BPC 157 has a decades long safety record with zero deaths or hospitalizations. Yet, it's unapproved because the FDA process is too expensive and the business model doesn't allow for profit. Approved drugs with Multifunctionality and Possible Medical Application of the BPC 157 PeptideLiterature and Patent Review FDA moves toward easing restrictions on certain peptides BioPharma Dive Some peptides are FDA approved drugs. Some are legal supplements. Some are neither. The same word, peptide, covers all three categories. The regulatory status of the specific compound is what determines legality. I spent 4 months reporting on the peptide BPC 157 and its unlikely journey from a research lab in post communist Croatia to today's MAHA movement. Ask me anything. : r IAmA