Peptide Arcana
Aviptadil: Synthetic VIP, a gut peptide that relaxes blood vessels, dripped into veins in severe COVID in the hope of protecting the lungs.

Aviptadil

Not FDA approvedImmunity and defense

How it works

Synthetic VIP, a gut peptide that relaxes blood vessels, dripped into veins in severe COVID in the hope of protecting the lungs.

What it's made of

28 amino acids: an exact copy of VIP, vasoactive intestinal peptide, which Said and Mutt isolated in 1970 from pig intestine. Nothing was changed.

What it's for

Prescribed for
Nothing in the US or Spain. Where it is authorized, only with phentolamine, as an injection into the penis, for erectile dysfunction.
Sold as
A hormone that protects the lung and would save people severely ill with COVID.
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