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Reader’s guides
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Catalog titles

Metabolic
The GLP-1 era: weight and blood sugar

Compounded Tirzepatide
A guide to the dual GIP / GLP-1 receptor agonist
First edition · September 2026

Retatrutide
A guide to the triple GIP / GLP-1 / glucagon agonist
First edition · September 2026

Cagrilintide / Semaglutide
A guide to CagriSema: an approved drug paired with an investigational one, a decision due from the FDA this year, and a blend vial that is neither
First edition · September 2026

Semaglutide
A guide to the drug in Ozempic and Wegovy: the most-studied peptide in the world, a pill since 2025, a generic in Canada since June, and a vial market the FDA spent 2026 shutting down
First edition · September 2026

Growth hormone
Releasers, not the hormone itself

CJC-1295 / Ipamorelin
A guide to the growth hormone stack: two abandoned drugs, one blend vial no study has tested, and a compounding ban that sellers ignore
First edition · September 2026

Tesamorelin
A guide to the only approved growth hormone releaser: what the label says, what the trials measured, and why the prescription is legal when the vial usually is not
First edition · September 2026

Sermorelin
A guide to the clinic classic: a drug approved for children and then withdrawn, a molecule pharmacies may still compound, and thirty-year-old trials that measured hormones rather than outcomes
First edition · September 2026

Healing
Injury, gut, and recovery

BPC-157
A guide to the healing peptide: a thousand animal studies, thirty human subjects, and a rule change in progress
First edition · September 2026

BPC-157 / TB-500
A guide to the healing blend vendors call the Wolverine stack: two peptides sold on the same mechanism, one with thin human evidence and one with none, never tested together
First edition · September 2026

Skin
Skin, hair, and tanning

GHK-Cu
A guide to the copper peptide: a skin-cream ingredient with fifty years of small studies, and an injection with none
First edition · September 2026

GLOW
A guide to the three-peptide blend vial: a skin peptide injected in bulk, two healing peptides along for the ride, and no study of any of it together
First edition · September 2026

Melanotan II
A guide to the tanning peptide: it works, no regulator has ever approved it, and the published cases are about moles, kidneys, and emergency rooms
First edition · September 2026

KLOW
A guide to the four-peptide blend vial: GLOW with a gut-inflammation tripeptide added, sold on a mouse colitis model, and a July 2026 committee vote that changed nothing yet
First edition · September 2026

Sexual health
Desire and function

Longevity
Energy, aging, and cognition

NAD+
A guide to the drip and the shot: a molecule every cell makes, sold by the milligram at med spas, with real chemistry, small trials, and no outcome anyone has measured
First edition · September 2026

MOTS-c
A guide to the mitochondrial peptide: an exercise mimic in mice, a discontinued analog in twenty people, and a July 2026 committee vote the FDA's own staff argued against
First edition · September 2026

Epitalon
A guide to the pineal tetrapeptide: forty years of work from one St. Petersburg institute, a telomerase result in a dish, and a July 2026 committee vote on an indication no study has tested
First edition · September 2026

Semax
A guide to the Russian nasal drops sold as a nootropic: thirty years of use in one country, no controlled trial anyone outside it can read, and a July 2026 committee vote the FDA's own reviewers argued against
First edition · September 2026
Free references
The Peptide Field Guide
Twenty-four peptides and fifteen stacks, graded by evidence, with the doses people actually use
Reading a Certificate of Analysis
What a real one contains, line by line, and the six ways a bad one gives itself away
Reconstitution, Injection, and Storage
The mechanics of a prescribed peptide, from powder to syringe to sharps bin
Living with a GLP-1
Side effects, muscle, meals, surgery, travel, and stopping: the year after the first injection
