Peptides in the Age of Influencers: Safely Sourcing Without the Circus

Why I don't just hand out links on social media 😵‍💫

Heads up before you read: this is my personal experience and research, not medical advice. I’m not a doctor. Always consult your healthcare provider before applying anything you read here to your own body.

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But before you start asking me for links– please read!

For my newbies: I started studying peptides in 2019, completed my certification the following year, and went really deep by 2021, both in my own personal use and in my private coaching practice. The world of peptides today is unrecognizable from what it was five years ago. Some of that is good, and some of it is not.

When I first launched my PepSquad course in the summer of 2024, I had no idea how popular it would become, and it’s been one of my favorite things I’ve ever gotten to share with the world. With that popularity has come a whole influx of inquiries:

❌ People looking to buy peptides

❌ People asking me for dosing advice in my DMs

❌ People trying to send me free peptides

The list goes on and on. So I thought I’d clarify a few things right here.

First: I don’t sell peptides. I never have. What I do is teach people how to use them safely and source responsibly– for an affordable price, without sacrificing quality. So when I don’t just paste a link into your DMs, there’s a reason for this: INTEGRITY. Yep, the thing I get asked about most, sourcing, is exactly where this whole industry has gotten the messiest.

You may have noticed that the peptide world, at least as we know it on social media, has gotten a bit out of hand, with everyone suddenly claiming to be an overnight expert. While I love that everyone is sharing their passion for peptide therapy right there with you, it’s a little bit alarming the rate at which this industry has shifted.

Over the past year or two, I’ve watched peptide companies pop up overnight, faster than I can even keep track of, as more and more people get comfortable using peptides. The sourcing side of all this has gone absolutely bananas.

And somewhere in there, people started feeling like they can just order shit at the cheapest price and it’s fine. Well, it’s not fine. The cheapest vial on some brand-new site tells you nothing about what’s actually in it, whether it’s dosed right, or whether it’ll even show up. Quality and consistency are everything with peptides, and that’s the first thing that gets lost in a race to the bottom on price.

Then there’s the other end of it. The social media side of peptides has turned into a straight-up MLM. Influencers everywhere dropping their telehealth provider links, collecting big kickbacks on every sign-up, recruiting their audience like a downline, yet most of them have zero educational background in any of this.

Sorry, y’all, this ain’t an MLM.

Here’s something worth knowing: a big chunk of what you pay through those influencer links is their marketing fee, baked right into your price. Peptides get a lot more affordable when you’re not funding somebody’s inflated markup. That said, cheaper does not mean you should sprint to the rock-bottom price on whatever random new site popped up this week. There’s a smart middle here, and it starts with a vendor you can actually trust.

I take this seriously enough that I turn down free product all the time. I get DMs constantly from companies trying to send me free peptides so I’ll promote them, and it ain’t happening over here. I’ve used the same couple of vendors for years now, and rarely strayed. They earned that loyalty.

So why don’t I just hand out links?

Because with research peptides, the link is only the very beginning. These don’t show up ready to use. They have to be reconstituted and mixed correctly, and dosing is not black and white. There’s no universal “order this, do that.” Every peptide behaves differently, and every single person responds differently. There’s a real learning curve with each one. What it does, how to mix it, how to dose it for your body, how to know if it’s even working.

Handing someone a link with none of that behind it is not the responsible way to share this information. That’s how people get hurt. So instead of dropping links flippantly, I teach all of it inside a full course, where there’s actually room to walk you through it.

And I want to be clear about where my heart is on this. I don’t want someone ordering something powerful (even sourced reputably), having no idea how to use it, turning to Reddit or ChatGPT, and getting hurt. Keeping you safe is the whole reason I do this the way I do.

What I do have is a very short list of vendors I’ve trusted and ordered from for years, the ones I’ve personally vetted and would put my name next to. With that said, two of my primary trusted vendors, the same ones I’ve ordered from for years, are having blowout 4th of July sales right now.

Both of them clear the same bar, the one I will not budge on: personally vetted by me for years, with third-party testing and a Certificate of Analysis (COA) on every batch, plus thousands upon thousands of orders without a single issue. That is what earns a spot on my short list.

So here they are— And the timing right now is kind of wild, because they’re running their biggest sales of the year including BOGO and up to 30% off. 👇