Master the science of peptides — without the noise
A precise, mechanism-first deep dive into the top 10 most studied peptides — covering evidence tiers, goal-matched protocols, dosing principles, and sourcing safety — so you can make genuinely informed decisions, not forum-fueled guesses. This is not medical advice and I am not a medical professional. This course is for research and informational purposes only.
"My job isn't to tell you what to take — it's to give you the framework to figure that out yourself, with your eyes open and the evidence in hand."— Dawn Olson
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and explain the top 10 most studied and widely used peptides by name, class, and mechanism of action
- Distinguish evidence tiers — separating well-studied peptides from overhyped or under-researched ones
- Match specific peptides to specific goals such as muscle growth, fat loss, recovery, sleep, skin repair, and cognitive performance
- Understand dosing protocols, administration routes, and timing principles used in clinical and performance contexts
- Evaluate sourcing quality, purity standards, and the red flags that signal unsafe or counterfeit peptide products
- Confidently discuss peptide stacks, interactions, and contraindications to make informed personal or professional decisions
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
5 modules · 15 lessons
The Peptide Landscape: What They Are and Why They Matter
Establishes the essential foundation before any peptide is named or evaluated. Students learn what peptides are at a structural and biochemical level, how to critically read research, and where peptides sit legally and regulatorily. This module is a deliberate prerequisite gate — no peptide-specific content is introduced until learners can evaluate it rigorously.
- 1.1Peptides 101: Structure, Classes, and How They WorkIncluded
- 1.2Reading the Evidence: Separating Tiers of ResearchIncluded
- 1.3The Regulatory and Legal LandscapeIncluded
The Top 10 Peptides: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Real-World Use
The analytical core of the course. Each lesson profiles a cluster of closely related peptides, covering molecular mechanism, evidence tier, clinical and performance applications, known side effects, and contraindications. By the end of this module, students can name, explain, and differentiate all 10 featured peptides by class, mechanism, evidence strength, and primary use case — directly delivering the first three target outcomes.
- 2.1Tissue Repair and Body Composition Peptides: BPC-157, TB-500, and IGF-1 LR3Included
- 2.2Growth Hormone Secretagogues: Sermorelin, CJC-1295, Ipamorelin, and GHRP-2Included
- 2.3Cognitive, Stress, and Sexual Health Peptides: Epithalon, Selank, and PT-141Included
- 2.4Skin, Collagen, and Aesthetic Peptides: GHK-Cu and Collagen PeptidesIncluded
Matching Peptides to Goals: A Protocol-First Framework
Bridges knowledge of individual peptides to practical application. Students learn to move from a defined goal to a defensible peptide selection, then layer in dosing, timing, administration, stacking logic, and contraindication awareness. This module operationalizes outcomes 3 and 4 and partially addresses outcome 6.
- 3.1Goal Mapping: Aligning Peptides to Specific OutcomesIncluded
- 3.2Stacking Logic: Synergies, Redundancies, and ContraindicationsIncluded
- 3.3Dosing, Timing, and Administration RoutesIncluded
Sourcing, Quality, and Safety: Protecting Yourself in an Unregulated Market
Addresses the critical real-world challenge of obtaining peptides that are what they claim to be. Covers the peptide supply chain from synthesis to end user, how to read and verify third-party lab reports, what contaminants and impurities to test for, how to vet suppliers, and the harm-reduction principles that apply when operating in under-regulated markets. Directly delivers target outcome 5.
- 4.1Purity Standards and What Lab Reports Actually Tell YouIncluded
- 4.2Supplier Vetting, Red Flags, and Harm ReductionIncluded
Putting It All Together: Confident, Informed Peptide Decision-Making
The capstone module. Students synthesize everything learned into a repeatable decision-making framework, practice communicating about peptides in medical, coaching, and peer contexts, and build the habits needed to stay current as the evidence base evolves. Fully delivers target outcome 6 and reinforces all prior outcomes through application.
- 5.1The Peptide Decision Framework: A Repeatable Evaluation ProcessIncluded
- 5.2Communicating About Peptides: Conversations with Doctors, Coaches, and PeersIncluded
- 5.3Staying Current: How to Track Emerging Peptide ResearchIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Evidence-First Biohacker
They're already experimenting but want to replace forum anecdote with actual mechanism-to-application logic before going further.
The Serious Strength Athlete
They've maxed out conventional recovery strategies and want a precise, science-grounded look at peptides for muscle growth, repair, and performance.
The Longevity-Minded Professional
They track their biomarkers, read the literature, and want to evaluate peptides like Epithalon and GHK-Cu with the same rigour they apply to everything else.
The Health & Fitness Coach
Their clients are already asking about peptides, and they need evidence-based fluency — not just enough to deflect, but enough to guide the conversation well.
The Aesthetics-Focused Adult
They're researching skin, collagen, and body-composition peptides and want to cut through the marketing noise with actual science on GHK-Cu and collagen peptides.
The Curious Clinician
They're a nurse, PA, or allied health professional whose patients are already using peptides — and they want a credible, structured briefing on what the evidence actually shows.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Dawn Olson
If you've spent any time trying to get a straight answer about peptides, you already know how frustrating it is. You find a promising PubMed abstract — rodent study, small sample, no human replication. You find a Reddit thread where someone is absolutely certain about a protocol that contradicts the next thread entirely. You find a vendor site dressed up to look clinical, citing references that don't quite say what they claim. And somewhere underneath all of that noise, you suspect there's genuine, actionable science worth understanding.
There is. That's why I built The Peptide Playbook.
I created this course because the gap between what the research actually shows and what most people think they know about peptides is genuinely enormous — and that gap has consequences. People dismiss peptides that have real, well-replicated evidence behind them. People invest time, money, and physical risk in peptides that don't have meaningful human data. And people make sourcing decisions with almost no framework for evaluating quality or safety. I wanted to give motivated, intelligent adults the same translational clarity a knowledgeable clinician would give a patient they actually had time to sit down with.
The course is precise because it has to be. Mechanism matters here — knowing that BPC-157 works isn't enough if you don't understand how it modulates growth factor expression and why that informs timing and route of administration. Evidence tiers matter because "there's a study on this" and "this is well-established in humans" are not the same statement. And sourcing standards matter because the peptide landscape is largely unregulated, and the difference between a quality product and a counterfeit one isn't always obvious without knowing what to look for.
What you won't get here is hype, shortcuts, or recipes handed down without rationale. What you will get is a coherent, mechanism-to-application framework for the top 10 most studied peptides in performance, recovery, longevity, and aesthetics — and the analytical tools to evaluate anything new that comes across your radar. By the end, you'll be able to have an informed, evidence-grounded conversation with your physician, your coach, or your own better judgment. This is not medical advice and I am not a medical professional. This course is for research and informational purposes only.
The science is genuinely interesting. Let's get into it.
— Dawn Olson
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