Is BPC-157 legal now? HHS’s draft policy would let licensed pharmacies make it with a prescription and strict testing. What changes and what doesn’t.
Medicare covers only you. Enroll before you leave your job and a younger spouse can keep COBRA up to 36 months. Costs, Medigap rules and what to do now.
The average family premium hit $28,303 in 2026, and employers paid $20,833 of it. Ours costs nearly $38,000. How to find your employer’s share.
Coaches charge to launch the stores, a Chinese wholesaler’s price sheet and a U.S. fulfillment company show how they are supplied, testing labs provide the certificates, and recruiting posts offer affiliates 10 to 40 percent. One seller who teaches others puts his net margin at 55 percent.
I rechecked 23 research-peptide stores that had an FDA warning letter or an August Lilly lawsuit. Eight still listed the cited products under the same names, one listed them under new names, six had taken down the cited pages, four kept their catalog behind a login and four were unreachable. The FDA has posted no close-out letter for any of the 19 warning letters.
On October 9, 2026, I checked 93 research-peptide storefronts for things FDA warning letters cite as evidence that a “research use only” product is meant for people. Twenty-three publish mixing or dosing instructions, a dosing calculator or claims about effects in people. Another 24 list bacteriostatic water. The label has been in federal plea cases since 2013.
A new hematology guideline moves the ferritin cutoff for iron deficiency in adults from 15 to 30 ng/mL. What ferritin measures, why men run low and what to do about a low result.
In TRIUMPH-1, 22.5% of people on retatrutide’s 12 mg dose had it cut, most often for perceived excessive weight loss, and they still count toward the 28.3%. What that says about 4 mg.
How long to fast before a blood test: a JAMA Internal Medicine study of 101,148 patients found 8 hours covers glucose, and fasting past 12 hours made no meaningful difference.
A University of Arkansas trial will test BPC-157 against saline after rotator cuff surgery. It’s small and hasn’t started, and I’m excited anyway.
