Pepidia editorial policy
How we research & review
Pepidia is our peptide research encyclopedia. This page explains where its information comes from, what it deliberately leaves out, and how it is kept current — so you can judge for yourself how much weight to give it.
What Pepidia is
Pepidia is a reference library of research compounds — currently 80 entries, each covering one compound's classification, proposed mechanism, molecular data, pharmacokinetics as reported in the literature, handling and storage, and its regulatory status. It is written and maintained in-house by the Lux BioPure research team: the people who compile our product documentation and source our third-party testing.
It is a summary of what published research says about a compound. It is not a clinical resource, and it is not written by clinicians. Every entry exists to give a researcher context before they read the underlying papers — not to stand in for them.
Where the information comes from
Entries are compiled from published scientific literature — peer-reviewed papers, preclinical studies, and regulatory and anti-doping listings. Every entry carries a References section listing the specific studies behind it, each with the species studied, the dose and duration used in that study, the key finding, and a link to the source.
That structure is deliberate: it lets you see immediately whether a claim rests on a rodent study, an in-vitro model, or a human trial, and go read the paper. Where the literature is thin, the entry's research level says so rather than filling the gap.
What we do not publish
Pepidia does not publish medical advice, dosing recommendations, or human-use guidance, and no entry should be read as any of those. Where an entry lists dose ranges or protocol tables, those describe parameters used in the third-party studies cited on that page — they are a record of what researchers did, not an instruction for what anyone should do.
We also do not describe these entries as medically reviewed, because they are not. No physician, pharmacist, or other clinician reviews or signs off on Pepidia content. Saying otherwise would be a trust signal we have not earned. Every compound covered here is sold and described for laboratory research use only — not for human or veterinary use.
How entries are updated
The "Updated" date on an entry is the date that entry's content was actually last revised, taken from the revision history of the file it is written in. It is not a build date and it does not move when the rest of the site changes. If an entry has not been revised in a while, its date says so plainly rather than resetting to today.
Corrections are welcome and are the main way entries improve. Signed-in readers will find a "Suggest an edit" link at the bottom of every entry; anyone else can reach us through our contact page. If you can point to the paper, we would rather fix an entry than defend it.
Our relationship to the store
Lux BioPure is a research-supply company, and we sell some — not most — of the compounds Pepidia covers. Where an entry corresponds to something in our catalog, the page carries a clearly labelled "Available from Lux BioPure" link. Entries for compounds we do not sell carry no such link. We do not write an entry because we stock a compound, and stocking one does not change what its entry says about the strength of the evidence behind it.
Our own material is tested by a third-party laboratory (Janoshik) for HPLC purity and content, and those certificates of analysis are published in full on our lab reports page — including the batch identifiers, so you can match a report to what you received. Test results are a claim about our product, not about the research summarised in an entry; the two are kept separate on purpose.