Pinealon is one of the least discussed compounds in mainstream longevity medicine — and that obscurity is itself worth examining. Derived from pineal gland tissue and developed within a serious, decades-long Russian bioregulatory peptide research programme, it sits at the intersection of two of the most compelling areas in ageing biology: the decline of the pineal gland as a master regulator of circadian timing, and the emerging science of epigenetic modulation as a mechanism for restoring youthful gene expression patterns in ageing neurons. In this episode, Dr. Ethan Hausman-Marquis traces Pinealon from its origins in the St. Petersburg school of biogerontology through to its proposed mechanisms — BDNF-adjacent neuroprotection, circadian clock gene modulation, and a genuinely novel hypothesis about direct peptide-DNA interaction — and examines w ...