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Men'sHealth
  • 17/10/2024
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00:00When you're a little boy, you are always flexing and proving how strong you are.
00:07When you get older, you start looking at guys with muscle, and that looks good to you.
00:14All my life, I've been like a skinny kid.
00:16I really started to notice the way that I looked.
00:19It became like a struggle.
00:21I looked up on the internet, how can I gain muscle quickly?
00:25You know, like on social media, like Instagram.
00:27Being fed different people that have a specific body.
00:31Six-pack.
00:32Broad shoulders.
00:33Super jacked arms.
00:34I want to look like that.
00:36The more boys post fitness-related content, the more likely they actually are to get likes.
00:41You see everyone in the comment section wanting to get that body, and then you look at yours.
00:46This rise in pressure of muscularity has driven many boys and men to become preoccupied and obsessed with going to the gym.
00:52It was a while without being at the gym for like two and a half hours.
00:55One hour was never enough.
00:57No.
00:58The designers behind social media know how to draw us in.
01:02Any platform, you'd see influencers that have a lot of muscle promoting these different brands.
01:07There are a lot of risks.
01:08Most of these are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
01:11There were some nights where I just wouldn't sleep.
01:13It was just like really bad.
01:14It was just too much.
01:18The next thing I remember, paramedics around me.
01:21His muscles were just growing faster than his bones.
01:26The algorithms got you.
01:29And it will send you more and more of these images.
01:33I was just trying to look better.
01:35I never knew that there was going to be consequences.

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