The programme
The Short Peptide
A reading course for people who need to discuss this class accurately: practitioners, writers, and serious readers. Seven units. Certificate issued by The Short Peptide.
Syllabus
- 01
What a short peptide is
Two to four amino acids. Why chain length matters, how these differ from proteins, therapeutics, cosmetic peptides, and injectables.
- 02
The Leningrad programme
Where the work came from, who ran it, what was published and in which language. Vladimir Khavinson led the programme; he died in January 2024.
- 03
Extract versus synthetic
Thymalin is not Vilon. Epithalamin is not Epitalon. How to read a claim and find out which preparation was actually tested.
- 04
The organ map
Tissue assignment as the organising principle. Thymus, pineal, vessels, brain, and the rest of the true Khavinson tissues.
- 05
Reading the evidence
Study types, endpoints, markers versus events, translation artefacts, and the difference between a citation count and a result.
- 06
Pulsed courses
Why this literature describes short courses rather than continuous daily use, and what that implies about how it is discussed.
- 07
Talking about it responsibly
What cannot be claimed. Disease language, borrowed statistics, and the specific errors that repeat across retail copy.
Who it is for
- Practitioners who are asked about bioregulators and want to answer precisely.
- Writers and journalists who need to tell this class apart from GLP-1s and injectables.
- Readers who have found the claims online and do not trust them.
What the certificate says
That the holder has completed a course of study in the literature of organ-specific short peptide bioregulators, issued by The Short Peptide. It is an educational certificate. It is not a clinical licence, not a practitioner credential, and it does not qualify anyone to treat.
Format and dates
Written units with cited reading. Cohort dates and fee: [source needed] — we will not post a date we cannot hold. There is no login and no checkout on this site.