Peptide Protocol IQ
Soft-tissue repair with a dermal component

GLOW Stack

GLOW — BPC-157, TB-500 and GHK-Cu

Also called GLOW, glow protocol, BPC-157 TB-500 GHK-Cu, glow peptide stack

The Wolverine Stack with a copper peptide added for skin. Three compounds, no combination trial.

DPreclinicalevidence for this combination, not for the compounds individually

Combination evidence: Preclinical

No trial has tested these three compounds together in humans. Two of the three have no published human injected dosing at all. The grade describes the combination, and the combination is preclinical.

Where every number on this page comes from

Each quantity carries one of these five labels. They are not interchangeable, and the difference between the first and the last is the difference between a regulated finding and a rumour with a number attached.

FDA labelling
This figure appears in FDA-approved product labelling for an approved indication. It is the strongest warrant on this site.
Published study arm
This figure is the quantity administered in a named arm of the linked study. It describes what was studied, not what is advised.
Clinical guideline
This figure appears in published clinical or professional guidance.
Manufacturer protocol
This figure comes from a manufacturer or investigator document rather than from peer-reviewed literature.
Community practice — no trial
No clinical trial has tested this figure. It reflects what is commonly reported in practice and carries no evidentiary weight. It is shown because it is what circulates, and because showing it with this label is more useful than pretending it does not exist.
Plan against

The figure most often reported for each compound. Where a compound has no separately sourced figure at this level, its most commonly reported figure is used instead, and the citation beneath it says so.

Duration

8 weeks

1 phase

Administrations

128

about 16/week at peak

Vials required

13

3 compounds

Cost at this plan

$324.00

Pure Health Peptides, list price

Phase by phase

Weeks 18 · 8 weeks

Continuous run

All three run concurrently for eight weeks. Eight weeks is convention rather than a studied duration; no human trial of this combination exists at any length.

BPC-157

Once daily · Subcutaneous

Lowest sourced, per dose

200 mcgCommunity practice — no trial

Commonly reported lower figure in practice. No clinical trial has tested it.

Most commonly reported, per dose

250 mcgCommunity practice — no trial

Modal reported figure per injection in practice. No clinical trial has tested it.

Highest sourced, per dose

500 mcgCommunity practice — no trial

Commonly reported upper figure in practice. No clinical trial has tested it.

Prepared at 5 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once daily, that is 1.75 mg per week.

Concentration2.50 mg/mLDraw volume0.100 mL
Pull to (U-100)10.0 unitsDoses per vial20
This phase56 administrationsVials, this phase3

Why it is here

Reported in rodent injury models to accelerate tendon, ligament and gut repair endpoints.

What is not known

The only registered human trial of BPC-157, NCT02637284, used oral tablets, has status Unknown, and never posted results. There is no human evidence for injected use at any amount.

TB-500

Once daily, Mon, Thu · Subcutaneous

Lowest sourced, per dose

2 mgCommunity practice — no trial

Commonly reported lower figure per injection in practice. No clinical trial has tested it.

Most commonly reported, per dose

2.5 mgCommunity practice — no trial

Modal reported figure per injection during a loading period. No clinical trial has tested it.

Highest sourced, per dose

2.5 mgCommunity practice — no trial

Commonly reported upper figure per injection in practice. No clinical trial has tested it.

Prepared at 5 mg in 2 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once daily, mon, thu, that is 5.00 mg per week.

Concentration2.50 mg/mLDraw volume1.000 mL
Pull to (U-100)100.0 unitsDoses per vial2
This phase16 administrationsVials, this phase8

Why it is here

Reported in animal models to promote cell migration and systemic repair signalling.

What is not known

Every human trial in this area used full-length thymosin beta-4, not the fragment sold as TB-500, and the largest of those used 0.05 to 25 µg/kg intravenously. The figure above is roughly thirty times that mass, by a different route, of a different molecule.

