About & editorial policy
Who builds this, and what we will and won't claim.
Peptides are an area where confident-sounding nonsense is the norm. The standards below exist so this site is worth less to you as marketing and more to you as reference.
Cody McLain
Founder, VialPal
Cody McLain is the founder of VialPal, the peptide tracker he built after getting tired of doing reconstitution arithmetic on a phone calculator. He writes and curates the VialPal blog, where content is informational and grounded in cited research and published labelling. Cody is not a medical professional, and these posts are not medical advice.
More of Cody's work at codymclain.com.
Editorial & sourcing standards
Regulatory status is always stated
13 of the 19 compounds in our library are sold for laboratory research only and are not approved for human use. That is printed next to the name on every page, not buried in a footer. We will not describe an unapproved compound in language that implies otherwise.
Dose ranges are descriptions, not recommendations
Where we list a dose range, it describes what protocols in circulation commonly state. That is a fact about the discourse, not a claim about what is safe or effective for you. We do not tell anyone what to take.
Claims are sourced
Statements about pharmacology, half-life and clinical findings are drawn from published research and official labelling, cited within or at the end of each article. Where evidence is thin — which, for much of this field, it is — we say so rather than papering over it.
AI-assisted, human-reviewed
We use AI tools to help draft and structure articles. Every post is reviewed and edited by a human before publishing. We do not publish unverified AI-generated claims about health.
No fabricated social proof
You will not find invented testimonials, star ratings or user counts on this site. The previous version of this codebase shipped twelve fictional reviews on its homepage; they were deleted rather than rewritten. When there are real reviews, they will be attributable.
The maths is checkable
Every computed dose is shown alongside the concentration and volume that produced it, so you can verify it against your own arithmetic. When a calculation cannot be trusted, the tool refuses instead of showing a number.
Medical disclaimer
VialPal is a calculation and record-keeping tool, and this site is informational. Neither is medical advice. Cody McLain is the founder of VialPal — not a physician, pharmacist or other licensed clinician — and nothing here substitutes for professional guidance. Many peptides described on this site are not approved for human use in any jurisdiction. Talk to a qualified clinician before starting, stopping or changing anything, and seek immediate care in an emergency.
We are not clinically reviewed yet
We are working on adding review of health content by qualified clinicians. Until that is genuinely in place we will say plainly that it is not: posts are written and curated by VialPal's founder and grounded in cited research, and no physician has signed off on them. Claiming otherwise is the single most damaging thing a site in this category can do.
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