Gym Trainer Dead After Taking Low-Quality Steroids, Food Supplements For Muscle Gain

A gym trainer has been reported dead after allegedly taking low-quality steroids and fake food supplements in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India on Wednesday, Sept. 7.

The deceased man, identified as 36-year-old Sanjeev Dhama, a gym trainer by profession, reportedly suffered severe stomach aches and complained about the pain to his wife Aradhana on Aug. 13. Aradhana immediately rushed her husband to a nearby health facility, Santosh Hospital, for treatment. At the hospital, doctors informed Sanjeev that the reason behind his stomach ache was an infection in his pancreas and stomach, the Times Of India reported.

After the diagnosis, Sanjeev was transferred to another hospital, where his treatment began. However, as his health condition deteriorated, he was referred to AIIMS hospital in Delhi for advanced treatment. Despite this, however, Sanjeev, who was in critical condition for 27 days, succumbed to his health complications and died on Wednesday, Sept. 7.

According to the doctors who treated Sanjeev, the deadly infection may have been related to the "low-quality" steroids and food supplements the man took daily to stay healthy.

In a similar but unrelated incident, a 35-year-old woman reportedly died due to a heart attack while she was working out at the gym in Byappanahalli, Bengaluru, India on Saturday, March 26, Latin Times reported.

The deceased woman, identified as Vinaya Vittal, 35, a resident of GM Palya, was reportedly working out at the Challenge Health Club at Mallesplaya, Bengaluru at 8 a.m on Saturday, March 26, when she suddenly suffered a heart attack and collapsed onto the gym floor.

The staff and those who were exercising in her vicinity immediately rushed to help her and called an ambulance. Even though she was immediately taken to the CV Raman Hospital for treatment, however, Vittal died en route to the hospital.

For the past several years, Vittal lived alone in a rented house in GM Palya and visited the gym to work out every morning. On the night before her death, on Friday, March 25, she came home from work and got a few hours of sleep before heading to the gym first thing in the morning where she suffered a cardiac arrest.