Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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Death by Naposim
In December 2006 the Austrian press carried reports of a 24-year-old bodybuilder who did in hospital after taking the anabolic steroid Naposim. The Austrian doctors who tried to save the bodybuilder's life published an article in the Journal of Medical Biology.
The bodybuilder had an enlarged heart, but he had been born with this condition. What's more, his heart had always worked fine.
What was clearly not working properly was his liver the result of steroid use, the researchers think. The bodybuilder also had serious pneumonia the researchers later found the fungus Candida albicans in his lungs and after a day in hospital his blood became infected by a micro-organism. The man went into septic shock, and this is what killed him in the end.
When the doctors did a culture of the bodybuilder's blood, they discovered after four days what bacteria they were up against: Gordonia terrae. The bacteria, which is found in the soil and more and more often in hospitals, probably entered the bodybuilder's body when the doctors inserted tubes to treat him.
The bacteria should have been killed by the antibiotic that the doctors gave the bodybuilder. That the antibiotics did not save the man the doctors attribute to the mans use of steroids. They had completely wrecked his immune system.
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