Methyltestosterone, sold under the brand names Android, Metandren, and Testred among others, is an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS) prescription which is utilized in the therapy of low testosterone levels in men, postponed pubescence in young men, at low dosages as a part of menopausal chemical treatment for menopausal side effects like hot glimmers, osteoporosis, and low sexual craving in ladies, and to treat bosom disease in women. It is taken by mouth or held in the cheek or under the tongue.

Results of methyltestosterone incorporate side effects of masculinization like skin break out, expanded hair development, voice changes, and expanded sexual desire. It can likewise cause estrogenic impacts like liquid maintenance, bosom delicacy, and bosom broadening in men and liver damage. The medication is an engineered androgen and anabolic steroid and thus is an agonist of the androgen receptor (AR), the organic objective of androgens like testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT). It makes moderate androgenic impacts and moderate anabolic impacts, which make it valuable for creating masculinization.

Methyltestosterone was found in 1935 and was presented for clinical use in 1936. It was made soon after the revelation of testosterone and was perhaps the earliest engineered Aa to be developed. notwithstanding its clinical use, methyltestosterone is utilized to further develop build and execution, in spite of the fact that it isn't quite as regularly utilized as different AAS for such purposes because of its androgenic impacts, estrogenic impacts, and hazard of liver damage. The medication is a controlled substance in numerous nations thus non-clinical use is for the most part illicit.