IronMag Labs: the Nevada brand behind Super DMZ, its designer steroids, its SARM case, and what it sells now

Who they are, and what the record says

IronMag Labs is a sports-supplement brand in Henderson, Nevada. In the federal record it is IronMag Labs, LLC, a Nevada company at 1860 Whitney Mesa Drive, Suite 120: that is the address on the FDA's warning letter of May 2022 and on every trademark it registered.[1][2] A federal court described it in 2018 as a company that "advertises and sells fitness supplements" to bodybuilders across the country, and found it a Nevada company.[3]

The site came first. ironmaglabs.com was archived in May 2004 as a page saying the products were "coming soon at ironmaglabs com".[4] Its About page that June named the founders and owners, Robert and Gena DiMaggio, and promised to sell only "high quality supplements" by "producing quality supplements that actually meet their label claims".[5] By 2011 the company described itself this way: "ironmaglabs inc is a privately owned company was formed in 2005 and is a subsidiary of ironmagazine com llc".[6] In 2026 its About page says the brand was born in 2004 and has been in business since 2005.[7] Its founder is the person to whom the FDA addressed its 2022 letter, and he was a defendant, with the company, in the false-advertising case described below.[1][8]

Figure 1. June 2004, the About page of a site that still said its products were coming soon. It names the founders and owners and promises supplements "that actually meet their label claims". [5]

The record also uses a second name, Iron Mag Research, a Nevada company that was a defendant alongside IronMag Labs in the Ninth Circuit appeal.[8] IronMag's forum moderators in 2015 gave discount codes for both.[9]

What it sold, 2010 to 2016

Super DMZ. IronMag's best-known product was a series. In December 2010 the home page sold Super DMZ Rx as "the strongest legal compound available period", with dimethazine named by its chemical name and described as "pharmaceutical grade superdrol dymethazine".[10] The product page in June 2011 said it "will increase lean muscle mass and strength at a level that is comparable to popular anabolic steroids such as dianabol and anadrol". It placed the product in history, "since the pro hormone ban of 2005", and closed with an invitation: "move beyond the pro hormones of yesterday and step into the future of designer steroids with dymethazine". The directions began "suggested use as a dietary supplement".[11] A sister product, Metha-Drol Extreme, explained the chemistry: "dymethazine is essentially two superdrol molecules that are bonded by an azine bridge".[12]

Figure 2. December 2010. The first Super DMZ, sold as "the strongest legal compound available period", with its steroid named by chemistry on the home page. [10]

Superdrol is the trade name of methasterone: the DEA's rule recalls an FDA warning about "the product superdrol methasterone".[13] The Drug Enforcement Administration made it a controlled substance in 2012, in a rule effective 29 August: "these steroids and their salts esters and ethers are schedule iii controlled substances". The rule counted the market it was closing: "62 dietary supplements were purported to contain methasterone".[13]

The second version, Super DMZ Rx 2.0, held dimethazine and methylstenbolone, as the Blackstone Labs dossier on this site describes from the superdmz.com page of September 2012. That page shows an IronMag bottle.[14] The third version arrived in December 2013 as "the most powerful triple stack designer on the market". Its Supplement Facts panel listed three compounds by chemical name, 10 mg each: methylstenbolone, a compound called methyl-1-etiocholenolol-epietiocholanolone, and dimethazine. The page said the second converted to the "exceedingly strong but banned methyl 1 testosterone".[15]

Figure 3. Super DMZ Rx 3.0, December 2013, a year before the designer steroid law. Three compounds, 10 mg each, named only by their chemistry on the Supplement Facts panel. [15]

The designer steroid law. The Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2014 is titled "an act to amend the controlled substances act to more effectively regulate anabolic steroids".[16] In the DEA's count "the statute lists 25 substances".[17] It also added a clause for the ones not named: a substance that "is derived from or has a chemical structure substantially similar to 1 or more anabolic steroids listed in subparagraph a shall be considered to be an anabolic steroid", if it is made or marketed to build muscle.[18] One of the named entries is "2α,17α-dimethyl-17β-hydroxy-5α-androstan-3-one", the chemical name of methasterone; the DEA said in 2023 that "methasterone and prostanozol were included in the statute but were already listed".[18][17] IronMag's own panel named dimethazine as that chemical name with the word azine added.[15] The statute does not list dimethazine or methylstenbolone by name, and this dossier makes no finding on whether the substantially-similar clause reaches either. No court document we read rules on an IronMag steroid product.

