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The Gamble of Fatal Gear Usage
by Anders JP Eskilsson
Competitive bodybuilding at its highest level early. We are talking about extremely tragic
demands tremendous discipline. It’s much situations where heart failure and AAS may very
harder than anyone outside of the bodybuilding well be the strong contributing factor leading to
world can imagine; it’s a 24hour lifestyle which is their deaths.
as challenging as any elite sport out there –
In regards to Rich Piana’s and Dallas
which also means that the infamous PED’s
MacCarver’s tragic deaths in 2017, the critique
(performance enhancement drugs) are quite
grew even stronger. In addition, I recently
common.
listened to a lecture by an expert in heart
conditions Dr. Thomas O’Connor and he
However, in the last 6-7 years or so, critiques explained plain and simple that as of today there
against drug usage like anabolic steroids (AAS) are scientific correlations which prove that AAS
have been raised higher than ever before. The usage can lead to cardiovascular fatal diseases
reasons are mainly because the bodybuilding – even at a very young age.
community has seen far too many veterans of
the sport as well as young athletes die way too
