Is Anti-IL-11 legal in Australia?

Blocking a single swelling signal made mice live longer and healthier. It worked even when started in mice that were already old. No human ageing trial exists.

This is one of the more striking mouse results in recent ageing research. The detail that matters is when treatment started.

How it works: IL-11 works through a receptor made of two parts, IL-11RA and gp130. That switches on signals inside the cell called JAK, STAT3 and ERK.

Approval history: No drug that blocks IL-11 is approved for any use. A lab-made version of IL-11 itself, oprelvekin, was once an approved drug for low platelets. That is the opposite approach.

Registers or lists medicines and health products on the ARTG, its official register. It also sorts substances into schedules in the Poisons Standard. Many peptides are Schedule 4 (prescription only). So having them without a prescription, or importing them for yourself, is restricted. That is true even when no product is registered.

The legal category above is how The Longevity Archive reads Therapeutic Goods Administration listings for Anti-IL-11 on the reviewed date. It is not a legal opinion. Rules change. Bringing a compound into the country, prescribing it and owning it can each be treated differently. Check with the agency before you act on anything here.

Check TGA directly

Whether Anti-IL-11 is banned in sport is set by the World Anti-Doping Code and by military rules, not by its legal status in Australia. Before you compete or get tested, look up Anti-IL-11 by name on the Prohibited List, or look up a named product in Global DRO. Under the World Anti-Doping Code, category S0 bans, at all times, any drug-like substance that meets two tests. No other section of the List covers it. And no government health regulator anywhere has a current approval for it as a treatment in people. Many substances that are approved somewhere are banned by name in another section. So approval does not mean a substance is allowed in sport.

• WADA Prohibited List
• Global DRO (check a named product)
• USADA (US athletes)
• Operation Supplement Safety (US service members)

The rules you compete or serve under decide this, not this page.