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SARMs may build muscle, but they don't have significant effect on body fat and thus the visibility of the muscles. Scientists from the  Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine at the internationally well-known German "anti-doping university", i.e. the German Sport University Cologne, have recently published an interesting paper in which they compared (to my knowledge for the first time) how metandienone aka dianabol , estradienedione and the selective androgen  receptor modulator (SARM) S-1  affect the body composition, hormone levels and selected health parameters of ... yeah, of course, of rodents . Before you are now telling me once more that "rodents are no little men", let me remind you of the fact that other SARMs, like LGD-4033 have recently been tested in humans at the Boston Medical Center (Basaria. 2013). Learn more about powerful muscle builders at the SuppVersity Tri- or Multi-Set Training for Body Recomp.? Alternatin...

Image 1: This is the "Fountain of Youth" in Karlsruhe, Germany. I have never been there, but I guess I should take the next train and check whether water contains 0.4% or 0.8% DHEA ;-) Outside of the medical practices of some anti-aging docs nobody appears to care about the "good old" dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), these days. As a diligent student of the SuppVersity, you are yet well aware of the reviving effects DHEA has on the liver (cf. August, 26, 2011 ), pancreas & insulin sensitivity (cf. May, 15, 2011 ) and adipocyte metabolism (cf. April, 8, 2011 ) in "older" people or everyone with suboptimal DHEA levels. You will also be aware that the adrenal steroid hormone which can be converted to testosterone (and thusly DHT or estrogen) at the target tissue exerted pretty astonishing effects on body composition in a handful of initial (very) high-dose trials. Follow up studies in the late 1990s were yet mostly unable to reproduce these encouraging...