Strand

Method

How Strand is built

A peptide record should be boring in the right ways: sourced, graded, and unwilling to turn a mouse study into a morning stack.

A matte cream ceramic form, twisted like a quiet helix, on a warm off-white surface

How a record is made

Each entry is a named sequence with a regulatory tag: approved medicine, investigational, or research compound. We write the mechanism, grade the human evidence, and attach how it is sourced — pharmacy, trial, compounding, or grey market.

Papers sit at the bottom. Nothing is added that we cannot point to.

What we will not do

  • We do not sell peptides, affiliate carts, or 'protocol' PDFs.
  • We do not invent PubMed IDs or quote doses from research-chemical shops.
  • We do not treat approved drugs, compounded copies, and research vials as the same object.
  • A questionnaire is a ranked reading list. It is not care, and it is not permission.

Evidence grades

The grade is about human evidence, not how often a sequence is mentioned.

High
Large human trials.
Outcome data in people — the kind of evidence a medicine label is built on.
Moderate
Some human data.
Human studies exist, but they are smaller, narrower, or not yet replicated at scale.
Limited
Small or regional studies.
Early or specialist literature. Worth reading. Not a basis for a personal protocol.
Preclinical
Animal or in vitro.
A mouse tendon is not a morning stack. This grade exists so that gap stays visible.

Regulatory tags

Status names the object in your hand — not the chemistry on a forum post.

Approved medicine
A regulator has approved a specific product for a specific indication.
That approval does not travel to a similarly named research vial. Pharmacy and grey market are different objects.
Investigational
In human trials, or approved in some countries — not a US consumer product for the claimed use.
Legitimate access is a protocol, an expanded-access path, or a wait. It is not a catalog cart.
Research compound
Sold as a research chemical, or discussed from animal and anecdotal literature. Not approved for human use.
There is no product number, no insurer, and no recall system behind the vial.

The questionnaire

An editorial ranking of this catalog, not a clinical quiz. It sorts records by the aims you name, down-ranks research compounds if you asked for conservatism, and hides matches that collide with constraints. Scores are how we order reading — not how anyone should dose.

Open the ranking