About this site
Is Peptide Safe? is an independent, educational reference on the safety of individual peptides. It exists because the question “is this peptide safe?” is usually answered by someone with something to sell, and because the honest answer is almost always more specific — and more boring — than either side of that argument wants it to be.
Each entry takes one peptide and reports the record: what the molecule is, what it is promoted for, what completed human studies actually found, the documented risks, and whether it is legal in Canada and the United States. Where the evidence is thin, the entry says so. Where a regulator has issued a warning, the entry quotes it and links it. 16 peptides are covered, and the methodology sets out how every verdict and evidence level is assigned.
What this site is not
- It is not medical advice. It cannot know your history, your medications or your conditions, and it is not a substitute for a licensed clinician. See the disclaimer.
- It is not a shop or a directory. Nothing is sold here, no seller or supplier is named or rated, and there are no affiliate or vendor links anywhere on the site.
- It is not a how-to. You will not find amounts, schedules or administration instructions for any compound, approved or otherwise.
- It is not a forum digest. Personal accounts are not treated as evidence, however numerous. Published case reports are, and they are cited as literature.
Independence and funding
No entry is sponsored, and no verdict has ever been shown to an interested party before publication. The site earns nothing from any compound it covers. That is enforced rather than promised: external links are restricted to a fixed allowlist of regulators and research publishers, and a check that runs before every build fails the deploy if a link outside that list appears anywhere in the source.
If that ever changes — if the site takes advertising or any other revenue — this page will say so plainly and name the source, before the money arrives rather than after.
Who it is for
People deciding whether to take a peptide, people who already have and want to know what is known, and clinicians who would like the primary sources in one place. The entries assume no pharmacology background, name the study type when it matters, and link every claim so you can read the original instead of taking our summary of it.
Medical review
No clinician review line appears on this site yet, and that is deliberate: the “medically reviewed by” credit is wired to a single configuration value and stays hidden until a named, credentialed reviewer has actually read the content. A review badge on unreviewed pages is worse than none, so there isn’t one. Every entry still cites its primary sources so you can check the work directly.
Corrections
Errors here matter more than on most sites, so corrections get priority over new entries. If an entry misreads a source, misses a relevant trial, or is out of date with a regulator, write to corrections@ispeptidesafe.com with a link to the primary record. Substantive corrections change the entry and move its date; we do not quietly edit and leave the old date standing.