Showing posts with label dead bodybuilder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dead bodybuilder. Show all posts
Bodybuilder and adult film star Erik Rhodes dies mid steroid cycle.
Cause has yet to be revealed. Here's the cycle he was on taken from his blog which has since been removed but still found in google's cache.
"My cycle right now…
3000 mg of Test Enanthate a week, 2500 mg of Nandrolone Decaonate and 300 mg of Trenbolone Acetate. With 5iu of Human Growth Hormone everyday.
I’m waiting until i pop. Or my liver to fails… which every comes first."
Bulgarian bodybuilder dies at twenty six, steroids blamed.
A 26-year-old Bulgarian man has passed away in Bulgaria's Varna as a result of the continuous intake of anabolic steroids.
The young man died just hours after he was admitted to the Toxicology Clinic at the hospital of the Bulgarian Navy in the Black Sea city of Varna.
He was diagnosed with steroid intoxication, and it has been confirmed by the doctors that this was the cause of death.
The 26-year-old man, who is known to have been working out regularly, and to have used anabolic steroids in order to enhance his performance, first sought medical aid from his GP when he had difficulty breathing.
Medical tests showed that the steroids he had been taking caused his heart to swell substantially. He was planned to be admitted to hospital for medical treatment but in the meantime he felt very sick, and was admitted immediately to the Naval Hospital in Varna, the head of the Toxicology Clinic, Dr. Snezha Zlateva, told reporters.
The medics found that, in addition to his swollen heart, he had blood clotting in his lungs and legs.
"The young men took steroids both orally and hypodermically," Dr. Zlateva explained, while also reminding that several young sportsmen from around the world have died as a result of steroid intake.
"Parents must be very careful in order to prevent their children from taking such substances. It should also be known that steroids are sometimes found even in food supplements for professional sports players.
In her words, the autopsy has proven irrefutably that the 26-year-old died of steroid intake but the histological tests are yet to show what type of substances he had used.
Father claims son's steroid use lead to his death from heroin.
A distraught father told an inquest he believed his son had turned to heroin after becoming hooked on performance enhancing steroids.
Amateur bodybuilder Ian Karl Jens Barlow, from Oakridge Road, Basingstoke was found dead by his parents on September 27 having overdosed on the class A drug.
North Hampshire coroner Andrew Bradley recorded a verdict of accidental death at Alton Magistrates Court earlier this month.
Ian’s father Karl told the inquest that he had become increadingly concerned over his son’s wellbeing around 10 years ago when the 33-year-old started taking steroids to fuel his bodybuilding.
He said he had taken him to drug rehabilitation in a bid to wean his son off the substances. “I did try to warn him off steroids in the beginning,” he said. “It did not work so I took him to the Priory - that was a waste of time.”
When asked by Mr Bradley when his son’s heroin habit started, he said it was during his time lifting weights.
“It just started when he was doing bodybuilding and weight lifting,” Mr Barlow said. “A lot of his friends had gone the same way.”
Mr Barlow said that Ian had moved back to the family home following the break-up of a previous relationship.
The father told the inquest that the night before his son’s death “everything was normal”. The next day, Mr Barlow and his wife had left to go shopping. When they returned at 5pm, Ian’s curtains were still drawn.
After entering his room, Ian was pale and unresponsive.
He was lying with a syringe still in his right arm, and a bandage covering his left palm.
PC Richard Right, from Basingstoke police station, said at the inquest said the death was not suspicious.
In recording the verdict of accidental death Mr Bradley said: “There are no thoughts that he was trying to kill himself.
“It is a horrible overdose situation, but that is the risk you run with drug use.”
Suspected steroid dealer arrested after customer dies.
( Picture of the deceased Lewis Allan borrowed from his Twitter account )Detectives launched an inquiry into steroid-dealing after a 23-year-old’s death.
Police believe Lewis Allan, who died early on Monday morning after falling ill at home in Eastbourne, used anabolic steroids over the last year.
They have arrested a man on suspicion of supplying drugs.
