Clinician-reviewed · no vendor money

Peptide education,
honestly built.

The Peptide Column is written and reviewed by practicing clinicians. We exist because the peptide space is flooded with marketing dressed up as medicine — and patients deserve better.

Editorial lead
PA

Physician Assistant (PA-C)

Board-certified PA practicing in family medicine with clinical expertise in peptide therapy, hormone replacement therapy, GLP-1 agonists, and metabolic medicine. Over a decade of patient care informing every profile.

Review board
MD

Clinical review panel

All content is reviewed by licensed MDs, DOs, PAs, and NPs acting in an editorial capacity. Reviewers hold active clinical licenses and maintain continuing education in their specialties.

No provider-patient relationship. Our clinicians contribute in an editorial capacity only. They are not your healthcare providers, and nothing here is medical advice.
Why we built this

Patients deserve better.

The peptide space is flooded with content written by marketers, supplement companies, and influencers with undisclosed financial relationships. Patients searching for real answers about BPC-157 (a Category 2 substance — not FDA-approved, with compounding prohibited under current FDA interim policy), semaglutide, and dozens of others are met with exaggerated claims, cherry-picked studies, and thinly veiled sales pitches.

We built The Peptide Column because patients deserve evidence-based information — not marketing hype.

What makes us different

Four promises, publicly checkable.

Method

12-point bias screen

Every study we cite is screened for industry funding, small samples, spin, and nine other common sources of bias in medical research.

Practice

Questions for your doctor

Every profile ends with specific questions to bring to your provider. We help you have better conversations — we don't replace them.

Reach

22 global research sources

PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov plus repositories in Russia, Israel, Japan, and South America that most English-language sites ignore.

Funding

No vendor money

We don't sell peptides. We don't take money from peptide vendors. Revenue is from newsletter ads, disclosed affiliates, and products.

Editorial standards

How we work, in five sentences.

  • 01 Content is written and reviewed by MDs, DOs, PAs, and NPs with active clinical licenses.
  • 02 Commercial relationships never influence editorial content.
  • 03 We disclose where evidence is weak, where gaps exist, and what questions remain unanswered.
  • 04 Every profile includes an honest evidence rating: Strong / Emerging / Theoretical / No Human Data.
  • 05 Affiliate relationships are disclosed per FTC guidelines on our Affiliate Disclosure page.
By the numbers
55
Peptide profiles
12
Bias checkpoints
22
Research sources
10
Health-goal categories
Important. The Peptide Column is educational only and does not constitute medical advice. No provider-patient relationship is created. See our full Medical Disclaimer, No Provider-Patient Relationship Disclaimer, and Contact page.
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