It also has a distinctive regulatory position: it was previously an FDA-approved product (marketed as Geref, a diagnostic agent) before being voluntarily withdrawn from the market, and that prior-approval history has given it a more stable standing for compounding than most other peptides
A 2025 systematic review, Vasireddi et al., HSS J 2025, screened hundreds of articles and found the BPC-157 orthopaedic base to be almost exclusively animal or low-level studies, with only isolated small human reports and no rigorous randomised trials
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BPC-157 fixes damaged tissues
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Plus, Korean serums tend to have a non-sticky, lightweight texture, says David Kim, MD, a board-certified dermatologist in New York City