fda warning letter bpc-157 unapproved drug RECENT NEW CONTENT FDA mulls compounding for peptides

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Bacillota account for up 65% of the composition of the gut microbiota, with Bacteroidota16%, Actinomycetota (older name Actinobacteria)9%, and Pseudomonadota (older name Proteobacteria)5% (Scheithauer et al., 2016

"BPC" stands for "Body Protection Compound." In preclinical work it is proposed to act through several overlapping pathways, including promotion of new blood-vessel growth (angiogenesis), modulation of nitric-oxide signaling, and anti-inflammatory activity, rather than through one well-defined receptor mechanism the way a conventional small-molecule drug does

Their work on the peptide, which they isolated from human gastric juice and officially named body protection compound (BPC-157), continued quietly in the ensuing decades, leading to over 150 papers and 100 PhDs