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Peptides
11 entriesInjected, oral, and gray-market peptides with claimed cartilage or joint effects — appraised honestly, including where the literature is thin or absent.
Clinically studied
Preclinical & experimental
- BPC-157A gastric-juice pentadecapeptide with a thirty-year rodent healing literature across tendon, muscle, nerve and gutPreclinical
- TB-500 / thymosin beta-4The peptide that buffers a cell's actin, trialled in humans for dry eye, chronic wounds and heart attackPreclinical
- GHK-CuA copper-binding tripeptide released from collagen that drives matrix synthesis in repair tissuePreclinical
- Peptide "cycles" for joint repairThe community practice of running BPC-157, TB-500 and GHK-Cu in timed cyclesAnecdotal
- SS-31 / elamipretideA cardiolipin-binding mitochondrial peptide that rescues chondrocytes in impact-injured cartilage explantsPreclinical
- EpithalonThe synthetic pineal tetrapeptide behind the bioregulator series, taken for ageing and sleep, with an outside-laboratory telomere replication and one small melatonin study in peopleAnecdotal
- Growth-hormone secretagoguesThe injected peptides that raise the body's own growth hormone, ipamorelin, CJC-1295, tesamorelin and sermorelin, with the oral ghrelin mimetic MK-677, taken for muscle, fat and recoveryAnecdotal
- AOD-9604The carboxy-terminal fragment of growth hormone, developed as an obesity drug, with one rabbit osteoarthritis model and a sponsor-published human safety recordPreclinical