Guides

Thirty four guides covering UK law, side effects, harm reduction, testosterone replacement and the legal supplement market. All written to be read by someone making a real decision, which means they include the parts that are inconvenient for a shop to publish.

Every health page carries a notice while our medical reviewer position is being filled. See our editorial policy for how this content is sourced and corrected.

Start here: steroids in the UK

The hub page for everything on this site about anabolic steroids: the law, the types, the risks, testing, TRT and the legal alternatives, with links to every guide below.

New guides

The latest additions, covering the law in depth, the heart and fertility, counterfeit products, sport, TRT routes and the supplements with the strongest evidence.

Steroids and the law

What the Misuse of Drugs Act actually says, and the distinction between possession and supply that most articles get wrong.

Side effects and health

What the evidence shows rather than what the forums say, including which effects reverse and which do not.

Harm reduction

Written for people already using. Bloodwork, injection safety and what actually happens when you stop.

TRT and testosterone

The legal route. How diagnosis works, what treatment costs, and how to tell a proper clinic from one selling testosterone.

Supplements

What the legal supplement market is actually selling, and which ingredients have evidence behind them.

Legal supplements

Our shop sells only legal food supplements, with doses printed and claims kept inside what is authorised in Great Britain. Several product pages tell you when a product will do very little for you, which is unusual for a shop and entirely deliberate.

Guides worth starting with

This guides page is part of Peak Protocol, a UK site that explains the law and the evidence plainly before it sells anything.

Read the legal supplements we sell, or see the NHS for independent background.

TRT clinics by city

Fourteen city guides covering what the NHS route actually looks like where you live, what private care costs locally, and how the law is applied by your police force. They are indexed on TRT clinics UK by city.

Compound guides

Seven compounds people actually search for, covered without dosing advice and without a sales pitch. Each one sets out the legal position, what the evidence shows, the harms that appear in blood work, and what the unregulated British market actually contains. The overview sits in anabolic steroids in the UK.

How the guides are organised

Thirty four guides is enough that a flat list stops being useful, so they are grouped by the question that brought you here rather than by subject. The law guides answer what is and is not an offence. The health guides answer what a compound does to a body over time. The harm reduction guides answer what to do if someone is going to use anyway. The TRT guides answer how a legitimate prescription is actually obtained in Britain, and the supplement guides answer which legal products have evidence behind them.

The seven compound guides sit apart from the rest because they are reference pages rather than arguments. Each one covers a single substance, its legal classification, what the research shows about its effects and its risks, and what happens when people stop. They are deliberately unexciting.

The fifteen city guides are a separate group again. They exist because TRT access in the UK varies enormously by where you live, and a national answer is close to useless if your GP is in Sheffield and the nearest endocrinology clinic has a two year list.

Which guides to read first

Most people arrive with one of four situations, and the right starting point differs for each.

You want to know whether something is legal

Start with are steroids legal in the UK, then UK drug classification and Class C explained. Between them those three guides cover the distinction that trips almost everybody up: possession for personal use and supply are treated very differently under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and importing is the part that catches people who thought they were within the law.

You are worried about symptoms

Read low testosterone symptoms and then the blood test guide before anything else. Both guides push in the same direction, which is to get a number before you get an opinion. The NHS page on the so called male menopause is worth reading alongside them, because a large share of what gets attributed to testosterone turns out to be sleep, alcohol, bodyweight or stress.

You already use, or are about to

The harm reduction guides are the ones written for you: injection safety, which blood markers to check, side effects and coming off. None of these guides tells you not to. They tell you what the risks actually are and which of them are monitorable, which is a more useful conversation.

You want to know what legal supplements can do

Legal steroids in the UK is the honest version of that question, and the answer is narrower than the marketing suggests. From there the category pages on protein and creatine carry the detail, and the brand index covers who makes what.

What these guides deliberately do not do

There is no dosing protocol anywhere in the library. Not for anabolic steroids, not for SARMs, not for anything that requires a prescription. Explaining what a compound does and explaining how to take it are different acts, and the guides stop at the first.

