Natty bros, drop your PRs

so in conclusion, the grinch’s heart grew not from his newfound love for Christmas, but from his extreme cycle of anabolics.

“Be careful man, I heard that stuff does funny things to your balls.” -Niko Bellic

Probably don't want to say "He had a big heart" at the funeral in cases like this.

It blows my mind that in 2024, you have to blur out the word ‘death’, even in text, because the KZfaq algorithm can’t figure out that this is a medical research channel and that it doesn’t violate the TOS. They still can’t get it tight

The average person doesnt realize how many people are actually on steroids.

Yeah, steroid abuse is glorified and its risks are often dismissed. Thank you for making this video.

my friend was obsessed with bodybuilding since he turned 16, started to take steroids in his early 20's and didnt even turn 30...

I thought about roids in college when seeing a teammate warm up with 405 on bench for 12. I struggled to get 385 once. He blew out his knee just coming out of his stance in a game, wasn’t touched. Turns out his ligaments were utterly shot because he was using such rapid weight increases and joints didn’t build up with his muscles. In a month I was out lifting him when he quit the juice to rehab his knee. I decided it wasn’t worth the risk and am glad I didn’t give in.

The strain on your organs and lingering effects of steriod and sarms cannot be understated. You'd force your whole hormone system out of whack causing skin, organ and mental challenge's aswell and your balls will shrink from abusing that shit. Remember, you only hear the successful stories, the unsuccessful stories are most of the time not told. Maybe a low TRT dose at higher age might be beneficial, since your hormone production reduces with age.

Most people have no idea how popular steroids are nowadays. Users mainly just don’t talk about it

4:45 Cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) 8:00 Reduced T and good cholesterol 10:00 2.8% abusing steroids

I took steroids for about 6 months 9 years ago. The first 3 months went fine then I took a break for 3 months then went back to taking steroids for another 3 months and thats when the uncontrollable hiccups started… For no less than two weeks I had non stop hiccups. Silly as it may sound I genuinely felt exhausted, embarrassed, and terrified all the time. These two/three weeks felt like years and I never touched the stuff again. The muscles I built during those 6 months were more than what I’ve built in the previous 2 years, not to mention the attention! It really does get to you especially if you enjoy the sport itself. The better alternative I’ve found though is to just focus on lifting for general health and fitness and I couldn’t be more happy with my current strength and endurance! As for supplements, I’m taking creatine, Arginine, Magnesium, Calcium, Omega 3, Zinc, and Tongkat Ali.

Spoiler: Don't do Steroids, it shrinks ya balls

Happily natty myself. Hitting good lifts and living long. Fuck steroids.

I've been working with drug addicts, alcoholics and people using steroids for many years. I've seen many die from overdose, but the truly scaring thing are the ones dying from complications due to their previous use of steroids. Litteral sudden death. The danger is surprisingly underestimated.

Stay natty bros

As a female- one thing I ALWAYS wanted was abs. I worked out with a personal trainer (both male and female) and dietician for almost 5 years in my early 20s. Finally, I came to the realization that my body shape is just not meant for exposed abs. My female trainer tried to offer me steroids many times to help me achieve my goal. I almost said yes a few times because I thought I wouldn’t be happy if I didn’t reach my goal. Now, in my early 30s I am active, fit, do aerial sports and still don’t have noticeable definition in my stomach, but I know I’m strong in my core and that’s what counts. I hate seeing men and women, especially young men and women get into steroids. But I also understand the appeal. Just hope if I can prevent even one person from getting started, I’ll be happy. I feel good in my body and my body is the only one I get. It’s important to take care of it.

As someone who had ever so slightly considered trying steroids I say thank you. Thank you for giving me the information to make an informed choice (in addition to my other research). I will NOT be partaking.

The problem with bodybuilding influencers is that they don't take a break from steroids. Even pros have periods of rest in which they take no steroids at all. However, since influencers have an image to maintain, they keep abusing the substance to stay as ripped as they can, leading to increased risk of all the bad symptoms.

A very informative video, you have a very nice way to explain all this tricky stuff without it feeling too heavy.

*Sam Sulek's breathing intensifies*

A colleague at work who was a doctor died from steroid abuse. He was a beast but it’s really sad as he was only 40 and only just became a consultant.

One thing I can thank my parents for, is that they always explained to me from a young age that I'd never have the body of Arnold or Sylvester because they did steroids, and that steroids are very, very dangerous.