Mr Allan was taken ill at his home in Bridgemere Road, Eastbourne, at about 2am on Monday.
He was taken to Eastbourne District General Hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after 3.30am.
Sussex Police are investigating his use of anabolic steroids – a prescription drug sometimes used by bodybuilders.
Possession or importation of the drug for personal use is legal, but supplying it is illegal.
Officers believe Mr Allan’s weight had grown by as much as four stones over the last year as he trained.
His death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. The East Sussex Coroner is expected to hold an inquest and a post-mortem examination has not yet taken place.
South African health insurance companies unhappy about the use of supplements and steroids.
The use of sporting drugs and supplements could have significant consequences for the insurance industry.
On Monday Professor Tim Noakes of the University of Cape Town told the International Committee for Insurance Medicine congress that heart problems and drug dependency are among the major health risks for sportspeople using drugs and other supplements.
Insufficient data have been compiled on the extent of the risk for the life insurance industry, but the ingestion of such agents is increasing dramatically, with consequent raised implications for assurers.
According to Noakes, the big difference between supplements and sports drugs is that the former are legal but unregulated, while the market for the latter is estimated to be much larger than that for so-called recreational drugs - which include substances like cocaine and heroin.
Pharmaceutical groups do test supplements but, because the industry is not regulated at an international level, there are many manufacturers flooding the market with supplements whose safety cannot be guaranteed in the long term.
Noakes reports that studies show that users of anabolic steroids are more inclined to develop depression and heart problems, use recreational drugs and die violent deaths.
Noakes believes the use of supplements and steroids is widespread among ordinary people exercising at gymnasiums around the corner, who ingest them just to look good - the typical people that life assurance companies have to insure.
According to Noakes the presence of very little body fat is one indication of the use of drugs and supplements in sport.
If a woman athlete's body fat is less than a man's, she is using supplements, he declares.
On Monday Professor Tim Noakes of the University of Cape Town told the International Committee for Insurance Medicine congress that heart problems and drug dependency are among the major health risks for sportspeople using drugs and other supplements.
Insufficient data have been compiled on the extent of the risk for the life insurance industry, but the ingestion of such agents is increasing dramatically, with consequent raised implications for assurers.
According to Noakes, the big difference between supplements and sports drugs is that the former are legal but unregulated, while the market for the latter is estimated to be much larger than that for so-called recreational drugs - which include substances like cocaine and heroin.
Pharmaceutical groups do test supplements but, because the industry is not regulated at an international level, there are many manufacturers flooding the market with supplements whose safety cannot be guaranteed in the long term.
Noakes reports that studies show that users of anabolic steroids are more inclined to develop depression and heart problems, use recreational drugs and die violent deaths.
Noakes believes the use of supplements and steroids is widespread among ordinary people exercising at gymnasiums around the corner, who ingest them just to look good - the typical people that life assurance companies have to insure.
According to Noakes the presence of very little body fat is one indication of the use of drugs and supplements in sport.
If a woman athlete's body fat is less than a man's, she is using supplements, he declares.
Jury finds 5 guilty in Mobile steroids conspiracy case.
A federal jury this afternoon found the owners of a Mobile pharmacy, the business' supervising pharmacist and the owner of a Colorado anti-aging clinic guilty of a steroids conspiracy.
But the jurors acquitted three pharmacists at Applied Pharmacy Services and an investor of the Internet-based anti-aging clinic, Infinite Health.
"This verdict sends a message to medical professionals who would abdicate their responsibilities to their patients in order to profit from illegally selling drugs," U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown said in a prepared statement. "Athletes and youngsters must realize that those who would prescribe performance enhancing drugs may be motivated by profit and greed rather than their health and well-being."
Prosecutors alleged that Applied Pharmacy was in on the conspiracy, submitting dozens of taped phone conversations as evidence. The pharmacy's owners and employees countered that they believed the prescriptions -- signed by licensed physicians -- were valid.
"It's a tough loss," said Richard Jaffe, an attorney who represented Applied President and CEO A. Samuel Kelley.
