The tragic end of the "green giant" who risked his life to inflate his muscles

Bodybuilder Vladimir Segato, who injected dangerous substances into his muscles to look "like a character from Marvel movies", did not listen to the advice of doctors who ordered him to stop the deadly habit.

This week it ended in death on his 55th birthday

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04/08/2022

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Bodybuilder Vladimir Segato shows off his muscles (from YouTube)

Vladimir Segato, a Brazilian bodybuilder turned network host, tragically ended his life this week, when he died on his 55th birthday.

Segato, known as the "Green Giant from Brazil" due to his extremely muscular appearance, maintained a popular Tiktok account with 1.7 million followers where he often shared photos and videos and bragged about his physique.

Doctors have warned Sagatto for years about the deadly habit he's picked up since becoming a bodybuilder in 2012 — injecting a dangerous mixture of synthol oil, alcohol and painkillers straight into his chest, shoulder and bicep muscles.

The mixture that Sagato injected into his body every week for years caused his muscles to swell disproportionately and almost doubled his size.

A dangerous addiction.

Segato (photo: screenshot, from Instagram)

Brazilian bodybuilder Vladimir Segato (photo: screenshot, from Instagram)

The muscles were actually artificial and cosmetic only, and didn't really make Sagat physically stronger.

At the same time, they contributed to his sense of self-worth, after he testified to himself that in his youth he was a thin and emaciated child and even earned the nickname "the skinny dog".

After the treatments and injections, the circumference of Sagato's biceps reached close to 60 centimeters.

"He wants to look good and be famous, and that's the risk he's willing to take," said one of his associates in the past.

Either way, body maintenance became an obsession for him, and pleas from doctors who repeatedly explained to him that synthol causes nerve damage and infections and significantly increases the risk of stroke, did not help.

In fact, he even took pride in the dangerous injections, documenting them repeatedly on social media and even calling himself "Vladir Syntol".

"They call him the green giant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they call me all kinds of names, and I enjoy it," he said in an interview with the "Daily Mail" in 2016.

"I've doubled the size of my muscles, and I'm not going to stop. My goal is to increase them as much as possible."

Brazilian bodybuilder Vladimir Segato (photo: screenshot, from Instagram)

This week, as mentioned, the hourglass that started ticking a long time ago, ran out.

Sagato began to develop symptoms of shortness of breath, was admitted to the hospital and his condition rapidly deteriorated in the hospital, which had to be pronounced dead.

The official cause of death was cardiac arrest.

His family members said that hours before he was hospitalized, "he frantically knocked on the door of his mother's house and begged for help. He groaned in pain."

Symbolically, although Segato was very popular on social media he ended his life with severe testing.

In Brazil it was said that he lives in a tiny one-room apartment in Sao Paulo, without leading a normal social or family life.

"He died as a complicated and lonely person. It's very sad," one of the family members told the local media.

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