September 27, 2002
Coroner Says New Trend Among Athletes & Bodybuilders Can Kill
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Bodybuilder Dies After Injecting Insulin To Tone Muscles
It is shocking. Healthy young men and women injecting insulin to build up their bodies. It is the latest trend among many athletes but particularly among bodybuilders and as WAFB's Shauna Sanford reports one local family found out the painful way.
24-year-old Dustin Nemeth's family says they want his story to be a wake up call to all athletes and parents of athletes. You may not realize this but you don't have to have a prescription to buy insulin. In Louisiana, you can ask for it over the counter. Many athletes, who are not diabetic, are buying it.
Going for the gold Dustin Nemeth gave it all he had in a bodybuilding competition in New Orleans last year. New to bodybuilding, Dustin came in an impressive second place, but little did he know that would be his last competition. - And little did his family know to what lenths Dustin was going to create that prize winning body.
Dustin's father, Dale Nameth, says, "He bulked up some but I was looking at that as being all natural because he was working in a health food place and if you saw how he ate and what he ate, we thought he had everything under control."
But on Saturday, August 10th of this year, Dustin's family found out something that they still find hard to believe. Dustin's sister Stacey went to his apartment after he did not show up for work. She found him dead, laying on his back with blood coming out of his nose and mouth that had been dried.
An autopsy revealed Dustin had steroids and insulin in his system, but he did not have diabetes. The insulin had eaten up all of his blood sugar and his insulin level was zero. Dustin's father says he was injecting the insulin in his stomach and the steroid in his groin so there were no marks on his body.
According to Dustin's autopsy he died of natural causes. He went into a comma and suffered heart failure and all of that is attributed to the steroids and the insulin.
There are websites telling athletes insulin is crucial to achieve massive size and they even go so far as to tell them to wear diabetic bracelets so that if something happens they will be treated accordingly. Dr. Cataldie says this is widespread and Dustin Nemeth is proof that it can and does kill.
Coroner Says New Trend Among Athletes & Bodybuilders Can Kill
Email story to a friend
Bodybuilder Dies After Injecting Insulin To Tone Muscles
It is shocking. Healthy young men and women injecting insulin to build up their bodies. It is the latest trend among many athletes but particularly among bodybuilders and as WAFB's Shauna Sanford reports one local family found out the painful way.
24-year-old Dustin Nemeth's family says they want his story to be a wake up call to all athletes and parents of athletes. You may not realize this but you don't have to have a prescription to buy insulin. In Louisiana, you can ask for it over the counter. Many athletes, who are not diabetic, are buying it.
Going for the gold Dustin Nemeth gave it all he had in a bodybuilding competition in New Orleans last year. New to bodybuilding, Dustin came in an impressive second place, but little did he know that would be his last competition. - And little did his family know to what lenths Dustin was going to create that prize winning body.
Dustin's father, Dale Nameth, says, "He bulked up some but I was looking at that as being all natural because he was working in a health food place and if you saw how he ate and what he ate, we thought he had everything under control."
But on Saturday, August 10th of this year, Dustin's family found out something that they still find hard to believe. Dustin's sister Stacey went to his apartment after he did not show up for work. She found him dead, laying on his back with blood coming out of his nose and mouth that had been dried.
An autopsy revealed Dustin had steroids and insulin in his system, but he did not have diabetes. The insulin had eaten up all of his blood sugar and his insulin level was zero. Dustin's father says he was injecting the insulin in his stomach and the steroid in his groin so there were no marks on his body.
According to Dustin's autopsy he died of natural causes. He went into a comma and suffered heart failure and all of that is attributed to the steroids and the insulin.
There are websites telling athletes insulin is crucial to achieve massive size and they even go so far as to tell them to wear diabetic bracelets so that if something happens they will be treated accordingly. Dr. Cataldie says this is widespread and Dustin Nemeth is proof that it can and does kill.
