Is retatrutide investigational or illegal?
By this site's national fields it is investigational, not approved. That is a regulator's status, not a ruling that owning the molecule is a crime. Until the FDA, and the matching agencies in the UK, Australia, and Canada, approve a finished product, retatrutide is not a legal prescription drug in those countries. Sellers offering it are selling an unapproved research chemical. Investigational is the accurate word for a drug still being tested. Illegal is the loose word people use when they mean not approved for use in people. This dataset has no state-by-state map. This FAQ does not invent a criminal code. Full record at /compounds/retatrutide.
Legal status by country, one page per compound
Studies in people from the compound pages this answer belongs to
- Retatrutide
- Triple-Hormone-Receptor Agonist Retatrutide for Obesity: A Phase 2 Trial 2023 PMID 37366315
- Triple hormone receptor agonist retatrutide for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a randomized phase 2a trial 2024 PMID 38858523
- A Master Protocol to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of LY3437943 Once Weekly in Participants Without Type 2 Diabetes Who Have Obesity or Overweight (TRIUMPH-1) 2026 NCT05929066
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Part of glp-1 and metabolic peptides. Semaglutide, tirzepatide, retatrutide, and the rest of the incretin and glucagon receptor family.