AICAR Dosage Calculator & Research Doses

1Set Up Your Mix

100 mg/mL · 100000 mcg/mL

1. Pick your peptide

2. How much peptide is in the vial? It's printed on the label — usually something like 5 mg

3. How much water are you adding? More water makes each dose easier to measure

4. How much do you want per dose?

All answers assume a standard 1 mL U-100 syringe, where 1 unit = 0.01 mL. That is the usual insulin syringe and the one every number here is based on.

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50Draw To This Line

0.5That's This Many mL

1Doses In The Vial

50 mg ÷ 0.5 mL = 100 mg/mL → 50 mg ÷ 100 mg/mL = 0.5 mL → × 100 = 50 units—

Looks good. Draw to 50 units on a 1 mL syringe. That is an easy amount to measure, and this vial gives you 1 doses.

2Week-By-Week Plan — AICAR

not applicable

When	Dose	How Often	How Many mL	Draw To	Number Of Doses	Peptide Used
Research study dose	500 mg/kg weight-based	daily ×4 wk	Set by body weight — can't be turned into a single amount to draw
Community reported	50 mg	1× daily	0.5 mL	50 u	1 doses

No week-by-week plan for AICAR. This one is dosed by body weight, comes ready-mixed, or only has a single dose reported — so there is nothing to work up through.

3Common Doses — AICAR

worked out for your mix

Level	Dose	How Often	How Many mL	Draw To	Doses In Vial

Please read this. These numbers come from published research. They are here as reference, not as instructions. A lot of them come from lab studies rather than studies in people, and some of these peptides have never been given to a person at all.

About AICARAbout This Peptide

Metabolic / Incretin

Also known as

Acadesine, AMPK activator

Class

Metabolic / Incretin

Route

Subcutaneous

Half-life

Very short

Evidence tier

Preclinical

An AMPK-activating nucleoside studied for ischaemia protection and as an exercise mimetic in preclinical research. Requires very large doses relative to peptides; a WADA-prohibited substance.

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Where These Numbers Come From

Preclinical — Preclinical and in-vitro data only — no human dosing trials

AMPK and PPARδ agonists are exercise mimetics Narkar VA, et al. Cell, 2008

The origin of the "exercise in a pill" framing for AICAR.

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Newest Studies — —

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Not reviewed by us. This list is pulled straight from Europe PMC as papers are published. Nobody has checked whether these are any good, or whether they change anything above. The dose numbers on this page only ever change after a person reviews the evidence.

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