About this episode

Mark Ennis and Victoria Olson discuss the dangers of bodybuilding culture and the impact of performance enhancing drugs on health.

Mark and I sat down to discuss something that’s been weighing on us both: the string of influencer deaths tied to bodybuilding culture in recent years, and the calories in calories out mindset that ignores the origin of those calories. In this conversation, Mark draws on his own experiences in bodybuilding, and his decades as a physical trainer, to break down what happens when steroids and performance enhancing drugs get combined with a diet loaded in carbs. It’s a combination that masks damage for years until it doesn’t, and the people paying the price aren’t just the athlete influencers, it’s the followers who trust their advice without knowing what’s really going on under the hood. We get into why “eat whatever fits your macros” is dangerous advice when someone’s metabolic health is already being pushed to the edge by PEDs, what Mark has personally witnessed in the gym, and behind the scenes of the fitness industry, and why nutritional quality can’t be an afterthought when you’re influencing thousands of people’s health decisions. This one’s a hard conversation, but it needed to happen. Below is a citation of a multiyear study about premature deaths of bodybuilders that have…

People in this episode

Host: Mark Ennis

Guest: Victoria Olson

Topics covered

• bodybuilding culture
• influencer deaths
• performance enhancing drugs
• nutritional quality
• metabolic health
• fitness industry

Keywords

• bodybuilding
• influencer deaths
• steroids
• performance enhancing drugs
• nutrition
• metabolic health
• fitness advice

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