About Dr GHK-Cu — Independent Editorial Project on the Copper Tripeptide Research Record
About Dr GHK-Cu
Dr GHK-Cu is a 16-bit field guide to the peer-reviewed research literature on GHK-Cu — the study record mapped, indexed, and read from the control room. It is no clinic and has no clinicians on it; it hands out no medical advice, writes no prescriptions, and puts nothing up for sale, supply, or shipment. It is, start to finish, a tour of findings already in the published record.
GHK-Cu has accumulated one of the broader research records of any copper-binding tripeptide: over 50 peer-reviewed studies, roughly 3,000 citations, and findings across skin, hair follicles, wound biology, pulmonary models, gut physiology, and neural gene expression. The record spans in vitro fibroblast data all the way to 12-week human clinical trials in dermatology. It warrants a dedicated field guide.
The 'Dr' in drghkcu.com is editorial framing — the position this publisher occupies relative to the literature, not a claim about clinical services. There are no doctors on staff. There are no healthcare professionals affiliated with this site. There is no consultation service, no telehealth, no prescription offering. The 'Dr' is the host character of this particular cabinet, reading the studies from the control room.
What This Site Is
A literature digest. Each page is a 16-bit field guide section: the research page indexes the study record by finding, the dosage page catalogs administration context by route and model, the FAQ answers the 29 most searched questions with citations, and the references page is the indexed citation set.
Every quantitative claim links to a numbered citation. Every citation resolves to a PubMed entry, PMC full text, or DOI. No claim appears in this digest that is not in our research corpus — the researcher's structured output from the peer-reviewed literature. If a number is on this site, it has a citation.
What This Site Is Not
Not a vendor. Not a clinical resource. Not a prescription service. Not a telehealth platform. Not a recommendation for any use. The compound covered here — GHK-Cu — is not an FDA-approved drug. It is used as a cosmetic ingredient (INCI: Copper Tripeptide-1 / Tripeptide-1) in topical products. For injection or systemic routes, it is a research chemical. This site documents what the published studies have measured; it does not advise on use.
For frequently asked questions about GHK-Cu, the FAQ page addresses the most common questions directly from the research record.
Contact
Editorial questions and citation corrections can be submitted via the contact page. Citation errors and broken links are taken seriously — the only claims on this site are those the published literature supports.