Looks can kill : a doctor's journey through steroids, addiction and online fitness culture

ISBN: 9780735277472
Physical Description: print regular print 261 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto : Random House of Canada, 2020.
Copyright: &copy;2020.

Shammaa, Riam (author.). Pearson, Patricia, 1964- (author.).

Summary: Leading sports doctor Riam Shammaa exposes the dirty secret of online fitness culture: rampant steroid and drug use, not only amongst its Instagram stars and wellness gurus, but eagerly enjoined by millions seeking to emulate a new beauty ideal (and its myth, of being all-natural). This is a vivid, eye-opening and compassionate journey alongside a young doctor as he discovers an underworld of misinformation and misdirected ambition, drug abuse and lives cut short for the glory of competition, pageantry or the mistaken belief that we need to be fantastically beautiful in order to be fit.