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BPC-157

Recovery & healingGut health

One of the most-discussed peptides in tissue-recovery and gut-health research. Preclinical studies have looked at connective-tissue and gastrointestinal models. The classic partner to TB-500.

Body Protection Compound 157BPC 157BepecinPL 14736Pentadecapeptide BPC 157

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Observed median price

$68

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Median of 25 listings' 30-day changes; 38 excluded for insufficient history.

62

Active listings

11 · 99.7%

Independent lab tests

$18–$1,654

Observed price range

6

Known aliases

Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade. Purity is not a grade. Purity vs grade

Understand this compound

What is BPC-157?

Preclinical / animal onlya.k.a. Body Protection Compound-157, PL 14736

A lab-made copy of a tiny piece of a protein your stomach makes to protect itself. Researchers study whether that same protect-and-repair signal helps injured tendons, muscle, and gut lining heal — gym circles nickname it the 'Wolverine peptide', but the evidence is almost entirely from animal studies.

Recovery & healingGut health
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Good to know: Human safety and pharmacokinetic data remain extremely limited despite widespread anecdotal use, and the FDA has moved to restrict it from compounding pharmacies over unresolved safety-data gaps.

How does BPC-157 work?

The science

A synthetic 15-amino-acid partial sequence derived from a protective protein found in human gastric juice; in animal models it appears to promote angiogenesis via VEGF upregulation, modulate nitric oxide signaling, and upregulate growth-hormone receptor expression on fibroblasts to accelerate tissue repair.

Mechanism of action from published research — how the molecule behaves, not a claim about any product or any human-use effect.

What is BPC-157 researched for?

Studied mainly for tendon, ligament, muscle, and gastrointestinal-lining healing in animal injury models.

  • Recovery & healingStudied in tissue-repair research — tendon, ligament, muscle, and wound-healing models.
  • Gut healthStudied in gastrointestinal research, including gut-lining integrity and inflammatory-condition models.
How far has the research gone?

Preclinical / animal research — hundreds of rodent studies exist, but only a handful of small, uncontrolled human studies have been published, and it is not FDA-approved.

Where the science stands — an approved drug is not the same as the research-grade material a vendor sells, which is unregulated regardless.

What should I check before buying?
  • Independent purity. Look for a third-party COA (Janoshik or MZ) showing a measured purity — not just a number the vendor typed.
  • Batch match. The strongest evidence is a certificate for the exact batch you’ll receive, attributed to this vendor — check the cross-verification on the listing.
  • Vendor reputation. See how the vendor is talked about in the community before trusting a new name.

Research context only — VialGrade never gives dosing, medical, or human-use guidance.

Current market

The BPC-157 market

Every BPC-157 listing we track — 62 in all. The standout picks first where the evidence supports them, then the full table, ranked by what a milligram really costs wherever the vendor published a strength we can read.

Open full market

Compare by real cost

Every BPC-157 listing, cheapest per mg first

Sticker prices hide the size, so listings are ranked by what a milligram actually costs — with independently tested purity where it exists. All 62 are here: the last 20 are listings whose vendor never published a strength we can read, so they have no per-mg figure to sort on.

#VendorSizePricePer mgTested purityReal $/active mg
1Purerawz14.27g total237.75mg per capsule/60ct/14.265g each$211$0.01/mg · too cheap?—$0.01/mgbest valueView
2Swiss Chems30mg total0.5mg each$86$2.87/mg · too cheap?—$2.87/mgView
3Simple Peptide20mg total$85$4.25/mg—$4.26/mgView
4Ez Peptides10mg total$44$4.40/mg—$4.41/mgView
5Ez Peptides50mg total500mcg each$225$4.50/mg—$4.51/mgView
6Chameleon PeptidesUnavailable100mg total10mg · 10-vial kit each$451$4.51/mg99.8%$4.52/mgView
7Chameleon Peptides15mg total$69$4.60/mg99.8%$4.61/mgView
8Ascension Peptides10mg total$49$4.90/mg—$4.91/mgView
9Umbrella LabsUnavailable30mg total500MCG each$150$5.00/mg—$5.01/mgView
10Simple Peptide15mg total$75$5.00/mg—$5.01/mgView

Open the full BPC-157 market

Real $/active mg divides the price-per-mg by the measured purity — the honest cost of the actual peptide, so a 90%-pure vial isn’t compared as if it were 99%. Too cheap? flags a listing far below the market rate — often underdosing or a fake, not a deal. The crown marks the cheapest non-outlier; best value marks the lowest real cost per active mg. A vendor shown as Unavailable or Low stock is priced here but not currently buyable.