I'm glad to see more of this kinda thing coming about now. Its good to have discourse around "safe" usage of PEDs like moreplaresmoredates, the encouragement of bloodwork etc but there's always danger involved no matter how careful you are and it's sad to see how many young men jump straight into steroid use before they even have the life experience to understand long term consequences

Just a quick correction, this video implied that Mike O'Hern takes steroids, he actually leverages highly anabolic duck eggs to maintain his super hero frame into and beyond middle age.

I'm a male, 5'8 and 24, I dont know why but that case at the beginning hit me especially hard. It feels like looking at a version of myself that made the wrong decisions for the sake of appearance. Oddly helpful video for self-acceptance

Thanks for this info and video. I actually had a heart attack in November. Was abusing steroids for my powerlifting comps. This info was super helpful in understanding what I was doing to my body before hand.

It’s not even just steroids but bodybuilding as a sport that puts a massive strain on the organs. The typical bodybuilding diet and a contest prep cycle, even for natural bodybuilders, is anything but healthy. Add steroids to that and you don’t just shorten your lifespan by a couple of years, it’s gonna be decades.

Did roids at 23, I'm 35 and still trying to recover from it. Also it made me lose all my hair...

The side effects of steroids drove my older brother to severe depression. That depression drove him to chronic Alcoholism.. He is now in a vegetative state, capable of only communicating by raising his thums, wishing to die.

There was this open bodybuilder that died from heart failure, when they did the autopsy all his organs were gigantic, 800g heart, 4.5kg liver

Very good video, but may I note that the man on screen at 11:00 is Noel Dyezel and does not support or promote the use of steroids (he has made several videos about harm reduction and actively discourages use), and I am 99% sure the screenshot pictured next to him is not from his comments page.

Forget ball shrinking, your heart literally rotting while you're still alive is horrifying.

You just saved a life by making this video.

This video was very interesting, very informative, and easy to understand. Thank you.

Greetings, As always another brilliant detailed video 🇺🇸🎉🍾🇺🇸 Thank you so much for the lecture, keep producing more videos.

I'm a natural weight lifter and this scares me a bit because I have a heart condition. I think taking steriods just to look a bit better for a little less effort is such a poor trade off.

I love it when you make medical related content, as a medical student this summarizes a huge topic into the essential information. From the case report and the diagnosis, to the physiology and pathophysiology and going through the study figures and findings, this was much appreciated knowledge. Hope to see more medical related content like this! Great work as always.

I found this channel today. 10 minutes later i become suscriber xD Good job :D

This was so informative, thank you!

I totally agree. A lot, not all but a lot of so called fitness influencers are abusing steroids and influencing others to follow their example. Horrible!

I did like how you put Noels video about how influencers try to trick us by saying they are natty because they used X program or diet , but behind the veil they use anabolics to keep their shape and sell as much as possible their product or to get sponsors. At least Noel is transparent with us and encourage people to not use them, but try to strive to be the best version of us by educating the audience about the dangers not only to the body, but also to our mental health. I wish more bodybuilders could be like him.

Excellent job. Continued success to you and your channel

A sibling of mine started using them and his whole personality changed. Now is totally isolated from friends and family due to aggressive nature.

The dislikes are from Gymbros.

Being a female who is not interested in body building, I had next to no understanding of how steroids work. Thanks for informing me. I had no idea it carried more risks than just testicular shrinkage

Thanks for making the video, good information.

I remember doing one cycle of steroids in my 20s (I’m in my late 30s now) I was working my restaurant job and all of a sudden I felt like I was going to pass out. I felt so terrible I just left work without even telling anyone and went to lay in my bed unsure if I was even going to wake up. That’s how terrible I felt. I never touched that stuff again. I’m sure I have some lingering hidden issue in my body possibly but I’ve never felt like that again thankfully. Quick gratification isn’t worth it.

Today I had my first job, I asked a girl for her number, which she gave me, and now my favorite youtbue channel uploaded a video, this day couldn't get any better!

Can I just say, thank you for continuing to research, write, and narrate your videos honestly. I've seen an explosion of channels lately that make similar content but use AI to write the script, pick lazy unrelated stock clips, and often pay a voice actor to narrate. I can tell your videos are genuine, and they're much better content because of that.

cardiomegaly is a very broad term, but two of the main complications of excessive LVH can be left ventricular outflow obstruction and diastolic dysfunction. LVOT is just a fancy way of saying the LV makes a pressure gradient infront of the aortic valve (very bad), and diastolic dysfunction is just reduced ability to fill efficiently.