Jaffe said he will take a thorough look at the trial record in the coming weeks.
"We first of all have to digest it," he said. "It's an emotional explosion to the lives of our clients."
In addition to Kelley and Branch, the jury convicted Kelly's cousin, Jason R. Kelley, the secretary and part owner of Applied; Jodi C. Silvio, another part owner; and J. Michael Bennett, who was the supervising pharmacist.
Three pharmacists who worked for the compounding pharmacy, J. Mallory Mallon, Roger A. Everett and Robin K. Kelly, won acquittals. Ronald E. Winter, a Colorado sheriff's deputy who was a customer of Branch's and ended up becoming an investor, also was found not guilty.
The jury reached its verdict after deliberating parts of four days following a month-plus trial. Several doctors, who previously had pleaded guilty to steroids charges, testified that they colluded with Infinite Health owner Brett W. Branch to supply steroids to bodybuilders, athletes and other healthy customers.
But the jurors acquitted three pharmacists at Applied Pharmacy Services and an investor of the Internet-based anti-aging clinic, Infinite Health.
"This verdict sends a message to medical professionals who would abdicate their responsibilities to their patients in order to profit from illegally selling drugs," U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown said in a prepared statement. "Athletes and youngsters must realize that those who would prescribe performance enhancing drugs may be motivated by profit and greed rather than their health and well-being."
Prosecutors alleged that Applied Pharmacy was in on the conspiracy, submitting dozens of taped phone conversations as evidence. The pharmacy's owners and employees countered that they believed the prescriptions -- signed by licensed physicians -- were valid.
"It's a tough loss," said Richard Jaffe, an attorney who represented Applied President and CEO A. Samuel Kelley.
Jaffe said he will take a thorough look at the trial record in the coming weeks.
"We first of all have to digest it," he said. "It's an emotional explosion to the lives of our clients."
In addition to Kelley and Branch, the jury convicted Kelly's cousin, Jason R. Kelley, the secretary and part owner of Applied; Jodi C. Silvio, another part owner; and J. Michael Bennett, who was the supervising pharmacist.
Three pharmacists who worked for the compounding pharmacy, J. Mallory Mallon, Roger A. Everett and Robin K. Kelly, won acquittals. Ronald E. Winter, a Colorado sheriff's deputy who was a customer of Branch's and ended up becoming an investor, also was found not guilty.
The jury reached its verdict after deliberating parts of four days following a month-plus trial. Several doctors, who previously had pleaded guilty to steroids charges, testified that they colluded with Infinite Health owner Brett W. Branch to supply steroids to bodybuilders, athletes and other healthy customers.
British dealer gets controlled delivery of K powder from India, claims he was expecting steroids and Valium.
( Bust happened in Jan 2009, why the one year delay in press reports ? )
A drug dealer who imported £30,000 worth of ketamine from India complained to undercover police officers his post was late when the package finally arrived.
Todd Dent had arranged for four boxes of the recreational drug to be sent to two addresses in Weston-super-Mare while he was on holiday in India's clubbing capital Goa. But when customs officers intercepted the drugs, police set up an undercover sting operation to catch him with the drugs red-handed.
Pretending to be Royal Mail workers, they delivered the packages at the end of January last year. When Dent accepted the boxes of drugs, he told them: "I've been waiting for these since Christmas. I've been waiting for these from a friend in Goa."
Dent, 34, of Longton Grove Road, Weston-super-Mare, was jailed for 15 months when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court yesterday. He had previously pleaded guilty to fraudulent evasion of customs and excise, possession of ketamine with intent to supply and possession of diazepam.
James Ward, prosecuting, said: "On January 23, 2009, officers with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs reported a package from Goa. "The package was addressed to Alexandra Parade, Weston-super-Mare, and contained two boxes with a crystalline substance. "A second package, addressed to Magnolia Avenue, Weston-super-Mare, arrived later that day and again contained a crystalline substance."
