What Happened to Strate Labs? Why It Closed

Strate Labs told its customers on Friday, May 29, 2026 that it was closing. For seven years the Texas shop had been a regular name in gym chats and SARM forums, the place people went for enclomiphene, RAD-140 and, in its last two years, growth hormone and the weight-loss peptides. By August its store was gone, and stratelabs.com now shows a single short notice and the names of two other shops.

The questions have not stopped. Some people want to know why a busy store closed while orders were still pouring in. Some are waiting on an order or a refund. Many have found GL Peptides, a stratelabs site that is still selling, or a Telegram account using the name, and want to know which, if any, is really Strate. This piece takes those in order, starting with how the closure unfolded.

When did Strate Labs close?

The announcement went out by email on the last Friday of May, with July 1 named as the final day. It came with a closing sale: buy two, get one free on the most popular compounds on top of a sitewide discount. Regular buyers did what regular buyers do at a closing sale and stocked up, some with a year’s supply of retatrutide.

About ten days in, the store at its main address went dark earlier than promised. Emails to the support address bounced, people who had just paid saw error pages where their order status should have been, and the company’s newsletters began pointing to a different address. Paid orders kept going out. By late July the main site carried a full closure notice with a personal letter from the founder, and it said the site would be taken offline for good on August 1.

That last change matters more than it looks. The July notice called Chemistry Works and GL Peptides “the only partners we trust” and promised to answer every remaining question by email. The version online today has dropped the letter, the order promises and the email address. It keeps the two referrals and adds a line saying both are independent companies with no affiliation to Strate.

Why did Strate Labs shut down?

In its own words, because “the regulatory landscape around our industry has shifted.” The notice says Strate could no longer operate the way customers expected without cutting corners, so it chose to close instead. It names no agency, no case and no single event.

The one legal action on record against Strate is older than the closure by more than a year. In late 2023 Eli Lilly, the maker of Mounjaro and Zepbound, filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission against eleven sellers of tirzepatide, and Strate Labs of Spring, Texas was one of them. Strate never answered and was found in default in May 2024. That December the judge found that the way Strate sold its tirzepatide wrongly suggested a link to Lilly, while turning down Lilly’s trademark claim against it. On April 9, 2025 the commission ordered Strate and two other sellers to stop.

For Strate’s buyers the order changed very little at first. The store kept trading for fourteen more months. Three months after the order it moved its US shop from stratelabs.com to stratelabs.is, with a banner saying all old traffic would be redirected, and its spring 2026 sale still offered buy-two-get-one on retatrutide and tirzepatide. When the closing email landed, the first answer on the forums was that Lilly had finally caught up with them. The trade case is real, but the timing does not fit a simple story of one order shutting the doors.

What fits better is the year around it. Science.bio closed in January 2026, Peptide Sciences, the biggest name in the market, in March, and Chemyo and Eternal Peptides followed Strate in September. Amino Asylum had gone dark the summer before. Strate went into that climate with a standing federal order on its name and an About page that pitched its products to athletes and biohackers. Whether something specific tipped it over or it was simply the owner’s call is not public. The company chose to close on its own timetable, with a sale and a farewell letter, rather than being shut.

What Strate Labs was before it closed

Strate came up as a SARM shop. The earliest saved copies of its site, from early 2021, show a store built around capsules and liquids of RAD-140, MK-677, LGD-4033, ostarine and cardarine, plus post-cycle compounds, injectables and branded apparel. Peptides were a short shelf of BPC-157, TB-500, Melanotan-2 and the GHRPs. The pitch was speed and service: free shipping in three to five days and live chat around the clock.

Over the next four years the balance shifted. By mid-2023 the site called itself “the future of peptides” and listed around sixty, alongside the SARMs. A Canadian store, paid by Interac e-Transfer, ran next to the US one for years. Military discounts, an ambassador program, lab supplies and influencer discount codes filled out a brand that felt more like a supplement company than a lab supplier. In its last two years the big sellers were retatrutide, tirzepatide, growth hormone kits, the Glow and Klow blends and ready-made nasal spray kits.

Its reputation among long-time buyers was simple: it shipped fast, support answered, and the products did what people expected. Enclomiphene and the SARM liquids had a loyal following, especially in Canada, and the growth hormone picked up a word-of-mouth reputation in 2025 and 2026, sometimes on a coach’s recommendation. It was never the cheap option. Its prices sat near the top of the market, and Canadian buyers in particular pointed to cheaper domestic shops that tested more.