Incredible reporting. Thank you for including histology slides and actual autopsy pictures, it benefits both lay people and medical people. I think there must be more than a decrease in HDL that accounts for the extremely accelerated atherosclerosis. Even people with familial hyperlipidemia only start to have MIs in their 40 or 50s, so having such widespread CAD that young is more than just high cholesterol. Very interesting though, I am quite curious what the mechanism is

Videos like this is why I'm subscribed to you. Thank you for the quality educational content

I love this, very simple way of explaining it for the general audience. Great video!

Thank you for the informative video

FYI, a cardiologist can easily use a non invasive ultrasound to measure your heart muscle and determine if you have early heart disease. If you have a problem, further tests may be required. TL;DR: you don't have to have your heart cut out to diagnose cardiomyopathy.

Hello Dark Science, I really like your videos. They´re very informative and a bit scary at times, like for example in the episode on what happens to mammals in space/vaccuum conditions. As suggestions for future video topics, my ideas would be how blunt trauma ( e.g. induced in a car crash/plane crash, et cetera) causes death, what happens when someone overdoses on heroin and videos on illnesses like cancer, the Plague or other famous and deadly ones. Hope one of the topics will be featured in future episodes.

Good video! I particularly liked how you explained muscle growth and how it is aided by AAS.

Powerful video! Great job.

i really respect to those guys who dedicated and willing to take something that might kills them, they willing to sacrifice and willing to take the consequences of what will happened. i have been go to the gym for more than a year now and i was as a strongest kid at my school until university when i got to the gym i saw many guys twice my size lifting much more than i did and after sometime i figured out they took steroids. I always want to be the strongest but after i learn the consequences of taking it for me is not worth it because my life is revolving around studies and researching because i wanted to know the world better. I think we should prioritize things in life and only take the path we think is the most rational to us. anyways i need some opinions , i weight around 85-90kg and 175m i can squat atg 170 deadlift 220 bench 130 is it higher or lower than an average natural lifter at my weight ? compare to when i first got to the gym im not much stronger, i could bench 80kg for reps deadlift 150 for reps and squat atg for only 60kg for reps so is my progress slow ? for my diet i think i eat enough food but i dont really follow any kind of diet because i can only eat what my family cook. Sorry if my english is bad

You're saving lives with this one man.

As someone who had ever so slightly considered trying steroids I say thank you. Thank you for giving me the information to make an informed choice (in addition to my other research). I will be starting 500mg test e and 200mg tren next week.

This was both horrifying, educational and soothing.

Very informative and well- made video. Keep it up!

Thanks for this video, I'm seeing way too many young people blast steroids because cool gymbros on tiktok do it and they want to look like them. At times it becomes tempting to take a shortcut so it's important to talk about this stuff.

Man I am so happy that your channel is returning back to its former popularity. You're really proving that skill is what gets you big on KZfaq. Do you still have your old store? I bought one of your T-Shirts a while back and it's still one of my favorites.

Great video, I´m actually making a summey of your video with 11 questios for my science class

The woman being interviewed by police at 1:43 is Ashley McArthur. She was a suspect (and later convicted) of her friend Taylor’s homicide in Florida and has nothing to do with this case.

At only 24 years! He was pretty cut for sure (178/84) with clear hypertrophy. Sadly also in his heart. But he must have started early like kids nowadays do to see that kind of damage done. People will claim that there is a "safe" way to take steroids by having regular bloodwork but that will not tell them if they have an enlarged heart and by definition, steroids will elevate the bad cholesterol. Unless they have regular ultrasound of their heart, they will be no wiser however many blood tests they have. It all seems quite sad because now kids start with heavy cycles ridiculously early and statistics will then inevitably give us more and more of too young dead bodybuilders.

This is a really good video, thank you for sharing

Holy shit, them sclerotic blood vessels were something else. I would argue that the 24 yo dude hasn't been feeling at peak health for a while, with a prior heart attack, pulmonary edema ond organ congestion.

Excellent video. I learned a lot! 11:08 But Alan Thrall doesn’t use steroids. He just has a decade+ of consistent strength training. 😅

Glad this video is getting the attention it needs, because so many guys in their 20s currently taking steroids need to know how bad it really is.

God I'm so happy I made it through my early years of lifting without ever taking PEDs. Of course I would have gotten to my current strength much faster. But after a recent health scare (that turned out to be nothing), I'm realizing no amount of extra muscle mass or strength would have been worth my health

6:32 This is how fragile KZfaq has become, can’t even show the word “Death” without getting into trouble.

