As life takes us on its winding path, some of us might start to feel uncomfortable in our skins. Whether it's because our tastes change, our energy starts to deplete or we simply want more out of ourselves, we may feel inspired to make a change in our bodies.
Yet, as we quickly learn, making that change happen requires a lot of hard work over a really long period of time. When that slow progress starts to fell discouraging, it becomes all the more tempting to find a shortcut.
For most of us, the first of these shortcuts to come to mind is anabolic steroids. While those will certainly build muscle, they do so at the expense of the rest of the body, particularly the heart and liver.
However, they're far from the only game in town to tempt bodybuilders. Some lesser-known treatments can find people bulking up by injecting a mixture of oil and alcohol into their muscles.
This is the method of choice for 48-year-old Valdir Segato and it's certainly affected his body in a big way. However, he's also experienced some significant costs as a result.
Today, we're going to get to the bottom of this substance and see just how it has affected his life.
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Before he bulked up, life was rough for Segato.
When he was growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, he started to develop an addiction to drugs.
As he worded it, "There was a time in my life that I got involved with wrong things."
As this addiction raged on, he started to lose a lot of weight.
Segato said, "I started to look skinny and people started giving me nicknames like 'Skinny Dog', and 'Little Skull', and so I decided to change my life."
At first, that change began with going to the gym.
However, he found that exercise alone wasn't bringing about the effects he wanted. While there, he ran into another bodybuilder who seemed to have the solution.
That solution was an oil known as Synthol.
For the last five years, he's been injecting it into his biceps, chest, and shoulders. As a result, he gained about 55 pounds and doubled the size of his biceps to 23 inches.
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