Head to head

5-Amino-1MQ vs SLU-PP-332

Metabolic

Two compounds that are more often stacked than compared — the side-by-side data, and what actually separates them.

Verdict

Not an either/or

5-Amino-1MQ and SLU-PP-332 appear in each other's stacks in this dataset, so the most common real-world use is together rather than instead of. If you do have to pick one, let route and schedule decide it — 5-Amino-1MQ is oral, once daily; SLU-PP-332 is oral, once daily — because the evidence does not separate them cleanly enough to do it for you.

What you are actually choosing between

Before anything else: the dataset lists 5-Amino-1MQ and SLU-PP-332 in each other's stacks. They are run together more often than they are chosen between, so if you came here for a winner, the first honest answer is that this may not be an either/or.

Both are classed here as metabolic compounds, so this is a within-class choice: the mechanism is broadly shared and what separates them is kinetics, route, and how much has actually been tested.

The overlap is fat loss and metabolic health. On this site's goal weighting — an editorial priority score, not a measure of effect size — 5-Amino-1MQ rates 4/5 for fat loss and SLU-PP-332 rates 4/5.

The evidence

Neither has an evidence edge — both sit at the same tier. 5-Amino-1MQ: animal and cell data only, and no controlled human dosing trials; dose figures are extrapolated from vendor and community practice. SLU-PP-332: animal and cell data only, and no controlled human dosing trials; there are no human trials of any kind. Anyone telling you one is clearly better supported than the other is going beyond what is published.

How they differ in practice

No half-life is published for either compound in this dataset. That absence is itself information: it means the pharmacokinetics have not been characterized well enough to quote, so both dosing schedules — once daily for 5-Amino-1MQ, once daily for SLU-PP-332 — are convention.

Committed time differs: 5-Amino-1MQ runs 12 weeks, SLU-PP-332 runs 8 weeks.

Risk and difficulty

5-Amino-1MQ is rated intermediate here and SLU-PP-332 advanced. That rating is about how much can go wrong in handling, dosing and monitoring, not about how well either works.

Source notes

What the evidence actually says

Verbatim, so you can check the verdict above against what it was built from.

5-Amino-1MQ

A small-molecule nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) inhibitor, not a peptide. Evidence is preclinical: it reduced fat mass in diet-induced obese mice without changing food intake, and there are cell and rodent data on muscle stem cells. There are no published controlled human trials, so every dose figure here is extrapolated from vendor and community practice rather than clinical data — treat the range as low confidence. It is taken orally in capsules: 50-150 mg daily, with 100 mg typical, which in the microgram units used throughout this dataset is 50,000-150,000 mcg (100 mg = 100,000 mcg). It is swallowed as capsules rather than reconstituted, so the reconstitution fields do not apply.

SLU-PP-332

A synthetic small-molecule pan-agonist of the estrogen-related receptors (ERRα, ERRβ, ERRγ), not a peptide. It is marketed as an "exercise mimetic" because in mice it increased oxidative metabolism, running endurance and fat oxidation and reduced fat gain on a high-fat diet without changing food intake. That is the entire evidence base: preclinical rodent and cell work from academic labs. There are NO human trials, no human pharmacokinetics, no human safety data and no published human dosing whatsoever — nothing here is derived from a study in people. It is sold as 1 mg oral tablets, so the 500-1000 mcg (0.5-1 mg) daily range shown is simply half a tablet to one tablet: a deliberately narrow, conservative reading of vendor packaging, not a validated dose. Human half-life is unknown, so it is left null rather than guessed. It is swallowed as tablets rather than reconstituted, so the reconstitution fields do not apply. Treat every number on this page as the lowest possible confidence.

Side by side

The numbers

5-Amino-1MQ compared with SLU-PP-332
Attribute5-Amino-1MQSLU-PP-332
ClassMetabolicMetabolic
RoutesOralOral
Dose range50 mg–150 mg (typical 100 mg)500 mcg–1 mg (typical 1 mg)
FrequencyOnce dailyOnce daily
Half-lifeNot characterizedNot characterized
Cycle length12 weeks8 weeks
ExperienceIntermediateAdvanced
EvidenceAnimal / cell data onlyAnimal / cell data only
Contraindications
  • Pregnant / nursing
  • Under 18
  • Pregnant / nursing
  • Under 18
Side effects
  • Insomnia or restlessness if taken late in the day
  • Mild nausea or stomach upset
  • Headache
  • Jitteriness in sensitive users
  • Unknown in humans — no clinical safety data of any kind exists
  • Stimulant-like restlessness or insomnia reported anecdotally, not in any trial
  • Elevated heart rate reported anecdotally
  • Rodent studies used doses far above anything sold to consumers, so the animal safety record does not translate to human tablets

Goals

Where they overlap, and where they do not

Goal5-Amino-1MQSLU-PP-332
fat loss
5-Amino-1MQ: 4/5
SLU-PP-332: 4/5
metabolic health
5-Amino-1MQ: 4/5
SLU-PP-332: 4/5
longevity
5-Amino-1MQ: 2/5
SLU-PP-332: 2/5
muscle growth
5-Amino-1MQ: 2/5
SLU-PP-332: 2/5

They overlap on 4 goals and diverge on 0. Weights are this site’s editorial priority score out of 5 — how central a goal is to why people use a compound. They are not effect sizes and two 5s do not mean two equal results.

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