I think some of the damage I did
is probably permanent as far as like an enlarged heart.
Yeah.
I don't want to go back and bodybuild.
I'm not looking for that.
I'm looking for how long can I live, right?
I mean if you look around this office, who's here?
It's old man.
It's like why am I here?
I'm freaking 37.
I mean something's wrong, right?
Jeff has been under the care of a cardiologist
for the past year.
Ever since doctors treating his steroid infection also
discovered signs of heart failure.
So, Doctor, because Jeff took testosterone
for so many years--
Right.
Now his body doesn't produce it naturally.
And he actually has to take testosterone to stay healthy.
Right.
This is the unfortunate irony for guys that are looking
to become superhuman per say.
They end up in a point where, again,
they obliterate their body's own ability
to produce testosterone.
Today, Jeff will be getting the results to see if his heart
has bounced back to normal.
So there's two main things that we
are evaluating with that echo.
One is your systolic function which
is the squeezing function.
And that was the one that was mildly reduced last time
you were here.
That actually does not look significantly different.
OK.
So it still looks a little bit sluggish.
Yep.
But there's another parameter that we
look at which is the relaxation function of the heart.
Right.
And that was also quite abnormal last time you
got here.
That looks significantly better.
OK.
You know we're not at the point where I'd say your heart looks
normal, unfortunately.
Right.
I think you should sort of get your mind around the fact
that you're probably going to be on long term medication.
I worry about Jeff's longevity.
His heart actually hasn't bounced back to normal.
And the longer we see it, that sort of suggests that something
permanent has happened there.
And if he started taking steroids again?
Not a good idea.
We heard from a lot of people that say that there
is a safe way of doing this.
The people that have gotten hurt is because they
didn't know what they were doing,
and they were taking too much, or--
but there is actually a safe way to do this.
Right.
What do you think?
I think those people are kidding themselves.
The best data that we have are autopsy studies.
That means someone died.
Jeff, frankly, is lucky.
There's lots and lots of case reports
of young guys having heart attacks
and having strokes, sudden death.
So your first symptom is dying.