Research area
Tissue repair
Compounds marketed for healing tendons, muscle, ligament and gut lining. This is the category with the widest gap between animal evidence and human evidence.
BPC-157
Body Protection Compound-157, PL 14736, pentadecapeptide BPC 157The most-hyped repair peptide in sport. Deep animal literature, three tiny human pilot studies, no randomised trial.
Tissue repair
Not FDA-approved
TB-500 & thymosin β4
TB-500, Tβ4, thymosin beta-4 fragment (LKKTETQ), RGN-259 (ophthalmic Tβ4)Two different things share one reputation: a real protein drug candidate tested in eye and skin trials, and a seven-residue fragment sold online.
Tissue repair
Not FDA-approved