5 Years of PED Abuse Caused 20 Year Old Bodybuilder to have Heart Attack

Makaia Childress push other bodybuilders to “please consider their health.” Makaia Childress, a 20-year-old aspiring bodybuilder, shared a video speaking to others to “consider their health” after suffering a heart attack due to steroid use.

Childress went to TikTok to speak on his experience. Over the last two years, there has unfortunately been a string of deaths that has hit the bodybuilding world hard. As this was not the first Bodybuilder heart attack, Shawn Rhoden suffered a heart attack at the end of 2021. McMillan and Boston Loyd also passed away due to heart complications. Childress, who admitted to taking steroids since he was 15, opened up in a video and urged others to get physical exam.

Makaia Childress: I Almost Died… Do a check up with your doctor. This video was posted by Makaia Childress on Tuesday, and it has received 851,000 views on TikTok. He mentioned all the medications he has taken for the past five years.

I’M 20 YEARS OLD AND I JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK FROM GEAR. IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT GEAR IS, IT’S ANABOLIC STEROIDS. STEROIDS ARE REALLY BAD FOR YOU. I’VE BEEN ABUSING PEDS FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS, SARMS, HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE, EVERYTHING YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE.

Childress took these PEDs to gain mass and size. He was prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal of becoming as large as other bodybuilders.

TO LOOK THE WAY I WANTED TO LOOK, TO BE AS BIG AS THE OTHER GUYS, I PUSHED GEAR, I PUSHED FOOD, AND I WAS NOT TRULY PAYING ATTENTION TO MY HEALTH.

THIS WON’T HAPPEN TO EVERYBODY, BUT I HOPE YOU CAN PLEASE, I MEAN, PLEASE, GO GET BLOOD WORK DONE AND PLEASE DON’T ABUSE THIS SHIT, IT’S SERIOUS. LIKE I SAID, I’M AGE 20 AND I JUST GOT A HEART ATTACK FROM TAKING IT FOR SO LONG WITH HARDLY ANY REST BREAKS

It is evident that PEDs and steroids are nothing new in the bodybuilding world, since athletes utilize them under the close supervision of trainers and other medical specialists. Since Makaia Childress is still a young man, his major audience was other children who might be considering following in his footsteps.

GO TALK WITH YOUR DOCTOR. GET YOUR BLOOD WORK DONE. TAKE LOWER DOSES. DO ANYTHING YOU POSSIBLY CAN IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE RISK OF GETTING A HEART ATTACK OR SUFFERING OTHER DISEASES LIKE I JUST SUFFERED AND WENT THROUGH.