The FDA Voted for 6 Peptides. Its Own Scientists Said No
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Channel: Barbell Medicine · Our label: Government proceedings and coverage of them · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=KwPlmH8HORg
What this video covers
Just over a week ago, an FDA advisory committee voted 8 to6 to open a legal supply line for BPC-157. The thing they voted on it was for treating ulcerative colitis. Almost nobody buying PPC57 is buying it for ulcerative colitis, though. The whole human evidence base the FDA could find for that use is just a single trial and it was reported as a conference abstract and not a peer-reviewed journal.
Summary drawn from this video’s own transcript (banked in our research library, pulled 2026-11-07). Claims below are the speaker’s — attributed, not endorsed. This site publishes no dosing, protocol, or sourcing information.
Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- The nomination didn’t include enough evidence to assess it, and the agency couldn’t find a single clinical study of BPC-157 in those patients.
- In September of 2023, the FDA moved close to 20 peptides into what’s called category 2, which means they have significant safety risk or there’s a concern for it.
- If anyone tells you a compounded drug made from a substance on this list is FDA approved or endorsed by the FDA, that representation makes the drug misbranded under federal law.
- There’s a phase 1 clinical trial in healthy volunteers looking at safety, tolerability, and how the drug moves through the body.
- Any company that might fund a real efficacy trial now has a reason not to, because compounders can sell the compound without the study.
- Now, to be fair, BPC157 did test negative for mutation in the standard genetic damage assays, and nobody has evidence that it causes cancer, but the study designed to look at this has never been done.
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