BRASILIA, Brazil
\nBrazilian body builder Valdir Segato, who injected himself with oil for bigger muscles died on his 55th birthday.
\nValdir Segato had been using potentially fatal injections of Synthol for years, risking strokes and infections, to get huge biceps, pectorals and back muscles.
\nSegato previously said his body inspirations were Arnold Schwarzenegger and fictional characters like the Hulk.
\n\u201cThey call me Hulk, Schwarzenegger and He-Man all the time and I like that. I\u2019ve doubled my biceps but I still want to be bigger,\u201d he said in 2016, according to the Daily Mail.
\nHe posted images of his body transformation on social media and even called himself \u201cValdir Synthol\u201d on Instagram.
\nWhile the bodybuilder had 1.7 million followers on TikTok, local media reported that he lived an isolated life with few friends or visitors.
\nMois\u00e9s da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o da Silva told Brazil\u2019s Globo news that Segato rented a property built behind his family\u2019s house, and on the day of his death, he was complaining about shortness of breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BRASILIA, Brazil Brazilian body builder Valdir Segato, who injected himself with oil for bigger muscles died on his 55th birthday. Valdir Segato had been using potentially fatal injections of Synthol for years, risking strokes and infections, to get huge biceps, pectorals and back muscles. Segato previously said his body inspirations were Arnold Schwarzenegger and fictional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-275727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n