Muscle mania and the cult of masculinity - When the body becomes an obsession | DW Documentary

Until recently, the use of anabolic steroids was the privilege of elite athletes. But the use of performance-enhancing drugs among young men has now reached alarming proportions. A powerful documentary about a phenomenon that’s increasingly alarming: young men’s fixation on the perfect body, and their growing use of performance-enhancing substances to achieve it. What was once reserved for professional elite sports is now widespread among teenagers and young men with bodybuilding ambitions.

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