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More women are using steroids – and many don’t know the risks

When people think of gym goers using steroids, the picture that comes to mind is often of a man pumping iron, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, or modern day shirtless masculinity influencers like “the Liver King”.

The Conversation

The alpha male era is on its way out

The right’s “masculinity crisis” has popular culture in a bear hug. But it may be nearer to tapping out

Salon

From the Liver King to ultramarathons, fitness influencers are glorifying extreme masculinity where ‘pain is the point’

A new Netflix documentary about a shirtless supplement salesman who claimed to be “natural” and was exposed as a fraud might seem like a punchline.

The Conversation

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The Liver King’s ‘ancestral eating’ may have been a con but influencers are still pushing the carnivore diet – is it any good for us?

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Despite a new Netflix documentary exposing the extreme diet, Emilie Lavinia asks why unsustainable and unproven diets, that can lead to disordered eating and nutrient deficiencies, are still being peddled?

The Independent UK

Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most envied physiques

The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?

The Guardian - UK

The Liver King story chillingly shows how bad role models are manufactured

COMMENT: Netflix’s new fitness influencer documentary lifts the lid on how we end up looking up to such strange and unhealthy figures, writes Ben Bryant. Let it serve as a cautionary tale

The Independent UK

The Liver King review – I am rarely this nauseated by anything

Influencer Brian Johnson spent years eating only raw meat – mainly testicles – to get ripped … before he was revealed to be a steroid addict. This exposé about him is truly stomach-churning stuff

The Guardian - UK

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Murderbot to Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story – the seven best shows to stream this week

Alexander Skarsgård leads a funny AI sci-fi comedy, while a new documentary fills in gaps about the shockingly grotesque crimes of the notorious couple

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