DSIP
ResearchDelta Sleep-Inducing Peptide
- Category
- Sleep & Recovery
- Aliases
- Wagner-Jurgens peptide
- Administration
- Subcutaneous injection (research), Intranasal (research)
Overview
DSIP is one of the earliest sleep-related peptides discovered, first isolated from the blood of sleeping rabbits in the 1970s. Despite its name, subsequent research found its effects on delta-wave (deep) sleep to be inconsistent, and its actual mechanism appears more related to stress-hormone regulation than direct sleep induction, making its 'sleep peptide' reputation somewhat historically overstated relative to the evidence.
Treatments studied
Treatment categories
Sleep disturbance (historically studied, inconsistent results)
Originally studied for promoting deep sleep, though later research has not consistently confirmed this effect.
Stress regulation (research interest)
May help regulate the body's central stress-hormone axis, a more consistently supported effect than its sleep claims.