The Editors
I. The Editor
One person runs Cult of Peptides. One pen, one body, one set of cycle logs.
The byline is The Editor because the legal terrain is gray and getting grayer. Anonymity is not a costume — it is part of the protocol. Vendors do not know who to comp. Regulators do not know who to lean on. Readers get the field reports unfiltered.
II. Why Anonymous
Peptides occupy a regulatory limbo. Most of what we cover is research-chemical-classified, gym-grey-market-distributed, and openly debated in clinic basements. The legal weather changes by jurisdiction and by quarter.
Anonymity does three things:
- Protects sources. Compounders, clinicians, and self-experimenters speak more freely when their name is not next to ours.
- Prevents capture. Our inbox does not get sponsored. Our cycle logs are not edited by a brand manager.
- Forces the work to stand alone. No credentials. No Substack-celebrity portrait. The field reports are the receipt.
When peptide policy normalizes — and it is normalizing — we may sign our name. Until then, we file dispatches like the periodical we are.
III. What We Are Not
- Not a doctor. Not a researcher. Not a pharmacist.
- Not a clinic, a coach, or a stack-builder for hire.
- Not financial advice. Not medical advice. See Not Medical Advice.
- Not a vendor. We do not sell peptides. We do not warehouse peptides. We do not introduce buyers to sellers.
We are a self-experimenter who writes carefully and cites thoroughly. That is the entire pitch.
IV. The Work
What separates Cult of Peptides from the rest of the peptide internet is the cycle log.
Every protocol we publish was run on the editor’s body — dated, dosed, and documented in a notes file before it became an article. The Day 2 / Day 5 / Day 8 entries you read in The Cycle are not retroactive. They were written the morning of.
When we cite a study, the citation is the receipt. When we run a compound, the field report is the receipt. When we have neither, we say so and we do not write the article.
Read The Order’s Tenets for the rules we hold ourselves to. Read Editorial Standards for how we handle sources, citations, and corrections. Read Disclosures for our conflicts of interest.
V. Contact
Tips, corrections, peer review, vendor heat, legal threats — all to the same address: Contact.
We read everything. We answer slowly.
— The Editor Cult of Peptides · EST · MMXXVI