# About Dr GHK-Cu — Independent Editorial Project on the Copper Tripeptide Research Record

> Dr GHK-Cu is an independent editorial project publishing summaries of peer-reviewed research on GHK-Cu. Not a clinic. No products. No medical advice. A 16-bit field guide to the copper peptide literature.

## About Dr GHK-Cu

Dr GHK-Cu is an independent editorial project that publishes summaries of the peer-reviewed research literature on GHK-Cu. 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.

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 `research.json` — 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](/faq), 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](/contact). Citation errors and broken links are taken seriously — the only claims on this site are those the published literature supports.


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A 16-bit field guide to the copper peptide GHK literature — every study indexed, every stat cited, no coins spent on a clinic.