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Reconstitution · Epitalon
Pick the vial, the water you added and the dose. Get the exact draw in units for the syringe in your hand.
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This vial holds 10 mg in total.
U-100 insulin syringe · 1 mL · lines every 2 units · 1 unit = 0.01 mL
10.0 units on a U-100 insulin syringe · 1 mL · lines every 2 units, which is 0.10 milliliters. The draw lands on a syringe line.
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Epitalon is a peptide four amino acids long, made in Leningrad in the 1980s. It copies the amino-acid makeup of an extract of cow pineal gland. It is sold for longevity — longer telomeres, better sleep, slower aging.
The lifespan results people quote were produced by the gland extract, not by this peptide. One monkey experiment ran both side by side and used five hundred times more of the extract. Two human studies of the peptide itself exist. They measured eyesight and a urine marker, and both came out of the institute that made it.
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 0.5 mg | Nearest syringe line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 mL | 10.00 mg/mL | 100.0 mcg | 5.0 u · 0.050 mL | 6 u · 20.0% off |
| 2 mL | 5.00 mg/mL | 50.0 mcg | 10.0 u · 0.100 mL | exactly 10 u |
| 3 mL | 3.33 mg/mL | 33.3 mcg | 15.0 u · 0.150 mL | 16 u · 6.7% off |
The vial, water and dose shown here are the calculator’s starting example for Epitalon. Replace them with your own values. Every result in the table is calculated from those inputs.
This page opens on the only whole-body amount anybody has published for a person taking this peptide. That amount was held under the tongue. The conversion below is arithmetic, and arithmetic cannot move a finding from one route to another.
One human study held the peptide under the tongue for twenty days. The other injected it into the tissue behind the eye, and that one was an eye treatment judged on eyesight. Neither put anything under the skin.
So the amount this page opens on is real and sourced, and it still does not describe the injection you are mixing for. How much of a peptide reaches the blood depends on the route, and nobody has measured this one.
All three listed volumes put the draw on a syringe line. The plunger never has to stop between two lines.
What the water choice changes is how much liquid goes in, and how strong the solution is while it sits in the fridge. It does not change whether the syringe can be read.
The page notes that vials sold under this name do not agree on strength. So a dose quoted without its vial size is unusable, and a unit count quoted without both is worse than nothing.
This page can only compute from the strength you enter. If the glass and the invoice disagree, the arithmetic inherits that disagreement and cannot detect it.
The long-running survival reports attached to this peptide tested a bovine gland extract. They did not test the four-residue peptide sold under this name. Different substance, different preparation, different studies.
One monkey experiment gave both side by side and needed five hundred times more of the extract than of the peptide to do it. Two things that far apart inside a single protocol are not one thing.
Epitalon has human studies, and both of them state a quantity. Neither of the original papers prints one. The figures on this page come from an independent review that read those papers. That puts a link between this page and the source.
The eye study reports its clinical result and not its dose. It gives neither the patient count nor the ages. The sleep-rhythm study is in Russian, and its abstract states neither dose nor enrollment.
The smaller of them was given per eye, on consecutive days. It was an eye treatment, judged on eyesight. Per eye is not something this calculator can represent, and no arithmetic turns it into a mass for a person.
Nearly all the work on this molecule comes from two institutes, with the same senior author running through it. The eye trial was run at the institute that created the peptide. So it is not independent of the people who made it.
The bulk of this literature sits in dishes and animals. It is melatonin output in cell culture, messenger RNA for an immune signal, mouse thymus cells, and the activity of enzymes. Telomerase is the enzyme people quote.
Mix 10 mg into 2 mL and one U-100 unit carries 50.0 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 | 500 mcg | 0.5 mg |
| 20 u | 0.20 mL | 1,000 mcg | 1 mg |
| 30 u | 0.30 mL | 1,500 mcg | 1.5 mg |
| 40 u | 0.40 mL | 2,000 mcg | 2 mg |
| 50 u | 0.50 mL | 2,500 mcg | 2.5 mg |
| 60 u | 0.60 mL | 3,000 mcg | 3 mg |
| 70 u | 0.70 mL | 3,500 mcg | 3.5 mg |
| 80 u | 0.80 mL | 4,000 mcg | 4 mg |
| 90 u | 0.90 mL | 4,500 mcg | 4.5 mg |
| 100 u | 1.00 mL | 5,000 mcg | 5 mg |
The math is only one part of the question. These guides cover the compound, published doses, side effects, mixing steps and supplies.
Epitalon — class, half-life and regulatory standing
What an empty epitalon safety page does and does not mean
What each water volume does to the 10 mg epitalon vial
Choosing buying the mixing water for an epitalon draw
The syringe scale for an epitalon vial
Bacteriostatic water before the epitalon arithmetic starts