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About PeptideBasics101
PeptideBasics101 is a reference on peptides and related substances. It is run by the PeptideBasics101 editorial team. Each of its 58 articles puts what the published research, the product labels and the regulators actually say in one place, in plain English and in scientific detail.
Why it exists
Peptides are widely discussed online, and most of what is written about them comes from sellers, forums or social media. Claims are often repeated without a source, and the line between an approved medicine, a compounded drug and an untested "research chemical" gets lost. This site exists to show the evidence and its limits: what was studied, in whom, at what doses, with what results, and what regulators have decided.
What each article covers
- Regulatory status: FDA approval, compounding status and enforcement history, from FDA sources.
- Clinical trials and published studies, with doses and results exactly as each study reported them.
- Side effects, interactions and warnings from labels and studies.
- Storage, patents and compound information.
- Every source, linked, with the date the data was last refreshed.
Readers can switch every article between a Plain English view and a Scientific view. The site also has a research quiz that maps goals to the studies behind them, and a concentration and syringe guide that explains how mg, mcg, mL and syringe units relate.
How articles are written and checked
- Sources first. Facts come from primary sources: ClinicalTrials.gov, peer-reviewed papers (PubMed and PubMed Central), FDA drug labels, FDA compounding lists, warning letters and import alerts, and NIH fact sheets. Seller and protocol websites are never used as evidence; where a page reports what such websites say (for example, mixing examples), it is labelled as such.
- Drafting. AI tools are used to help draft articles and to compare drafts against their sources.
- Human editorial control. The editorial team decides what is covered, sets the sourcing and wording rules, and reviews, edits and approves what is published. A claim that cannot be traced to a cited source is removed.
- Automated checks. Before publishing, scripts check every link, compare every trial number with the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, and flag wording that reads as advice or promotion.
- Dates. Each article shows when its data was last refreshed. Pages are updated when new trial results or regulatory actions come to the team's attention.
What the site does not do
- It does not give medical advice, recommend any substance, or tell anyone what dose to take.
- It does not sell anything or link to sellers. There are no affiliate links and no sponsored articles.
- It does not say where to buy anything.
How the site is funded
The site may show advertising from Google. Ads are placed by Google, not chosen by us, and advertising never decides what is covered or what an article says. The privacy section explains the cookies involved and your choices.
Corrections
If something on a page does not match its source, email [email protected] with the page and the source. We fix confirmed errors and update the page's date.
Contact
See the contact page, or email [email protected].
