About this site

I’m JoyBoy. This is what I’m doing here.

I write The Peptide File under a pen name. The reason is simple. I want the focus on the evidence, not on me. If you came to this site hoping for a big biography and a string of credentials, this is not that site. I don’t have any. I am not a doctor. I am not a scientist. I am an independent reader of the research who got tired of three kinds of peptide content online.

The three broken buckets

Most of what gets written about peptides falls into one of three categories. Vendor blogs that exist to sell you something. Biohacker influencers who mix animal studies and anecdotes into a single blob and call it evidence. Academic papers that nobody outside a graduate program can actually read. None of those work if you are a normal adult trying to decide whether a peptide is worth a conversation with your doctor.

I am trying to be the fourth option. One person who reads the human trials, writes them up plainly, and has a point of view about what the evidence does and does not support.

What The Peptide File is

A personal blog. Written by one real human under a pseudonym.
Human-evidence only. If a peptide has no human trials, I say so plainly and explain what that means. I do not summarize rat studies as evidence.
Source-safety education built around the 503A compounding framework. I teach readers how to evaluate a source so they can have a real conversation with a clinician.
Honest opinion, clearly fenced. Every monograph has a section called My Honest Take. That is where my personal view lives, separate from the evidence summary.

What The Peptide File is not

A vendor. I do not sell peptides. I never will.
A clinic. I do not prescribe, treat, or diagnose anything.
A directory of sellers. I do not name specific vendors, suppliers, pharmacies, or marketplaces, even critically. I do not link to product pages. Ever.
A source of medical advice. Read the disclaimer. I am not your doctor.
A protocol service. No dosing. No cycles. No stacks.

Why a pseudonym

I have thought about this a lot. The honest answer is that I want the work to be judged on its own terms. A pen name also keeps me honest about what I actually know. I cannot lean on credentials I don’t have. I have to cite, reason, and show my work. If the argument isn’t on the page, it doesn’t exist.

Pseudonymity is disclosed on every monograph. The byline is JoyBoy. The opinion sections say plainly that JoyBoy is a pen name and that I am not a doctor. That is the whole bio, disclosed cleanly, every time.

My biases

I am biased toward caution. I am biased toward human evidence over animal evidence, every time. I am biased against the idea that a peptide is safe just because it has been around for a while and hasn’t obviously killed anyone in the gym. I am biased against vendor-friendly framing. I am biased toward the pharmacy compounding framework that already exists in US law.

You should know those biases going in. Read everything here with them in mind.

What I’m building next

Phase 1 is the site you are reading. Phase 2 is a small free web app at app.thepeptidefile.com that lets you bookmark monographs, log your own labs, keep a short journal, and generate a personal preparation document for your next doctor visit. It is not a medical device. It is a notebook with some structure. If that sounds useful, the waitlist is open on the homepage.

How to reach me

Email is the only channel. hello@thepeptidefile.com. I read everything. I reply to most things.

Last updated April 2026.