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Words from Mike Matarrazzo (RIP)

former mate, 20 years ago diagnosed with enlarged heart.

He took big doses.

His pulse used to go through the roof walking up a few flight of stairs.
 

I think the perfect storm is a combo of the below -

- addictive personalities
- Low self esteem
- The need to please/fit in - BUT at the sametime wanting to be different

Which ALOT of bodybuilders fall into - psychologically I think you would find alot of bodybuilders fall into the nerdy, on the outer sort of people.

For me being around the sport for now 11 years (which is nothing to some) - I have come across some of the weirdest, strangest but more driven people from bbing....its a strange, weird, exciting subculture - which has become somewhat mainstream but I feel the "true" bodybuilders will always be seen as the lonely guy in a basement gym drinking protein and doing deadlifts - which is fucking cool and I want to be a part of that haha
 

Bingo
 

Like I wrote, I'll never understand.
 
I think its important to look at this objectively. Heart disease is both genetic and caused by environmental factors. A guy dropped dead at 26 the other day doing a fun run here in Australia. There is no evidence he took steroids.

In his post he mentioned a number of things, diet, supplements, diuretics. And as I mentioned there is of course genetics. Plenty of 40-50 year olds die of heart failure having never taken steroids, despite eating healthy, despite exercising.

Then we have some former greats of bodybuilding that likely abused themselves as much who are still alive, going strong at 60+ - Arnie is a great example, has some health problems but not anywhere near what you see with some 60 year olds that have never exercised, never used steroids, never cared about the the way they look.

I'm not saying it wasn't what he took, clen is pretty bad on the heart over long periods of time but its erroneous to point to a cause without evidence. Much like this: "Alzado was one of the first major US sports figures to admit to using anabolic steroids. In the last years of his life, as he battled against the brain tumor that eventually caused his death, Alzado asserted that his steroid abuse directly led to his fatal illness".

Its not scientific evidence, its just someone who has developed a serious illness and is looking around for something to blame because that's easier to deal with than it just being bad luck like the 70,000 other Americans who are diagnosed with brain cancer each year.
 
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