The complaints that did come up were about paperwork more than product. Finnrick, the best-known independent tester, never published a result on a Strate vial, so its record rested on its own reports and on buyers’ experience. By 2026 buyers noticed that the newest reports for retatrutide and growth hormone were about a year old. Labels were the other sore point: smudged print, a BPC-157 vial printed with SARM wording, a vial with no lot number that support gave a number to after the fact, and, in the final weeks, some vials arriving with another supplier’s labels instead of Strate’s own.

What happened to open orders and refunds

The July notice made two promises: any pending order would ship as scheduled, and anything Strate could not fill would be refunded in full automatically, with nothing for the buyer to do. Judging by what buyers reported through June and July, most closing-sale orders did arrive, usually five to eight days after payment instead of the few days people were used to, with emails blaming the delay on order volume. The exceptions were orders that arrived short, such as a reconstitution kit without the retatrutide it was ordered with, and some Canadian buyers who paid and never heard back.

The notice also said all order history had been removed “for safety reasons.” In plain terms, the customer accounts went with the site, and with them the order pages and the lab reports that sat behind them. Your own order confirmation email is now the only record of what you bought and when.

If you are still owed something, the route through Strate is closed: the current notice no longer gives an email address. That leaves your card issuer or PayPal. One thing trips people up here. In its final year Strate’s card payments often went through PayPal under other names, so the charge on your statement may not say Strate at all. Match it by date and amount against the confirmation email, and raise the dispute with that email attached.

Is GL Peptides the new Strate Labs?

GL Peptides is the closest thing Strate has to a successor, and most of the evidence points that way. Strate’s own notice sent customers there. In early July, customers on Strate’s mailing list got an email announcing GL Peptides as a new website opening that Friday. The old stratelabs.is address, where the US store lived for its last year, now forwards straight to GL Peptides. GL’s web address dates from July 2025, the same month Strate moved its own store to .is, a full year before the closure.

The shelves match too. GL’s catalog repeats Strate’s down to the odd items and sizes few other shops carry: BPC-157 capsules at 500mcg, propranolol tablets, a 70mg Glow blend, growth hormone in 10 and 24 IU kits, enclomiphene and tadalafil in sixty-count bottles. One long-time buyer found that their old Strate discount code worked at GL’s checkout.

Against all that stands one sentence: the current Strate notice says GL Peptides and Chemistry Works are independent and not affiliated with it. Chemistry Works, the other referral, is the older of the two, with a store online since at least September 2024. A buyer who ordered from both found the sites, products and lab reports nearly identical, though GL told them the two shops are unrelated.

Early reports on GL are mixed in the way new shops usually are. Some orders arrived in three or four days, while others sat for weeks without tracking. The growth hormone arrived in unlabeled vials with the batch field on the box left blank, prices at launch were higher and the catalog smaller than Strate’s, and one buyer thread argued that the reviews on the site read as machine-written. GL now posts reports from Janoshik, a lab the market knows well, for some of its batches. Whoever runs it, GL Peptides does not carry Strate’s seven years with it. It is a new storefront with a few months of history, and it is best judged as one.

The fake Strate Labs sites and sellers

Strate Labs itself is not coming back. The notice says the closure is permanent, the company still holds stratelabs.com only to show that notice, and no relaunch under the Strate name has been announced in the four months since. Anything selling as Strate today is someone else.

The one to know is stratelabs.io. It is a copy of the old Strate store, still online, right down to the spring sale banner, the category menu and the military discount page, with its own .io support address. Its web address was registered in April 2026, about seven weeks before Strate announced it was closing. By June, regular customers were already warning that it was not the real store, and buyers who paid there describe it as a scam. People keep landing on it because a search for the name shows a working Strate shop, which is exactly what it is built to look like.

In late May, days before the closing email, a scammer on Telegram was also posing as Strate Labs. The Canadian store at stratelabs.ca carried the same closure notice in August and no longer loads at all, so a Canadian site using the name is not the old store either. Of the real Strate addresses, the .com shows the closure notice, the .is forwards to GL Peptides and the Canadian one is gone.

If you still have Strate Labs vials

Plenty of people do, after a closing sale built around buying three for the price of two. The practical problem is paperwork. The lab reports that went with past orders were removed along with the order history, and no independent tester published results on Strate stock, so the label and any lot number on it are what you have to go on.

