What each grade does not mean
Animal-only does not mean it does not work. It means nobody has run the study that would tell you. Those are different statements and conflating them is dishonest in both directions.
FDA-approved does not mean safe for you. It means a specific use, in a specific population, cleared a specific regulatory bar. Semaglutide is approved and still carries a boxed warning.
Human trials does not mean positive trials. Larazotide has better human evidence than almost anything else on this site — a phase 3 that was stopped for futility. AOD-9604 was properly tested for obesity and failed. Both are graded on the quality of the testing, and both entries say plainly what the result was.
Where a claim comes from
Every claim listed on a compound page comes from one of four places: published research, a regulatory document, established clinical practice, or vendor marketing. We list marketed claims deliberately — if people are being sold something for hair loss, the useful response is to show the claim next to the evidence, not to pretend the claim does not exist.
What we will not publish
- Dose recommendations for unapproved compounds. There is no established human dose for most of them; publishing one would be inventing it.
- Protocols, cycles or stacks.
- Vendor links, affiliate links or sourcing advice.
- A claim we cannot attach to a source.
The calculators are the boundary of what this site does with numbers: they convert quantities you already have. They never originate one.
Corrections
Regulatory status in this field changes several times a year and our entries carry dates for that reason. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it and note the change.