I was surprised to see a lot of body builders from the 70’s and 80’s are not only still alive but doing well.
I was curio9us recently and just started searching random names and was shocked by the results.
Bodybuilders in the 1970’s were mostly healthy. They made use of doctors to administers their steroids to strike that right balance between muscle gain without being detrimental to their health. Up until about 1978, this is how they did things.
However, once HGH was entered, that’s when you started seeing bodybuilders start to drop off prematurely. The real killer was in the mid-to-late 80’s, when insulin was introduced. What insulin does in bodybuilding is that it opens cell walls up and the cells can soak up all the blood sugar it can.
That’s when you started reading about bodybuilders dying in their thirties and fourties.