These bodybuilders with health problems should go on a crusade to educate others about how unhealthy the lifestyle is instead of living in denial, like Morton Downey, Jr and others did with smoking. They could save a lot of young people from future harm.
I'm sure he has mixed feelings about that. John knows, as does everyone, that it doesn't matter if some drop dead, it won't stop use in most cases. You can maybe teach risk management, like catching problems earlier, monitoring BP and perhaps more extensive checkups every now and then, what practises are the most dangerous, what to avoid and so on. The lifestyle is very addictive which I know from experience, and potentially dying early won't stop many. There are lots of guys who continue on despite severe issues. For example, an aquaintance of mine developed some acute kidney issues a few years back, ended up in the ER with sky high BP, multiple organ failure etc. He came out alive but docs said he now had 50% kidney function. He was off for maybe a year but then started again, by the looks of him doing less steroids. But a year later he was back in the ER, only now it was worse, he was put in a coma for weeks. Now he is on dialysis and hoping for a transplant.
Now we kid about bodybuilders blaming issues on genes but John's both parents died early from heart attacks, so he probably had a predisposition. When John had his heart attack the docs said his heart was normal size, but he now developed LVH and the dead tissue. From what I've seen he has preached moderation for years, about doing health checkups and using supps and meds proactively to avoid issues. Not that long ago he warned about doing tren constantly and predicting a lot of kidney issues in the near future.
Sure he could say doing any steroids is not worth like Matarazzo did but would it have any effect?
John did say he had doubts about talking about this at all, since people would be talking shit.
