BPC-157

Also known as: Body Protection Compound, PL 14736

Status

No approved product. This site's US review found no FDA-approved product (checked 25 October 2026); other countries were not verified. It is sold as a research chemical, and it is on WADA's prohibited list.

What it is

A synthetic 15-amino-acid fragment of a protein found in human gastric juice. Nearly everything written about it traces to rodent studies of tendon, ligament, gut and nerve healing.

What published research measured

The evidence base is overwhelmingly animal research, much of it from a single research group, and the sources cited here include no published human clinical trial program of the kind regulators require. Any claim of proven healing in humans overstates it.

Caution

Sold as 'research use only'. Human evidence is limited and uncontrolled: small retrospective reports, no randomized trial, and nothing that shows healed tissue.

Source

No FDA-approved product; WADA prohibited list (S0/S2 categories)

Sources

No linked primary source is on file for this entry yet.

Educational use only, never medical advice. No doses.