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Methasterone vs Oxymetholone

Both are anabolic steroid compounds. Here's how they line up on the evidence — graded the same way.

MethasteroneOxymetholone
Evidence 3/10 9/10
ClassAnabolic steroidAnabolic steroid
SummaryMethasterone is an oral 17α-alkylated anabolic-androgenic steroid (a 17α-methyl version of drostanolone), never an approved medicine; its only robust human evidence is harm — severe cholestatic liver injury — not efficacy.Oxymetholone is a potent oral anabolic-androgenic steroid (not a peptide) with genuine controlled-trial support in wasting illness, but it carries serious, well-documented liver, lipid, and hormonal risks.
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Methasterone

Methasterone — most people know it by the designer-supplement name Superdrol, and chemists call it methyldrostanolone — is a man-made anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS), not a peptide. It is an oral steroid built on a dihydrotestosterone backbone, with a chemical tweak called 17α-alkylation that…

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Oxymetholone

Oxymetholone, sold as Anadrol-50 (and once known as Anapolon), is a synthetic anabolic-androgenic steroid (a lab-made hormone that builds muscle and acts like testosterone), usually shortened to AAS. You take it as a pill, and it comes from dihydrotestosterone, a natural form of testosterone. To be…

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