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A friend just starting peptides got a three-in-one vial in the mail. The label looked sketchy at first glance. Then the actual data showed something different. The lesson is what changes when you stop trusting the photo.
Buying peptides online is harder than it looks. The market is full of vendors making big claims and shipping mixed-quality product. Here's the actual landscape, the red flags, and what verified vendors look like.
We've been running the same 11-signal rubric against every GLP-1 telehealth and pharmacy operator we could find. 77 vendors across 19 regions, scored on the same axes. The pattern that emerged was not what we expected.
The peptide market splits into licensed pharmaceutical, licensed compounded, and research-chemical-flavored compounded. The middle category has wide quality variance. Here's how to actually tell them apart.
Vendor pricing pages are designed to make decisions easy at the cost of clarity. Here's the patterns that signal you're about to overpay or land at the wrong vendor entirely.
Lilly has redesigned the Mounjaro pen multiple times since 2023 and ships region-specific variants. Most pen-appearance changes are legitimate. The few that aren't matter.
Most clinic intake forms are designed to qualify you for a prescription, not to qualify the clinic for your trust. Here's the inversion: the questions that separate a careful supplier from a cargo-cult one.
The five things that matter on a COA, the three things that do not, and the one question that separates a serious vendor from a cargo-cult operator.