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Peptides Explained

About Peptides Explained

In short

About 2 minutes for the short version; 2 with every detail open.

  • Peptides Explained is a free website about peptide medicines and products. It sells nothing.
  • We explain what is known, what is not known, and what the law says.
  • Every fact links to where it comes from, such as a study or a law.
  • We give no doses and name no sellers.
  • No doctor or lawyer has checked these pages yet. Each page says so until that is done.
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The main reading room of the US National Library of Medicine in 2008. The library runs PubMed. Photo: Sage Ross (Wikimedia Commons) CC BY-SA 3.0 Image details

Each section starts with the short answer. The rest is folded under “In detail”.

What is this site?

A free, independent guide to peptides. It sells nothing and judges no one.
Which page answers which question about this site.
Your questionRead
How do you decide what is true, and who checks it?Editorial policy
Who pays for this site? Do you track me?Funding and independence
What if you get something wrong?Corrections
What do you think should change?Our position on reform, a signed opinion

This site is for people in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe who want to understand peptides. Some readers are only curious. Some are thinking about using a product. Some already have one. We write for all of them, without judging anyone.

We explain how each compound works, what the studies show, and what is still unknown. We explain what the law says in each country. We give practical safety information: what to check, which tests matter, and when to get help. See start here.

In detail What we never do
  • We sell nothing, and we link to no seller.
  • We give no doses, schedules or mixing sums.
  • We take no money from drug makers, sellers or clinics, and we show no ads.
  • We do not tell anyone to use a product, or not to use one. We give the facts so the choice is better informed.

The reasons are on our pages about the editorial policy and funding. The law on advertising medicines is part of it. In the Netherlands, any advertising for a medicine without a licence is forbidden.1

In detail Who checks the pages

Drafts are prepared with help from AI tools. Every fact is then checked against the original study, regulator’s page or law, and the editor oversees that work. A named doctor and a lawyer have not yet reviewed the pages. Every page shows its review status near the title. The details are in our editorial policy.

All pages in this section

  • Editorial policy

    How this site grades evidence, chooses and checks sources, what it never writes, who reviews the pages, how AI is used, how translations work and how mistakes are fixed.

  • Funding and independence

    This site sells nothing, runs no ads and takes no money from drug makers, sellers or clinics. Why that is necessary, how it is paid for, and what is tracked.

  • Corrections

    How this site corrects mistakes: what counts as a correction, how fast we act, and the public log of every correction since the site went public.

Sources

Every claim on this page links to one of these sources. Scholarly sources link to their DOI; regulatory sources to the regulator's own page.

In detail All 1 sources, numbered as in the text
  1. Staten-Generaal / Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (2007). Geneesmiddelenwet, artikelen 84 en 85 (reclame; publieksreclame). wetten.overheid.nl (BWBR0021505), version in force from 9 September 2025. Law wetten.overheid.nl — accessed 22 October 2026 ↩