Goals

Start from what you want to understand.

Six goals, each with its compounds ordered strongest evidence first. Or take the six-tap quiz for a short reading list. Nothing here tells you what to take.

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Repair

Tendons, gut, soft tissue

The most hyped corner of the atlas. Promising rodents, very few people.

What do we actually know about repair peptides?

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BPC-157A 15-amino-acid gastric fragment. Heals rats impressively. Completed human efficacy trials: zero.C
TB-500A 7-amino-acid slice of thymosin beta-4. The human trials used the full protein. The fragment has almost none of its own.C
GHK-CuCopper-binding tripeptide found in blood. Small topical skin studies, mixed results. Injectable human data: none.C
KPVThree amino acids from the tail of alpha-MSH. Calms colitis in mice. Completed human efficacy trials: none we could find.D

Metabolic

Fat loss & glucose

Where the strongest human evidence lives, because pharma paid for it.

How do GLP-1 drugs differ from the research-market stuff?

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GH-axis

GH & body composition

Secretagogues and GHRH analogs. One approved drug, lots of extrapolation.

What separates tesamorelin from CJC/ipamorelin?

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Longevity

Sleep, longevity & focus

Mitochondria, telomeres, NAD. The biggest claims per human subject.

Which longevity claims have any human data?

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Immune

Immune modulation

Thymic peptides with decades of clinical use outside the US.

What does thymosin alpha-1 do and not do?

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Skin & Hair

Skin, hair, pigment

Copper peptides, tanning peptides and the gap between cream and syringe.

Is topical GHK-Cu the same story as injectable?

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