Brazilian bodybuilder and influencer nicknamed 'Hulk' dies after years of taking injections he believed grew his enormous biceps
Picture: Instagram/TikTokA Brazilian bodybuilder who gained a massive TikTok following has died after years of life-threatening injections he used for muscles that earned him the nickname "Hulk".Valdir Segato is thought to have had a heart attack after suffering a shortness of breath on July 26, his 55th birthday.
His neighbour in the Sao Paolo town of Ribeirão Preto, 31-year-old Moisés da Conceição, told local news: "It was around 6am, more or less. He came crawling through the back house and came to the front. Moisés's family helped Valdir before when he fell ill with similar symptoms to the day he died – the last time being some four months prior.Valdir had amassed 1.7m followers on TikTok.Moisés said: "He had already felt sick again, I had already helped him. He just didn't die because I ran very fast, I took the car, I went very fast until I got to the hospital.
"The only harm he did was to himself, using those things on his body, applying that oil, synthol, in the body, which ended up harming."The Brazilian began suffering from shortness of breath before he died.Believing the drugs would help him bulk up even more, Valdir – who had amassed 1.7m followers on TikTok, wanted to grow his biceps to 68cm in diameter, Brazilian media said.
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