Editorial archive
Peptides in the Media
What the mainstream press has actually published about peptides, longevity and recovery — collected, dated, and linked to the original. We do not reproduce the articles. Every headline here goes straight to the publisher so you can read the whole thing in their words rather than ours.
What this archive is, and is not
These are third-party articles. We did not write them, we do not control them, and their contents are the publications' reporting rather than our claims. Listing a piece is not an endorsement of it, and it is not a claim about any product sold on this site — the material we supply is for laboratory research use only. Nothing here is medical advice, and where an article describes use in people, that is a description of what was reported, not guidance to follow.
The selection deliberately includes reporting that is critical of this category — regulators, absent human safety data, and the gray market. A media wall carrying only flattering coverage would be an advertisement. If you want the underlying literature instead of the journalism, the citation index is the place to go, including the compound classes where the trial count is zero.
Represented here
- ABC News
- BBC News
- BBC Sport
- Cleveland Clinic
- CNN
- Fortune
- GQ
- Live Science
- Marketplace
- Men's Health
- Nature Biotechnology
- NBC News
- Newsweek
- NPR
- Out
- Outside Run
- Science News
- Slate
- Slowtwitch News
- Sports Illustrated
- STAT
- The Associated Press
- The Conversation
- The Globe and Mail
- The Guardian
- The New Yorker
- WBUR
- Weill Cornell Medicine
- WIRED
- Women's Health
Featured coverage
Read these three first
The three pieces to read first if you are reading only three — a survey, a science check, and the origin story of the compound this category argues about most.
Longevity & healthy ageing
3 articlesWhether the ageing claims attached to this class have evidence behind them yet.
Performance & recovery
2 articlesWhat the reporting says about the training and recovery claims, and about who is using them.
Wellness & culture
12 articlesHow peptides became a consumer category — the influencers, the clinics, and what the appetite for them says about risk.
Sport & anti-doping
7 articlesWhere this class meets doping control. Several of these compounds sit on WADA’s prohibited list, and the reporting here covers sanctions, investigations and the testing regime rather than training practice.
Expert commentary
3 articlesClinicians and academic centres, writing in their own name rather than being quoted.
News & trends
13 articlesThe regulatory story as it has actually unfolded, in sequence. This is the fastest-moving part of the picture.
Every headline and date on this page was read from the publisher's own page rather than written from memory, and is re-checked by a script before any change ships. Links do break — tell us if you find one that has.
43 articles · 30 publications