SARMs. In February 2012 IronMag announced OSTA RX: "a compound not an anabolic steroid which has the ability to stimulate the androgen receptor".[19] By 2014 the product page promised "no balding no acne no shutdown and no toxicity".[20] Super DMZ Rx 4.0 followed in 2015 as a "mega muscle mass complex anabolic androgenic extreme strength power increased aggression".[21] A federal court later found that both contained ostarine, and that "ostarine is a type of selective androgen receptor modulator".[3] By November 2015 a moderator on the company's forum said Super DMZ 4.0 was sold out and "it was on clearance".[9] The company told the court that it "stopped advertising and selling" OSTA RX and Super DMZ 4.0 "in 2016 and does not sell any product containing any sarm".[22]

Figure 4. OSTA RX in October 2014, sold as a SARM. Further down the same page: "no balding no acne no shutdown and no toxicity". A federal court later found the company's no-side-effect claims literally false. [20]

Prohormones. Alongside the designer steroids ran a line of DHEA-type prohormones under the names 1-Andro Rx, 4-Andro Rx and Epi-Andro Rx, all on the product menu by December 2013.[15] They later moved into creams. In 2021 Gear Cream claimed "gear contains 6 potent prohormone compounds", listed as 4-DHEA, epiandrosterone, 7-keto DHEA, 1-DHEA, 5-DHEA and androsta-3,5-diene-7,17-dione.[23] By March 2022 the shop led with creams, a "super 4 andro cream" first.[24]

Figure 5. Gear Cream, January 2021: the prohormones moved into a rub-on cream, six of them in one bottle. The creams were gone from the shop by 2026. [23]

The Blackstone connection

IronMag's own forum shows how Super DMZ reached Blackstone Labs. On 4 September 2012, an administrator posted that "an independent distributor bought every last bottle" of the IronMag product, with a link to superdmz.com and a Blackstone banner. The next day a second administrator wrote that "blackstone labs will be the last place you can ever buy super dmz rx 2 0", "and yes they are an authorized reseller".[14] IronMag's own product pages that month listed "top retailers blackstone labs".[25] Blackstone Labs had been formed in Florida that August; its dossier on this site has the rest of its story, including its 2021 guilty plea in a case that named Super DMZ Rx 2.0.

Figure 6. IronMag's own forum, 4 and 5 September 2012. Blackstone Labs, formed a week earlier, was its "authorized reseller" for the last of Super DMZ Rx 2.0. Three years later IronMag sued Blackstone over the name. [14]

Three years later the two companies were in court over the name. IronMag registered SUPER DMZ as a trademark on 19 May 2015 and, eight days later, sued Blackstone in Los Angeles for trademark infringement and unfair competition.[2][26] Its complaint said it had used the name since 1 January 2010, that Blackstone was selling its own SUPER DMZ products without permission, and that Blackstone had refused a written demand to stop.[26] On 22 July 2015 the court transferred the case to the federal court in Florida; the court reported the transfer to the trademark office, which filed the report in the SUPER DMZ record.[27] The court mirror holds only the complaint and its two exhibits. We found no judgment and no settlement.

