The majority of clinical evidence derives from substitutes for the oral cavity [109, 110, 114117, 122, 127, 128, 130, 134, 136, 139]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which regulates the drugs and other substances that elite athletes are allowed to take in and out of competition, banned the peptide in 2022 because BPC-157, according to its website, lacks current approval by any governmental regulatory health authority for human therapeutic use. But despite that regulatory action, trainers admit that they still work with elite and pro athletes who choose to take the peptide during downtime to speed recovery from injuries and surgerieswith relatively little fear of repercussions
[Updated 2022 Jun 5]
This is not a strict rule
A correlation is apparent between these factors, but it is difficult to clearly determine its direction