The agency's position reflects growing concerns regarding product quality, patient safety, API sourcing practices, and marketing claims that may create confusion between FDA-approved therapies and compounded alternatives
The medication mechanism may still be appropriate, but vitamin D deficiency, zinc/B6 depletion, copper accumulation, elevated SAH, inflammation, poor sleep, hormonal change, toxic burden or medication interactions may have altered the biochemical environment
Furthermore, the meta-analysis confirmed promising effects of probiotics on the prevention as well as management of EAE (lower incidence, delayed expression of symptoms, and less severe symptoms)
Combination protocols Some research protocols combine TB-500 and BPC-157, reasoning that the complementary mechanisms (actin cytoskeleton regulation + VEGFR2/FAK angiogenesis and fibroblast migration) should compound
In 2024, he resigned as president of the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research after claiming that a supplement developed by a company his brother runs had reversed the age of dogs, a claim for which there was so little evidence that one scientist called it a lie. Part of the problem is that scientists still disagree on how to measure aging