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SLU-PP-332

Also known as: SLU-PP 332 · SLU PP 332 · SLUPP-332 · SLUPP332 · ERR pan-agonist 332 · 4-hydroxy-N'-(naphthalen-2-ylmethylene)benzohydrazide

Updated 31 sources

SLU-PP-332 is not a peptide. It is a small synthetic molecule (290 g/mol) that switches on the estrogen-related receptors ERRα, β and γ, the genes muscle turns on during endurance training, which is why it gets called an exercise mimetic. In mice it made animals run about 70% longer and cut weight about 12% in obese mice. No human has taken it in a trial, and its own developers say it is not orally bioavailable, though most of it is sold as tablets.

Quick facts

Half-life
  • No half-life published in any species. After a 30 mg/kg injection in mice it was still measurable in plasma and muscle 2 to 6 hours later.
  • One guide states about 1.5 hours in mice, without citing a study.
Routes
  • Subcutaneous injection
  • Oral
Forms
  • Vial (powder)
  • Tablet (50 mg each)
  • Capsule
  • Oral solution
Reported dose ranges
  • 250 to 1,500 mcg (subcutaneous injection)
  • 1 to 10 mg (subcutaneous injection)
  • 5 to 100 mg (oral)
  • 250 to 1,800 mcg (oral)
Vial sizes
  • 5 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg
Chemistry
  • 290.3 g/mol · C18H14N2O2 · CAS 303760-60-3
FDA status
  • Not FDA approved
WADA
  • Not confirmed

What people use SLU-PP-332 for

  • Endurance and cardio capacity, the exercise mimetic angle
  • Fat loss without eating less, often next to a GLP-1 such as retatrutide
  • Mitochondrial and metabolic health stacks with MOTS-c, 5-Amino-1MQ or SS-31

How it is thought to work. ERRα, ERRβ and ERRγ are nuclear receptors that turn on genes for building mitochondria, burning fat and oxidative muscle fibres; they do not bind estrogen. SLU-PP-332 activates all three, most strongly ERRα (EC50 98 nM vs 230 nM for β and 430 nM for γ). In mouse muscle it switched on the same early genes as a treadmill run and raised oxidative fibres. Its heart benefit in mice ran mainly through ERRγ.

SLU-PP-332 dosing

7 protocols from studies, guides and community reports, grouped by goal. Tap a source badge to see where a number came from.

Injected3

Low-dose injection (community)

Amount
250 to 1,500 mcg
How often
Once daily; 500 mcg a day is a common example
Route
SubQ, vial (powder)
Timing and details

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Mid-dose injection, split (community)

Amount
1 to 5 mg
How often
1 to 5 mg a day, split into 2 or 3 shots
Route
SubQ, vial (powder)
Cycle
6 to 8 weeks on
Rest
At least 4 weeks off
Timing and details

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Higher-dose injection (community)

Amount
5 to 10 mg
How often
Once daily, or every other day
Route
SubQ, vial (powder)
Cycle
4 to 16 weeks
Rest
4 to 8 weeks off
Timing and details

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Oral, tablet1

Oral tablets (community)

Amount
25 to 100 mg
How often
Half a tablet (25 mg), one tablet (50 mg) or two tablets (100 mg) a day, once or split
Route
Oral, tablet
Cycle
8 to 12 weeks on
Rest
4 weeks off
Timing and details

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Oral1

Low-dose oral (competitor guide)

Amount
5 to 25 mg
How often
Daily, or 5 days on and 2 off
Route
Oral
Timing and details

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Oral, capsule1

Micro-dose oral capsules (community)

Amount
250 to 1,500 mcg
How often
Once daily
Route
Oral, capsule
Timing and details

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Oral, oral solution1

Oral drops, split three times a day (community)

Amount
1,200 to 1,800 mcg
How often
Daily total split into 3 doses (400 to 600 mcg each)
Route
Oral, oral solution
Timing and details

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Doses shown are what sources report, labelled by origin. Not medical advice.

Full SLU-PP-332 dosage guideEvery titration step in syringe units, missed doses and how to mix.

Vial strengths and syringe units

Every SLU-PP-332 vial size with the water volumes sources use. Units are what to draw on a U-100 insulin syringe, worked out exactly.
SLU-PP-332: concentration and U-100 syringe units for each vial size and water volume
WaterStrength250 mcgdose, units1,500 mcgdose, units5 mgdose, units
5 mg vial
1 mLCompetitor guide5 mg/mL50.05 mL300.3 mL1001 mL
2 mLCompetitor guide2.5 mg/mL100.1 mL600.6 mL2002 mL2 draws
3 mLCompetitor guide1.667 mg/mL150.15 mL900.9 mL3003 mL3 draws
10 mg vial
2 mLCompetitor guide5 mg/mL50.05 mL300.3 mL1001 mL
5 mLCompetitor guide2 mg/mL12.50.125 mL750.75 mL2502.5 mL3 draws
20 mg vial
5 mLCompetitor guide4 mg/mL6.30.063 mL37.50.375 mL1251.25 mL2 draws
Units are on a U-100 insulin syringe (100 units = 1 mL). U-50 and U-30 barrels read the same units.Water volumes from

Doses shown are what sources report, labelled by origin. Not medical advice.