Figure 7. May 2015: IronMag sues Blackstone over SUPER DMZ, eight days after the mark was registered. The court sent the case to Florida in July. [26]

Figure 8. The court's report to the trademark office, filed in the SUPER DMZ registration's own record: suit filed, then "order transferring case to usdc florida". [27]

What it sells now

Figure 9. September 2026, the latest capture. No steroid names, no creams. The footer now says the products "are not to be used as dietary supplements". [28]

The catalogue in 2026. The September 2026 home page lists twelve products: Anabolic Matrix, Andro Hard, Carb Fix, Cycle Support, Dream N Grow, E-Control, Ephedra Stack, KSM-66 Max, Max Pump V2, Stimulate, Turkesterone and Ultra Male. Andro Hard was out of stock.[28] Its May 2026 page sells a capsule "powered by r dhea epi dhea", androsterone and epiandrosterone under their chemical names.[29] The About page now says the top seller "was super dmz", "which has now been discontinued".[7]

Ephedra Stack. In August 2019 each capsule listed ephedra extract 25 mg, caffeine 150 mg, white willow bark 40 mg and "higenamine 30mg".[30] By May 2026 the higenamine is gone and the fourth line is "synephrine hcl 30mg"; the page adds that the product "does not contain ephedrine alkaloids".[31] What the ephedra extract does contain is not stated. The FDA banned dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids in 2004, as the pre-workout deep dive on this site explains.

Figure 10. Ephedra Stack before and after the letter. The 30 mg of higenamine is gone by 2026, replaced by 30 mg of synephrine; the ephedra extract stays, with a line saying it carries no ephedrine alkaloids. [31]

The creams. In May 2025 a buyer in r/prohormones reported a clearance sale on the 4-Andro and 19-nor creams and wrote "i'm thinking they're trying to dump inventory".[32] In October another said "iml is not coming back with their creams i emailed them and asked".[33] The 2026 shop lists none.[28] We found no federal rule in the Federal Register scheduling 1-androsterone or 4-DHEA that would explain it.

What the site says it sells. The 2026 About page says the brand "exists to provide the most hardcore pure and legal supplements in the industry".[7] The 2026 footer says "our products are not to be used as dietary supplements".[28] The Ephedra Stack bottle in the same year's photograph is labelled a dietary supplement.[31]

What buyers report

We searched r/prohormones, r/moreplatesmoredates, r/steroids, r/bodybuilding, r/Supplements, r/sarmssourcetalk and r/PEDs on 2026-10-12 through the Arctic Shift archive, for "ironmag", "iron mag", "super dmz" and "gear cream". After removing threads that did not name the brand or a product, 72 remained, from 2017 to 2026, almost all in r/prohormones. We read every title and 14 threads in full.[34]

Most are cycle questions about the creams, which buyers liked more than they complained about. "i've heard nothing but amazing things about iron mag labs" (2021).[35] "their topical dhea's are legit" (2023).[36] The complaints are about price and side effects, not delivery: Gear Cream "does work however it's not worth it in my opinion super overpriced"[37]; on the 4-Andro cream, "last week i've been getting a dull annoying testicle pain".[38] We found no thread about a lost order or a refused refund, and none alleging a fake product.

Lab results

The company has said for fifteen years that it tests. In 2011: "our pro anabolic compounds are all independently lab tested before encapsulation".[6] In 2026: "all of our prohormones and compounds used in our products are all third party independently lab tested", and its products "contain exactly what is on the label".[7] We found no certificate of analysis on any product page we read, from Super DMZ Rx in 2011 to Ephedra Stack in 2026.[11][31] This site's lab-results section holds no test of an IronMag product.

Regulatory and legal

Figure 11. Twenty-two years in one column, drawn by us from the court record, the FDA's two letters, the DEA's rules, the trademark office and the archived site. [39]

The false-advertising case, 2015 to 2020. Nutrition Distribution, an Arizona supplement company, sued IronMag and its founder in October 2015 over OSTA RX and Super DMZ 4.0. The Ninth Circuit later noted that the plaintiff "filed over eighty false advertising lawsuits between 2015 and 2018".[8] The district court first dismissed the case in April 2016, agreeing with the company that "the fda has yet to make a final" determination whether ostarine was a new drug.[40] The Ninth Circuit reversed and sent it back.[39]

