N-17E legality!

I’ve been reading elswhere on the Net that Biotest’s new ether prohormones like N-17E are illegal because they are synthetics, not found in nature. Are you just trying to blow these past the DEA and FDA and hope you won’t be caught? I know this person saying this is right, he is a big expert in this field and for sure these ethers are not natural compounds but synthetics.

It is not unusual with nutritional compounds for the specific substance you are selling to not, in that exact form, be found in nature, but this form is being used because it provides in the body the natural substance. For example, Vitamin E is often provided as Vitamin E succinate or Vitamin E nicotinate. Neither is found in nature, but they are legal supplements because they are forms of the vittamin converting in the body to the natural product. Or same for chromium picolinate for example: not found in nature in that form, but in the body it gives chromium which is naturally found. These prodrugs or pronutrients are prohormones are made because in many cases, if you gave the unmodified natural compound, it would not be absorbed well by the body or has low bioavailability.

It is the same case with prohormones of steroids. Here we are providing a natural compound which itself has poor bioavailablity, and adding a group to it (which comes off in the body) to protect it so that it does have good bioavailibility. Same as with say Vitamin E succinate, where the succinate protects the Vitamin E and then comes off in the body yielding the Vitamin E, just as N-17E yields nandrolone which is currently accepted as being an “okay” natural substance to be providing: nor-4-AD which does the same thing has been on the market for a while and is accepted as legal by the FDA and DEA under current laws. We have had N-17E reviewed by legal experts and experts dealing with FDA approvals… no problem.

As for the “expert” you mention, there’s only one person
out there loudly denouncing Biotest. And guess what: he owns a company producing prohormones and N-17E is basically
going to destroy demand for his products.

By the way, this individual, prior to learning Biotest was going to sell N-17E, publicly engaged in a discussion with me on synthetics which went as follows:


(Bill Roberts) “How does it [another synthetic supplement] not meet those stipulations,
but say chromium picolinate or vitamin E succinate do? These
are synthetic and not found in nature either.”

Reply: “Quite easy Bill, they are “prodrugs” of natural compounds. the active component is the vitamin E and chromium ion.”

And exactly so for N-17E: it is a prodrug of a natural compound. The active compenent is the nandrolone, which is also the active component of a prohormone sold by his company.

There’s no issue here except for a competitor trying to play dirty pool and using arguments he doesn’t even believe himself. In other words, don’t believe everything you hear… some folks have quite a bit more “agenda” than they do “honesty.”