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Boldenone Undecylenate (Equipoise)

An anabolic steroid developed for veterinary use that was never FDA-approved for human medicine.

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Research records

Historical source snapshot. Not freshly verified, not a recommendation. Study findings, community accounts and app defaults are not interchangeable.

Publication suitability · 2026-10-15: Historical reference only; not a clinical verification. Clinical, regulatory, efficacy, safety and dose claims are not independently established by this review.

Boldenone Undecylenate (Equipoise)

An anabolic steroid developed for veterinary use that was never FDA-approved for human medicine.

Evidence category: Preclinical. This describes the source category, not approval or certainty.

Regulatory statement in source: Never approved for human use (veterinary only).

Boldenone undecylenate (Equipoise) is a synthetic anabolic steroid originally developed for veterinary use, primarily in horses. It was marketed as Parenabol for human use in the 1950s-1970s but was discontinued and never received modern FDA approval. It is not approved for any human medical condition.

Benefits reported in the imported source

    Risks and limits

    • Not approved for human use; safety and efficacy in humans not established under modern standards
    • Schedule III controlled substance in the United States
    • No current medical indication

    Source bottom line: Never approved for human medical use despite historical veterinary application; classified as a controlled substance.

    Uncertainty: Reference information only. Not medical advice.

    Study protocols — reports, not instructions

    No study protocol recorded in this snapshot. This does not establish that no study exists.

    Community and practice descriptions

    Accounts of a practice are not evidence of safety or effectiveness. Words such as “standard”, “safe” or “recommended” describe the source account, not verified consensus or this wiki’s advice. Commercial and self-published citations are retained for traceability, not vendor endorsement or independent clinical corroboration.

    No community description recorded. This entry has no final B-82 outcome record; it is not a researched-empty finding.

    Pharmacokinetic context

    Historical half-life estimate: 336 hours. Westreich, in Ruiz & Strain, Lowinson and Ruiz's Substance Abuse (2011), p.358 — compiled reference, no controlled human PK trial; boldenone is primarily a veterinary compound Population/route context and estimates may differ. This is not a schedule or a verified human dosing rule.

    Source references

    Snapshot provenance

    Source ID: catalog:hormone:boldenone-undecylenate. Commit: adc7684614f9439b41d91a3312b62e7982c7e20e. Review state: historical-not-reverified. Authored links are retained separately from the canonical evidence links in the public data. App templates/defaults and rejected drafts are archived, not deployed.

    Related entries and components

    None listed.