The four boxes contained approximately 500g of ketamine, a class C drug, in each, with an estimated street value of £29,721. Police searched the Alexandra Parade address, which Mr Ward said was a massage parlour and linked to the defendant.
There they found approximately £9,800 worth of the sedative diazepam, a class C drug, and digital scales. When arrested, Dent was caught on CCTV saying he had taken ketamine earlier that day, the court heard.
Dent told officers he had arranged for drugs to be sent over from India, but had expected valium and steroids, not ketamine. Catherine Spedding, defending, said: "Normally he is a hard working man, the proprietor of a business that employs two other people.
"He has built the business up from scratch. He was in great financial difficulty following the break-up of a relationship"
"While on holiday in India, he came into contact with what he believed to be diazapam and foolishly made arrangements for it to be sent.
"The money he was going to get was not going to be used immediately for his own gain."
A drug dealer who imported £30,000 worth of ketamine from India complained to undercover police officers his post was late when the package finally arrived.
Todd Dent had arranged for four boxes of the recreational drug to be sent to two addresses in Weston-super-Mare while he was on holiday in India's clubbing capital Goa. But when customs officers intercepted the drugs, police set up an undercover sting operation to catch him with the drugs red-handed.
Pretending to be Royal Mail workers, they delivered the packages at the end of January last year. When Dent accepted the boxes of drugs, he told them: "I've been waiting for these since Christmas. I've been waiting for these from a friend in Goa."
Dent, 34, of Longton Grove Road, Weston-super-Mare, was jailed for 15 months when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court yesterday. He had previously pleaded guilty to fraudulent evasion of customs and excise, possession of ketamine with intent to supply and possession of diazepam.
James Ward, prosecuting, said: "On January 23, 2009, officers with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs reported a package from Goa. "The package was addressed to Alexandra Parade, Weston-super-Mare, and contained two boxes with a crystalline substance. "A second package, addressed to Magnolia Avenue, Weston-super-Mare, arrived later that day and again contained a crystalline substance."
The four boxes contained approximately 500g of ketamine, a class C drug, in each, with an estimated street value of £29,721. Police searched the Alexandra Parade address, which Mr Ward said was a massage parlour and linked to the defendant.
There they found approximately £9,800 worth of the sedative diazepam, a class C drug, and digital scales. When arrested, Dent was caught on CCTV saying he had taken ketamine earlier that day, the court heard.
Dent told officers he had arranged for drugs to be sent over from India, but had expected valium and steroids, not ketamine. Catherine Spedding, defending, said: "Normally he is a hard working man, the proprietor of a business that employs two other people.
"He has built the business up from scratch. He was in great financial difficulty following the break-up of a relationship"
"While on holiday in India, he came into contact with what he believed to be diazapam and foolishly made arrangements for it to be sent.
"The money he was going to get was not going to be used immediately for his own gain."
Weight loss hormone HCG banned but still popular.
The bald, pot-bellied man walked into the Revive Weight Loss Clinic and asked a female employee wearing scrubs whether he and his wife could get on the HCG weight loss diet advertised on the clinic's Web site.
Not only did the employee say the man and his wife could do so at the clinic, located directly across from MountainView Hospital, she pointed out that her svelte figure and those of her colleagues were a result of the HCG diet.
Forty weeks of a daily regimen of HCG would cost around $550, she said; 26 weeks, about $300. "It will be up to the doctor to determine how much you need," she said, giving the man who appeared to be a potential client a brochure while explaining how HCG works in conjunction with a 500-calorie-a-day diet.
Since the 2007 publication of controversial infomercial king Kevin Trudeau's best-selling book on HCG, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You To Know About," it hasn't been difficult to find doctors and clinics cross the United States selling the diet.
More than a half century ago, a British researcher, Dr. Albert B. Simeons, argued that injections of HCG would allow dieters to exist comfortably on a 500-calorie daily diet, a claim later largely discredited by a series of studies by scientists worldwide.
That the HCG weight loss diet is available in Nevada may seem strange when this fact is considered: It is illegal in the Silver State for a physician to prescribe HCG for weight loss. Yet Las Vegas doctors and clinics advertise what is a synthetic version of the hormone as a way to lose up to 30 pounds in a month. HCG is legal in many other states.
