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Sarms

People mainly take Sarms for performance. Based on 14 first-hand reports and 3 meta-analyses & systematic reviews in the medical literature. Ranked #959 of 1,974 overall.

15
User score
Mixed
7% positive14% mixed14% negative64% unclear

Of reports that state an outcome, 20% are positive.

Clinical research
BModerate research base
3
meta-analyses
2
RCTs
358
papers
High-risk compound. SARMs are not approved as supplements, carry serious and sometimes irreversible risks, are banned in competitive sport and may be restricted where you live. Nothing here is a recommendation to use it.

What Sarms does, according to users

Of the people who reported each effect, the share who said it got better.

What the research says

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses from PubMed, with their published conclusions.

BModerate research base

At least one meta-analysis, or 5+ randomized controlled trials. The grade measures how much human research exists — read the conclusions below for what it found.

Sports Health · 2024 · Meta-analysis / systematic review
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Healthy Athletes: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

Conclusion: In young healthy persons and athletes, creatine can safely provide a performance-enhancing benefit when taken in controlled doses. AAS, GH, and rHuEPO are associated with severe adverse events and do not support a performance benefit, despite showing the ability to change bodily composition, strength, and/or physiologic measures. Cannabis may have an ergolytic, instead of ergogenic, effect.

PubMed 37688400 ↗
Am J Sports Med · 2025 · Meta-analysis / systematic review
Athlete Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators Abuse: A Systematic Review

Conclusion: The results of this systematic review serve to educate sports medicine clinicians and researchers on how to better identify, diagnose, and treat athlete SARM abuse. SARM use is associated with increased muscle mass, hepatotoxicity, cardiotoxicity, tendon damage, and androgenic side effects throughout the body-including prostate enlargement and serum testosterone suppression. Identifying and treating SARM abuse requires taking a thorough substance and supplement use history with open communication, providing literature-supported patient education, negotiating SARM discontinuation, and performin

PubMed 39755947 ↗

Dosage people report

As stated by users — not a recommendation. Follow the label or your doctor.

cycleas reported

Reported side effects

How often each side effect came up across all reports.

suppression ×3liver toxicity ×1heart attack ×1hair loss ×1high cholesterol ×1libido issues ×1

What users say

Verbatim quotes, shortened only — each links to the original discussion.

“They use all kinds of things. From EPO to PPAR agonists to SARMs to Peptides.”
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“Nothing. Sarms are a waste.”
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“someone wanting to "make their jawline better/grow taller" via SARM's or peptides”
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“If you're an experienced lifter, take a peek into Sarms ;)”
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“This week the USA introduced new legislation to ban SARMs and related PEDs...SARMs have been abused in sporting contests and make headlines when someone is convicted of doping.”
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Top discussions (5)

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