In addition to phenol, inulin, and chemicals from vegetables, herbs, and plants, fructooligosaccharides (FOS), galactooligosaccharides (GOS), and inulin are the most explored prebiotics and the prebiotics with the most evidence in the treatment of depression (220)
What the animal studies cannot tell us includes optimal human dosing, population-specific responses (elderly, children, pregnancy), long-term safety in humans, rare side effects that require large sample sizes to detect, and interactions with medications or medical conditions
In another study by Ivan Barisic et al., also on rats, the possible beneficial influence of BPC 157 in myocardial infarctions (MI) was described
Reconstitution fundamentals Both BPC-157 and TB-500 typically arrive as lyophilized (freeze-dried) powders requiring reconstitution with bacteriostatic water before use
Reviewing the historical literature also reveals that the introduction of bacteriostatic water for multi-dose injectable preparations dramatically reduced contamination incidents in hospital and research settings in the mid-20th century