Independent testing

BPC-157 — independent lab tests

Real, publicly verifiable third-party tests. Purity is read from the certificate itself. A test reflects one lab’s result for one submitted batch — not a guarantee that every vial matches.

How does this data get here?

Every record below is a real certificate of analysis, gathered two ways: from the public verification feeds that independent labs (like Janoshik) publish, and from the certificates vendors post on their own product pages. We open each certificate document and read the measured purity, content, batch, and date directly off it — a scraper can’t read a number printed inside an image, so this is done by machine vision, then recorded here with a link back to the original.

Nothing here is typed in by a vendor or invented by us. Where a certificate is missing, we say so rather than filling the gap.

We re-check the lab feed, too. A “still listed” tag means the certificate is currently public in Janoshik’s database — we re-verify against the live feed and stamp the date. If a cert is later pulled, the tag flips. It’s a freshness check on the same source, not a second independent opinion.

What a certificate does & doesn’t prove

Three different questions. Purity (“how clean?”), identity (“is it the right molecule?”, a mass-spec test), and content (“did I get the labeled mg?”) are separate. A vial can be 99% pure and still be the wrong peptide, or the right peptide underdosed. We flag the measured dose against the label above; underdosing is the most common real fraud.

Who submitted the sample matters. Most of these are vendor-submitted — the seller chose which vial to send, so one good certificate doesn’t prove every batch is the same. The gold standard is a blind test, where a buyer sends a vial they bought as a normal customer. Same label doesn’t prove same product; same batch number doesn’t prove same batch.

100.0%

highest tested purity

CertificateManufacturerBatchPurityContent / doseLab
Peptide ProsAF98762213100.00%—MZ Biolabs Verify
hangzhoupeps.com—99.89%5.56/5mg · fullJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
Certificate of analysisChameleon Peptides—99.81%4.37 mgJanoshik Analytical View
Certificate of analysisCore PeptidesC7344799.80%—Vanguard Laboratory View
Certificate of analysisCore PeptidesC7345099.80%—Vanguard Laboratory View
PeptideGurus—99.60%18.4/20mg · fullJanoshik Analytical Still listed Verify
Certificate of analysisSports Technology Labs2026-05-3099.43%—MZ Biolabs View
Ascend Bio LabsV260602-23-00899.10%—Vanguard Laboratory Verify

Tested batches

Batch test records for BPC-157

The full test history for one batch — who picked the sample, who tested it, and what came back. It describes the vials that were tested, never every vial they sold.

All batch records

What the research says

Scientific evidence & regulatory status

What the published literature actually shows about BPC-157 — separate from any vendor’s marketing. Each finding links to its paper. This is education, not medical or dosing advice.

Regulatory status

No FDA-approved drug

Not FDA-approved; sold for research use only; prohibited in sport by WADA

Honest overall read

Evidence is almost entirely from animal studies; the single human report is a small uncontrolled case series, so efficacy and safety in people remain unproven.

ReviewEmerging Use of BPC-157 in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine: A Systematic Review (HSS Journal, 2025)

A 2025 systematic review screening 544 papers found only 36 qualifying studies of which 35 were preclinical and just one was human (a retrospective 12-patient case series where 7 of 12 reported knee-pain relief over 6 months), and it found no clinical safety data.

No randomized controlled human trials exist and no human safety data have been published; injectable products are unregulated.

read the source
AnimalStable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 and Wound Healing (Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021)

In rodent models, the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 has been reported to accelerate healing of skin, muscle, tendon, ligament and gut tissue and to influence angiogenic and growth-factor pathways.

Findings are from animal experiments only and have not been reproduced in controlled human studies.

read the source

Commonly researched together

Often stacked with BPC-157

Compounds the research community frequently discusses alongside BPC-157. Not a protocol or a recommendation — a starting point for what to read about next.

US legal statusFDA safety flag — no pharmacy may compound it

Research-use-only — not FDA-approved

Sold “for research use only,” this compound is not FDA-approved for human use and has not been evaluated for safety, purity, or sterility in people. It is generally not a scheduled controlled substance, so buying it as a research chemical is typically not itself a drug crime — but marketing or using it as a drug is not lawful, and it is not a dietary supplement. BPC-157 is not on the FDA's 503A list of substances pharmacies may compound with, so even a licensed compounding pharmacy can't legally make it. The FDA flagged it in 2023 over safety concerns (immunogenicity risk by some routes); that nomination was later withdrawn, and an FDA advisory committee reviewed it again in July 2026.

Read the full US law →

General information, not legal or medical advice. VialGrade sells nothing and encourages no human use.

Research notes aren’t product proof

Research summaries describe published literature and market data only. They do not establish the identity, quality, safety, or legal status of any listed physical product.