We started The Standard
because the peptide market
did not deserve the people
in it.
For most of the last decade, peptides were sold from websites that asked you to certify that you were a researcher and would not put what you bought into a human body — a fiction the seller, the buyer, and the lawyers all understood you were telling.
The drugs themselves were not the problem. Tirzepatide isn’t bad because it was sold next to a label that says “not for human use.” It is bad because nobody could tell you who compounded it, who tested it, and what was actually in the vial. A molecule is not a brand. The chain of custody is.
So we built one. Every compound we carry was prescribed by a physician we can name, against an ID we verified. Every batch was compounded by a pharmacy we have audited. Every dose was tested by a lab we do not own. We don’t think this is heroic. We think it should be the floor.
— The founders