The argument that mixed peptides are stable simply because a chromatography test showed high purity after 30 days does not hold up under basic principles of chemistry, molecular biology, or analytical science. The claim relies entirely on HPLC purity results, but HPLC only measures retention time and peak area. It does not prove that the molecular structure of a peptide is unchanged. A peptide can undergo oxidation, racemization, conformational changes, or aggregation and still appear as the same peak on a chromatogram. For example, oxidation of methionine to methionine sulfoxide changes the molecule chemically but often produces little or no shift in retention time. This means a sample can still appear 99% pure on HPLC even though part of the peptide population has been chemically altered. Detecting these types of structural changes requires more advanced techniques such as LC-MS/MS, peptide mapping, circular dichroism, NMR spectroscopy, capillary electrophoresis, or dynamic light scattering. None of those analyses were performed, so the conclusion that the peptides remained fully intact cannot be supported. Another major issue is the chemistry of copper and oxidation. When a copper-containing peptide such as GHK-Cu is mixed with other peptides, copper ions can catalyze oxidative reactions. Copper can participate in redox cycling that produces reactive oxygen species, which can oxidize amino acid side chains such as methionine, cysteine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and histidine. Methionine oxidation in particular is one of the most well-known stability problems in peptide drug formulation and pharmaceutical companies spend enormous resources preventing it. Even very small amounts of copper can catalyze these reactions, and the changes they produce may not be visible on a standard purity test. There is also the issue of peptide aggregation, which is governed by basic protein physics. Peptides in solution do not exist as isolated molecules. They constantly interact with water and with each other through hydrophobic interactions, electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, and metal-mediated coordination. When multiple peptides are placed in the same solution, these interactions can create oligomers, aggregates, or misfolded complexes. Aggregation can dramatically change biological activity and receptor binding, yet aggregated peptides often still appear pure during chromatography testing because the test does not necessarily distinguish between properly folded and aggregated structures.

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