There is no cycle planning, no compound stacking advice and no source information. There is also no attempt to talk anyone out of a decision they have already made, because that is not what a reference page is for and it is not what makes people safer.

What the guides do carry is the part most sites leave out: what the evidence is thin on. Several of these pages say plainly that a question is unsettled, or that the trials are small, or that a widely repeated claim traces back to one study with twelve participants. Those passages are the reason to trust the rest.

Why the supplement guides sound cautious

Everything sold on this site is a food supplement rather than a medicine, and in Great Britain that sets hard limits on what may be said. Only the wording on the Great Britain nutrition and health claims register is permitted, and only where a product delivers the required amount of the nutrient. The Food Standards Agency guidance for supplement businesses sets out how that works.

In practice it means the supplement guides can tell you creatine increases physical performance in successive bursts of short term high intensity exercise, because that claim is authorised at a three gram daily intake, and cannot tell you it builds muscle. When a competitor makes the second claim they are either outside the register or relying on nobody checking. Anyone competing under anti doping rules should also read the UK Anti-Doping guidance on supplements, because contamination is a batch level risk rather than a brand level one.

How the guides are kept current

Every guide carries the date it was last reviewed. Law changes rarely and evidence changes slowly, so most of these pages are stable, but three things trigger a rewrite: a change to the classification of a substance, a new trial large enough to move a conclusion, and a change to what may lawfully be claimed.

Where a guide links out, it links to a primary source rather than to another blog. Legislation comes from legislation.gov.uk, health information from the NHS, drug information from Talk to Frank, and claim wording from the government register. If a statement in one of these guides matters to a decision you are making, the link is there so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Our editorial policy covers who writes and reviews this material, and our experts lists the people behind it. If you find something in the guides that is wrong or out of date, tell us and it gets corrected rather than quietly buried.

Questions about the guides

Why do the guides cover illegal compounds if you only sell legal supplements?

Because people search for them either way, and the alternative to accurate information is the information they would otherwise find. Nothing in the library is a sales page for a controlled substance, and nothing on the shop side is presented as an alternative to one.

Are the guides written by a doctor?

They are written and reviewed against primary sources, and the editorial policy sets out the process. None of it is medical advice and none of it replaces a consultation. Where a question is genuinely clinical, the guides say so and point at a blood test and a GP.

How often are the guides updated?

On event rather than on schedule. A guide gets rewritten when the law changes, when the evidence moves, or when the rules on what may be claimed change. Each page carries its review date so you can see how old the position is.

Can I use these guides to decide on a cycle?

No, and they are written so that you cannot. There are no doses, no protocols and no stacking advice anywhere in the library. What is there is what the compounds do, what the risks are, and which of those risks can be monitored.

Which guides are most useful if I am completely new to this?

Start with the law guide, the low testosterone symptoms guide and the legal supplements guide. Those three between them answer most of what people arrive wanting to know, and they take about twenty minutes to read.

Why there are fifteen city guides

Testosterone replacement is the one subject in this library where a national answer genuinely fails. NHS access depends on which trust your GP refers into, and the private market is distributed so unevenly that the same consultation costs materially different amounts depending on the postcode. That is why the city guides exist as separate pages rather than as a single table.

Each one covers the same ground for its own area: which NHS trust handles endocrinology referrals, what the realistic wait looks like, which private clinics operate there, what they charge, and which of the local search results are clinics rather than lead generation sites dressed up as clinics. The city index lists all of them, and the national cost guide covers the pricing patterns that hold everywhere.

The uncomfortable finding running through those guides is that the busiest private markets produce the worst search results. Where demand is highest, paid listings crowd out genuine endocrinology, and a clinic’s position in the results says nothing about whether it will assess you properly before prescribing. Each city guide names the checks worth making before you book, and they are the same checks everywhere: who assesses you, what bloods they take, how many times they retest before treating, and what the monitoring looks like once you are on it.

If your city is not covered yet, the national guides carry the same reasoning without the local detail. How to get TRT in the UK is the one to read.