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Peptides for Recovery: What the Research Actually Shows

Animal studies suggest BPC-157 and TB-500 may support tendon, muscle and gut-lining repair, but there are no completed human trials yet. Both are sold research-use-only, not approved for human use.

Most discussed here: BPC-157 · TB-500

The compounds

Each one leads with how strong its human evidence is, and what that rating is based on.

  • Research peptidesSynthetic pentadecapeptide

    BPC-157

    Studied in rodents for musculoskeletal soft-tissue healing. Sold to humans for injury recovery, a use whose only human data is one uncontrolled retrospective chart review of 17 people with knee pain.

  • Research peptidesSynthetic heptapeptide fragment

    TB-500

    Marketed for tissue repair and injury recovery. We could not locate a completed, published human randomized trial for any musculoskeletal or tissue-repair indication.

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