Does ipamorelin build muscle?
Its trial asked whether people recovering from bowel surgery could tolerate solid food sooner. It didn’t measure muscle, and on that meal measure it found no clear advantage over placebo.
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What the human studies found
- Promoted for muscle growth and recovery. The FDA’s review of ipamorelin documents clinics promoting it that way.
- The trial studied people recovering from bowel surgery. Could ipamorelin help them tolerate solid food sooner? They weren’t measuring muscle growth.
- Compared with a placebo, a treatment without the active drug, it found no clear advantage on that meal measure.
- That result doesn’t tell us whether ipamorelin builds muscle. The trial simply wasn’t designed to answer that.
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