Healthcare professionals may prescribe type 2 diabetes medication for weight loss off-label if people meet certain criteria
On the formulation side, avoid mixing GHK-Cu with strong acids or vitamin C in the same injection session, as the peptide degrades at low pH
Because retatrutide has not yet received regulatory authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA), it is not legally available for prescription in the UK outside of authorised clinical trials
It combines the naturally occurring tripeptide glycyl-L-histidyl-L-lysine (GHK) with copper(II) to form a small peptidemetal complex that is also found in human fluids and tissue matrices
Retatrutide is investigational and supplied for laboratory research only, not for human consumption
BPC-157, short for Body Protection Compound-157, is a synthetic pentadecapeptide consisting of 15 amino acids, originally derived from a protective protein found in human gastric juice