Achieving the balance: Biphasic effects of BPC 157 on blood vessel function. Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
While its main function is to carry out cellular respiration, a process that converts nutrients from food into ATP, there are many other functions mitochondria perform, including metabolic signaling, calcium regulation, autophagy (cellular clean-up) and apoptosis (cell death), neurogenesis (growth of new nerve tissue) and neuronal plasticity (aka neuroplasticity- our brains ability to grow and adapt), as well as the synthesis of other molecules (especially those in the immune system)
Its because of these effects that your hangovers may be accompanied by unpleasant symptoms such as nausea, stomach pain, heartburn, or even vomiting
At the same time, it reduced the expression of interleukin-6 and TNF-alpha, two central inflammatory mediators (Pickart et al., 2015)