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Described, not prescribed

What peptides do.

What each compound is, what it does, and how strong the evidence behind it is. For information and research purposes only.

⚠ Read first: Research-use-only peptides are sold for laboratory research and are not for human consumption. Nothing here is medical advice. Work with a licensed physician and a compounding pharmacy for any therapeutic use.

How we grade the evidence

Popularity is not proof. These grades are applied consistently across the whole library.

FDA-Approved

Approved by the FDA for at least one indication. Extensive human safety data.

Human-Trialed

Published human clinical trials exist, but no FDA approval for the relevant use.

Approved Abroad

Regulatory approval in other countries but not in the US.

Preclinical

Animal or in-vitro studies only. Promising but unproven in humans.

Anecdotal

User reports and practitioner experience only. No controlled studies.

Browse the library

20 compounds

Semaglutide
FDA-Approved

Semaglutide

Wegovy® / Ozempic®

Girl. A GLP-1 receptor agonist, in English: it walks straight up to your appetite and turns the volume do…

Weight managementQuit smoking
Tirzepatide
FDA-Approved

Tirzepatide

Mounjaro® / Zepbound®

This one doesn't stop at one receptor. It's a dual GIP/GLP-1 agonist, both pathways firing together, for…

Weight managementQuit smoking
Liraglutide
FDA-Approved

Liraglutide

Saxenda® / Victoza®

Same GLP-1 family as semaglutide, just first out the door. The half-life is shorter, so this one wants a…

Weight managementQuit smoking
Retatrutide
Human-Trialed

Retatrutide

LY3437943 (Eli Lilly)

This is the one that went for three: GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon receptor, all three pathways firing at once…

Weight managementQuit smoking
Tesamorelin
FDA-Approved WADA

Tesamorelin

Egrifta SV®

A GHRH analog, meaning it doesn't hand your pituitary growth hormone directly. It just tells your pituita…

Weight managementMuscle & performanceLongevity
Bremelanotide
FDA-Approved

Bremelanotide

PT-141 / Vyleesi®

This one works your brain, not your blood vessels: a melanocortin-4 receptor agonist acting straight on t…

Sexual health
Testosterone (TRT)
FDA-Approved WADA

Testosterone (TRT)

Cypionate / Enanthate / Gel

Let's be clear about what this is: a steroid hormone, not a peptide, even though it lives in every peptid…

Muscle & performanceSexual healthLongevity
Sermorelin
FDA-Approved WADA

Sermorelin

Geref® (discontinued)

A GHRH analog, just the first 29 residues of the real thing, and that is apparently all your pituitary ne…

Muscle & performanceSleep qualityLongevity
BPC-157
Preclinical WADA

BPC-157

Body Protection Compound-157

Pulled from gastric juice protein, of all places. The proposed mechanisms read like a repair crew: growth…

Injury recoveryImmune supportDigestive & gut health
TB-500
Preclinical WADA

TB-500

Thymosin Beta-4 fragment

A lab-made fragment of thymosin beta-4, and its whole job is getting cells to move where they need to go.…

Injury recoveryMuscle & performance
GHK-Cu
Human-Trialed

GHK-Cu

Copper peptide GHK-Cu

A tripeptide with copper riding along, occurring naturally in your own body, and it's already doing colla…

Skin & hairInjury recovery
CJC-1295
Human-Trialed WADA

CJC-1295

CJC-1295 / with DAC

A GHRH analog with an upgrade bolted on: Drug Affinity Complex, DAC for short, stretching the half-life o…

Muscle & performanceSleep qualityLongevity
Ipamorelin
Human-Trialed WADA

Ipamorelin

Ipamorelin acetate

This one is selective, and that word is doing real work. It hits the ghrelin receptor, GHS-R1a specifical…

Muscle & performanceSleep qualityLongevity
MK-677
Human-Trialed WADA

MK-677

Ibutamoren

Technically, this is not even a peptide, it just runs with that crowd. A non-peptide ghrelin receptor ago…

Muscle & performanceSleep qualityLongevity
Melanotan II
Preclinical

Melanotan II

MT-II

This one does not pick a lane: a non-selective melanocortin receptor agonist, lighting up MC1R for pigmen…

Skin & hairSexual health
Thymosin Alpha-1
Approved Abroad

Thymosin Alpha-1

Tα1 / Zadaxin®

A thymic peptide doing exactly what the thymus does: training up your T-cells, waking up dendritic cells,…

Immune supportLongevity
Epitalon
Preclinical

Epitalon

Epithalon / Epithalone

Four amino acids, Ala-Glu-Asp-Gly, that's the entire compound, and Khavinson's whole claim is that it can…

LongevitySleep quality
MOTS-c
Preclinical WADA

MOTS-c

Mitochondrial-derived peptide

Sixteen amino acids, encoded right inside your mitochondria's own DNA, in the 12S rRNA region, talking st…

LongevityMuscle & performanceWeight management
Selank
Approved Abroad

Selank

TP-7 / Selanc

A lab-built version of a tuftsin fragment, that little piece of immunoglobulin G, going to work on seroto…

Cognitive functionImmune supportQuit Adderall
Semax
Approved Abroad

Semax

ACTH(4-7)-PGP

A synthetic analog of ACTH(4-10), and it does more than that short name suggests: BDNF up, NGF up, dopami…

Cognitive functionQuit Adderall