaningful time frame.
- So, if this video helped you out, smash the like button, subscribe for the rest of the peptide deep dive series coming up, and check out our videos on BPC 157, KPV, TB 500, and GHK-Cu.
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