Is Tesamorelin / Ipamorelin legal in Canada?

The clinic version of the growth hormone blend. It pairs tesamorelin, a GHRH copy with FDA approval and results from 806 patients in large final-stage trials, with ipamorelin, whose one human trial missed its goal. No study has tested the two together. On the common 5 mg plus 5 mg vial, getting the 2 mg tesamorelin dose behind the approved result also gives you 2 mg of ipamorelin. That is roughly seven to ten times the dose ipamorelin is used at alone.

This is the blend that gets prescribed, rather than shipped in a plain box. It is also the one with the widest gap between the evidence for each part and the evidence for the blend.

How it works: Tesamorelin presses the GHRH switch in the pituitary. That makes the body's own growth hormone bursts bigger, while the brain's feedback checks stay in place.

Approval history: Not approved as a blend. Tesamorelin alone is FDA-approved as Egrifta, for the shifted body fat some people with HIV get. Ipamorelin is not approved, and no combination product exists.

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 Tesamorelin / Ipamorelin 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 Tesamorelin / Ipamorelin 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 Tesamorelin / Ipamorelin 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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