Eloralintide_
An experimental weekly fullness-hormone shot for weight loss.
Common vial size is what vendors typically sell, not a recommendation. Enter your own vial in the calculator.
What is Eloralintide?
Plain language first. The technical label stays, but it never stands alone.Overview
Eloralintide is an amylin receptor agonist from Eli Lilly. In plain terms: it copies the pancreas's fullness hormone for weight loss, designed to be easy to tolerate. It is still in trials.
What it's used for
An experimental weekly shot that copies a natural fullness hormone for weight loss, positioned as easy to tolerate.
How does Eloralintide work?
What it does in the body, and where.Eloralintide is an amylin receptor agonist designed with tolerability as the main goal.
- 01It signals fullness through amylin receptorsA separate route from the GLP-1 drugs.
- 02Built to be easier to tolerateThe gut side effects that make people stop taking GLP-1 drugs are the problem this is trying to design around.
- 03InvestigationalPhase 2 published in 2025. Not approved.
Acts on one receptor.
What else is it used for?
Each use below carries its own evidence level. Approved means regulators have cleared it for that purpose. Investigational means it is in trials. Early research means it is being studied and is not established.
- Weight loss, designed to be easier on the stomach than the GLP-1 drugsInvestigational
How much, and do you cycle it?
The range, and whether you take breaks.1 up to 9 mg per week (trial doses), weekly. Not cycled in the trialsTrial dose
Given continuously for the whole study period: 48 weeks in phase 2, 75 to 80 weeks in phase 3. The dose is stepped up at the start, which is a ramp rather than a cycle, and no trial in this class built in a planned break.
How do I dose and price it?
Enter your vial and your dose. Pick a mix. We show the draw and the cost.The vial holds a fixed amount of drug. Adding more water does not make more drug, it just spreads it thinner, so you draw a bigger number on the syringe for the same dose.
Choose your mix
Measuring the water1 mL = one full 100-unit syringe.
Your draw
20 / 100 unitsHow do you store it?
Before mixing, and after.Dry powder in the freezer or fridge. Once mixed, fridge, and use within about a month.
Unmixed lyophilized Eloralintide keeps for a long time cold. Once you add water the clock starts: most reconstituted vials hold up for roughly 28 to 30 days at fridge temperature. Keep it out of light, and do not freeze it after mixing.
What are the side effects and cautions?
Known cautions and warnings for this compound.Who should avoid it
- No formal contraindications established
- Pregnancy
Stop and get help
- Vomiting badly enough that you cannot keep fluids down
- Signs of an allergic reaction such as face or throat swelling, hives, or trouble breathing
Common effects
- Notably easier on the stomach than the GLP-1 drugs
- Reduced appetite in about a fifth of people, headache in about one in eight
- Nausea in about a third at higher doses, against 14% on placebo
Where this page says nothing is established, that means nobody has studied it, not that a compound is safe.
Is Eloralintide approved?
And where the numbers on this page come from.No. Not FDA-approved.
It is still being studied; a regulator has not cleared it for this use.
- DoseFrom published clinical trials. Not approved by a regulator for this dose.
- Vial sizeFrom what vendors typically list; not a recommendation.
- Reviewed22 July 2026
What else is like Eloralintide?
Others in Weight loss and metabolic, side by side.If you're weighing Eloralintide, it's worth reading Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, and Retatrutide in the same class.
An experimental weekly fullness-hormone shot for weight loss.
- Dose
- 1 up to 9 mg per week (trial doses)
- How often
- Weekly
The drug in Ozempic and Wegovy: a weekly shot that curbs hunger for steady weight loss.
- Dose
- 0.25 up to 2.4 mg per week (start low, increase slowly)
- How often
- Weekly
The drug in Mounjaro and Zepbound: a weekly shot for major weight loss and blood sugar.
- Dose
- 2.5 up to 15 mg per week (start low, increase slowly)
- How often
- Weekly
An experimental weekly shot with some of the biggest weight-loss numbers yet in trials.
- Dose
- 1 up to 12 mg per dose (start low, increase slowly)
- How often
- Weekly
10What these words mean
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What these words mean
- Titrate
- Starting at a low dose and increasing it slowly over time so your body adjusts and side effects stay mild.
- Subcutaneous
- An injection just under the skin, into the fat layer, usually with a short, thin insulin needle.
- Intramuscular (IM)
- An injection into a muscle, using a longer needle.
- Reconstitution
- Mixing a powdered peptide with liquid (bacteriostatic water) so it can be drawn into a syringe.
- Bacteriostatic water
- Sterile water with a tiny amount of preservative, used to mix powdered peptides.
- Concentration
- How strong the mixed peptide is, in milligrams per milliliter (mg/mL). More water makes it weaker; less water makes it stronger.
- Units (on the syringe)
- The marks on an insulin syringe. 100 units equals 1 mL. They measure how much liquid you draw, not the dose in milligrams.
- mcg and mg
- Units of dose. 1 milligram (mg) equals 1,000 micrograms (mcg).
- GLP-1
- A natural gut hormone that lowers appetite and blood sugar. Drugs that copy it, like semaglutide, are used for weight loss.
- Growth hormone secretagogue
- A compound that nudges your body to release more of its own growth hormone, rather than injecting the hormone itself.
- Half-life
- How long a compound stays active in your body. A longer half-life means you inject less often.
- Peptide vs small molecule
- A peptide is a short chain of amino acids. A few items here (like MK-677 or methylene blue) are small molecules, not true peptides, but people use them the same way.
- Research only
- No approved dose or use in people. Sold for research and not reviewed by the FDA for safety or quality.
- Investigational
- Still being tested in clinical trials and not yet approved or legally sold for general use.
- Banned in drug-tested sport
- Prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA); using it can disqualify a competing athlete.
Last reviewed 22 July 2026