The Patch Journal
I am wearing a patch and writing down what happens.
No promises, no before and after photos, no story about how it changed my life. Just the notes, the studies, and what I actually notice. Sign in below and they come to you as I write them.
What the thing actually is
Four plain facts, before anybody's opinion.
- It is a non-transdermal patch. Nothing crosses your skin. It sits on the outside and stays there.
- It uses a patented form of phototherapy. Light, not chemistry. That is the whole mechanism the company describes.
- No drugs and no stimulants. Nothing in it to swallow and nothing to metabolize.
- LifeWave's own approved wording is that X39 supports healthy stem cell activity and supports copper peptide production. Those are their words, and I am telling you they are their words.
That last one matters to me. I am not going to hand you a company's marketing line and pretend I proved it. I will tell you who said what, and you can decide what it is worth.
The one study I can put in front of you
Read it yourself. Then read what it does not say.
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 60 people aged 41 to 80 found that seven days of wearing the X39 patch significantly raised GHK-Cu levels in the blood.
What it did not measure. Pain. Sleep. Energy. Healing. Aging. Not one of them. It measured a level in the blood, and it does not tell you that changing that level does anything for anybody. That is the honest edge of the evidence and I am not stepping over it.
Connor CA et al. (2021), Internal Medicine Research Open Journal 6(1):1-3. Randomized, double blind, sham controlled, 60 participants, seven days.
What you get
Notes from a man who writes for a living.
I have published nearly four hundred pieces. I am going to do with this what I do with everything else, which is pay attention and write it down. What I try. What the research says and where it stops. What I notice, including the weeks where I notice nothing at all, because those weeks count too.
You will hear from me when I have something worth your time and not otherwise. Reply to any one of them and I will take you off myself, and I will not chase you.
Send me the notes.
Here is exactly what happens, because you should know before you click. The journal runs on MarketHive. Signing in with one of the buttons below, Google or Microsoft or Mail.ru, creates a free MarketHive account with me as your sponsor, and that is how the notes reach you. It costs nothing and it is the only way I have to send them.
If that is more than you feel like doing, read the journal instead. No account, no address, nothing asked of you. I will not sell your details, and if you want out of the notes, reply to any one of them and I will take you off myself.
Would you rather look around before you hand over an email address? Fair enough. The room is open and you can read it without joining anything.
Richard Garcia writes at markethive.com/richardgarcia and keeps the journal at The Patch Journal.
