Category

Tissue repair & growth

BPC-157, TB-500, GHK-Cu and the IGF-1 variants. The sharpest gap on the site between attention and evidence: these are among the most-read compounds we track and among the least-tested in humans. Not one has an FDA-approved product.

What the record holds for this category

8

Compounds tracked

0

With an FDA-approved product

4

With no registered human study

16

Registered studies, all members

Every compound in this category

Ordered by how many people read the Wikipedia article each month, which measures attention and nothing else. The evidence column is what is actually known.

CompoundFDA statusHuman studiesEvidenceReadership
BPC-157Research only2CPhase 1 or 2 only31,331
IGF-1 LR3Research only0XNo registered human study2,390
TB-500Research only1CPhase 1 or 2 only2,321
MGFResearch only0XNo registered human study597
LarazotideResearch only10BReached phase 3 or 4, not approved559
ARA-290Research only3CPhase 1 or 2 only
Follistatin 344Research only0XNo registered human study
IGF-1 DESResearch only0XNo registered human study

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These pairs are the most-read members, picked mechanically. Pairing is not a recommendation and says nothing about which is preferable.

Reading on these compounds

Categories are editorial groupings by mechanism — they are not medical classifications, and membership is not a claim that a compound does what the group name suggests. Study counts include only trials whose registered intervention names the compound. Collected 2026-08-02 from ClinicalTrials.gov and Drugs@FDA. How this is put together.