Conflict-of-Interest and Funding

Almost everything written about peptides online is written by someone with something to sell. That conflict is the central problem in this field, and removing it is the entire reason Peptevity exists. This page states our financial position plainly, because a vendor-neutral reference is only credible if it shows its books. This page is research and educational information, not medical advice.

The commerce firewall

Peptevity operates a strict separation between editorial content and commerce. The rules below are absolute and apply to every page on the site:

• We sell no products. Peptevity does not manufacture, distribute, brand, white-label, or retail any peptide, supplement, device, or related product.
• We run no affiliate links. No link on the site earns us a commission, referral fee, or any per-click or per-sale payment.
• We endorse no vendors. We do not rank, recommend, "verify," or accredit sellers, and we do not accept payment for inclusion, favorable coverage, or placement.
• We do not facilitate purchasing. We do not provide buy buttons, coupon codes, vendor directories, or "where to find it" pointers. Outbound links go only to non-commercial allies — PMC/PubMed/NIH, the FDA, Examine, Cleveland Clinic / Mayo / Harvard Health, Health Canada, DoD OPSS, and Wikipedia.
• No sponsored content. We do not publish advertorials, "partner posts," or vendor-supplied articles, and we do not let any outside party review, approve, or shape editorial coverage before publication.

This firewall is also a compliance posture. For non-approved compounds, mixing editorial coverage with selling or referral activity would create real legal exposure and would forfeit the only thing that makes our verdicts worth reading: that we have nothing riding on them.

Why this matters for how you read us

When a source profits from a claim, the claim deserves extra scrutiny. Because we profit from no claim, our evidence grades move only with the research. We have no commercial reason to inflate a Grade C compound to look like a Grade A, no reason to soften a documented risk, and no reason to favor one molecule over another. That is the practical value of independence: the grade you read is the grade the evidence earned.

How Peptevity is funded

Independence is only meaningful if we are honest about where the money comes from, because funding is itself a potential conflict.

• Current funding. Peptevity is independently funded by its publisher and is not funded by, sponsored by, or financially tied to any peptide manufacturer, seller, compounding pharmacy, telehealth company, or supplement brand.
• No industry money. We accept no grants, sponsorships, samples-for-coverage, or payments from any party with a commercial interest in the compounds we cover.
• If our funding model changes, this page will be updated with the specifics and the date of the change before any new revenue source goes live — and any model we adopt will preserve the firewall above. We will never adopt a model that pays us per product sold or that lets a funder influence coverage.

Whatever the model, the rule that does not change is this: no funding source gets to influence a grade, a verdict, or a regulatory read.

Contributor and reviewer conflicts

• Editorial contributors to the Peptevity Research Desk disclose any financial relationship with the peptide, supplement, compounding, or telehealth industries. Anyone with a material conflict does not work on coverage where that conflict applies.
• The independent scientific reviewer (slot reserved and currently empty — we do not list one we do not have) will be selected in part for independence from the vendors and products under review, and any relevant relationship will be disclosed on their bio when the slot is filled. We will not appoint a reviewer whose conflicts would compromise the neutrality of the review.

Frequently asked questions

Does Peptevity make money if I buy a peptide after reading the site? No. We earn nothing from any purchase. We have no affiliate links, no referral arrangements, and no products of our own. There is no transaction anywhere on the site from which we benefit.

Is Peptevity sponsored by a peptide company? No. We accept no funding, sponsorship, or paid placement from any manufacturer, seller, compounding pharmacy, telehealth provider, or supplement brand. We are independently funded by our publisher, and if that ever changes we will disclose it here, dated, before the change takes effect.

How do I know your verdicts aren't influenced by money? Because there is no money to influence them. Our grades and verdicts move only with the primary research, governed by a published evidence-grading methodology and a sourcing policy that bars us from citing or linking to sellers at all.

Will you ever recommend where to buy a peptide? No. Pointing readers to sellers — even unpaid — would compromise our neutrality and, for unapproved compounds, our compliance posture. We provide evidence-graded, regulatory-aware information; buying decisions belong with the reader and a licensed physician.

Related editorial standards

• Editorial standards — the rules behind every page.
• Evidence-grading methodology — grades that move only with the research.
• Sourcing and citation policy — why no source is a seller.
• Corrections policy — how we fix and log errors.
• Medical disclaimer and RUO statement — research-use-only framing.
• The Peptevity Research Desk — authorship and the reserved reviewer slot.