10MG VIAL
₱4,200–5,500
RECONSTITUTED
5mg/mL, 50 units
DOSES PER VIAL
2
EVIDENCE
Rodent / cell
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Delivery windows, courier rates and the current in-stock list for this district sit on our partner and supplier’s own BGC page: buy peptides in BGC.
Full mechanism and citations sit on the MOTS-c compound page. Supply scarcity and cost arithmetic sit on the Metro Manila hub. This filing is High Street, Uptown, McKinley and Ususan.
BGC is the most measured square kilometre in the Philippines. Ring data, sleep scores, continuous glucose monitors on people with entirely normal glucose, VO2 estimates argued about over coffee on High Street. That culture is why MOTS-c lands here at all, because a compound framed around mitochondrial signalling and AMPK slots neatly into a worldview built on dashboards.
It is also why the misreading happens. Exercise mimetic sounds like a substitution claim, or at minimum a multiplier claim. Take the compound, get some fraction of the training adaptation without the training, or get more adaptation from the training you already do. Neither of those is what the term means. It means that in animal models the peptide engages some of the same intracellular pathways that physical activity engages. Pathway overlap in a mouse is a long way from an outcome in a person tracking their own weekly load.
I would rather lose the sale than let this one go uncorrected, because it is the misreading most likely to cause someone to train less.
Here is the actual record, which is genuinely interesting and worth reading on its own terms rather than through a fitness lens.
| Study | Model | What it reported |
|---|---|---|
| Lee 2015, Cell Metabolism | Rodent and cell | Identification of MOTS-c as a mitochondrial-derived peptide; AMPK activation; effects on obesity and insulin resistance in animals. |
| Kim 2018, Cell Metabolism | Cell | Nuclear translocation of MOTS-c under metabolic stress, regulating nuclear gene expression. |
| Lu 2019, Frontiers in Endocrinology | Rodent | Increased adipose thermogenic activation in the context of cold adaptation. |
| Reynolds 2021, Nature Communications | Rodent | MOTS-c as an exercise-induced regulator of age-dependent physical decline and muscle homeostasis; aged mice showed improved exercise capacity. |
Read the model column twice. Rodent, cell, rodent, rodent. There is no human efficacy trial in that list because there is not one to put in it. Human work on MOTS-c is early and has not produced efficacy readouts, so no human performance, endurance, body composition or insulin-sensitivity outcome is supported by anything published.
BGC has the best physical conditions in the metro for handling this compound, which is worth using properly. New building stock, reliable power, decent fridges, and units that are not sharing a compressor with four other households.
The workflow is straightforward. A 10mg vial takes 2mL of bacteriostatic water, which gives 5mg per millilitre. On a U-100 insulin syringe a 5mg dose is 50 units. That is two doses out of the vial. Subcutaneous, three to five times weekly in the commonly cited research protocol. The reconstituted vial lives at 2 to 8 degrees, travels in an insulated pouch, and gets discarded at fourteen days.
The fourteen-day limit almost never bites, which surprises people. Two doses per vial means you finish it inside a week whatever frequency you run. The limit that actually matters in BGC is the one on your wallet, and the metro hub works that number through in full.
Keep unopened vials dry, sealed and out of the door shelf. Dry is the stable state and there is no reason to reconstitute more than one vial ahead.
For a district this fond of data, the surprising thing is how many people run a peptide block without a single blood draw either side of it. Ring metrics are not a metabolic panel.
St. Luke’s BGC has the endocrine clinic in-district and runs the tests that matter for a mitochondrial and metabolic compound: OGTT, HbA1c, fasted insulin and the HOMA-IR calculation. A fasted insulin, HbA1c and lipid panel runs PHP 2,800 to 3,800; an OGTT runs PHP 1,800 to 2,500. Neither produces a prescription, because there is nothing to prescribe. Both produce a before and an after, and without those you have spent a great deal of money to generate an anecdote.
The wider clinic and lab picture for the district is in our BGC city guide. For the compound MOTS-c is most often stacked with, see NAD+.
Parcel handling in BGC is the least troublesome in the metro. Uptown and High Street towers run concierge desks that log and hold properly, and the staff are used to medical deliveries. The dry vial makes it easier again: a few hours behind the desk while you finish a meeting is not a problem for lyophilized powder in insulation.
McKinley and Ususan behave differently and it is worth knowing which side of BGC you are on. Both are lower density than the core, addresses are less standardised, and riders more often need a call for the last stretch. Nothing about that endangers a dry vial. It just means a delivery window is a suggestion rather than a commitment.
The pattern I see among BGC longevity-stack readers is replenishment roughly every six weeks rather than stockpiling, and I think that is correct. Multi-vial parcels sitting warm at customs are a worse risk than running a small buffer, and given how thin MOTS-c supply is nationally, the buffer is the part worth planning. Order the next block before you finish the current one, not after.
No human efficacy data supports that, and BGC is the district where I have to say it most often. The exercise-mimetic label comes from animal work, principally Reynolds 2021 in Nature Communications, which characterised MOTS-c as an exercise-induced mitochondrial-encoded regulator of age-dependent physical decline in mice, and from earlier reports of aged mice showing improved exercise capacity. Nothing in that record is a human performance finding. If your training data is what you care about, the compound with a proven effect on your numbers is the training.
It cannot, and the framing is worth unpicking because it is specifically a BGC and Makati problem. Long commutes and heat genuinely suppress how much a desk-bound professional moves here, and an AMPK-adjacent compound reads as a workaround. But the mimetic label means pathway overlap observed in animals, not equivalence in people. Exercise does a long list of things beyond metabolic signalling, and MOTS-c has never been shown to substitute for any of them in a human being. Treat it as a possible complement to training you are already doing, and only if you are comfortable spending research money on a rodent-stage compound.
A 10mg vial reconstituted with 2mL of bacteriostatic water gives 5mg per millilitre, which on a U-100 insulin syringe is 50 units for a 5mg dose. That is two doses per vial. Store the reconstituted vial at 2 to 8 degrees, move it in an insulated pouch if it has to travel, and discard at fourteen days. In practice a 10mg vial is finished inside a week at any of the commonly cited frequencies, so the fourteen-day limit rarely binds. Keep unopened vials dry and sealed until you need them.
No. MOTS-c is unregistered with FDA Philippines and there is no prescribing route anywhere, so no hospital in the country dispenses it. What St. Luke’s BGC is useful for is the endocrine clinic and its lab work: OGTT, HbA1c, fasted insulin and the HOMA-IR calculation that follows from it. Those numbers are what turn a MOTS-c block into something you can actually evaluate afterwards. Run them before you start and again at the end.
It is the cleanest handoff in the metro. Uptown, High Street and the newer Taguig towers have concierge desks that accept parcels properly rather than improvising, and staff there are used to temperature-sensitive medical deliveries. MOTS-c makes it easier still because the vial ships dry, so a few hours at the desk costs you nothing. McKinley and Ususan are lower density and riders sometimes need a phone call for the last hundred metres, which is a timing issue rather than a product-integrity one.
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