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About GHK-Cu Medicine
An independent editorial console for the GHK-Cu research record — what we publish, what we don't, and why "medicine" here means rigor, not a storefront.
What this site is
GHK-Cu Medicine is an independent editorial project that publishes summaries of the peer-reviewed research literature on GHK-Cu, the copper tripeptide-1 complex. We are not a clinic. We do not employ clinicians and we do not provide medical advice. We do not manufacture, sell, or distribute any product. Our work is editorial commentary on publicly available science.
The format is deliberate. GHK-Cu's literature is unusually quantitative — a picomolar-to-nanomolar collagen dose-response, a log K ~16.44 copper-stability constant, a roughly 31.2%-of-the-genome modulation figure, an 87%-ferritin-iron-release block, a +71.5-versus-+9.6 hair-count delta. We render those as a benchmark readout because that is the honest shape of the evidence: each datum clocked to its source, each gap named where the data runs out.
What "medicine" means here
The word "medicine" in GHK-Cu Medicine is editorial framing, not a description of services. It names the rigorous, instrumented register in which we read the literature — a research telemetry console reporting what studies measured — not a claim that this site offers treatment, consultation, diagnosis, or prescriptions. It does none of those things.
That distinction is load-bearing. We report doses as they were administered in specific species and models — "studied at X in [species/model]" — never as a recommendation for any person. Where the human data is thin or absent, we say so plainly: there is no validated human pharmacokinetic profile for systemic GHK-Cu, and no approved therapeutic indication by any route. A reader should leave this site better informed about the published record, and clear that the record is not a course of treatment.
How we handle the evidence
Every quantitative claim on this site is tied to a numbered citation that resolves to a DOI and a PubMed or PMC link; the full reference list collects them in one place. We distinguish the copper-loaded GHK-Cu chelate from the free GHK peptide throughout, because copper coordination changes what a result means and the two are frequently conflated elsewhere. We also flag where the literature leans on a single investigator's body of work, and where bioinformatic gene signatures still await in vivo confirmation.
We describe research findings. We do not endorse the compound, recommend its use, or sell it. The goal is a clean, cited reading of what the science actually shows — and an equally clear account of what it does not.