I learned something new today Thank you

Awesome analysis to this video!!🔥

Tamoxifen 1:55 is not an anabolic steroid, it's a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator. It's is used to treat or avoid enlargment of breast tissue in both males and females, in his case to either treat of avoid Gynecomastia.

I got a coworker who's on gear. He's not a smart kid, but he's a good kid. I worry that him not being smart is going to get him in trouble a lot faster than he thinks. It's a tragedy waiting to fucking happen.

thanks for reminding me on how dangerous steroids really are. i’ve genuinely been tempted to secretly take them down the line because i want to be massive, but i now realize i’ve been too caught up on IG fitness influencer posts. the people i really should stick to for inspiration are the big natty men at the gym that i usually go to lol

This video came in handy. Literally thinking of a T cycle and this comes up. Well yea thanks for reminding me if taken for too long it screws u up.

I wrote a large paragraph attempting to detail the nuanced outlook of many views/comments/beliefs of people that I’ve spoken to and read throughout the years and the shortened answer is, people don’t care to live long lives and many don’t want to bring life into this world with how things seem to be going. If you want more details feel free to ask specifics but that’s the general idea I’ve seen and heard. The future seems both bright and dark, depending on which way you choose to look at it but many tend to just choose a way to see things and survive or thrive.

There was an excellent channel on here. So real. Honest. Scary. Did multiple people and warnings were raw. YT removed.

Could you make a video about cholesterol? I never finished my biochemistry bachelor, but during I spend some time researching about cholesterol and in the last ten years there has been some move away from the classic LDL=bad, HDL=good, to a more nuanced view. I f I remember correctly cholesterol reducing drugs had only marginal effects on lowering stroke risk, simply because most cholesterol isn't taken up but bodily produced (something of a 1/9 ratio). Adding to that high LDL-levels were suspected to not be necessary conditions of blood vessel plaques itself but if the LDL had been damaged through ... I think it was oxidative processes of some kind.

Extremely interesting. Tyvm for posting.

The effects of steroids need to be discussed more especially as so many fitness influencers tend to use them.

I had a very bad reaction to steroids, and my back blew up in pimples. Literally thousands upon thousands of pimples. I used to have perfect skin before doing steroids, now its covered in thousands of scars and dark brown dots.

LDL is not “bad cholesterol”. It is only a problem when it’s oxidized by excess glucose and insulin. I have high cholesterol for over 25 years, but I’ve done a CAC (Cardiac CT Calcium) test and instead of scoring over 200 which is typical for high LDL, and where 300 means severe disease, my score was 6.1. Why? I’ve cut sugars out of my diet as much as possible so the oxidized plaques don’t form to cause LDL to clot.

I agree fully with your opinion at the end. I’ve heard of a lot more people my age (20’s) taking them and even some of my mates contemplating getting on gear. I hope they don’t😕

I think it’s fascinating to hear about the effect on the heart. Bodybuilders can hide from the early effects of poor heart performance due to cardiovascular output being low on their list of priorities but footballers that depend so heavily on cardiovascular fitness are taking enough steroids to have the second highest mortality, that’s wild.

Think it’s important to also highlight the high levels of atherosclerosis causing foods eaten by most bodybuilders i.e. red meats

Sulek is the posterboy for the next bodybuilding fatal casualty!

Can you maybe give out the source where you found your numbers that compares different sports on cardiac failures? I found this highly interesting, especially that in the sport where there is almost never a found case of doping is second, soccer. Thanks in advance, great video :)

Hemoglobin is supposed to go up in response to androgens, with or without oxygen deprivation. Extremely hypogonadal men will sometimes develop anemia because without testosterone, their bone marrow stopped making enough hemoglobin. Some anabolic steroids (e.g., Primobolan) were originally invented as treatments for anemia, before EPO was available

i like how you show video of liver king (steroid king) himself 😂

Rich Piana talked about doing steroids openly and guided others not to follow his mistakes, he wasn't bad, he exactly knew how he will end

thanks for your honest opinion. You are totally right with that...

i have a thing for veins and hearts and how it all works idk how to explain but it makes my body itch (more precisely my veins itch 😵‍💫) and watching this was more horrifying than any horror movie i’ve ever seen. at 6:15 i had to pause because i literally couldn’t take anymore. 10/10 would not watch it again

Remember when the bronce era people try to look like a greek statue. Now is totally the opposite, look like a monster using THE JUICE.