GHK-Cu

Once daily · Subcutaneous

Lowest sourced, per dose

1 mgCommunity practice — no trial

Commonly reported lower figure per injection in practice. No clinical trial has tested injected GHK-Cu.

Most commonly reported, per dose

1.5 mgCommunity practice — no trial

Modal reported figure per injection in practice. No clinical trial has tested injected GHK-Cu.

Highest sourced, per dose

2 mgCommunity practice — no trial

Commonly reported upper figure per injection in practice. No clinical trial has tested injected GHK-Cu.

Prepared at 50 mg in 10 mL

Every quantity above is one administration. At once daily, that is 10.50 mg per week.

Concentration5.00 mg/mLDraw volume0.300 mL
Pull to (U-100)30.0 unitsDoses per vial30
This phase56 administrationsVials, this phase2

Shelf life, not volume, is what limits this vial. It holds enough for more administrations than you can use inside roughly 30 days of being reconstituted, so the vial count above is driven by that window rather than by the arithmetic. Buying a larger vial would make this worse, not cheaper.

Why it is here

Copper-binding tripeptide reported in cell culture to raise collagen and matrix protein synthesis.

What is not known

The one human randomised trial was topical, enrolled thirteen people, and was negative on every objective endpoint. A 2026 review in the American Journal of Sports Medicine states that no clinical data support musculoskeletal use.

What you would need to buy

Vial counts are computed by simulating consumption, not by dividing total milligrams. Those two disagree whenever a vial cannot be finished, which is most of the time, and dividing under-buys.

CompoundVialAdministrationsTotal materialVials
BPC-157Continuous run5 mg5614.00 mg3
TB-500Continuous run5 mg1640.00 mg8
GHK-CuContinuous run50 mg5684.00 mg2
Total12813

What it would cost

List prices from each vendor’s own product pages, with the date each figure was read. Quantity tiers are applied where a vendor publishes them.

Loti Labs

Prices as of 2026-08-24

$695.35

$12.42/day · $377.97/month

BPC-157BPC-157 5mg · 5 mg$9.70/mg listed · $10.39/mg after what expires unused3 × $48.49$145.47
TB-500Thymosin Beta 4 (TB-500) 5mg · 5 mg$9.50/mg listed8 × $47.49$379.92
GHK-CuGHK-Cu 50mg · 50 mg$1.00/mg listed · $1.19/mg after what expires unused2 × $49.99$99.98
Bacteriostatic water30ML Reconstitution Solution · 30 mLThis plan uses 42.0 mL across every reconstitution. 18.0 mL is left over, because bottles do not divide.Sold as a reconstitution solution rather than under the name bacteriostatic water. The page describes 0.9% benzyl alcohol as the preservative.2 × $34.99$69.98
Syringes128 administrations, so 128 syringes. None of the vendors priced on this site sells syringes, alcohol pads or a sharps container. They are ordinary pharmacy items in most places and restricted in some. The count below is what the plan requires; where to obtain them is outside what this site can tell you.128 × —Not sold here
Total, compounds and water$695.35

Above this vendor's published $99 free-shipping threshold.

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Pure Health Peptides

Prices as of 2026-08-24

$378.95

$6.77/day · $205.99/month

BPC-157BPC-157 · 5 mg$4.40/mg listed · $4.71/mg after what expires unusedThis listing is sold in several vial sizes and the figure shown is the cheapest one, so the real price is higher.3 × $22.00$66.00
TB-500TB-500 · 5 mg$5.00/mg listedThis listing is sold in several vial sizes and the figure shown is the cheapest one, so the real price is higher.8 × $25.00$200.00
GHK-CuGHK-CuThis listing is sold in several vial sizes and the figure shown is the cheapest one, so the real price is higher. The listing does not publish a vial size, so the vial count is the plan's own and may not match what ships.2 × $29.00$58.00
Bacteriostatic waterBacteriostatic Water · 10 mLThis plan uses 42.0 mL across every reconstitution. 8.0 mL is left over, because bottles do not divide.The only size this vendor sells. Stock was reported as one unit remaining when read.5 × $10.99$54.95
Syringes128 administrations, so 128 syringes. None of the vendors priced on this site sells syringes, alcohol pads or a sharps container. They are ordinary pharmacy items in most places and restricted in some. The count below is what the plan requires; where to obtain them is outside what this site can tell you.128 × —Not sold here
Total, compounds and water$378.95

Above this vendor's published $175 free-shipping threshold.

