The honest read · evidence-graded · sells nothing
The honest read on every peptide.
What the science actually says, what real people report, and whether it's even worth it, across 42 compounds. We've been burned by this ourselves, so we did the homework, weighed the real-world record, and graded all of it. None of it's for sale.
Every source is public and clickable, so you can check our work yourself. No login, no annual fee, no paywall to find out whether you're being sold a story.
Then build your own protocol and see what it should cost.
Free to build. Pick compounds, see the honest price range, print it, and budget it however you choose to source. No account.
Build your own protocol
Pick a goal. See what actually works and what a fair month should cost. Print your protocol. No account.
- C
BPC-157 / TB-500 Blend 10mg/10mg
~$75/vial
- C
BPC-157
~$42/vial
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BPC-157 / TB-500 Blend 5mg/5mg
~$44/vial
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How many units do I draw?
Pick your peptide and vial size, then set how much water you add and how much you want to take, type a number or tap −/+. We do the insulin-syringe math.
For 250 mcg, draw
10 units
on a U-100 insulin syringe (0.10 mL)
2500 mcg/mL
25.0 mcg
U-100 syringe: 100 units = 1 mL. Presets are typical reported starting points, not recommended doses. Confirm your actual vial size before you draw.
If you remember nothing else
The key things to keep in mind.
Take control of your own health.
Nobody is coming to optimize you. The whole point is to make your own calls with your eyes open, not to hand them to a vendor.
The science is mostly thin.
For most of these, the honest answer is we don't really know yet. That's not a knock, it's just the state of the evidence.
Measure, don't guess.
Bloodwork, body composition, and a certificate of analysis on every vial. The people who get burned are the ones guessing.
Follow the money.
Before you believe a claim, ask who profits from you believing it. We flag the conflict on every expert and seller we cite.
It might be placebo. So what?
If you genuinely feel better, that's real to you. Just know that might be what you're paying peptide prices for, and price it accordingly.
Go slow. One thing at a time.
Change one variable, then measure. Stacking four compounds at once is exactly how people end up with no idea what did what.
Why is the science so thin? Follow the money →
What we actually ran, and why → Real protocols, told as decisions, next to the graded science and never instead of it.
Ten in the news · graded honestly
Where the ten most-talked-about land.
Bar length is how far human testing has actually gone. Watch the gap between the FDA-approved drugs and the gray market everyone's actually buying.
The watch desk
What just happened, and what's next.
What this is
- Everything we figured out, graded honestly on evidence and safety, with real labs as exhibit A.
- The verification standard we wish we'd used before buying anything.
- The free tools we actually use, with the honest layer on top.
- Ground Control, the tool we built to track real experiments. And it's yours to copy.
What it isn't
- Not a store. We're not selling you anything, ever.
- Not a clinic, not an MLM, not a brand. Just people who got obsessed.
- Not hype. If we can't back it up, we say so, with a citation.
- Not anti-peptide. We're on them. We just won't call animal data human proof.
The method
Four questions. Never one number.
One rating hides the only thing that matters: proven for what?So every compound answers four plain questions instead. Does the science back it? Do real people feel it? Is it safe? And could it just be placebo? Two of them carry letter grades, and here's how those work.
Then we try to prove our own grade wrong before it ships, hunting for the disconfirming study, the failed trial, the conflict of interest. The grade you see is the one that survived.
Read our full method. Biases and all →Every compound we cover, mapped: science across the bottom, real-world buzz up the side, dot color is safety. Almost all of it sits in the low-science corner. Click a dot for its profile.
What I'd actually bet on
Top 10, most effective.
Ranked by how much real effect I'd bet on: science first, real-world signal next, knocked down for placebo. The proven stuff wins. Most peptides don't.
Evidence
The highest level of human evidence reached. Strong animal data does not move it.
Multiple human randomized controlled trials, or FDA-approved.
At least one human randomized controlled trial.
Human pilot or observational studies only, no RCT.
Promising in animals; no meaningful human evidence.
In vitro, mechanistic, or anecdote. No controlled data.
Safety
A composite roll-up. Not an absence of bad news.
Extensive human safety data; benign, well-mapped profile.
Well-studied; real but manageable risks under monitoring.
No red flags observed, but human exposure is small.
Little or no human safety data exists either way.
Documented serious risks or major theoretical red flags.
Known to cause serious harm.
What rolls up into a safety grade
Reading the two together
Why there's nothing to buy
We're not selling you anything.
This is just us showing you what we found. It will never sell you a peptide. If we ever do anything commercial, it lives somewhere else, walled off from this. The whole point is that we've got nothing to sell you, so we've got no reason to shade the truth.
Bring it back to your own body
Track it on yourself.
The Truth Tracker is a free, private place to keep your bloodwork and DEXA results and chart every marker over time, so the data, not the vibes, tells you whether a compound actually did anything. Ask Ground Truth can even read your answers against your own numbers.
Open the Truth Tracker →Rather self-host? The open-source Ground Control is yours to copy.