AOD-9604 dosage chart: how many units on the syringe

Reading the chart

The table above covers one vial size, 5 mg, mixed with 1 mL, 2 mL or 3 mL of bacteriostatic water. Three dose amounts appear across the rows because those are the amounts that show up in product listings, not because this site endorses any of them.

The first thing to notice is that doubling the water doubles the unit count for the same dose. A 0.25 mg dose is 5 units at 1 mL and 10 units at 2 mL. Nothing about the amount of peptide changed. The peptide was simply spread through more liquid, so more liquid has to be drawn to capture the same milligrams.

The second thing is that identical unit counts appear in different rows. A 0.5 mg dose at 1 mL is 10 units. A 0.25 mg dose at 2 mL is also 10 units. Those are two different doses that look the same on the barrel. A unit number on its own carries no information. It only means something alongside the vial size and the water volume that produced it.

The third is the concentration column. It falls from 5 mg/mL at 1 mL to 2.5 mg/mL at 2 mL to 1.67 mg/mL at 3 mL. Concentration is the bridge between milligrams and volume, and it is the only figure that actually changes when you decide how much water to add.

Why water volume is a choice and the dose is not

A vial of lyophilized powder holds a fixed number of milligrams. Reconstitution volume is not fixed. It is chosen by whoever mixes the vial, and the chart shows 1, 2 and 3 mL because those are the volumes people commonly use.

Adding more water does not dilute the dose. It dilutes the liquid. At 1.67 mg/mL, a 0.5 mg dose occupies 30 units of the barrel. At 5 mg/mL, that same 0.5 mg occupies 10 units. Both deliver 0.5 mg of peptide.

The practical consequence is mechanical. Small doses at high concentration land on very few marks, and the fewer marks you use, the more a small reading error matters as a fraction of the dose. Spreading the same powder across more water pushes the dose onto more marks. That is a statement about reading a syringe, not a recommendation about how to mix your vial.

What this page does not tell you

This is arithmetic. It converts milligrams into syringe units using concentration. It does not tell you what dose to use, how often, whether AOD-9604 does anything, or whether it is safe. There is no medical review on this site and no clinician has looked at these pages. Questions about whether a dose is appropriate for you are clinical questions and belong to a clinician.

AOD-9604 is not approved by any regulator for human use. The dose amounts in the chart are drawn from what appears in listings. Their presence here is descriptive. It is not a claim that anyone should use them.

We also hold no reliable human pharmacokinetic data for AOD-9604. That means this site makes no statement about its half life, how quickly it clears, how long an effect lasts, or whether repeated doses accumulate. Any schedule you have seen elsewhere is not something we can confirm or contradict. Everything above concerns concentration and volume only.

If your vial is not 5 mg

AOD-9604 is also sold in 2 mg vials. The chart above does not apply to them. A smaller vial reconstituted with the same water gives a lower concentration, which means every dose sits at a different unit count. Using a 5 mg chart with a 2 mg vial will underdose by a wide margin.

The method is the same regardless of vial size. Divide the milligrams in the vial by the milliliters of water you added. That gives concentration in mg/mL. Divide your intended dose by that concentration to get the volume to draw, then read that volume on the syringe scale.

The chart assumes a U-100 insulin syringe, where the full 1 mL barrel is marked as 100 units. Syringes built on other scales carry different markings, and a unit count taken from this page will not transfer to them. Check the printing on the barrel before drawing anything.

One more thing worth checking: what the label says and what the vial contains are not always the same, and this site has no way to verify the contents of any particular vial. The arithmetic is only as good as the number printed on the label.

What we do not know

We hold no reliable human pharmacokinetic data for AOD-9604, so this site makes no claims about its half life, how long it takes to clear, or how it accumulates. The arithmetic below concerns concentration and volume only.

This page answers arithmetic and handling questions. It does not tell you what dose to take, what to expect, or whether anything is appropriate for you, and there is no medical review behind it.

Common questions

How many units is 0.25 mg of AOD-9604?

It depends entirely on the vial size and how much water was added. From a 5 mg vial in 1 mL, 0.25 mg is 5 units on a U-100 syringe. From the same vial in 2 mL it is 10 units, and in 3 mL it is 15 units. The question has no single answer without both inputs.

Does adding more bacteriostatic water make the dose weaker?

No. More water lowers the concentration, so you draw more volume to get the same milligrams. From a 5 mg vial, a 0.5 mg dose is 10 units at 1 mL and 30 units at 3 mL. Both are 0.5 mg of peptide.

How long does AOD-9604 stay in the body?

We do not know, and this site will not guess. There is no reliable human pharmacokinetic data for AOD-9604 that we can stand behind, so we make no claim about half life, clearance or accumulation. Anyone quoting a specific figure should be asked where it came from.

Can I use this chart with a 2 mg vial?

No. Every row in the table assumes a 5 mg vial. A 2 mg vial reconstituted with the same water produces a different concentration and therefore different unit counts. Recompute using your own vial size or the dose you draw will be wrong.

Which dose is the correct one?

This page cannot answer that. The dose amounts shown are the ones that appear in product listings, included so the arithmetic covers what people encounter. They are not recommendations, and AOD-9604 is not approved by any regulator for human use.

Why do two different rows show the same unit count?

Because concentration differs between them. A 0.5 mg dose at 5 mg/mL and a 0.25 mg dose at 2.5 mg/mL both come out to 10 units. This is why you should never write down a unit count on its own. Record the vial size and water volume with it.