Users in athletic communities report improved muscle recovery, reduced delayed onset muscle soreness, and better adaptation to training loads when using DSIP during intensive training phases
This includes the production and recycling of antioxidants like glutathione
GSH provides reducing equivalents to antioxidant enzymes, hydroxyl radicals, ROS and is itself oxidized to GSSG
After coronary artery ligation in mice, intraperitoneal T4 treatment upregulated cardiac ILK and Akt activity, enhanced early myocyte survival, and improved cardiac function establishing the mechanistic basis for the broader tissue-repair claims associated with thymosin beta-4 and its 1723 fragment TB-500
Other studies have shown that GPX4 inactivation may increase susceptibility to ferroptosis in renal clear cell carcinoma by increasing lipid peroxidation (Zou et al., 2019)