Before you give up on trying to understand what these are, it’s remarkably simple. Your own mother probably uses Peptides of some sorts - Collagen. Your own younger brother might be using Creatine, which is also a Peptide. Peptides are simply amino acids (the building blocks of protein) that are bound together with Peptide bonds - hence the name. They are not proteins however, they are simply chains of amino acids. It is vital to understand this difference. Now then, why would one even ...