Is Chemical Reprogramming Cocktails legal in Australia?

Mixes of small molecules that do the job of the gene therapy in reprogramming. All the ageing work is in cells in a dish, plus one result in a worm that lived longer.

Nobody has taken a reprogramming cocktail. No mammal has been given one for ageing in any published study.

How it works: In a dish, in human cells. Mixes of small molecules push cells into a flexible in-between state, so they can be reprogrammed without delivering genes.

Approval history: Not approved anywhere. No human study of a reprogramming drug mix is registered for any ageing use. These are lab chemicals.

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 Chemical Reprogramming Cocktails 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.

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Whether Chemical Reprogramming Cocktails 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 Chemical Reprogramming Cocktails 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)

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