At 22, you have your whole life ahead of you, but if you make bad decisions, that can end abruptly.
Gabriel Ganley was a promising bodybuilder with millions of followers on his Instagram and TikTok accounts. But all his work came to an end after a friend found him dead in his apartment.
According to the death certificate, Gabriel had died from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a very common condition in people who use anabolic steroids.
What happens is that the heart’s activity intensifies so much with these chemicals that the walls of the myocardium end up thickening to the point that the organ begins to have trouble pumping blood to the rest of the body, because it loses its elasticity.
For example, a very common symptom is having a high heart rate while sitting down.
Steroid use among young people has increased recently, partly because of the need to get results in the short term.
19-year-old guys weighing 93 kilos of muscle are a good example of its use, because building beastly physiques takes years of work, and they are not willing to wait that long.