Las Vegas plastic surgeon Terry Higgins touts the diet in the latest edition of the glossy "Las Vegas Woman" magazine, writing that the "regimen has continually shown a weight loss of between 1-2 pounds a day."
Not only did the employee say the man and his wife could do so at the clinic, located directly across from MountainView Hospital, she pointed out that her svelte figure and those of her colleagues were a result of the HCG diet.
Forty weeks of a daily regimen of HCG would cost around $550, she said; 26 weeks, about $300. "It will be up to the doctor to determine how much you need," she said, giving the man who appeared to be a potential client a brochure while explaining how HCG works in conjunction with a 500-calorie-a-day diet.
Since the 2007 publication of controversial infomercial king Kevin Trudeau's best-selling book on HCG, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You To Know About," it hasn't been difficult to find doctors and clinics cross the United States selling the diet.
More than a half century ago, a British researcher, Dr. Albert B. Simeons, argued that injections of HCG would allow dieters to exist comfortably on a 500-calorie daily diet, a claim later largely discredited by a series of studies by scientists worldwide.
That the HCG weight loss diet is available in Nevada may seem strange when this fact is considered: It is illegal in the Silver State for a physician to prescribe HCG for weight loss. Yet Las Vegas doctors and clinics advertise what is a synthetic version of the hormone as a way to lose up to 30 pounds in a month. HCG is legal in many other states.
Las Vegas plastic surgeon Terry Higgins touts the diet in the latest edition of the glossy "Las Vegas Woman" magazine, writing that the "regimen has continually shown a weight loss of between 1-2 pounds a day."
Balkan Pharmaceuticals donates products to Moldovan oncology hospital.
Prime Minister Vlad Filat today participated in a ceremony of donating a consignment of medication to the Chisinau-based Oncology Institute, the government's press service has said.
The consignment worth 7.099 million lei contains seven types of hormonal preparations and was given by the commercial society Balkan Pharmaceutical Ltd.
Health Minister Vladimir Hotineanu thanked the company for the donation. He specified that the medication will be given free of charge to treat patients of the Oncology Institute and the ones treated in other hospitals.
"The oncology pathology is one of the most spread in Moldova and the treatment is costly. On this ground, the offered medicines are very necessary and welcome," the health minister said.
A manager of Balkan Pharmaceutical Ltd, Silviu Chiru, said that, by this donation, the company wants to help people ill with oncology diseases in Moldova. He voiced confidence that the medication will contribute to an efficient treatment of the patients.
Prime Minister Vlad Filat thanked for the donation. He stressed that, by this action, the company gives hope to people at risk.
"Moldova goes through a difficult period, and unfortunately, with poor budgetary possibilities. Therefore, such a gesture is not only welcome, but also helpful," Vlad Filat stressed.
The prime minister thanked the doctors of the Oncology Institute for their efforts, as well as for their attitude.
"You give hope to Moldova's residents by your work and we are grateful to you for this," the prime minister said.
Vlad Filat said that he wants to visit the Oncology Institute very soon again, so as to discuss details about the healthcare system, current problems and actions due to be implemented.
The consignment worth 7.099 million lei contains seven types of hormonal preparations and was given by the commercial society Balkan Pharmaceutical Ltd.
Health Minister Vladimir Hotineanu thanked the company for the donation. He specified that the medication will be given free of charge to treat patients of the Oncology Institute and the ones treated in other hospitals.
"The oncology pathology is one of the most spread in Moldova and the treatment is costly. On this ground, the offered medicines are very necessary and welcome," the health minister said.
A manager of Balkan Pharmaceutical Ltd, Silviu Chiru, said that, by this donation, the company wants to help people ill with oncology diseases in Moldova. He voiced confidence that the medication will contribute to an efficient treatment of the patients.
Prime Minister Vlad Filat thanked for the donation. He stressed that, by this action, the company gives hope to people at risk.
