There are 2 main classes of medications (as well as some non-prescription supplements) which are commonly used to treat BPH, and all have the potential to negatively impact male fertility
(The P in GLP-1, the wildly popular category of diabetes and weight-loss drugs that includes Ozempic, stands for peptide.) But many of the substances people are using to self-treat, with names like BPC-157 and TB-500, show promising effects in animal studies but have not been rigorously studied in humans, raising questions about whether they are safe and work as advertised
Purity and third-party testing Purity is typically verified through third-party laboratory testing that confirms a peptides composition matches its labeled identity, usually reported as a percentage on a certificate of analysis
(2018) The Safety and Efficacy of Growth Hormone Secretagogues Mohtashami Z, Singh MK, Salimiaghdam N, Ozgul M, Kenney MC (2022)
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