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ChatPEP is not medical advice

Updated Sep 18, 2026 · Applies to Web, iPhone, and Android · All plans

ChatPEP explains what research says, and it is not medical advice. It does not diagnose conditions or prescribe treatment, and it cannot take the place of a clinician who knows your history and can examine you.

What ChatPEP can help with

  • Understanding a compound: what it is, how it was studied, and what the studies found, with sources.
  • Comparing the evidence behind different compounds, including how strong each finding is.
  • Spotting known interactions with the medications and conditions you have told it about. See Interaction warnings.
  • Explaining a document or photo you attach to a message.

What it cannot do

  • Diagnose. ChatPEP knows only what you tell it. It cannot examine you, order tests, or weigh your full medical history, so nothing it says is a diagnosis.
  • Tell you what to take. It describes what studies used, never what you should take, how much, or how. See Research only: what that means.
  • Tell you something is safe for you. An interaction warning flags a known interaction. No warning does not mean a combination is safe.
  • Help in an emergency. See If you or someone else needs urgent help.

Answers that fit you are still not advice

If you have saved goals, conditions, or medications, ChatPEP uses them to make answers more relevant, for example by checking a compound against a medication you take. That makes an answer more useful to read. It does not make it a recommendation for you. See What ChatPEP knows about you.

Answers can be wrong

The line under the message box says it plainly: "ChatPEP can make mistakes. Check important info." Open the sources behind anything that matters to you, and read what the study actually did. If an answer looks wrong or unsafe, report it.

Bring the research to a clinician

ChatPEP is most useful before a conversation with a doctor or other clinician, not in place of one. Bring the studies it cites, not only the summary, so they can weigh the evidence against what they know about you. The terms of service ask the same: seek the advice of a licensed healthcare professional before making a health decision.

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