Is Enclomiphene legal in Canada?

Enclomiphene is one half of the fertility drug clomiphene. Men get it off-label from compounding pharmacies to raise their own testosterone while keeping sperm production. The FDA has never approved it on its own and has turned it down more than once.

Enclomiphene blocks estrogen signals in the brain. The pituitary gland answers by releasing more of the hormones LH and FSH, which tell the testes to make more testosterone.

How it works: It blocks estrogen receptors in the part of the brain that controls hormones. The brain answers by sending more of the signals that tell the testes to make testosterone.

Approval history: Not FDA-approved (the FDA turned down its applications with 'complete response' letters); available on prescription, made up by compounding pharmacies

Allows a drug to be sold by issuing a Notice of Compliance and a Drug Identification Number (DIN). A compound that is not allowed for sale cannot legally be sold for use in people. Bringing in prescription drugs for your own use is also limited.

The legal category above is how The Longevity Archive reads Health Canada, Health Products and Food Branch listings for Enclomiphene on the reviewed date. It is not a legal opinion. Rules change. Bringing a compound into the country, prescribing it and owning it can each be treated differently. Check with the agency before you act on anything here.

Check Health Canada directly

Whether Enclomiphene is banned in sport is set by the World Anti-Doping Code and by military rules, not by its legal status in Canada. Before you compete or get tested, look up Enclomiphene by name on the Prohibited List, or look up a named product in Global DRO. Under the World Anti-Doping Code, category S0 bans, at all times, any drug-like substance that meets two tests. No other section of the List covers it. And no government health regulator anywhere has a current approval for it as a treatment in people. Many substances that are approved somewhere are banned by name in another section. So approval does not mean a substance is allowed in sport.

• WADA Prohibited List
• Global DRO (check a named product)
• USADA (US athletes)
• Operation Supplement Safety (US service members)

The rules you compete or serve under decide this, not this page.