Is GHK-Cu with zinc thymulin legal in Canada?

A pharmacy-made scalp serum in a dropper bottle. It usually has 5 mg/mL of copper peptide with 10 micrograms/mL of zinc thymulin. So there is 500 times more copper peptide than thymulin. Neither ingredient has a proper study for hair growth in people. The mix has never been tested. The hair evidence for thymulin is human hair roots in a dish.

Hair loss clinics and pharmacies sell this as a leave-on scalp serum, usually in a 25 mL dropper bottle. The usual strengths are GHK-Cu 5 mg/mL with zinc thymulin 10 micrograms/mL.

How it works: GHK-Cu carries copper into tissue. In a dish and in rat wounds it pushes cells to make collagen and other building materials.

Approval history: Sold as a cosmetic, or as a skin product mixed by a pharmacy. Neither part is an approved drug for hair loss. The approved drug you put on the scalp for pattern hair loss is minoxidil.

Allows a drug to be sold by issuing a Notice of Compliance and a Drug Identification Number (DIN). A compound that is not allowed for sale cannot legally be sold for use in people. Bringing in prescription drugs for your own use is also limited.

The legal category above is how The Longevity Archive reads Health Canada, Health Products and Food Branch listings for GHK-Cu with zinc thymulin 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 Health Canada directly

Whether GHK-Cu with zinc thymulin is banned in sport is set by the World Anti-Doping Code and by military rules, not by its legal status in Canada. Before you compete or get tested, look up GHK-Cu with zinc thymulin 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.