Manufacturing
Lyophilisation, and why every Optigenix pen starts freeze-dried
Lyophilisation – freeze-drying – is the manufacturing step that turns a liquid peptide preparation into the dry powder inside every Optigenix pen. It is not a shortcut. It is the reason a peptide can sit in a sealed cartridge for years and still work when you reconstitute it.
This page covers the process and why it matters to the end user.
The process
The three stages of lyophilisation
What is preserved
What lyophilisation preserves
The trade-off
What the user has to do differently
Freeze-dried peptide requires reconstitution – the powder has to be dissolved in bacteriostatic water before use. This is a small extra step versus a pre-filled pen. In return, you get:
- A peptide that survived shipping in the same condition it left the factory
- Multi-year shelf-life versus weeks-in-solution
- No lot-to-lot variability from degradation in transit
Our reconstitution guide walks through the two-minute procedure.
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