Start with the label. A vial with Strate’s own label and a lot number that matches the paperwork you saved is in the best position. A vial with no lot number, or with a different supplier’s label, has nothing to tie it to any report. If you saved a certificate from the old site, check that it names the same compound and lot, and that its date makes sense for when you bought; the guide on how to read a peptide certificate of analysis walks through each field. For vials you plan to keep using in research, an independent test of a sample is the only way to know what is inside.

Storage is the part you control. Sealed freeze-dried powder keeps for months in the refrigerator and longer in the freezer, kept dry and out of the light, so a stockpile bought in June is not in a hurry if it went straight into cold storage. Once a vial is mixed, the clock is about four weeks in the fridge. The Simms Research guide to peptide storage has the details for each case.

Moving your research from Strate Labs

Strate’s buyers have scattered along the lines of what they bought. The SARM and enclomiphene crowd, much of it in Canada, went looking among the remaining SARM shops. Growth hormone buyers asked the most about the GL Peptides referral. Peptide buyers have spread across the US sellers, and after the 2026 closures the first thing most of them ask a new shop for is a lab report on every batch.

Simms Research is one of those US sellers. It carries research peptides only, not SARMs or growth hormone, including retatrutide from $84 and tirzepatide from $65 for 10mg, plus BPC-157, GHK-Cu and the Glow and Klow blends. Every batch is tested by an independent ISO-certified lab for purity by HPLC and identity by mass spectrometry, and each report is posted in the Simms Research lab results library with the batch it belongs to. The newest batches also carry endotoxin, heavy metal and sterility results.

Orders placed before 5PM Eastern ship the same day from Florida, by UPS Standard or FedEx 2-Day, with free shipping over $200. Every order is covered by a free Delivery Guarantee for packages lost, stolen after a delivery scan or damaged on arrival; the shipping policy and the refund and returns page give the details. Payment is by Zelle or Venmo.

So what happened to Strate Labs?

Strate Labs closed itself. It announced the end on May 29, 2026, ran a closing sale, kept shipping paid orders through June and July, and replaced its last store page with a farewell notice that blamed a changed regulatory landscape. Behind that sits a trade case Eli Lilly brought over tirzepatide, which left Strate with a federal order against it in April 2025. Strate traded through that order for over a year, and it closed in the same year that took Peptide Sciences, Science.bio, Chemyo and Eternal Peptides out of the market.

For anyone who bought from Strate, the store is gone and the records went with it. The notice promised that open orders would ship or be refunded automatically, and a card or PayPal dispute is the remaining route for anything that never came. GL Peptides is the shop Strate pointed its customers to and the place its old address now leads, but it is a new business with a short record of its own. Stratelabs.io and the Telegram account are not Strate at all.

Frequently asked questions

Is Strate Labs closing permanently?

It has already closed, and its notice calls the closure permanent. The store stopped taking orders over the summer of 2026, and stratelabs.com has shown only the closure notice since late July.

Was Strate Labs a legit company?

Yes, in the sense buyers mean. It traded for seven years under one name, shipped orders reliably and kept a loyal customer base in the US and Canada until the day it closed, and most closing-sale orders arrived. Its weak points were stale lab reports and careless labels, not missing packages.

Was Strate Labs third-party tested?

Strate said every incoming shipment was sampled and sent to an outside lab, with results posted on its product pages. Finnrick never published its own results on Strate vials, the posted reports for some best sellers were about a year old by 2026, and all of them came down with the site.

Is stratelabs.io the real Strate Labs?

No. It copies the old store’s design and sale banner, its address was registered in April 2026, and buyers who paid there call it a scam. The real Strate addresses were stratelabs.com, stratelabs.is and stratelabs.ca, and none of them sells anything now.

What happened to Strate Labs Canada?

The Canadian store closed with the US one. Its site showed the same closure notice in August 2026 and has since gone offline. Canadian buyers who relied on it for SARMs and enclomiphene have had to find new shops.

Do Strate Labs discount codes still work?

Not at Strate, since there is no store to use them in. One buyer reported an old Strate code working at GL Peptides in August 2026, which is part of why many see GL as Strate’s successor.

Which peptide companies have shut down?

The 2026 list so far: Science.bio in January, Peptide Sciences in March, Strate Labs over the summer, and Chemyo and Eternal Peptides in September. Amino Asylum went offline in June 2025, and federal agents searched Apex Peptides in late September. Each case is different, but the lesson for buyers is the same: save your reports while the site is still up.