Is Sermorelin / GHRP legal in the United Kingdom?

The standard growth hormone blend from compounding pharmacies, usually 5 mg sermorelin with 5 mg GHRP-2 in one 10 mg vial. It is the only blend on this site where this kind of pairing has real human data. In 20 patients, adding GHRH to GHRP-6 roughly doubled the growth hormone peak, 54.7 against 25.7 micrograms per litre. But that was one dose into a vein, as a hospital test, not a nightly shot under the skin. The vial itself has never been studied.

Sermorelin plus a growth hormone releasing peptide (GHRP) is the oldest version of this idea. It also has the most real science under it.

How it works: Sermorelin presses the GHRH switch in the pituitary. That makes each growth hormone burst bigger, while the brain's feedback checks stay in place.

Approval history: Not approved as a blend. Sermorelin was once FDA-approved as Geref, and now comes from mixing (compounding) pharmacies. GHRP-2 is approved in Japan only for use in a diagnostic test. GHRP-6 is not approved anywhere.

Licenses medicines for sale in the UK. A compound without a licence to be sold (a marketing authorisation) is an unlicensed medicine. The law only lets it reach people through a prescriber, under the specials scheme (unlicensed medicines made for one patient's needs). It cannot be sold as a research product.

The legal category above is how The Longevity Archive reads Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency listings for Sermorelin / GHRP 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 Sermorelin / GHRP is banned in sport is set by the World Anti-Doping Code and by military rules, not by its legal status in the United Kingdom. Before you compete or get tested, look up Sermorelin / GHRP 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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