Peptides

Peptides

What Are Peptides? One Word, Three Completely Different Markets

A peptide is a short chain of amino acids — a chemistry word, not a category of medicine. The same word now covers FDA-approved drugs, supplement-aisle collagen, and gray-market vials labeled 'not for human consumption'. Here is the map, plus the July 2026 FDA compounding fight.

Peptides

BPC-157: What the Human Evidence Shows and What the FDA Advisory Vote Actually Changed

An FDA advisory committee voted 8-6 on July 23, 2026 to recommend BPC-157 for the 503A compounding list. FDA's own reviewers recommended against it. What the human evidence is, what the vote does and does not do, and why BPC-157 is still not an approved drug.