We earn nothing from this link. No affiliate programme was found for this vendor.

Peptira

Prices as of 2026-08-25

$419.20

$7.49/day · $227.87/month

BPC-157BPC-157 · 10 mg$4.90/mg listed · $7.00/mg after what expires unusedPriced at the 10 mg size rather than the 5 mg this plan assumes, because across the sizes this vendor stocks it works out cheapest for the whole course. Vial count re-simulated at that strength.2 × $49.00$98.00
TB-500TB-500 · 10 mg$4.66/mg listedPriced at the 10 mg size rather than the 5 mg this plan assumes, because across the sizes this vendor stocks it works out cheapest for the whole course. Vial count re-simulated at that strength.4 × $46.55$186.20
GHK-CuGHK-CU RAWThe listing does not publish a vial size, so the vial count is the plan's own and may not match what ships.2 × $39.00$78.00
Bacteriostatic waterBAC Water 10ML · 10 mLThis plan uses 32.0 mL across every reconstitution. 8.0 mL is left over, because bottles do not divide.4 × $14.25$57.00
Syringes128 administrations, so 128 syringes. None of the vendors priced on this site sells syringes, alcohol pads or a sharps container. They are ordinary pharmacy items in most places and restricted in some. The count below is what the plan requires; where to obtain them is outside what this site can tell you.128 × —Not sold here
Total, compounds and water$419.20

Above this vendor's published $250 free-shipping threshold.

Peptira runs an affiliate programme. This site has not applied to it, so no commission is earned on this link today.

List price is not the price anyone pays

All three vendors run frequent site-wide promotional codes: commonly 20 to 40 percent at Loti Labs, and a permanent-looking banner advertising up to 50 percent in the cart at Peptira. Those codes are not captured here and cannot be, because they change weekly and are not published in any stable form. Treat every figure above as an upper bound on a list basis, read on the date shown, and check the vendor’s own cart before committing to anything. Ordering is by price. It is not influenced by which vendors pay us, and today none of them do.

What usually goes wrong

Ranked by how often it happens rather than by how serious it sounds.

Assuming the copper peptide adds the skin benefit it is sold for

The dermal claims come from topical formulations and cell culture. Injecting it is a different exposure with no human trial behind it, and the one human trial that exists measured skin and found nothing.

Buying a 50 mg GHK-Cu vial and expecting to finish it

At the figures above a 50 mg vial holds more than a month of material, and reconstituted peptide is conventionally treated as good for thirty days refrigerated. The plan below accounts for that; dividing milligrams does not.

Reading three compounds as three times the evidence

Combining compounds multiplies the unknowns rather than the evidence. Nothing here has been studied alongside anything else here.

What is worth measuring

Markers that would actually tell you something, and what each one tells you. Nothing here is a requirement, and none of it substitutes for a clinician who knows your history.

MarkerWhenWhat it tells you
Injection sitesOngoingThree concurrent subcutaneous compounds means three times the site burden; GHK-Cu is frequently reported to sting.
The injury itselfWeekly, same test each timeA repeatable functional measure is the only signal available, since no biomarker tracks any of this.

Populations this was not studied in

An absence of evidence in a group is not evidence of safety in that group. These are listed because the gap itself is the finding.

  • Anyone — no human trial of this combination exists
  • Pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • Active malignancy
  • Anyone under 18

Protocol last reviewed 2026-08-25. Every quantity on this page carries its own source. If you find one that does not, that is a bug and the build should have caught it.