A handbook for patients
Explore physician-led peptide therapy through chapters on care, medicine and cost.
A guide to the people, medicines and choices behind the phrase.
This guide keeps three questions together: who provides your care, what medicine is proposed and what the bill includes. The person assessing or treating you is sometimes called a clinician. Ask whether they are a doctor or have another health role. Read the question that brought you here, or follow the chapters at your own pace.
Bring your questionKeep these questions beside you
- Who will listen to my concerns, make the care plan and answer me later?
- What is the exact medicine, and what evidence supports it for my concern?
- What will the whole plan cost, after any opening offer ends?
The small parts in proteins have a name: amino acids. Short chains of those parts are peptides.
Insulin is in the family. The name says nothing on its own about the rules for a product or the harm it might cause.
As of September 26, 2026, US rules treat these products differently: approved medicines, medicines mixed or made to order under rules called compounding, and other drugs without approval.
Choose a chapter
The question can lead the way
Find the part you need today. Each chapter leaves you with something to ask.
- Bring the concern you want help with
- Find out which kind of product is being discussed
- Ask what was approved
- Ask why a medicine would be made to order
- Weight medicines need their own set of questions
- Find the person behind the word physician
- Read the board’s record for your doctor
- Put the care conversation in order
- Ask what an online visit can actually cover
- Give each test a question to answer
- Find the pharmacy behind the parcel
- Ask for the bill after the opening offer
- Ask your plan about this medicine for this use
- Take questions that leave room for an honest answer
- Get a clear plan for help with problems
- Pause when the offer avoids the hard questions
- Find out who stays involved after the visit
- Read the source that answers your question
- Keep the questions you want to take with you