How does a pro boxer have high blood pressure?

[IronDanHamza]

I think it's hereditary too. Granted when I was last checked and it was high, I was eating pretty good so I didn't buy it other than that it had to be hereditary. Nowadays, the way I've been eating, I'm owning it, lol.

What blows my mind are massive dudes that take roids up the arse, lift massive to get on those Mr. Olympia competitions and they're like 6'5 or something. Just massive human beings. How on earth does the heart pump blood to go through all that mass? I'm pretty sure the heart size doesn't increase but there I could be wrong. It's like you got a 4 cylinder engine sitting in the frame of a V10 car.

It's the same reason someone can chain smoke for 80 years and have fine working lungs and someone else can live a healthy lifestyle and die of lung cancer at age 40.

Luck of the draw. PED's increase the risk of heart problems but it's overstated, even those who are abusing PEDs. I have taken PEDs for the last 30+ years, a good 10 of those abusing them to the point of stupidity and I have a full bill of health, heart included.

It's just Russian Roulette really.

Also to one of the points you made, there is some data that suggests PEDs could increase heart size.

[ELPacman]

It's the same reason someone can chain smoke for 80 years and have fine working lungs and someone else can live a healthy lifestyle and die of lung cancer at age 40.

Luck of the draw. PED's increase the risk of heart problems but it's overstated, even those who are abusing PEDs. I have taken PEDs for the last 30+ years, a good 10 of those abusing them to the point of stupidity and I have a full bill of health, heart included.

It's just Russian Roulette really.

Also to one of the points you made, there is some data that suggests PEDs could increase heart size.

I thought I read this somewhere too, but then it brings the opposite point. Once you get older and lose the mass, but have this enlarged heart. I can't imagine that's healthy either? I dunno. It's like PEDs are designed to make humans something that they weren't biologically created to be and it disrupts the natural flow.

Though there is obvious evidence with the many WWE wrestlers or body building competitors who have lived past 60. Sure, they might look like a rotting pumpkin at that point, but at least they lived past 60 and looked incredible in their younger years which helped them get all the peaches and cream they ever wanted.

[IronDanHamza]

I thought I read this somewhere too, but then it brings the opposite point. Once you get older and lose the mass, but have this enlarged heart. I can't imagine that's healthy either?

PED use is definitely not healthy, that's for sure.

I dunno. It's like PEDs are designed to make humans something that they weren't biologically created to be and it disrupts the natural flow.

That's precisely what they're designed to do.

Though there is obvious evidence with the many WWE wrestlers or body building competitors who have lived past 60. Sure, they might look like a rotting pumpkin at that point, but at least they lived past 60 and looked incredible in their younger years which helped them get all the peaches and cream they ever wanted.

A lot of bodybuilders look fine in their old age especially with the new science we have today. Guy's like Jay Cutler, Phil Heath, Lee Priest, Dorian Yates, Lee Haney etc They all look great in their old age. All have full bill of health as well.