Calculate with this peptideYour vial, your water, your dose: SLU-PP-332 in syringe units, with the math shown.

If you miss a dose

No validated rule exists, since there is no human half-life. Community oral users skip a missed dose rather than doubling the next one.

SLU-PP-332 side effects

What trials and labels report, kept apart from what users and guides report. Frequencies are worded as each source states them.

Reported in studies and labels2

From clinical trials and regulatory documents.

  • No overt toxicity (mice)

    No overt toxicity, normal blood counts and no creatine kinase signal at 50 mg/kg twice daily for 10 days; no rise in liver enzymes over 28 days

    How people manage it

    • Mouse studies ran 12 days to 8 weeks. No long-term or human safety data exist.
  • Poor tolerance of twice-daily injections (ob/ob mice)

    The ob/ob mouse study was cut to 12 days because the mice tolerated twice-daily abdominal injections poorly

Reported by users and guides6

From community reports and dosing guides. Not measured rates.

  • Fatigue or a 'metabolic shift' feeling

    Reported by some users in the first 1 to 2 weeks; usually passes. One user on 500 mg a day orally reported lasting fatigue and low libido

  • Sleep changes or feeling wired

    Some users report deeper sleep, others mild insomnia at higher doses or a stimulated feeling

  • Higher resting heart rate

    Reported by a subset of users; not measured in any controlled study

  • Stomach upset with oral use

    Mild GI discomfort in some users taking it by mouth or under the tongue

  • Injection-site reactions

    Reported with routine subcutaneous use

  • Night sweats

    Reported by one oral-drop user at 1,200 to 1,800 mcg a day

All 8 SLU-PP-332 side effects and how people manage themEvery management tip, who should not use it, and side-effect questions.

Storage

Powder (before mixing)

Temperature
-20 to 8 °C

Powder vials: -20 °C for the long term, or 2 to 8 °C for months. One app guide lists room temperature. As a small molecule it is sturdier than most peptides.

Mixed vial

Temperature
2 to 8 °C
Use within
28 to 30 days

Fridge at 2 to 8 °C, protected from light. Use within 28 days per one guide, 30 days per another.

As supplied

Tablets and capsules: cool, dry room temperature, away from light and humidity.

Mixed with: Bacteriostatic water

Mixing. Tablets and capsules need no mixing. Lab studies dissolved it in DMSO and Tween, not water, so how fully a water-mixed vial dissolves is not documented. A deepening yellow colour after mixing may mean the solution has degraded.

Stacks people report

Combinations from guides and community posts, with the reason given.
  • MOTS-c

    The most-cited pairing: ERR activation plus MOTS-c's AMPK signalling, two routes into the same mitochondrial machinery. One guide adds SS-31 for a three-part mitochondrial stack.

  • SS-31

    Part of a 'mitochondrial triple stack' in one guide: SLU-PP-332 10 to 15 mg a day oral, MOTS-c 500 mcg a day and SS-31 0.5 mg a day under the skin.

  • Pairs GH-driven fat breakdown and recovery with ERR-driven mitochondrial capacity; described as the most common stack by one guide.

  • Retatrutide

    Used next to a GLP-1 for fat loss: one user takes 1 mg SLU-PP-332 daily with 5 mg retatrutide. PeptIQ app users co-log it with retatrutide more than anything else.

  • 5-Amino-1MQ

    Run together in metabolic stacks, often with AICAR and MOTS-c, by users chasing endurance and fat loss.

Related versions

  • Slu pp 915

    A chemically different pan-ERR agonist from the same lab that is orally bioavailable and matched SLU-PP-332's endurance effect in mice.

Compare SLU-PP-332

Evidence and legal status

Evidence: animal data only

Mice only, plus cell work (including muscle cells from human biopsies treated in the dish). 50 mg/kg twice daily by abdominal injection: about 70% longer treadmill running after 7 days, and about 12% lower weight in obese mice after 28 days with no change in food intake. 25 mg/kg daily for 8 weeks reversed kidney ageing markers in old mice; it improved survival in a mouse heart failure model. No human trial is registered.

FDA and WADA

Not FDA approved

No approval, no trial program and not on FDA's compounding lists.

Not FDA approved for any use, and no human trial is registered. It is not on FDA's 503A nominated-substance lists or its compounding safety-risk page, so FDA has not evaluated it. Sold as a research chemical.

WADA's 2026 List does not name SLU-PP-332 and has no ERR-agonist class. S4.4 names AMPK activators (AICAR, MOTS-c, BAM15), PPARδ agonists and Rev-erbα agonists; SLU-PP-332 acts on a different receptor, so it does not plainly fit. The S0 catch-all bans substances in development with no human approval, which on plain wording could include it, but no ruling says so, so we mark it unknown. Two anti-doping labs published metabolite detection methods in 2026. One competitor cites an S4.5 class the 2026 List does not contain.

