Terms of use

Purpose

PeptideBasics101 exists for general awareness. It collects publicly available information from across the internet and keeps it in one place for research and entertainment purposes only. Nothing on this site is intended for human or veterinary use.

Not medical advice

Nothing here is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Doses shown are those reported by the cited trials or product labels. They are historical facts about those studies, not recommendations. Statements here are our summaries of public sources and have not been reviewed or endorsed by the FDA or any regulatory body. This is information gathering, not guidance.

No sales, no endorsements

We sell nothing and endorse no vendor. Mention of a product, brand or trade name is for identification only. Trade names belong to their owners.

How we source

Trial data comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and published papers. Regulatory status comes from FDA labels, the FDA 503A bulk drug substances list, warning letters and import alerts. Each article lists its sources and shows two dates: when its data was last refreshed and when a person last reviewed it. Blends and products with no registered trials say so.

Corrections

If a page contradicts a primary source, email hello@peptidebasics101.com with the page and the source, and we will fix it or explain why not. See About for how articles are written and checked.

Privacy

We store the reader's Plain English / Scientific preference in their own browser. Fonts load from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address. We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages are read; it sets cookies and sends page views and your approximate location to Google, which processes them under its own policies. It does not receive anything you type into the site. The site may show ads from Google AdSense on every page except the home page, the Sergeant Pep page and the search page. Google and its partners may use cookies to show ads and, where allowed, to personalise them based on your visits to this and other sites; see how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Because this site covers health topics: visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland see Google's consent message and choose there, and Google Analytics does not load for them; visitors in Washington, Nevada, Connecticut and Quebec, and visitors whose location cannot be determined, are asked first, and until they agree neither Google Analytics nor ads load. Everyone else can turn off Analytics and ad personalisation at any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page (ads then continue without personalisation). You can also manage Google ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com. To find your location for this purpose, the site asks its host, Cloudflare, for your country and state or province; that answer is not stored. Your choice is kept in your own browser. Cloudflare hosts the site and sees standard request logs. Advertisers' own sites are subject to their own policies; showing an ad is not an endorsement.

Sergeant Pep (the site assistant)

Sergeant Pep is an AI chatbot, not a person or a doctor. When you ask it a question, the question, the last few messages of that conversation (so that follow-up questions make sense) and the text of the relevant articles are sent to Anthropic (the maker of the Claude AI models), which generates the answer. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, it does not use these inputs or outputs to train its models, and it deletes them within 30 days, except that it may keep them for up to 2 years if its automated safety systems flag a conversation, or longer if the law requires. The site itself does not store your question unless you tick the optional "keep my question" box: then the question, with email addresses, phone numbers and links removed, and the answer are kept for up to 90 days so the editorial team can check answers and improve the site, and are then deleted automatically. For every question the site keeps an anonymous record (the date, the type of answer, the reading level and which articles were used) and, for 2 days, a one-way scrambled form of your IP address to enforce the daily question limit. Questions are never sent to Google Analytics or to advertisers: the Sergeant Pep page, and the chat window that the "Ask Sgt. Pep" button opens on other pages (a separate page of its own), load neither Google Analytics nor ads. Your browser keeps the conversation for the current tab only, so it follows you from page to page, and deletes it when you close the tab or withdraw consent. You must be 18 or older to use it. Questions about emergencies, overdoses or self-harm are answered with emergency contacts and are not sent to the AI.

Consumer health data

See the separate Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.

Accuracy

We aim to be right and cite everything, but we make mistakes. Use the sources, not us.