RIP - Matt Porter - 05-30-19

[luckyone]

Deepest condolences to Rachel, Noah and all his family and friends. Matt was a great inspiration to so many of us.
Keeping you all in my prayers.

your brother in Christ,

Lucky

[The True Adonis]

I fear for my health.

Do not fear Matt.  I am Getbig's Undertaker and official Eulogizer.

I will give you a proper send off when the time comes.  Post freely my dear boy

[Matt]

Do not fear Matt.  I am Getbig's Undertaker and official Eulogizer.

I will give you a proper send off when the time comes.  Post freely my dear boy

Much appreciated, TA. I hope I can write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by then.

[Powerlift66]

This is no disrespect to Matt, but how messed up is this industry? You have Matt Porter with all kinds of health issues from his bodybuilding lifestyle yet makes a living coaching tons of clients,  Fahkri Mubarak has extremely high kidney values and is in terrible health coaching tons of clients,  Nick Trigili has all kinds of health issues ranging from adrenal fatigue,  anxiety,  depression,  blood sugar issues and he also makes a living coaching people. Why would anyone hire a coach who couldn't even keep themselves healthy? Then I look at guys like Shawn Ray or Dorian, never had a guru and escaped the sport healthy.

Because people cant even wipe their own ass these days w/ out a coach. Modern day BB is a total embarrassment... Best in the world didnt need a coach back in their era, they coached, trained, prepped themselves.

Plastic trophy "Prep coach" 

[ratherbebig]

Much appreciated, TA. I hope I can write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by then.

it's allready written. by beethoven.

[illuminati]

That’s sad either way

He was having health issues as far back as 2012,  doesn’t sound good

This x2.
A Young Man Having Health Issues For at Least The Last 7yrs !!!
WTF outcome did He or Anyone Expect ??
With him carrying on doing what he was doing 

No not Good he’s Died - Only it was fairly safe bet it was going to Happen.

[hipolito mejia]

Oh, well — those animals werent going
to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

Owned.  Lol. 

[hipolito mejia]

Looks highly drugged up, and not able to breathe during that interview.
Anyone who gets a health issue,and remains in that "sport" is a bit insane. PIP and condolences to his family.

But dont feel bad, if Porter read online that "AbrahamG" passed away, he would give zero fuxx. The online personality attention whores are just odd people, who crave attention,and put themselves out there so others can "look at me, look at me". Nothing special about their life at all, just like most of us here.

Id say 85 % of pro bodybuilders remain in the sport" after having health issues. 

The first side effect is high BP. Very common I have yet to know one bodybuilder to go get another hobby " as doctors often tell them.   

He was a good guy though.    RIP.

[hipolito mejia]

This is no disrespect to Matt, but how messed up is this industry? You have Matt Porter with all kinds of health issues from his bodybuilding lifestyle yet makes a living coaching tons of clients,  Fahkri Mubarak has extremely high kidney values and is in terrible health coaching tons of clients,  Nick Trigili has all kinds of health issues ranging from adrenal fatigue,  anxiety,  depression,  blood sugar issues and he also makes a living coaching people. Why would anyone hire a coach who couldn't even keep themselves healthy? Then I look at guys like Shawn Ray or Dorian, never had a guru and escaped the sport healthy.

Is a messed up industry you just said it......

Sad he has passed , but you can't help but react to the way he died and so young ..... even the widowed said she wished he wasn't addicted to bodybuilding.   

His death is a monumental irony to the " Bodybuilding and health" BS. 

[Irongrip400]

Took his medication and started exercising again. The weird thing, is he had ZERO symptoms. He found out by accident he had heart failure.  The doctors are baffled, but obviously happy, with the results. In some cases, heart failure can revert itself and the heart can go back to normal. Maybe he had like a viral infection that negatively impacted his heart and the meds just kicked started it back to normal. Just hypothesizing.

Glad to hear it. I had a buddy with a similar condition. 23 years old and they were talking about putting him on a transplant list. Takes his meds and lives a healthy lifestyle and now he leads a normal life.

[falco]

This is true, we’re all born to die.

Maybe you meant we are born to live ?

[Ronnie Rep]

Sad, RIP.

[Fortress]

Because people cant even wipe their own ass these days w/ out a coach. Modern day BB is a total embarrassment... Best in the world didnt need a coach back in their era, they coached, trained, prepped themselves.

Plastic trophy "Prep coach" 

Absolutely.

[milone79]

He had derek anthony/kamali face.The man did not look healthy from that video.

AKA Regan Grimes face.... I wonder if his death was related to the pints of oil that filled his arms?

[B_MyT_2]

I didn't follow him, but saw a couple of vids that popped up on YT.  Seemed like a good dude, and you can tell from his wife's post he was a good husband and dad which is saying a lot these days.  Sad to read the end part where she hoped his friends would stay around so her son would know what his dad was like cuz he is so little.

The dr. that told him his high bp was no big deal, and didn't medicate should lose his license.  Matt seemed to make some dumb decisions based on his bb'ing addiction as his wife called it, but that dr. is a professional and made a huge one that could have saved him. (maybe?)

LIP Matt!

[Taffin]

RIP

Hmmm... in this interview he mentions recently getting over pneumonia, and just before he passed his partner mentioned the same thing had happened recently.  So a bit of bro science logic - based on zero evidence or research of course - might say:

1  While pneumonia can affect all ages, for younger guys like him to have suffered it has to be much less common - so to get it twice in a few years without something serious in the background must be an even rarer occurrence

2  'Congestive' heart failure has, among other, symptoms of shortness of breath, dizziness, etc. due to the build up of fluid in the lungs - hence the title. So maybe it's possible this could be mistaken for pneumonia.  Also, if taking stims this could be masked somewhat as most (all?) of them are vaso-dilators (at least the good ones are)

I know a lot of us have a BP cuff at home, but how many of us (honestly) have considered a VO2 max test at any point..?

