‘Steroids gave me heart failure at 30 and I could die early’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd9vg632pzo
Posted by Tartan_Samurai
‘Steroids gave me heart failure at 30 and I could die early’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd9vg632pzo
Posted by Tartan_Samurai
25 Comments
“Oh no the consequences of my actions”
How jolly surprising.
>”I don’t think it’s worth it whatsoever,” he said.
“If they realised the side effects, I don’t know if they would take the compounds.”
People know and like him don’t care
“Bodybuilding is my life.” He’s giving his life to it.
The steroids and coke is definitely going to get me eventually.
Can someone explain what “die early” means. Surely he means die according to the actions I’ve taken.
yes, big muscles, but tiny, shrunken balls and an old man’s heart.
He has heart failure which will take 20 years off his life. Why on earth is he still taking the steroids??????.
He hasn’t been told that the hf WILL have a much bigger effect. His health will steadily decline, in a number of years he will be out of breath doing things, then out of breath all the time, suffer chest pains, be cold and tired. Then he will not have the energy to walk. This will all happen for years before he dies, and it is NOT reversible. If he has been told this then he is one of the biggest fools in history by ignoring it.
It’s his choice. Being a hf sufferer (not by choice) this info is from experience.
This is a free country, we can kill ourselves in whatever way we want, but why choose such a slow way?
There is obviously one part of his body, in his head, that he hasn’t built up.
“33-year-old shotputter Geoff Woade admitted taking massive doses of anabolic steroids, drugs banned in sport.”
Look at him. Look at Geoff Woade! His head must weigh fifty pounds on its own. Imagine the size of his balls. Imagine getting into a fight with the fucker!
Drugs are bad, there’s a shock.
Looks like someone stuck a tyre pump up his arse anyway.
In my 20s and early 30s I was going to a body builders gym in east London (never took steroids) a lot of the guys there were on them many of them didn’t have a career in body building, they just didn’t care or talk about the consequences.
That picture is absolutely vile 🤢 why do people wanna look like that???
Worst part of these articles:
‘Famous’ person who’s only famous for the thing the article warns against saying not to do the thing.
Although if the ‘famous’ person had followed their own advice when it mattered… they would not be ‘famous’.
Good, hopefully you won’t reproduce by then. Survival of the fittest it doesn’t mean what you think.
Something I saw yesterday.
Look at Brad Pitt in Fight Club. At the time, he was considered muscular. Now look at actors in similar roles in 2025.
Look at the various superhero franchises over time.
They don’t look like they used to.
Steroid use is widespread, and people who would have been muscular 30 years ago are now considered somehow inadequate.
Fat people do the same thing
‘Cake gave me heart failure at 30 and I could die early’
So basically you can’t win competitive bodybuilding unless you’re pumped full of steroids like an American chicken?
This is a very common result of steroid use, are we supposed to feel sorry for them or something?
1g of charlie a day gave me heart failure at 30 and i could die early.
a pack of cigarette’s a day gave me cancer at 30 and i could die early.
a bottle of whisky a day damage my liver at 30 and i could die early.
what should i do ?
The gym that I go to has pictures and autographs from various famous bodybuilders and strongmen who have visited. One is from an American bodybuilder called Rich Piana, who left the message “Whatever it takes, 5%er for life”, referencing his own nutrition company, called 5%. He was true to his word, as a few months later, he carked it, aged 46. The autopsy discovered that his heart and liver were twice the size of those of an average man.
Steroids are becoming a huge problem. Young men are increasingly suffering from body dysmorphia from being fed a constant stream of images of unattainable bodies. Attempts at achieving this naturally usually end in failure and a sense of self loathing. Influencers lie and say they are natural, celebrities lie and say the same. Only place you get the truth on how to achieve this is bodybuilding circles and they are dismissive on side effects of think they can manage them.
The comments in here show that we don’t take this problem seriously enough. People know the risks of steroids and how they can shorten your life. The problem is that due to social media and self improvement content people consume they don’t think their life is worth anything unless they get big.
It’s a common thing to hear that your first day in the gym is the first day of being too small. You’re always small. Steroids are the only solution to the mental torment.
It’s not like the world has just found out steroids have these side effects it’s been known for years and years.
Heart failure at 30 just to stand on a stage in a wee thong covered in fake tan just doesn’t seem worth it somehow
Dumbass. Some people think they’re entitled to a long life no matter what their actions.
Oh that’s weird, because only until recently it was thought that steroids were really good for you /s
Body dysmorphia is a real pain and a lot of people are very unsympathetic about it. If this was an article on anorexia and other eating disorders then the comments would be very different. As a guy who suffers from body dysmorphia and eating disorders, ‘bigorexia’, as it is colloquially known, is just the other side of the same coin as anorexia. The steroids will kill you in the same way starving yourself will, both groups over-exercise too.
While it is worse for women, body image issues are rising amongst men as beauty standards do. Height is the biggest issue still, however muscles are increasingly an issue too (also a decent way to make up for being short). We can blame social media, dating apps, action movies (The Rock and various Marvel actors are not natty) etc. but that does nothing to help people who are suffering an internal hell that is misunderstood by most.