Exhibit 08 · What this project is, and isn't
About Safe GHK-Cu
A marked-up reading of the copper-tripeptide literature — what the studies show, what they don't, and why the word in the name is read as due diligence.
What Safe GHK-Cu is
Safe GHK-Cu is a marked-up evidence wall for the peer-reviewed literature on GHK-Cu, the copper-binding tripeptide also labeled Copper Tripeptide-1. It is a publication, not a practice: no clinic stands behind it, no clinician is on staff, it issues no diagnosis or prescription, and nothing here is medical advice. It is not a storefront either — it makes, sells, and ships nothing, and it links to nowhere that does.
The wall works by markup: the figures the literature actually establishes are circled, the inflated ones — like the widely repeated "~4,000 genes" claim, which the underlying threshold table puts nearer 2,100 — are struck through and corrected, and the human-data gaps are flagged in the margin [2]. Every circled figure is taped to the source it came from, so the reading can be checked claim by claim. That markup is the whole of the method here.
Why "safe" means due diligence here
The word "safe" in the domain is editorial framing, not reassurance-marketing and not a claim about any service we provide. We read it as due diligence made visible — the working notes of someone checking the claims. That is why this site surfaces the FDA-not-approved-as-a-drug status, the absence of validated human pharmacokinetics, the copper-accumulation and localized-hyperpigmentation caveats, and the vitamin-C and low-pH incompatibility as prominently as it surfaces the collagen and hair-count results[8].
A marked-up evidence wall is the opposite of a storefront. We do not sell GHK-Cu, we do not link to anywhere that does, and we take no position on whether anyone should use it. We summarize what the studies measured and where they stop.
The 'safe' modifier and what it doesn't mean
The modifier in this site's name describes a reading posture — careful, skeptical, gap-aware — that the publisher occupies relative to the literature. It is not a claim that GHK-Cu is safe for any particular use, and it is not a clinical, prescribing, or consultation service. There are no doctors, pharmacists, or clinical staff behind this page, and there is no physical clinic or dispensary. The site is one thing: an editorial digest of published research, with the safety signals and the honest gaps both kept in plain sight.