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Selank reconstitution calculator.

Pre-filled with the 10 mg vial and 2 mL of bacteriostatic water the REGEN catalog reports for Selank. Every field is editable.

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The numbers for a 10 mg Selank vial

Reconstituting a 10 mg vial with 2 mL of bacteriostatic water gives a concentration of 5 mg/mL. On a U-100 insulin syringe, where one unit is 0.01 mL, that puts 50 mcg in every unit drawn.

A 250 mcg dose at that concentration is 0.05 mL, which is 5 units on the syringe, and the vial holds about 40 of them.

Those are the values the calculator above opens with. The vial size and water volume are the amounts the REGEN catalog reports for Selank; change any field and the arithmetic follows.

What the research reports for Selank

Published protocols for Selank report 250–300 mcg, 1-3x daily (intranasal). That is what the literature describes, not a recommendation. The calculator starts at the low end of it. The Selank reference page carries the evidence grade, the side-effect profile, and the primary sources behind that range.

Selank reconstitution chart for a 10 mg vial

The same 10 mg of Selank at four common water volumes. More water does not mean more compound, it spreads the same amount across a bigger volume, so the same dose is drawn to a higher number of units. That is usually the safer direction to be imprecise in: small errors on a longer draw matter proportionally less.

Bacteriostatic waterConcentrationPer unit (U-100)Units for 250 mcg
1 mL10 mg/mL100 mcg2.5 units
2 mL (catalog)5 mg/mL50 mcg5 units
3 mL3.33 mg/mL33.3 mcg7.5 units
5 mL2 mg/mL20 mcg12.5 units

"Units" here means syringe graduations, not international units. They are unrelated measures that share a name, and conflating them is its own category of mistake. The reconstitution calculator explains the arithmetic behind these columns in full.

More on Selank

The Selank reference page covers how it works, what the research grade means, side effects, and pharmacokinetics, alongside the rest of the cognitive compounds. For a different compound, the generic reconstitution calculator takes any vial and dose.

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