Health Guide
Hormones and Reproductive Health
Plain-English summaries: what it is, what it was studied for, safety and regulatory status, plus mixing and dosing charts.
Bremelanotide is the active ingredient in Vyleesi, FDA approved in 2019 for a specific form of low sexual desire in premenopausal women.
A natural reproductive hormone signal that sits upstream of GnRH, LH and FSH.
A pregnancy hormone with specific prescription uses in fertility care and some hormone conditions.
A synthetic version of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), the signal that tells the pituitary to release LH and FSH.
A peptide hormone with established hospital uses in childbirth and a much less settled role in research on social behavior, appetite and sexual function.
A prescription fertility medicine that supplies both FSH and LH activity.
A four-amino-acid synthetic peptide. Despite its name, the best-identified hormone studies involve thyroid function in birds, not testosterone in men.
A four-amino-acid bioregulator peptide studied in prostate tissue and cellular-aging experiments.