Anti-aging
6 peptides in this category.
Epithalon
Epitalon · Epithalamin
A Khavinson-school tetrapeptide (Ala-Glu-Asp-Gly) marketed for telomere lengthening and pineal regulation. The telomere claim rests on small Russian studies; the sleep effect is the more honest reason people use it.
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NAD+ · Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
Technically a coenzyme rather than a peptide. Central to energy metabolism, DNA repair, and sirtuin activity. Levels fall with age; injectable and IV protocols try to restore them.
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Mitochondrial Open Reading Frame
A 16-amino-acid peptide encoded inside the mitochondrial genome. The cell's own metabolic stress signal. Animal data on insulin sensitivity is good; human data is small but growing.
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Elamipretide · MTP-131
A four-amino-acid peptide that homes to the inner mitochondrial membrane and stabilises cardiolipin. Currently the most clinically advanced mitochondrial peptide in trials.
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FOXO4 · FOXO4-DRI
The headline senolytic peptide. It disrupts the FOXO4-p53 interaction inside senescent cells, pushing them into apoptosis while sparing healthy cells. Striking in mice, untested in humans.
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5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide
An AMPK activator that turns on the molecular pathway exercise normally activates. Famous as the "exercise in a syringe" rodent paper and infamous as a WADA-banned substance.
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