Cerebrolysin = pig brain snake oil<p>"Cerebrolysin is an unregulated medical product made from enzymatically digested pig brain tissue. Hundreds of scientific papers claim that it boosts BDNF, stimulates neurogenesis, and can help treat numerous neural diseases...<p>A recent video of Bryan Johnson injecting Cerebrolysin has over a million views on X and 570,000 views on YouTube. The drug, which is advertised as a “peptide combination”, can be purchased easily online and appears to be growing in popularity among biohackers, rationalists, and transhumanists. The subreddit r/Cerebrolysin has 3,100 members."<p>HPLC and other evidence shows that rather than containing neurotrophic peptides, "Cerebrolysin is likely composed of amino acids, phosphates, and salt, along with some random protein fragments."