They look like a lot of fun!   

[Schmoff]

why all the pros or pro-to-bes have no insurance?

[B_MyT_2]

Hmmm... in this interview he mentions recently getting over pneumonia, and just before he passed his partner mentioned the same thing had happened recently.  So a bit of bro science logic - based on zero evidence or research of course - might say:

1  While pneumonia can affect all ages, for younger guys like him to have suffered it has to be much less common - so to get it twice in a few years without something serious in the background must be an even rarer occurrence

2  'Congestive' heart failure has, among other, symptoms of shortness of breath, dizziness, etc. due to the build up of fluid in the lungs - hence the title. So maybe it's possible this could be mistaken for pneumonia.  Also, if taking stims this could be masked somewhat as most (all?) of them are vaso-dilators (at least the good ones are)

I know a lot of us have a BP cuff at home, but how many of us (honestly) have considered a VO2 max test at any point..?

They look like a lot of fun!   

Agree, that pneumonia so frequently at such a young age is weird and had to be stressful on him.  The other thing that stood out to me about her post was the part about them finding something on his lung.  From what I hear tren cough/flu is an insanely common thing.  Makes me wonder if it was ever really pneumonia, and not the tren that really did him in.

[B_MyT_2]

why all the pros or pro-to-bes have no insurance?

He was young, and self employed is my best guess.  However, if they planned their son it does seem like an even dumber choice.

[Taffin]

Agree, that pneumonia so frequently at such a young age is weird and had to be stressful on him.  The other thing that stood out to me about her post was the part about them finding something on his lung.  From what I hear tren cough/flu is an insanely common thing.  Makes me wonder if it was ever really pneumonia, and not the tren that really did him in.

Excellent point, Mighty

Something else I hadn't considered.  Back when I used baby amounts of Parabolan this wasn't a 'thing' (different esters back then or something..?)  First I heard of if was when I started training again a few years back and joined this place

I wonder if the mechanism that causes the cough was a co-morbidity factor in all of these 'famous' heart attacks (That Zizz guy/McCarver/Piana/et al)?

Anyone on here think that modern Tren makes them breathless? (solid scientific survey is solid. LOL  )

[WalterWhite]

"Last year when Noah was born we had to go to the ER, he had drank an ice cold shake too quickly and it threw him out of rhythm instantly just by hitting his chest on a certain beat, really it was coincidental our cardiologist told us. Thankfully he was okay after this episode."

So he had a ventricular fibrillation which can lead to sudden death.  He was already diagnosed with heart failure so the cardiologist should have studied his heart further after this incident. Dave Palumbo has an ICD.

Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the electrical system to the heart malfunctions and suddenly becomes very irregular. The heart beats dangerously fast. The ventricles may flutter or quiver (ventricular fibrillation), and blood is not delivered to the body. In the first few minutes, the greatest concern is that blood flow to the brain will be reduced so drastically that a person will lose consciousness. Death follows unless emergency treatment is begun immediately.


As far as pneumonia is concerned; He likely had fluid accumulation in the lungs due to the inability of the heart to be efficient enough to pump blood to the organs of the body when called upon in times of exertion or stress. This is common with CHF.

[deadz]

"Last year when Noah was born we had to go to the ER, he had drank an ice cold shake too quickly and it threw him out of rhythm instantly just by hitting his chest on a certain beat, really it was coincidental our cardiologist told us. Thankfully he was okay after this episode."

So he had a ventricular fibrillation which lead to sudden death.  He was already diagnosed with heart failure so the cardiologist should have studied his heart further after this incident. Dave Palumbo has a ICD.

Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the electrical system to the heart malfunctions and suddenly becomes very irregular. The heart beats dangerously fast. The ventricles may flutter or quiver (ventricular fibrillation), and blood is not delivered to the body. In the first few minutes, the greatest concern is that blood flow to the brain will be reduced so drastically that a person will lose consciousness. Death follows unless emergency treatment is begun immediately.

Guy committed suicide by stupidity, who cares. Matt’s clients, lol, more idiots. Boston Loyd is probably smiling ear to ear.

[Twaddle]

Who the fuck is Pat Morter? 
                                                                
            
                                                                               
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                 
                                                              
                 
 

[Taffin]

"Last year when Noah was born we had to go to the ER, he had drank an ice cold shake too quickly and it threw him out of rhythm instantly just by hitting his chest on a certain beat, really it was coincidental our cardiologist told us. Thankfully he was okay after this episode."

So he had a ventricular fibrillation which can lead to sudden death.  He was already diagnosed with heart failure so the cardiologist should have studied his heart further after this incident. Dave Palumbo has an ICD.

Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the electrical system to the heart malfunctions and suddenly becomes very irregular. The heart beats dangerously fast. The ventricles may flutter or quiver (ventricular fibrillation), and blood is not delivered to the body. In the first few minutes, the greatest concern is that blood flow to the brain will be reduced so drastically that a person will lose consciousness. Death follows unless emergency treatment is begun immediately.


As far as pneumonia is concerned; He likely had fluid accumulation in the lungs due to the inability of the heart to be efficient enough to pump blood to the organs of the body when called upon in times of exertion or stress. This is common with CHF.

Unlucky in his choice of medical professionals then - first a Doc who told him not to worry about his hypertension, and then a Cardiologist who thinks it's OK/normal to have a cold shake cause VF due to the timing of the gulp...

*sigh*

[Humble Narcissist]

Much appreciated, TA. I hope I can write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by then.

You'll have to write the 10th and it won't be Beethoven, he's dead.  It will be Matt's 1st.