On Friday, the USADA announced they have settled with Means on a six-month suspension, retroactive to provisional suspension they levied on February 3 after Ostarine was discovered in a random, out-of-competition drug test. According to supplementpolice.com, “Ostarine” is a type of selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) used to give you steroid-like benefits.”
The USADA determined the banned substance came from an unnamed contaminated supplement.
Means denied any wrongdoing from the jump. The 32-year-old was facing a two-year ban if the USADA rule in his favor.
Means was slated to headline UFC Fight Night 88 against Donald Cerrone in February, but was pulled from the scrap his flunked drug test.