Secondary outcomes Five included studies comprising 3605 patients reported change in MCV, four studies comprising 140 patients reported change in homocysteine levels, four studies comprising 3588 patients reported change in platelets count, and only three studies with 3430 patients reported change in WBC count
Not appropriate during pregnancy or breastfeeding Epithalon is not used during pregnancy or breastfeeding
Convenience: Supplements are easier for daily self-management
Selank works by balancing neurotransmitters in the brain, which can improve mood, reduce stress, and even boost cognitive function
The single human musculoskeletal paper that gets cited often is a small retrospective case series of intra-articular BPC-157 injections for multiple types of knee pain. It reported improvement in 11 of 12 patients, but the study has major limitations: no control group, no standardized objective outcome measures, no imaging confirmation of pathology, and unclear diagnostic specificity
