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Reconstitution · DSIP
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This vial holds 10,000 mcg in total.
U-100 insulin syringe · 1 mL · lines every 2 units · 1 unit = 0.01 mL
7.5 units on a U-100 insulin syringe · 1 mL · lines every 2 units, which is 0.08 milliliters. The nearest syringe line is 8 units.
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DSIP stands for delta sleep-inducing peptide. It is nine amino acids long, and it was recovered in 1977 from the blood of rabbits put into deep sleep electrically. It is sold for insomnia and for deeper sleep.
It has more human research than many peptides sold this way, but the evidence is still thin. European groups gave it during the 1980s to people with insomnia and to people in alcohol and opiate withdrawal, and reported improved sleep. The studies were small, mostly open label, used intravenous dosing and never led to an approval.
Each row starts with the same 10 mg vial and changes only the amount of water. More water makes the mixture less concentrated, so the same dose uses more syringe units.
| Water added | Concentration | Per U-100 unit | Draw for 250 mcg | Nearest syringe line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 mL | 5.00 mg/mL | 50.0 mcg | 5.0 u · 0.050 mL | 6 u · 20.0% off |
| 3 mL | 3.33 mg/mL | 33.3 mcg | 7.5 u · 0.075 mL | 8 u · 6.7% off |
The vial, water and dose shown here are the calculator’s starting example for DSIP. Replace them with your own values. Every result in the table is calculated from those inputs.
DSIP’s two vial sizes are one twice the other. Mix both to the same volume and the same dose reads twice as far up the barrel on the smaller one. No water choice on this page swings the reading that far.
For a draw this small the difference is not cosmetic. On the smaller vial the dose covers enough marks to be checked. On the larger one it sits where a single mark is a fifth of the whole draw.
Most pages here treat the water volume as the lever. On this page the vial size moves the reading further, and that is a choice made at purchase rather than at the bench.
The sleep studies put it into a vein at amounts scaled to body weight, and they ran in the 1980s. They were small, mostly unblinded, and never carried through to an approval anywhere.
This page models a flat dose under the skin. Neither the route nor the arithmetic carries over from that literature. The largest series in it measured clinicians’ impressions rather than sleep itself.
Material under this name ships for laboratory research, with no enforced standard governing what is in the vial. The strength printed on the glass is an assertion by whoever filled it.
Every figure on this page begins from that assertion. The arithmetic cannot be more reliable than the number it starts from, and no calculator anywhere can fix that.
The human DSIP studies stated their doses in nanomoles per kilogram. This page converts that to mass at the peptide’s molecular weight and leaves the per-kilogram basis alone. So the numbers here sit one step from the papers. They are still one step short of a draw.
A nanomole counts molecules rather than weighing them. Turning it into micrograms needs the molecular weight. That conversion sits on the page with the original figure printed beside it, so a reader can check the step instead of trusting it.
DSIP carries an international nonproprietary name, emideltide. A generic name is the naming step a molecule reaches when somebody intends to sell it as a medicine. Nobody ever filed to market it, anywhere.
One row is a single dose before sleep. The other is a handful of doses across one week, in a sleep laboratory, with the effect followed for a further week after dosing stopped.
No cited source says how long a mixed vial keeps. No regulator has licensed this peptide, so there is no approved label with a storage window, and no estimate is substituted for one.
Mix 10 mg into 3 mL and one U-100 unit carries 33.3 mcg. The table shows how much peptide is in each numbered syringe line. These are conversion examples, not suggested doses.
| U-100 line | Volume | Mass (mcg) | Mass (mg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 u | 0.10 mL | 333 mcg | 0.333 mg |
| 20 u | 0.20 mL | 667 mcg | 0.667 mg |
| 30 u | 0.30 mL | 1,000 mcg | 1 mg |
| 40 u | 0.40 mL | 1,333 mcg | 1.333 mg |
| 50 u | 0.50 mL | 1,667 mcg | 1.667 mg |
| 60 u | 0.60 mL | 2,000 mcg | 2 mg |
| 70 u | 0.70 mL | 2,333 mcg | 2.333 mg |
| 80 u | 0.80 mL | 2,667 mcg | 2.667 mg |
| 90 u | 0.90 mL | 3,000 mcg | 3 mg |
| 100 u | 1.00 mL | 3,333 mcg | 3.333 mg |
The math is only one part of the question. These guides cover the compound, published doses, side effects, mixing steps and supplies.