Is PTD-DBM legal in Canada?

PTD-DBM is a peptide you put on the scalp. It frees up a hair growth signal called Wnt. In mice it regrew hair and made new follicles. No human trial exists.

PTD-DBM joins a piece that gets into cells with a piece that pulls a blocking protein, CXXC5, off the Wnt growth signal. That lets the signal run in hair follicle stem cells.

How it works: It pushes the blocking protein CXXC5 off its partner, which frees the Wnt growth signal in hair follicles.

Approval history: Not approved; nobody has asked the FDA to test it in people (no IND)

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 PTD-DBM 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 PTD-DBM 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 PTD-DBM 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.