What is humanin?
Humanin is a peptide made by mitochondria (the power plants inside cells). There is real research that watched it in people. Its levels drop with age. They run higher in the children of centenarians (very long-lived people). They track with heart and metabolic risk. And they rise in the muscle of people with one specific mitochondrial disease. This site's review found 9 studies, 5 of them in people. No study has given it to people as a drug.
Studies in people from the compound pages this answer belongs to
- Humanin
- Humanin detected in skeletal muscles of MELAS patients: a possible new therapeutic agent 2005 PMID 15759134
- Humanin: a mitochondrial signaling peptide as a biomarker for impaired fasting glucose-related oxidative stress 2016 PMID 27173674
- Unbalanced circulating Humanin levels and cardiovascular risk in chronic hemodialysis patients: a pilot, prospective study 2024 PMID 39102184
Educational use only. This database summarizes published research and is not medical advice. Where a dose appears it is a record of what a trial or clinic ran, or what people describe doing, with its source attached. Nothing here is a recommendation for personal use.
Part of immune and longevity peptides. Thymosin alpha-1, thymalin, epitalon, MOTS-c, humanin, and the bioregulator family.