Funding and independence: who pays for this site

What we do not take

Does anyone pay you to write this?

No. No company pays us. We sell nothing, show no ads and earn nothing from links.

This site has no income from anyone who sells medicines, peptides or treatments. Our rules on money, as of 22 October 2026. They apply to every page and every language.

	This site
Sells anything: products, tests, courses or consultations?	No Nothing is for sale here.
Takes money from drug makers, peptide sellers or clinics?	No Never, in any form.
Shows advertising?	No No ads of any kind.
Earns money from links, or from sending readers to someone?	No No paid links, no referral fees, no codes that give money off.
Has sponsors?	No No sponsors and no paid partners.
Tells you where to get a product?	No We name no sellers and link to none.

We link only to sites on a fixed list. It holds regulators, law databases, PubMed and science journals, universities, anti-doping bodies, patient and harm-reduction groups, and a few non-profit services, such as the archive our photos come from. No one who sells medicines or peptides can be on it. A check runs every time the site is built. It stops the build if a page links anywhere else.

Why it has to be this way

Why so strict?

The law bans ads for medicines with no licence. And money shapes what people write.

How a link to a shop could turn information into an advert.

Advertising is defined by its aim. Dutch law counts any attempt to get people to prescribe, supply or use a medicine.¹
No licence, no advertising. Any advertising for a medicine without a licence is forbidden. So is public advertising for prescription-only medicines.^2,3
An independent writer can still be advertising. The EU Court of Justice ruled that what counts is the purpose of the message.⁴
So we earn nothing from any product. Without money from sales, our information stays information.

Many peptides on this site, such as BPC-157, have no licence as a medicine in the EU.^5,6 If we earned money when someone bought one, our explanations could become advertising. Our page on Dutch law explains this in more detail.

In detail The second reason: money shapes what people write

The law is not the only reason. Money changes which questions get asked and how answers are framed, even when everyone means well.

A Cochrane review looked at 75 papers that compared studies paid for by a drug or device maker with studies paid for by others. The maker’s studies more often reported results and conclusions that favoured the product. By the usual quality checks they were not worse designed. On one check, blinding, they did better. The authors concluded there is an “industry bias” that the usual quality checks cannot explain.⁷

Some of what is said about these peptides comes from people who earn money from them: sellers, clinics and paid promoters. That does not make it false. But a source that earns money when you buy has a reason to stress benefits and play down risks. We want to be one source with no such reason. That is also why our editorial policy records who paid for the research we describe.

How the site is paid for

Then who pays?

The editor pays the costs at launch. Any future grant or donation will be listed here.

Where money may come from, and what we will publish about it.

Source of money	Accepted?	What we publish
The editor’s own money	Yes, at launch	That the editor pays the costs
A grant from a public body or a charity	Possibly in future	The funder and the amount, on this page
Donations from readers	Only if we ever ask	The total, on this page; donors get nothing in return
Drug makers, peptide sellers, clinics, affiliate schemes	Never	Not applicable

At launch, the site has no income at all. The editor pays for hosting and tools. A funder would get no say in what we write, and no early look at any page. If that ever changes, this page will say so first.

Your privacy

Do you track me?

Only if you allow it. Our host then keeps visit statistics; we see only the totals.

What happens when you open a page on this site.

What you might expect	What happens here
Cookies	Two short-lived technical cookies from our host, one that remembers your choice, and a statistics cookie only if you allow it. No ad cookies
Analytics or tracking scripts	Our host’s statistics scripts, only if you allow them. We see only totals, never who you are
Ads, social media buttons or videos from other sites	None
Fonts and images from other servers	None: we serve every file ourselves
What you type in the search box	Searched in your browser. The words are part of the page address, so they can reach your browser history, our host’s server and, if you allowed them, the statistics
Your choice of light or dark display	Kept in your own browser, only if you choose one

Dutch law says a website must ask before it stores or reads anything on your device. There are two exceptions. One is for what is strictly needed to give you the service you asked for. The other is for statistics with little or no effect on your privacy.⁸ We ask before the statistics start. You can change your answer at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page. Below is everything that is stored, and why.

In detail The details

Display choice. If you switch between light and dark, your browser remembers that choice on your own device. It is never sent to us. If you never switch, nothing is stored.
Security cookie. Our host, Lovable, runs on Cloudflare. Cloudflare sets one cookie, called __cf_bm, to tell people from automated bots. It expires after 30 minutes. We cannot read it and do not use it.
Routing cookie. Our host sets a cookie called __dpl, so that every page you open comes from the same version of the site. It expires after 24 hours.
Your choice. A cookie called pe-stats remembers whether you allowed the statistics, so we do not ask on every page. It is kept for up to six months.
Visit statistics, only if you allow them. Our host adds small statistics scripts to every page. Until you choose “Allow”, this site blocks them, so they do not run and set no cookie. If you allow them, they record the page address and the website you came from. They also record your browser and type of device, your language and an estimated country. And they record clicks, how long you stay, how fast the page loads, and errors on the page. A cookie called session-id groups your page views into one visit. It expires 30 minutes after your last page view. If you later choose “Don’t allow”, the page reloads and the statistics stop at once. The data goes to our host. We see only totals in its dashboard. We add no analytics of our own and build no profiles of readers.
Server requests. Like every website, the server that sends you a page needs your device’s internet address to deliver it.
No other websites. Every file a page loads comes from this site’s own address. Links to official sources open only when you choose to follow them.
No accounts. You cannot log in, and we ask for no personal data.

Funding and independence: who pays for this site

In short

What we do not take

Why it has to be this way

How the site is paid for

Your privacy

Sources

Visit statistics

In short

What we do not take

Why it has to be this way

How the site is paid for

Your privacy

Sources