WADA: Not confirmed

SLU-PP-332 questions

What is SLU-PP-332?

A small synthetic molecule from Saint Louis University (hence SLU) that activates the estrogen-related receptors ERRα, β and γ. It is studied as an exercise mimetic: it turns on muscle genes that endurance training turns on.

Is SLU-PP-332 a peptide?

No. It is a small organic molecule, C18H14N2O2 at about 290 g/mol, with no amino acids. Vendors list it with peptides because the same buyers want it.

What does SLU-PP-332 do?

In mice it raised energy use and fat burning, increased oxidative muscle fibres, extended treadmill running, reduced fat gain in obese mice, protected failing hearts and reversed kidney ageing markers. None of this has been tested in people.

Does SLU-PP-332 work orally?

Probably poorly. The lab that made it says SLU-PP-332 lacks oral bioavailability, and built SLU-PP-915 as the oral version. Every animal result came from injection into the abdomen. That matters because most product sold is tablets or capsules.

Oral or injectable SLU-PP-332?

Injection matches the animal studies, though mice got it into the abdominal cavity, not under the skin. Oral is easier but rests on a compound its developers call not orally bioavailable. No human data settle it either way.

What is the SLU-PP-332 dosage?

No human dose exists. Community injection doses run from 250 mcg to 1.5 mg a day, 1 to 5 mg a day split, up to 5 to 10 mg once daily. Oral users take 25 to 100 mg from 50 mg tablets. Mice got 25 to 50 mg/kg.

Why do dosing guides disagree so much?

Some guides size the dose to fit a 5 mg vial (hundreds of mcg), others scale up the mouse dose by body surface area (hundreds of mg). One competitor puts the gap at roughly 1,000-fold. Neither approach has been tested in people.

How do I reconstitute a 5 mg vial?

A common choice is 2 mL of bacteriostatic water, giving 2.5 mg/mL; 10 units on a U-100 syringe is then 250 mcg. Guides also use 1 mL or 3 mL.

What is the half-life of SLU-PP-332?

Not published. In mice it was still in plasma and muscle 2 to 6 hours after one injection, which is why the studies dosed twice a day. A competitor's 1.5-hour figure has no cited source.

What are the side effects of SLU-PP-332?

No human data. Mice showed no overt toxicity and no liver enzyme rise. Users report early fatigue, sleep changes or a wired feeling, a higher resting heart rate in some, stomach upset with oral use and injection-site reactions.

Does SLU-PP-332 burn fat without diet changes?

In obese mice, yes: after 28 days they weighed about 12% less and gained under 0.5 g of fat versus about 5 g in controls, with no change in food intake. In normal chow-fed mice, total body weight did not change. No human data.

How much did it improve endurance?

After 7 days at 50 mg/kg twice daily, sedentary mice ran about 70% longer and 45% farther than untreated mice. The effect disappeared in mice lacking muscle ERRα.

SLU-PP-332 vs MOTS-c?

SLU-PP-332 is a synthetic small molecule acting on ERR nuclear receptors; MOTS-c is a natural mitochondrial peptide acting through AMPK. Users often stack them. Neither has human efficacy trials.

Is SLU-PP-332 banned in sport?

WADA does not name it on the 2026 List and has no ERR-agonist class. Its S0 class bans any compound still in development with no human approval, which on plain wording could include it, so we list the status as unknown. Anti-doping labs in Cologne and Los Angeles published ways to detect its metabolites in 2026.

What do people report on Reddit?

Mostly endurance and cardio gains, often next to AICAR or MOTS-c, and use alongside retatrutide for fat loss. Reports are uncontrolled. PeptIQ app check-ins rate it mixed far more than favorable.

Ask about SLU-PP-332

Answers come from this site's pages only, with a link to each source.

Sources

31 sources, each checked by date. Record updated Oct 24, 2026. Numbers are restated in our own words and labelled by where they came from.

Reference work1

  1. SLU-PP-332 (CID 5338394) computed propertiesPubChem · checked Oct 24, 2026

Vendor guide1

  1. SLU-PP-332 5 mg product pageVendor product page · checked Oct 24, 2026

Competitor guide5

  1. SLU-PP-332 guide: dosing, reconstitution and ERR agonist research referencepeptidedosingprotocols.com · checked Oct 24, 2026
  2. SLU-PP-332: benefits, dosage, side effects and how the exercise mimetic workspeptidedeck.com · checked Oct 24, 2026
  3. SLU-PP-332 (5 mg Vial) Dosage Protocolpeptidedosages.com · checked Oct 24, 2026

Community-reported10

  1. SLU-PP-332 dosage guidebodyhackguide.co, via a competitor guide · checked Oct 24, 2026
  2. SLU-PP-332 research profile (app community data)peptiq.io, via a competitor guide · checked Oct 24, 2026
  3. Post: about 80 mg a day injected, split three times, alongside retatrutideReddit r/Peptides · checked Oct 24, 2026