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Comparison at a glance
BPC-157 Tendon, ligament, muscle and gut tissue repair Mostly animal/preclinical; only a few small human pilot studies No large human efficacy trials; sold through unregulated channels; flagged in sport TB-500 (a thymosin β-4 fragment) Wound/skin, blood-vessel
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- BPC-157
- Tendon, ligament, muscle and gut tissue repair
- Mostly animal/preclinical; only a few small human pilot studies
- No large human efficacy trials; sold through unregulated channels; flagged in sport
- TB-500 (a thymosin β-4 fragment)
- Wound/skin, blood-vessel and muscle repair
- Preclinical, animal and veterinary; robust human injury trials essentially absent
- Prohibited in sport by WADA; TB-500 itself barely characterised in humans
- GHK-Cu
- Skin quality/wrinkles and topical wound healing
- Small human topical (cosmetic) trials plus preclinical wound work
- Human data are almost entirely topical; injected injury-healing use is unproven