DSIP

DSIP, or Delta Sleep-Inducing Peptide, is a naturally occurring neuropeptide that promotes deep delta sleep, and sleep improvement is overwhelmingly what people run it for, with a smaller thread around stress and anxiety. Community dosing runs from 100 mcg to 1.5 mg, most commonly 1 mg, while clinician protocols use a far lower 25 mcg given intravenously. The tradeoff to know up front: there is no FDA-approved indication, so all human use is off-label or compounded. Effects on sleep and dreams are the dominant reported experience, and they are not uniformly positive.

Half-life~15 min

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ClinicalResearchDepthClinicalResearchEfficacyClinicalResearchSideEffectsno dataAnecdotalEfficacyAnecdotalSideEffectsPrice1.81.73.03.35.0

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Research Evidence

Evidence shape

DSIP carries a low tier of evidence, supported only by exploratory human studies rather than large-scale clinical trials. While nineteen published human studies exist across treatment and mechanistic indications, the research remains thin and lacks the rigor of registered, completed clinical trials. The current literature base is limited to these early-stage investigations, with no registered trials available to validate efficacy or safety at scale. Consequently, the data remains confined to preliminary observations, leaving the peptide without the robust clinical backing required for established therapeutic use.

Depthhow much
0 registered trials
Breadthhow many areas
3 indications mapped
2 thin / exploratory · 1 animal-only
Qualityhow rigorous
No completed trials
Breadth and depth34 rows captured
Human
direct clinical signal
19
Animal
translational support
12
In vitro
mechanistic support
3
HighMediumLow

Anecdotal efficacy

DSIP side effects

Clinical research side effects

Grouped from 6 published human studies — weighted by study count, not incidence (the papers report no rates).

Anecdotal side effects

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DSIP dosing & protocol

How DSIP is dosed across research, clinician, and community sources — each evidence tier kept separate so the dose range, frequency, timing, and cycling stay visible without flattening different levels of evidence.

Research trials
Published clinical-trial protocols · n = 12
Typical dose
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0
200 µg
400 µg
600 µg
800 µg
1 mg
no dose captured for this tier yet

No structured protocol details captured for this tier yet.

In the research‑trial tier, no specific dosing amount, frequency, or cycling pattern could be reliably extracted from the twelve human studies identified.

12 sources
Clinician practice
Doctor & published-protocol guidance · n = 1
Typical dose
25 µg
typical
0
200 µg
400 µg
600 µg
800 µg
1 mg
across 1 dosed source · darker = more agree
By reported cadence
Daily25 µg · n=1
Frequency
daily
Route
IV

Clinicians report using 25 µg IV each day.

1 source
Anecdotal
Community-reported real-world use · n = 30
Typical dose
100 µg50 µg – 1 mg
typical
0
200 µg
400 µg
600 µg
800 µg
1 mg
distribution of 34 reported doses · darker = more
Frequency
unspecified
Route
subQ

Community users most often report a subcutaneous dose of 100 mcg, with a reported range of 50 mcg to 1 mg; frequency is not consistently specified, though a minority describe daily administration.

30 sources

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