The Pet Peptide Ledger

Index

The whole library

Every file we've published, in one place. Pick a compound, pick your species, or start with a guide.

Guides

Guide · No. 02

5 min read

GHK-Cu for Skin and Coat: What the Research Suggests

The copper peptide from human plasma that became a skincare staple: what decades of Pickart-era research examined, why skin-barrier biology pulls in dog and horse people, and what to ask your vet.

ghk-cudogshorses

Guide · No. 03

5 min read

KPV and Gut Health in Cats and Dogs: The Emerging Science

A three-amino-acid fragment borrowed from the body's own calming signal has become one of the most talked-about peptides in pet-owner gut-health circles. Here is what the lab work actually shows, and what to ask your vet before the excitement runs ahead of the evidence.

kpvdogscats

Guide · No. 04

5 min read

TB-500 in Horses: The Equine Recovery Research

*The horse world found TB-500 before most of the pet world did.* This guide reads the equine literature the way it actually happened: track science first, trail questions later.

tb-500horses

Guide · No. 05

5 min read

What Are Peptides? A Plain-English Primer for Pet Owners

Short chains of amino acids, a mountain of rodent studies, and one very curious community of pet owners. This is the plain-English starting point for the whole library.

bpc-157tb-500kpvghk-cuglutathionedogscatshorses

Compound files

Compound file · No. 01

5 min read

BPC-157

*The most-studied recovery peptide in the animal literature.* A short protein fragment modeled on a stomach protein, anchored by decades of rodent research and one well-known pharmacokinetic study in beagle dogs.

bpc-157tb-500dogscatshorses

Compound file · No. 02

5 min read

GHK-Cu

Three amino acids and a copper atom, studied since the 1980s. GHK-Cu built its reputation in skin and connective-tissue research, and the coat-quality conversation grew straight out of that work.

ghk-cudogshorses

Compound file · No. 03

5 min read

Glutathione

Every cell in your dog, cat, or horse already makes it. Researchers have spent decades asking what happens when they can't make enough.

glutathionedogscatshorses

Compound file · No. 04

5 min read

KPV

Three amino acids clipped from a hormone your pet's body already makes, and one of the more studied gut-immune peptides in the preclinical literature. Here is what the mouse colitis work actually examined, and why digestive-upset owners keep bringing it up.

kpvdogscats

Compound file · No. 05

5 min read

TB-500

*A lab-made copy of a peptide your animal's body already produces.* TB-500 is a synthetic fragment of thymosin beta-4 studied for cell migration and soft-tissue maintenance, with an unusually deep horse literature courtesy of the racing world.

tb-500bpc-157horsesdogscats

Species files

Species file · No. 01

5 min read

Cats

The feline file: cats turn up all over the gut-and-immune literature, and KPV sits at the top of the cat-owner reading list.

kpvbpc-157ghk-cucatsdogs

Species file · No. 02

5 min read

Dogs

No animal sits at the center of the pet-peptide conversation quite like the dog. Here is why the canine file runs deep, what the research actually examined, and where owner curiosity lands first.

bpc-157kpvghk-cudogs

Species file · No. 03

5 min read

Horses

No companion animal has a deeper peptide paper trail than the horse. Decades of performance-horse medicine turned tendon and ligament research into its own industry, and TB-500 sits at the top of the equine reading list.

tb-500bpc-157ghk-cuhorses