Q2: Can this be used in a vitamin-based whitening formula
The interest and use of nutraceuticals that can play a supportive role in health and skin aging has increased dramatically in the last 10 years, with products containing vitamin C and E, collagen, omega-3 fatty acids, and antioxidants such as curcumin, glutathione, and resveratrol, which have multiple anti-inflammatory, protective effects against oxidative stress and age-related decline in cellular function [79,80,81]
Background Section 1115 of the Social Security Act provides the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) with authority to approve experimental, pilot, or demonstration projects likely to further the traditional goals of the Medicaid program
Notably, citrulline supplementation restores fibroblast activation under arginine-deprived conditions, whereas ornithine and glutamine provide essential precursors for polyamine biosynthesis in fibroblasts [50]
So the defensible position on BPC-157 vs TB-500 is that both show reproducible, mechanistically interesting healing and angiogenic effects in preclinical systems, but neither has demonstrated safety or efficacy in adequately powered human trials