Peptides for anti-aging and longevity
Aging isn't one process — it's cellular housekeeping slowing down on many fronts at once: shorter telomeres, tired mitochondria, slower skin turnover. Peptides for anti-aging (epithalon, GHK-Cu, NAD, and others) each target one of those fronts.
These articles explain the biology in plain terms and are careful about the difference between findings in a lab dish and proven results in people. Everything offered here is prescription-only, reviewed by a licensed provider. None of them stops the clock, and the honest question is always which front matters for you.
8 articles on this topic
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Sermorelin Benefits: What the Trials Found
In the best controlled study of GHRH in older adults, nocturnal growth hormone rose, IGF-1 climbed within two weeks, skin thickened — and lean body mass increased in men only. The specificity is the point.
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Ipamorelin Benefits, Side Effects, Legal Status
Developed at Novo Nordisk in the late 1990s, ipamorelin is a five-amino-acid peptide that released growth hormone in animal studies without raising cortisol even at more than 200 times its effective dose.
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Epitalon Benefits, Sorted by Evidence Tier
The most-cited animal experiment gave 54 mice per group monthly doses for life and found mean lifespan unchanged, maximum lifespan up 12.3%, and leukemia down six-fold.
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The Thymulin Peptide Needs Zinc to Work
Thymulin is inert until a zinc ion binds it at a 1:1 molar ratio — and every published result in its literature comes from mice, rats, or cell culture.
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SS-31 Peptide: A Patient's Guide to Elamipretide
SS-31 and elamipretide are two names for the same four-amino-acid peptide, and its branded injectable form received accelerated approval from the FDA on September 19, 2025 for a single ultra-rare genetic disease.
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MOTS-c Peptide Benefits: Rodent Depth, Human Hints
MOTS-c is a peptide your mitochondria encode themselves — and it is studied for how cells handle fuel. The rodent evidence runs deep; the human evidence is just beginning.
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GHK-Cu Benefits: The Copper Peptide, Explained
GHK-Cu benefits start from one well-documented fact: blood levels of this three-amino-acid copper peptide fall from roughly 200 ng/mL at age 20 to about 80 ng/mL by age 60.
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A Patient's Guide to NAD+ Injections
NAD+ is a coenzyme found in every living cell, yet most human trial data comes from oral precursors like NR and NMN — including a 2025 meta-analysis in adults with mean ages of 61 to 83 that found no significant muscle benefit.