What Cardarine is

Class and mechanism

Cardarine is a PPAR-delta agonist. A selective agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta, studied for fatty acid oxidation and endurance phenotypes. Not a hormone and not an androgen, despite frequently being grouped with SARMs.

Where it sits

Oral compounds are tablets, and the structural feature that makes a compound orally active is usually 17-alpha-alkylation, which resists first-pass hepatic metabolism. That same feature is why oral compounds are discussed differently from injectables.

Other names

Cardarine is also written as GW-501516 and GW1516. The same molecule appears under more than one name, which is worth knowing when comparing listings between suppliers.

Others in the oral compounds range

Cardarine sits in the oral compounds group. The compounds below share that grouping, which is the useful starting point when comparing one against another: same group means the comparison is like for like, different group usually means it is not.