On 16 November 2018 the court ruled on both sides' motions. It noted that the company's founder "admitted at his deposition", and that the FDA had warned, "that ostarine does have side effects and the fda has identified ostarine and other sarms as" potentially dangerous to public health.[41] The findings of 13 December 2018 record that the company advertised that OSTA RX did not "have the negative side effects of anabolic steroids and had" no toxicity, and that the side effects of Super DMZ 4.0 were "basically non-existent". It found those statements "literally false".[3] The court ordered a permanent injunction against falsely advertising OSTA RX, Super DMZ 4.0 and any other supplement containing ostarine or another SARM. It awarded no money: the plaintiff had not shown that IronMag's advertising cost it a sale.[41][42] The findings add that "defendants claim to no longer sell" the two products.[3]

Figure 12. The finding, 13 December 2018: the no-side-effect claims for both ostarine products were "literally false". [3]

Figure 13. The remedy: a permanent injunction against false advertising of SARM products, and no damages. [41]

The plaintiff appealed late. In October 2020 the Ninth Circuit, in a published opinion, recounted that "the district court issued an injunction because ironmag's statements were likely to deceive consumers", and ruled: "we affirm the denial of fees and otherwise dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction".[8] The judgment and the injunction stand.

The FDA, 2017. On 22 October 2017 the FDA wrote to the company and its two founders about Super DMZ 4.0. The product, it said, "is labeled as a dietary supplement however this product does not meet the definition of a dietary supplement". The reason was the SARM on its label, which the letter identifies as ostarine: it "has been authorized for investigation and is the subject of substantial clinical investigations which have been made public", so the product "which contains ostarine is excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement". The letter classed Super DMZ 4.0 as an unapproved new drug and a misbranded prescription drug, citing label claims such as "extreme strength power" and "increases aggression". On safety it wrote that "life threatening reactions including liver toxicity have occurred in people taking products containing sarms", and that "the long term safety profile of sarms remains unclear".[43] On 31 October the FDA announced that it had "recently issued warning letters to infantry labs llc ironmaglabs and panther sports nutrition for distributing products that contain sarms".[44] The company later told the court in the ostarine case that it stopped selling Super DMZ 4.0 in 2016.[22] The letter does not say when the FDA saw the product on sale, and neither document settles the gap. How SARMs came to follow the designer steroids onto supplement shelves is told in the deep dive on designer steroids.

The FDA, 2022. On 4 May 2022 the FDA wrote to the company: "this letter concerns your products cbd gummies ephedra stack lean fuel v2 and stimulate which are labeled as dietary supplements". It said "the label of your ephedra stack product declares higenamine as a dietary ingredient", and that the Stimulate and Lean Fuel V2 labels declare hordenine. Its finding was that "there is no history of use or other evidence of safety establishing that hordenine or higenamine will reasonably be expected to be safe when used as dietary ingredients". The letter also cited website claims as drug claims, among them "white willow bark is an herbal form of aspirin and is a natural pain reliever".[1] IronMag was one of ten companies that received letters that day; it was the company's second FDA warning letter.[45] By 2026 Ephedra Stack lists synephrine where higenamine stood.[31]

Figure 14. The FDA's letter of 4 May 2022, one of ten sent that day about higenamine and similar stimulants. Ephedra Stack is the first product it names after the gummies. [1]

Trademarks. IronMag Labs and IronMag LLC, at the same address, registered ten marks between 2015 and 2016: SUPER DMZ, IRONMAG, IRONMAGLABS, IML IRONMAG LABS, ANDRO, 1ANDRO, 4ANDRO, EPI-ANDRO, NORANDRO and RANDRO. Every one was cancelled between December 2021 and June 2023. SUPER DMZ was cancelled on 3 December 2021 because the registrant did not file the six-year declaration of continued use.[46][2] The 2026 About page still links to "our registered trademarks".[7]

Allegations: who says what, why, and what we could check

• That IronMag sold prohormones that infringed two patents, and owed royalties. Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, a Georgia supplement maker, and the patents' owner sued IronMag and its founder in Atlanta in November 2015. They said 4-Andro Rx and 1-Andro Rx infringed two patents on the use of DHEA derivatives, that IronMag had settled an earlier suit in Michigan in December 2014 by agreeing to pay royalties, and that it had not paid. The same complaint said Super DMZ 4.0 and OSTA RX contained ostarine and were unapproved new drugs.[47] Who says it: a competitor seeking damages and an injunction. Hi-Tech's founder later bought into Blackstone Labs, as that dossier describes. What we could check: the ostarine part matches what the California court later found.[3] The patent and royalty claims we could not check: the Atlanta and Michigan dockets are not in the mirror we searched, and we found no ruling. Nothing above rests on them.

