Margin note
Ask which kind of product it is
A useful answer sounds like “this is FDA-approved Wegovy”, “this is a medicine made to order by a named pharmacy”, or “this is sold for research only”.
“Peptide therapy” alone does not answer the question.
Notebook entry A
Start here: what “peptide” tells you
The word tells you what a substance is built from. It stays silent on approval, on who made the product, and on who is answerable when something goes wrong.
Rules checked: September 2026.
A useful word, used too loosely
Think of a peptide as a small string of amino acids, the pieces proteins are assembled from.
The word can cover an everyday prescription, a custom-made medicine, or a chemical offered with no approved medical use. Treat it as the start of a question, not the answer.
Names you may already know
Two familiar ones hold full FDA approval: semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound). Even so, each brand and each form, injection or tablet, has its own approved uses.
As of September 2026, other products sold as peptides, including BPC-157 and ipamorelin, are not approved medicines in the United States: FDA’s approval records show no application for them at all.
So there is no FDA-approved version of them for a doctor to prescribe.
That is a statement about approval, not a test result about safety.