What is SS-31?

What SS-31 is and where it sits legally

SS-31 is a short synthetic peptide sold through research chemical suppliers and grouped under the longevity category by the vendors who list it. It arrives as a lyophilized powder in a sealed vial and has to be reconstituted with liquid before any volume can be measured out of it.

Its regulatory status is simple and unambiguous: it is not approved by any regulator for human use. There is no approved label, no approved indication, no approved strength, and no approved route. Anything a vendor prints on a listing is a vendor's text, not a regulatory document.

DoseGraph is a dose-arithmetic reference. It has no medical review process. It cannot tell you whether SS-31 is safe, whether it does anything, what dose is appropriate, or what happens after you take it. Those are clinical questions and this site does not answer them. What follows is division.

Reading the concentration table

The table on this page pairs every vial size sold with every water volume commonly used and gives the resulting concentration. Three things in it are worth pulling out.

First, the water volume sets the concentration, not the strength of the compound. Nothing about the powder changes when you add more liquid. A 10 mg vial holds 10 mg whether you put 1 mL or 3 mL into it. Adding more water spreads the same milligrams across more volume, so each millilitre carries less. The concentration column falls as you move right across the table for a fixed vial.

Second, vial size scales the whole row. A 50 mg vial at any given water volume lands at five times the concentration of a 10 mg vial at that same volume, because five times the powder is dissolved into the identical liquid. If you switch supplier vial sizes and keep your usual water volume out of habit, every measurement you make afterwards is off by that factor.

Third, the 3 mL rows do not divide cleanly. Both produce repeating decimals that have to be rounded to be written down. Rounded figures are harder to measure accurately on a small barrel, and rounding errors compound when you draw repeatedly from one vial. The 1 mL and 2 mL rows give whole or clean numbers and are easier to work with for that reason alone.

Going from milligrams to volume

Suppliers list SS-31 amounts in milligrams. The two amounts that appear in listings are 5 mg and 10 mg. These are figures observed in the marketplace. They are not recommendations, and this site does not endorse them, evaluate them, or suggest that either is appropriate for anyone.

The conversion is one division. Take the milligram amount you are working from and divide it by the concentration in the table for your vial and water volume. The result is a volume in millilitres. That volume is what you measure. This is the entire arithmetic of the page.

One consequence is worth stating plainly. Because 5 mg and 10 mg are large relative to a 10 mg vial, a 10 mg vial can hold very few of them. Vial size, water volume, and listed amount are not independent choices. Pick two and the third is determined.

What is not known

There is no reliable human pharmacokinetic data for SS-31 that this site is willing to build on. That means DoseGraph makes no claim about its half life, how long it takes to clear, whether it accumulates with repeat administration, or how long any effect might last.

This matters practically. Without pharmacokinetic data, there is no arithmetic basis for spacing anything out, for calculating a steady state, or for saying that one schedule differs from another. Any timing figure you encounter for SS-31 is being asserted rather than derived, and you should treat it accordingly.

The concentration table is unaffected by this gap. Dividing milligrams by millilitres is a property of the solution in front of you, not of what the body does with it. That is precisely why this page stops at concentration and volume.

What we do not know

We hold no reliable human pharmacokinetic data for SS-31, 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

Is SS-31 approved for human use?

No. SS-31 is not approved by any regulator for human use. There is no approved label, indication, or strength for it. Vendors selling it are selling a research chemical.

How much bacteriostatic water should I add to an SS-31 vial?

This site will not tell you which volume to use, because that choice depends on decisions it cannot make for you. The volumes commonly used are 1 mL, 2 mL, and 3 mL, and the table shows what concentration each one produces for both vial sizes. The 1 mL and 2 mL volumes produce cleaner numbers than 3 mL.

What is the half life of SS-31?

Unknown as far as this site is concerned. There is no reliable human pharmacokinetic data for SS-31, so DoseGraph publishes no half life, no clearance time, and no accumulation estimate. Any specific figure you see quoted elsewhere is not something this page can verify or repeat.

Why does a 50 mg vial give a higher concentration than a 10 mg vial?

Because concentration is milligrams divided by millilitres. The 50 mg vial contains five times the powder, so dissolving it in the same water volume produces five times the milligrams per millilitre. The water volume does not change how much compound is in the vial.

Does SS-31 work?

This page does not answer that. DoseGraph has no medical review and does not assess efficacy, safety, or side effects for any compound. It computes concentration and volume, and that is the limit of what it claims.

The listings show 5 mg and 10 mg amounts. Is one of those a standard dose?

No. Those are the amounts that appear in vendor listings, recorded here as marketplace observations only. Neither is a standard, a recommendation, or a regulator-sanctioned figure. They are included so the concentration arithmetic has something concrete to convert.