Arnold Schwarzenegger is warning of the risks of abusing steroids while bodybuilding.
The “Terminator” star told Men’s Health for its July/August cover story that “individuals are dying” from abusing performance-enhancing drugs.
When the 75-year-old was a bodybuilder within the Nineteen Seventies, he said he legally did a regimen of testosterone and D-Bol under the supervision of a physician.
“Bodybuilding at all times, at all times was considered a secure sport,” he said. “But now, it’s not. Now individuals are dying. They’re dying due to overdoses of medicine, and so they don’t know what the f— they’re doing.”
He added that folks are “listening to charlatans. If I would like to go and get medical advice from a legitimate doctor, I’m going to UCLA, or I’m going to the Cleveland Clinic.”
Steroid use for bodybuilding was banned within the US in 1990, after the Steroids Control Act of 1990 was passed.
“Don’t go there,” Schwarzenegger urged. “Yes, we’re at a time now, where we at all times search for the straightforward solution to earn cash, the fast solution to get wealthy, the straightforward solution to be an influencer. Any time you abuse the body, you’re going to regret it afterward.
“I would like young people to know that I actually have seen people getting kidney transplants, and suffering tremendously from it.”
He added, comparing himself to a rock climber who tells others to not take risks, “I recognize the incontrovertible fact that, who am I to say this? That is the guy who climbed with no rope.”
Schwarzenegger, who’s starring within the Netflix series FUBAR, a few CIA operative, said in an interview earlier this month with the Hollywood Reporter he has no plans of slowing down.
“I still work out day by day, I ride my bike day by day, and I make movies — show business is one other a part of my life. I add in my life, I never subtract,” he explained. “I really like every little thing that I do. There’s no retiring. I’m still on this side of the grass, so I’m completely happy. My plan is to live ceaselessly — and thus far, so good!”