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Still open

• The outcome of IronMag v. Blackstone. Searched the federal court mirror for both company names; it holds the complaint, its exhibits and the transfer order only.
• The outcome of Hi-Tech v. IronMag. Searched the same mirror; the case is there only as an exhibit in another case.
• What Super DMZ Rx 5.0 (2016) and Super DMZ V6 (2022) contained. The 2016 home page calls 5.0 "patent pending super andro compounds"[48]; the 2022 V6 page says "coming soon" and lists nothing.[49]
• Any DMAA product. Searched the archived LeanFuel Extreme (2011) and Maximum Pump (2013) pages and the site's archived URL list; none names DMAA or geranium.
• Why the andro creams ended in 2025. Searched the Federal Register for scheduling of 1-androsterone and DHEA derivatives; nothing found.
• What the ephedra extract in Ephedra Stack contains. The 2026 page gives an amount and says it has no ephedrine alkaloids; no test is published.

Changes

• 2026-10-12: added the FDA's warning letter of 22 October 2017 about Super DMZ 4.0 and ostarine, and the FDA's announcement of it, to the Regulatory section, the timeline and the regulatory criterion; linked the deep dive on designer steroids.

References

1. FDA warning letter to Ironmag Labs, MARCS-CMS 622504, 2022-05-04 — U.S. Food and Drug Administration
2. USPTO TSDR status, SUPER DMZ, serial 86349722, registration 4,738,017 — U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
3. Nutrition Distribution v. IronMag Labs, Dkt 135, findings of fact and conclusions of law, 2018-12-13 — CourtListener (RECAP)
4. ironmaglabs.com home page, archived 2004-06-19 (first captures from 2004-05-28) — Wayback Machine
5. ironmaglabs.com About page, archived 2004-06-25 — Wayback Machine
6. ironmaglabs.com About page, archived 2011-05-31 — Wayback Machine
7. ironmaglabs.com About page, archived 2026-05-01 — Wayback Machine
8. Nutrition Distribution LLC v. IronMag Labs, LLC, No. 19-55251 (9th Cir.), order and amended opinion, 2020-10-29 — CourtListener (RECAP)
9. IronMagLabs forum thread 'Super DMZ 4.0 gone', 2015-11-12, archived 2015-12-01 — Wayback Machine
10. ironmaglabs.com home page, archived 2010-12-12 — Wayback Machine
11. Super DMZ Rx product page, archived 2011-06-02 — Wayback Machine
12. Metha-Drol Extreme product page, archived 2011-06-02 — Wayback Machine
13. Classification of Two Steroids, Prostanozol and Methasterone, as Schedule III Anabolic Steroids Under the Controlled Substances Act, final rule, 77 FR, 2012-07-30 — Federal Register (Drug Enforcement Administration)
14. IronMagLabs forum thread 'Blackstone Labs - Super DMZ 2.0 Discounts!!!', posts of 2012-09-04 and 2012-09-05, archived 2012-11-30 — Wayback Machine
15. Super DMZ Rx 3.0 product page, archived 2013-12-25 — Wayback Machine
16. Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2014, Public Law 113-260, 128 Stat. 2929 — U.S. Congress
17. Implementation of the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2014, final rule, 2023-08-01 — Federal Register (Drug Enforcement Administration)
18. 21 U.S. Code 802, definitions (paragraph 41, anabolic steroid) — Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
19. OSTA RX product page, archived 2012-02-10 — Wayback Machine
20. OSTA RX product page, archived 2014-10-21 — Wayback Machine
21. Super DMZ Rx 4.0 product page, archived 2015-06-15 — Wayback Machine
22. Nutrition Distribution v. IronMag Labs, Dkt 73, defendants' memorandum of contentions of fact and law, 2018-10-15 — CourtListener (RECAP)
