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Brazilian bodybuilder who injected OIL to make muscles larger dies aged 55

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A bodybuilder dubbed the ‘Brazilian Hulk' who injected oil to make his muscles larger died on his 55th birthday.

Valdir Segato from Sao Paolo mixed sesame oil, alcohol, and painkillers as a steroid alternative to boost his 23-inch 'guns', or biceps. He also injected the toxic solution into his pectorals until they swelled so much they resembled iron balls stuck on his chest.

The extreme bodybuilder had been warned by experts that the concoction could cause him clogged arteries, stroke, and infections, but he said his bigger muscles made him a happier person.

However, on his 55th birthday, Valdir was found crawling outside his neighbour's front door for help and died in Ribeirao Preto on July 26.

Neighbour Moises da Conceicao da Silva said: ‘It was around 6 am, more or less. He came crawling through the back house and came to the front. Then he knocked on my mother's window, knocked, knocked, then she woke up and he said 'help me, help me because I'm dying.'

The bodybuilder was rushed to North Emergency Care Unit facility where he was resuscitated but medics could not save him.

It was already the second time that neighbours had rushed him to the hospital. The first time was due to a heart attack but he survived.

Valdir previously said he used to be called ‘Skinny Dog' for being a thin drug addict in his youth and found the gym as his rehab.


He said: ‘I became involved with drugs, and I started losing weight because you don't eat, you lead a wrong life. I quit drugs and joined a gym. I found it was my rehab.'

Then he was offered to use synthol by a person he met at the gym and tried it once but tragically - as a recovering addict - he became hooked on its effects.

His synthol mixture comprised of 85 percent sesame oil, 7.5 percent painkiller lidocaine, and 7.5 percent alcohol for sterilisation which he would then inject to buff up his biceps, pectorals, and back muscles.

Valdir had been warned several times before about its effects but he said it was his decision to continue using them ‘because I like to.'

He said: ‘The doctors tell me to stop it. The advice they give me is to stop using. But it's my decision to use it because I want to because I like to.'

His friend Fernando Carvalho da Silva previously said that they wanted him to tell him to stop but he kept quiet because he was happy.

He said: ‘The oil thing is stupidity. He thinks it's good and I'm a friend so I stay quiet, but deep down I want to tell him to stop but he doesn't want to. He's happy like that.

'It's the risk he takes. He wants to look good and wants to be famous.'

It was believed that the Brazilian Hulk died of cardiac arrest, but medics have not yet revealed his cause of death. His body is currently at the Legal Medical Institute.

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