Peptides are the most misunderstood corner of bodybuilding. The same word covers a pharmaceutical growth hormone, a research vial sold online, and a compound with twenty years of published human data behind it. Most of what gets written about them either sells something or repeats forum claims without checking.
This section is the opposite of that. Every guide here works from the primary literature, says plainly what the studies do and do not show, and marks the difference between human trial data and animal or mechanistic research. Where the evidence is thin, the guide says so.
Start with the basics: how peptides are dosed and reconstituted, how long each one stays active, how to store them, and how to tell whether what arrived is what you ordered. From there the guides move through recovery, growth hormone secretagogues, metabolic peptides, side effects and the monitoring that should go with them.
Each guide carries a table, a review date and the sources behind every claim. Nothing here is medical advice: dosing, bloodwork and any health condition belong with a qualified clinician.
If you are new to peptides, start with the half-life chart and the reconstitution guide.
Ask ten bodybuilders about peptides and you will get ten different answers, because the word is used for everything from a cheap research vial to pharmaceutical growth hormone to the HCG people keep for after a cycle. Those products have almost nothing in common. They have different regulatory status, different Read more…