Recovery and repair

BPC-157, TB-500 and the Wolverine blend: the peptides athletes reach for first, and the gap between the hype and the evidence.

If you've heard of any peptide, it's probably one of these. They're the best-selling compounds in the market and the ones athletes talk about most, for tendons, joints, muscle pulls and nagging injuries. They're also the ones with the biggest gap between how confidently people discuss them and how much is actually known. The animal research is genuinely impressive. The human research barely exists. Both things are true, and this lesson holds both.