SleepHuman RCT
DSIP: why the ‘sleep peptide’ never became a sleep drug
Swiss trials in the 1980s reported better sleep with DSIP; the two independent placebo-controlled trials found little of clinical value. Nobody has found its gene or receptor.
DSIP
A nine-amino-acid peptide isolated from rabbits in 1977; small 1980s insomnia trials gave conflicting results and no gene or receptor has been found.
- Also known as
- Delta sleep-inducing peptide, Emideltide
- Area
- Sleep
- Status
- Not approved as a medicine anywhere; sold for research use only