Bodybuilders are warning about the health hazards of extreme physiques, often involving steroid use. Too much mass, combined with performing-enhancing drugs, can devastate the heart, liver, and ...

Indian bodybuilding icon Varinder Singh Ghuman has passed away. His death follows a series of sudden fatalities among bodybuilders globally. Experts link these events to extreme training, supplements, ...

A new international study has revealed a troubling trend: sudden cardiac death is responsible for an unusually high number of ...

Following Varinder Singh Ghuman’s sudden death, hepatologist Dr Cyriac Abby Philips explains how intense bodybuilding and steroids can strain the heart.

A groundbreaking European study published in the European Heart Journal has uncovered a sobering truth: female bodybuilding ...

A 16-year study in the European Heart Journal found that sudden cardiac death (SCD) was the leading cause of death among female bodybuilding athletes. While overall mortality was half that of men, ...

Our bodies are reshaped at puberty, mostly due to steroid hormones called androgens and estrogens. Testosterone is an androgen; estradiol is an estrogen. Androgens and estrogens are very similar ...