"Moldova goes through a difficult period, and unfortunately, with poor budgetary possibilities. Therefore, such a gesture is not only welcome, but also helpful," Vlad Filat stressed.
The prime minister thanked the doctors of the Oncology Institute for their efforts, as well as for their attitude.
"You give hope to Moldova's residents by your work and we are grateful to you for this," the prime minister said.
Vlad Filat said that he wants to visit the Oncology Institute very soon again, so as to discuss details about the healthcare system, current problems and actions due to be implemented.
More Anti steroid propaganda from Britain's BBC.
"My mate was taking steroids and he was getting bigger and bigger, and then another friend started them and I felt sort of left out. That's why I started." Jack was 18 when he first took steroids and conscious of the perceived benefits of honing a chiselled body. "Women generally like defined, big blokes. It's like going back to caveman times - I'm the king of the castle. "You're at a gym, you're like 'aah, I'm lifting more than him, he's nothing'."
I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me Jack.
Many users purchase their steroids online, including Jack. He told Radio 5live's Donal MacIntyre programme: "I went on the site, ordered them, really easy, shocking really. All you had to do was tick a box that you were over 18. "You could be eight years old and tick that box as long as you can read and write and understand what's going on. "Six days later they were delivered to my door."
But Jack liked the results he was seeing so much he quickly began to take double the recommended dosage. It was then that he started to suffer physical and psychological side-effects. "I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me. "Before I had really thick hair and whilst I was on them I noticed my hair went thinner and thinner. I'm receding and I'm only 20. "Then I ended up developing breast tissue."
After an emergency trip to hospital, for an incident unrelated to his steroid use, Jack finally had to admit taking the drugs to a concerned doctor who noticed he had a damaged liver. This shocked his mother, Sandra, who was completely unaware her son was taking steroids. "I thought his moodswings were typical teenage adolescent behaviour. "Obviously I was aware he was getting bigger and bigger but he was, to be fair, working hard at the gym as well." "It hadn't rung alarm bells, but perhaps it should have with me." Jack's parents gave him an ultimatum to give up his steroid use or leave home. Jack abided by his parents wishes and now trains without the help of steroids.
Story from BBC news.
I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me Jack.
Many users purchase their steroids online, including Jack. He told Radio 5live's Donal MacIntyre programme: "I went on the site, ordered them, really easy, shocking really. All you had to do was tick a box that you were over 18. "You could be eight years old and tick that box as long as you can read and write and understand what's going on. "Six days later they were delivered to my door."
But Jack liked the results he was seeing so much he quickly began to take double the recommended dosage. It was then that he started to suffer physical and psychological side-effects. "I was getting anger problems; I would suddenly lash out at my friends if they just said the wrong thing to me. "Before I had really thick hair and whilst I was on them I noticed my hair went thinner and thinner. I'm receding and I'm only 20. "Then I ended up developing breast tissue."
After an emergency trip to hospital, for an incident unrelated to his steroid use, Jack finally had to admit taking the drugs to a concerned doctor who noticed he had a damaged liver. This shocked his mother, Sandra, who was completely unaware her son was taking steroids. "I thought his moodswings were typical teenage adolescent behaviour. "Obviously I was aware he was getting bigger and bigger but he was, to be fair, working hard at the gym as well." "It hadn't rung alarm bells, but perhaps it should have with me." Jack's parents gave him an ultimatum to give up his steroid use or leave home. Jack abided by his parents wishes and now trains without the help of steroids.
Story from BBC news.
Polish bodybuilder dies after ignoring Doctor's advice, steroids blamed rather than his bad decisions.
Marcin Antoni Kladiwo from Salisbury Street, Shotton was a gym enthusiast who was in the process of applying for his door staff licence.
The 29-year-old Polish national had been taking a cocktail of food supplements, protein shakes and steroids before his sudden death on September 25.
John Hughes, coroner for North East Wales, told the inquest at Flint that Mr Kladiwo had a family history of heart disease.
