The Reading Room
Field guides and explainers. What the evidence shows about peptides, supplements, skincare, and everything you stack on top of them.
Cycle Care
Eating and Moving Through Your Period
What a period takes from you, and how to get it back
Field Guide No. 2
Red Light Works, But How Well Depends on Two Numbers
Red and near-infrared light have randomized trials behind them, and those trials measured real gains in collagen and wrinkle depth. Whether the device sitting on your counter reproduces any of that comes down to two numbers, irradiance and fluence, and most manufacturers conveniently leave both off the box.
Regulatory Update
The Peptide Vote and What It Changes
An FDA advisory panel voted in July to let pharmacies compound six research peptides, against the advice of the agency's own scientists, and every group chat about BPC-157 immediately acted like the FDA had personally blessed it. It didn't. The vote isn't binding, the rulemaking hasn't started, and nothing about what you can legally buy changed that week.
Field Guide No. 1
Four Things Called Peptides
One word doing four completely different jobs, and nobody selling you any of them is rushing to explain which is which. Here's how to keep collagen, skincare, prescription, and research peptides straight before you spend a dollar on the wrong one.