Goal · 16 compounds
Injury & recovery
6 of 16 compounds people take for injury & recovery have been through controlled trials in people
0 approved drugs · 6 controlled trials · 4 human pilots · 4 animal only · 2 no data · each counted by its own meter
FDA Approved 2
- Injury & recovery · Daily shotAbaloparatideHormoneTymlos, for fragile bones, was tested on broken ones. 48 pelvic-fracture patients: no better than placebo.Controlled trialsFDA approvedfor another useChecked Oct 15
- Injury & recovery · Daily shotTeriparatideHormoneForteo, Lilly's osteoporosis shot, tried on fractures. In 159 hip-fracture patients, healing matched placebo.Controlled trialsFDA approvedfor another useChecked Oct 15
Gray Market 10
- Injury & recovery · IV dripCerebrolysinNeurotrophicPig-brain extract given for stroke recovery abroad. 90 trials in PubMed; Cochrane found no effect on deaths.Controlled trialsGray marketChecked Oct 11
- Injury & recovery · Daily shotARA-290Repair peptideChased by people with small-fiber nerve pain. Four placebo-controlled trials, 4 weeks each; no Phase 3.Controlled trialsGray marketChecked Oct 18
- Injury & recovery · Daily shotCortexinBioregulatorCattle-brain peptides prescribed in Russia for stroke. Trial deaths: 7 of 208 on it, none of 64 on placebo.Controlled trialsGray marketChecked Oct 5
- Injury & recovery · Daily shotBPC-157Repair peptideEvery stubborn-injury guy keeps one in the fridge. 393 papers so far, almost all of them in rats.Human pilotsGray marketChecked Oct 18
- Injury & recovery · Weekly shotTB-500Repair peptideInjected for tendons alongside BPC-157. What's sold is a 7-amino-acid fragment with zero human studies.Animal onlyGray marketChecked Oct 18
- Injury & recoveryB7-33HormoneA cut-down piece of the human hormone relaxin, built to cut scarring. Human trials: zero; mice and rats.Animal onlyGray marketChecked Oct 5
- Injury & recovery · PillCartalaxBioregulatorTaken in Khavinson cycles for the joints. The evidence: rat cartilage cells in a dish, zero human trials.Animal onlyGray marketChecked Oct 18
- Injury & recoveryThymosin Beta-4Repair peptideTB-500’s parent protein, sold for injury repair. In 700 dry-eye patients its eye drops missed both main goals.Animal onlyGray marketChecked Oct 11
- Injury & recoveryBPC-157 FragmentRepair peptideSold as a cheaper cut of BPC-157. Peer-reviewed studies of the fragment itself: zero.No dataGray marketChecked Oct 18
- Injury & recovery · Daily shotPentadeca ArginateRepair peptideClinics sell it as the new BPC for injuries. Peer-reviewed studies of it: 0.No dataGray marketChecked Oct 4
Also taken for this 4
- Skin & hair · CreamEGFGrowth factorGrowth factor in face serums and Cuba’s ulcer drug Heberprot-P. Its double-blind acne trial: 20 people.Controlled trialsGray marketChecked Oct 15
- Skin & hair · CreamGHK-CuCosmetic peptideSold in serums and injected off-label for hair. Its human trials: 12-week face creams, not injections.Human pilotsGray marketChecked Oct 18
- Sleep & focus · Nasal spraySemaxNootropicA Russian stroke drug that biohackers spray for focus. Its key stroke trial had 30 patients, in 1997.Human pilotsGray marketChecked Oct 13
- Sleep & focus · Daily shotPinealonBioregulatorUsed in Russia after brain injury. Its best study: a 72-patient Russian report in the developers' patent.Human pilotsGray marketChecked Oct 13
- Legal today
- 2 FDA approved · 0 Compounded Rx · 14 Gray market
- What people actually run
- Wolverine Stack (BPC-157 + TB-500)