About the Institute
Dr Vahe & the Longevity Institute
A physician-led reference room for peptide and longevity medicine
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
The Longevity Institute is a small, physician-led editorial project with a single purpose: to translate what the peptide and longevity literature actually says into something a patient and their doctor can sit down and read together.
What you read here is written for the reader — not for a sponsor and not for a prescription pad.
Nothing published here is a prescription or a substitute for care. Think of it as a well-lit reference room — one that respects your intelligence and your right to ask better questions about how you age.
Who writes this
Dr Vahe is a surgeon with deep training in internal medicine, molecular biology, and clinical research methodology. His work spans the operating theatre, the research bench, files longest-standing interest in longevity science — from peptide signaling and tissue repair to metabolic regulation, home optimisation, and the systems biology of aging.
The Institute grew out of a frustration he saw repeatedly: patients arriving with fragments of information mined from forums and marketing pages, but without a sober, clinician-readable map of what the literature actually says. This site is his attempt to build that map in public — careful reading, plain language, and a clear line between what is established, what is emerging, and what remains a reasonable hypothesis waiting for a proper trial.
Editorial principles
- Evidence before enthusiasm
- Every claim is graded against the strongest available source — human trials first, then translational and mechanistic work. Where the evidence is thin, we say so plainly rather than borrow confidence from an adjacent study.
- Independence
- No paid placements, no affiliate links to compounds, no sponsored monographs. When a conflict of interest exists, it is disclosed at the top of the page it touches.
- Safety in the foreground
- Contraindications, monitoring requirements, and known adverse effects are given the same weight as mechanism and dosing. If a molecule needs bloodwork, we say which panels and how often.
- Written for the room, not the algorithm
- Our audience is the informed patient and the curious clinician. We would rather be precise and quiet than viral and vague.
What this site is — and isn't
The Institute publishes monographs, protocols, calculators, and bloodwork references for educational use. It is a reading library, not a pharmacy, not a telehealth service, and not a substitute for a relationship with a physician who knows your history.
Decisions about your own body belong with you and the clinician who examines you. Please bring what you learn here into that conversation — that is the whole point.
Contact & corrections
If you find a factual error, a mis-cited study, or an outdated recommendation, please write to us. Corrections are logged and dated on the page they affect.
Editorial: info@doctorvahe.com