Reading from a statement from girlfriend Christina Place, Mr Hughes said: “Marcin was very fit and he trained three times a week. He was conscious of what he ate and he didn’t drink alcohol. He drank protein shakes and took vitamin pills and also took steroids.”
The court heard Mr Kladiwo began injecting himself with steroids in February last year but switched to a tablet form after he complained of abdominal pains.
Mr Hughes added: “The first time Marcin injected himself with steroids, he felt unwell and his face was red.
“His eyes were bloodshot and he said he had taken double the dose.
“We went to bed and at four o’clock in the morning he woke up and asked for a sandwich. He said his heart was racing and he thought he was having a heart attack.”
An ambulance took Mr Kladiwo to Wrexham Maelor hospital where he had blood tests.
Hospital staff wanted him to remain on the ward for further tests but Mr Kladiwo discharged himself, the court heard.
“He was at home in Shotton on the day he died,” said Mr Hughes. “His brother Adrian had a phone call from Marcin to say he was feeling unwell. Adrian came home to the house they shared and saw that Marcin was vomiting in the toilet and was pale and sweaty.
“His brother called an ambulance and as paramedics were speaking to Marcin, he collapsed on the floor.”
Mr Kladiwo was rushed to the Countess of Chester hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Forensic officers discovered a number of supplements in his bedroom, including a bag of loose brown capsules in his bedside drawer that could not be identified.
Giving evidence Dr Will Kenyon, who performed a post mortem examination, confirmed the cause of death was a heart attack due to steroid abuse.
Mr Hughes, who recorded an accidental death verdict, said: “Often for weight lifters, they take steroids to bulk themselves up. We can never know how many steroids Marcin took because we we’re never there to see.
“He clearly had difficulties with his heart but the steroid abuse was the ultimate factor here.
"I don’t think for one second that he intended to take his own life, but he must have appreciated what he was doing.”
Story from Britain's Leader Live.
The 29-year-old Polish national had been taking a cocktail of food supplements, protein shakes and steroids before his sudden death on September 25.
John Hughes, coroner for North East Wales, told the inquest at Flint that Mr Kladiwo had a family history of heart disease.
Reading from a statement from girlfriend Christina Place, Mr Hughes said: “Marcin was very fit and he trained three times a week. He was conscious of what he ate and he didn’t drink alcohol. He drank protein shakes and took vitamin pills and also took steroids.”
The court heard Mr Kladiwo began injecting himself with steroids in February last year but switched to a tablet form after he complained of abdominal pains.
Mr Hughes added: “The first time Marcin injected himself with steroids, he felt unwell and his face was red.
“His eyes were bloodshot and he said he had taken double the dose.
“We went to bed and at four o’clock in the morning he woke up and asked for a sandwich. He said his heart was racing and he thought he was having a heart attack.”
An ambulance took Mr Kladiwo to Wrexham Maelor hospital where he had blood tests.
Hospital staff wanted him to remain on the ward for further tests but Mr Kladiwo discharged himself, the court heard.
“He was at home in Shotton on the day he died,” said Mr Hughes. “His brother Adrian had a phone call from Marcin to say he was feeling unwell. Adrian came home to the house they shared and saw that Marcin was vomiting in the toilet and was pale and sweaty.
“His brother called an ambulance and as paramedics were speaking to Marcin, he collapsed on the floor.”
Mr Kladiwo was rushed to the Countess of Chester hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Forensic officers discovered a number of supplements in his bedroom, including a bag of loose brown capsules in his bedside drawer that could not be identified.
Giving evidence Dr Will Kenyon, who performed a post mortem examination, confirmed the cause of death was a heart attack due to steroid abuse.
Mr Hughes, who recorded an accidental death verdict, said: “Often for weight lifters, they take steroids to bulk themselves up. We can never know how many steroids Marcin took because we we’re never there to see.
“He clearly had difficulties with his heart but the steroid abuse was the ultimate factor here.
"I don’t think for one second that he intended to take his own life, but he must have appreciated what he was doing.”
Story from Britain's Leader Live.
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