Fitness and recovery
Gym talk, recovery claims and sport rules, checked against the evidence.
- Evidence
- Fitness and recovery
- Wellness
Everyone in the gym is talking about peptides. Here's what the research actually says
A plain-English evidence ladder, from cells to animals to people, applied to BPC-157: 35 of 36 studies in one 2025 review were preclinical.
- Fitness and recovery
- Safety and quality
- Wellness
Which popular gym peptides are banned in sport? What WADA's 2026 and 2027 lists name
Which peptides do WADA's 2026 and 2027 Prohibited Lists name, what strict liability means for supplements, and what WADA says about GLP-1 drugs.

