 Next question is from Andrew Schimel. What is all this hype around SARMs? SARMs keeps coming up. Dude, can I tell you guys something right now? So I did a little, I was doing a little research because there's a lot more SARMs that are out than when I first read about them. And so I went on Google, did a little bit of research, go back to Facebook, and I'm getting ads like crazy from companies on Facebook. There's so many of these companies selling. Did you buy them online pretty easily? Very easily. Now, here's a funny thing. Back when I really started reading them when SARMs started becoming out, by the way, I appreciate your patience. I'll get into what SARMs are and what I think about them. Well, it's crazy. When I first started researching them, so SARMs exist in this gray market. They're not legal for human consumption or for sale for human consumption. They're currently considered research chemicals, which means you can buy them for research. Anybody can buy them for research. So it's like this gray market area. Now, in the past, when you bought a SARM, it would come in a liquid form, it would have a dropper and measurement, so it looked like a research chemical. They're selling it as capsules and bottles that look like bodybuilding stuff. I don't even fucking know. They're not even trying to cover it. No, it's crazy. Okay, so what are SARMs? So SARMs stands for Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator. So what are Androgen Receptors? These are the receptors that testosterone attaches to. Testosterone is an Androgen and anabolic hormone. Now, why they developed SARMs was they were trying to develop a drug that would be able to target specific tissues of the body, but not affect other. So if you take testosterone, your muscles will get affected, your bones will get affected, you'll build more muscle, you'll build more bone, but your whole body has, there's Androgen Receptors all over. So you might get oilier skin. If you're a woman, you'll get masculinization. You might grow facial hair. You might grow a small penis. No joke, clitoris grows. All these... You've seen those. Yeah, all these, and I have seen them, by the way, it's weird. All these symptoms that you'll get all over. So it's like, okay, we wanna get the benefits of the anabolic benefits of testosterone, but we don't want any of these other potential side effects or whatever. So what they did is they created chemicals that are pretty selective with how they attached to these Androgen receptors. And the promise is that you take them and you build muscle. So if you've got muscle wasting disease, cancer, AIDS, osteoporosis, but you're not getting effects like testosterone, the other effects like testosterone. So that's the promise. Now, of course, athletes get their hands on it, like, oh, cool, I can take this and get effects like steroids, and it's not illegal, but it's not legal, but it's okay, I can buy it online. Here's the problem with SARMs. They are new, they're experimental. Most of them aren't even in human trials. Some of them are just in animal trials. The ones that are in human trials are not, it's still anywhere close to getting approved. So you are literally experimenting on yourself with drugs that you're buying from people who, I don't, you don't know if they're putting it in there or they're not putting it in there, what the deal is. Now I've heard a lot of athletes and, you know, because it was attracted because it wasn't necessarily steroids, but they thought there might be a way around that, maybe through testing, I don't know what they're thinking. Oh, they can test for SARMs. Okay, so now they can test for them, but I didn't hear about it being that big in the bodybuilding community, or is that not- No, no, no, bodybuilders using SARMs. Right, they're already using all the real stuff. If you talk to a bodybuilder about this, they think it's stupid. Because they think, and I agree with this statement, is that we have more research- Oh my God, we know what testosterone and steroids- The truth is, the only reason why this is even a popular conversation, and I totally remember being this boy, you know? It's hitting the 17 to 25-year-old market like crazy. Oh, I would fall for this. Yeah, 100% I would, too. Because they've done such a good job of stigmatizing steroids, and it's got such a bad name for itself, and it's like needle, and it's like- Well, no, I'm natural. Right, I'm taking SARMs out. Right, so, you know- And this is over-the-counter stuff. You get to claim your natural, this- You don't have to go to the black market. You don't gotta inject a needle into yourself. Right, it's oral. Right, and so you, as a teenage boy who was curious about these things, I would probably feel like this is me dipping my toe in the water without going full steroids. Now, SARMs work. They build muscle. They definitely have anabolic effects in the body. So they do work. I wouldn't fuck with it. We just don't know a lot about them because they're new chemicals, so it's like you're playing a game, you don't know what the deal is. In fact, recently, I just talked to Ben Greenfield, actually the other day about him, he was all pro-SARM for a while. He goes, you know what? To be honest with you now, we're noticing that there may be some cancer pathways that could be activated from this. I mean, we don't know a lot because they're new chemicals. You know, CrossFit athletes were getting busted with SARMs all the time. Yeah, left and right, yeah. Left and right because they were getting tested for steroids, but they're like, oh, we could do this. SARM, wasn't it that girl that got busted and she said it's because she'll make it out with a boyfriend? Yeah, it was like his lotion that got on her or something. And there's female athletes are using SARMs because they're being told it's not gonna have any masculinizing effects on the body. But there's so many of them that are out there now, it's wild, like some build more mass and some are better for bone, whatever. And I'm doing all this reading like, and here's a shitty part, right? This is crazy. And I'm just gonna warn everybody, if you try to do research on SARMs, here's how these internet marketers are. And they're smart. It's sleazy, but it's smart. They'll write blogs and articles pretending to be scientific reviews of the SARMs, but in reality, what they're doing is they're trying to populate the front page, the first page of Google. Yeah, when you search it. So when you go first page of Google, SARM reviews, it's all written by these SARM guys who are selling it and they're pretending to be so like, oh well, it says here there's no risks at all. And they're very safe and the studies say that they're really good. And wow, look, this company's got like, certification showing that it's pure or whatever. No, man, I wouldn't mess with that. I mean, if you want to experiment with your body, it's fine, it's your body. Yeah, but I just saw, I mean, in that case, if you're gonna go that far, I just feel like you may as well dip into the testosterone world. I just, if you're gonna- It's definitely, we know what it does. I mean, and I want to make this clear. I'm not promoting that to anybody, right? I'm not, definitely, especially 17 to 25 year old boys that you should go out and try NSF. But if I was to go be, if I was talking to 17 year old me who easily would have been, you know, persuaded by this SARMs, right? If I could go back and talk to him, I would just say, yo, bro, if you're gonna dabble in this world, you may as well- If it's either that or steroids, you could take steroids and do them right. Because there is a lot of research around that and we know so much more of the effects. And a lot of the things that you talk about, like masculizing and some of the potential side effects of that, all those increase with the higher and higher doses of that. They do, and it's usually for women that have an issue with that. The guys who take antibiotics, if they take testosterone, they probably like the masculinizing aggression, the confidence, that kind of feeling that you get from it. Here's the truth. Testosterone is an, for men, it's an extremely safe hormone. It's one of the safest hormones. You can give a man, you know, thousands of times more testosterone. Because you recognize it right away. He might get some symptoms and stuff, but it's not gonna kill him like insulin would do. You know, insulin would kill you right away or, you know, other hormones. But SARMs, ads, it's crazy though. I'm looking at these ads, I'm really dug deep. I'm reading and I'm like, man, if I was a kid and I'm the research, even as a kid, I was a researcher, right? I loved the research thing. I would have got sold. I would have read five articles. Oh, all of them say that there's no harmful issues and the rat studies show that there's no toxicity and it doesn't suppress your testosterone. It does. You take SARMs, you will also affect your natural testosterone level. So some people are like, well, I don't wanna take steroids because it'll lower my testosterone. Same thing with SARMs, that'll still happen. But yeah, I would have fallen for it. I totally would have fallen for it. Yeah, me too. User beware.