SARMs: Everything You Need to Know
Case Study #3 – The Gym-Goer
Aaron, a 33-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent, used to use steroids but stopped after
suffering severe acne. Two years ago, he saw a YouTube video recommending SARMs, “basically saying they’ve got dead-low risks and all the benefits of anabolic steroids”. His first course of ostarine seemed to work. “I put on quite a bit of muscle, I was really lean, I looked really, really good in a very short time period,” he says. The effects were less dramatic than when he’d taken steroids, but SARMs seemed much safer and the side effects less severe. Aaron placed another order and went on to run three more cycles.
Halfway through his fourth cycle, Aaron noticed an alarming development: his testicles had shrunk. “I just woke up one day and they were gone,” he says. He stopped taking SARMs and began taking hormones in an attempt to kickstart his body’s natural testosterone production. It didn’t work. “I was doing everything I could and they just wouldn’t come back,” he says. “So, I made the decision to turn to anabolics.” Aaron believes he was sold oral steroids under the guise of SARMs, which caused his body’s natural testosterone production to shut down. He’s now resigned to permanently cycling steroids: “I’m ready to do what I’m doing now for the rest of my life.”