23. Gear Cream product page, archived 2021-01-08 — Wayback Machine
24. ironmaglabs.com home page, archived 2022-03-15 — Wayback Machine
25. M-Sten Rx product page with the site's list of top retailers, archived 2012-09-17 — Wayback Machine
26. IronMag Labs, LLC v. Blackstone Labs, LLC, No. 2:15-cv-03984 (C.D. Cal.), transferred as No. 9:15-cv-81036 (S.D. Fla.), Dkt 1, complaint, 2015-05-27 (image only) — CourtListener (RECAP)
27. Report on the filing or determination of an action regarding a trademark (AO 120), C.D. Cal. 2:15-cv-03984, filed 2015-07-23, in the SUPER DMZ registration file — U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (TSDR)
28. ironmaglabs.com home page, archived 2026-09-05 — Wayback Machine
29. Andro Hard product page, archived 2026-05-21 — Wayback Machine
30. Ephedra Stack product page, archived 2019-08-20 — Wayback Machine
31. Ephedra Stack product page, archived 2026-05-21 — Wayback Machine
32. More PH bans to come? (2025-05-09) — r/prohormones — anecdotal report, not evidence
33. Any topical PH's still around? (2025-10-29) — r/prohormones — anecdotal report, not evidence
34. Posts naming IronMag Labs or its products in r/prohormones (searches 'ironmag', 'iron mag', 'super dmz', 'gear cream'), r/moreplatesmoredates (3), r/steroids (2), r/bodybuilding (1), r/Supplements, r/sarmssourcetalk and r/PEDs (0), searched 2026-10-12 through the Arctic Shift archive: 72 threads, 2017 to 2026 — Arctic Shift — anecdotal report, not evidence
35. Iron mag labs, black stone labs, and hi tech (2021-10-09) — r/prohormones — anecdotal report, not evidence
36. Iron Mag Labs (2023-06-23) — r/prohormones — anecdotal report, not evidence
37. Iron Mag Labs Gear Cream (2023-04-17) — r/prohormones — anecdotal report, not evidence
38. testicular pain on 4 andro cream from Iron mags labs (2022-06-20) — r/prohormones — anecdotal report, not evidence
39. Docket, Nutrition Distribution LLC v. IronMag Labs, LLC, No. 2:15-cv-08233-R-JC (C.D. Cal.), Internet Archive mirror of the RECAP docket — Internet Archive (RECAP)
40. Nutrition Distribution v. IronMag Labs, Dkt 21, order granting motion to dismiss, 2016-04-06 — CourtListener (RECAP)
41. Nutrition Distribution v. IronMag Labs, Dkt 117, order on cross-motions for summary judgment, 2018-11-16 — CourtListener (RECAP)
42. Nutrition Distribution v. IronMag Labs, Dkt 136, judgment, 2018-12-13 — CourtListener (RECAP)
43. FDA warning letter to Ironmag Labs, MARCS-CMS 494623, 2017-10-22 (Super DMZ 4.0) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration
44. FDA In Brief: FDA warns against using SARMs in body-building products, 2017-10-31 (archived 2017-11-01) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Wayback Machine)
45. FDA Sends Warning Letters to Multiple Companies Illegally Selling Adulterated Dietary Supplements (constituent update, May 2022) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration
46. USPTO trademark search, owner IronMag Labs LLC and IronMag LLC: ten registrations, all cancelled 2021 to 2023 — U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
47. Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. IronMag Labs, LLC, No. 1:15-cv-03887 (N.D. Ga.), complaint, 2015-11-06, as filed in United States v. Braun, No. 9:19-cr-80030 (S.D. Fla.), Dkt 128-1 — CourtListener (RECAP)
48. ironmaglabs.com home page, archived 2016-11-26 — Wayback Machine
49. Super DMZ V6 product page, archived 2022-08-10 — Wayback Machine