BB's health when they retire?

[Falklands]

After years of being on very high dosages since they were in their early 20's, what will happen to the health of Ruhl, Ronnie, Jay etc when they retire in their erly 40's? I mean, thats years of being "on" all the time. Is their health ruined? Is there any chance of getting their hormonal levels right, will they have kids, what about the GH gut etc?

 

[view]

well, my guess is that they are all in pretty bad shape when all is said and done. you could get your hormone levels back to normal with HRT, but on their own i'd say it is nearly impossible at that point.

as for kids, I would think that their sperm coutns would be too low for the most part to concieve a child. It all depends on the extent of abuse and whatnot. if you were administering HMG (not HCG!!) during the useage, you would most definetly be able to have kids. (HMG keeps FSH function in tact, which in term keeps the body producing sperm). of course you can use quite heavily and still have kids though -- arnold comes to mind. but there is a point when I beleive you could do permanent damage.

the GH gut is pretty brutal. you should see Dorian Yates nowadays. I had the oppurtunity to see him and after dropping down to 215-220 his gut is way out of proportion to the rest of him and it just looks plain gross.

these guys have bigger problems to worry about then having kids and GH guts though. there internal organs are undoubtably in terrible shape from years of high bloodpressure, bad cholesterol, and excessive diruetic useage (<< flex wheeler comes to mind here -- his diruetic useage cause most of his health problems).

 

[Tux]

Actually Flex Wheeler had a genetic condition from childhood, had nothing to do with his gear usage. Just like Tom Prince, his gear usage had nothing to do with his kidney failure, it was his abuse of simple, OTC ibuprofen that did it to him. I think some of these guys will be just fine, others will have severe problems... all depends on the person really.

 

[TheAssholeFomerlyKnownAsDBBT]

you should see Dorian Yates nowadays.

pics??

 

[bigtravis]

pics??

this otta be good. i've only seen the ones from muscular development and seems there's nothing left of him.

 

[DieselGunz]

I know he is a formal shell of himself

I have seen pics of Kevin Levrone and although he is MUCH smaller he still looks good

 

[silverbackn]

All these guys look like they have turned into their little brothers, Wheeler, Levrone, and Yates, etc.

 

[Stainless_Steel]

I don't know about wheeler and yates, but I think Levrone looks much better now than he did when he was competing.

 

[silverbackn]

I don't know about wheeler and yates, but I think Levrone looks much better now than he did when he was competing.

Totally a judgement call, but he definitely looks better than the other guys who are out of the game. He just looks like an athlete.

 

[riverrock]

Had a chat with two guys at our gym who told me they were spectators at a show in London last year. Some small out of condition guy was standing up, so they roared "Hey man, sit down we can't see". The guy turned around and it was none other than Dorian himself! They got talking to him and he was a true gentleman as expected, but said no way would you even guess he was once one of the best in the world.