A mysterious flu takes the life of a healthy young bodybuilder.
A 21-year-old bodybuilder named Kyler Baughman has shockingly died within days of being diagnosed with the flu.
The young man was devoted to physical fitness.
His mother Beverly Baughman told WXPI, “He was going to school to be a personal trainer.”
However, when visiting home for the holidays, Kyler was noticeably ill.
“We saw him the 23rd for our family Christmas get-together and we noticed he wasn’t feeling well. He looked rundown and had a bit of a snotty nose. I think he thought, ‘I just got the flu, I’ll be alright. I’ll go rest a little bit.'”
His fiancée said that Kyler didn’t think much of the illness.
“He kinda just laid down and went about his day and that was the day he was coughing and said his chest hurt, he had a mild cough.”
However, less than two days later, Kyler’s symptoms increased severely. He checked himself into Westmoreland County emergency room, and when he continued to deteriorate, he was airlifted UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh where he died within 24 hours- officially of organ failure due to septic shock caused by influenza.
It’s unknown how Kyler’s fitness pursuits may have affected the illness. Usually young and healthy people are less susceptible to common viruses such as influenza. Intuitively, the most at risk populations are the very young and very old. Kyler had not receive any sort of flu immunization in 2017.
Most lifters know that training during a sickness can be a bit of a gamble. It either seems to stimulate recovery, pushing one through the illness with movement and blood flow, or it just serves as extra depletion, helping the illness to linger.
It doesn’t seem as if Kyler attempted to train through the illness or took any drastic action. Still his father urges people to take influenza seriously.
“Try and know your body; don’t let things go. Whenever you have a fever and you have it multiple days, don’t let it go. Get it taken care of.”
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R I P
My heart and prayers are with his family RIP
reminding us nobody ia invincible
Anthony Aguero what????
David Simms
Something is going on here. Just doesn’t add up. Too many people in the last year
Yep. Some bad stuff out there
Roberto Cîrnu ce?
Kevin Bos heh!?
Van een griepie val je zomaar om, raar he 😜
Hahaha ja puur zo’n verhaal weer.
Maybe AIDS?
Why do you go strap a bomb to yourself and detonate it!
Go fuck yourself!
You are dumb
IM SURE DURING HIS BLLOD WORK IF HIV WAS SUSPECTED THEY WOULD OF TESTED .HIV IS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE ANY MORE.
Have some respect…not cool bro.
Galip Çalışkan dodelijke griep
Andras
Fuck…flu? Its crazy!
And you don’t think there’s an underlying condition… say LOOKS GOOD IN STAGE FOR STAGE BUT NOT REAL LIFE .!! Weakened immune system due to low fat and restricted diet … or genetic condition like Dallas …
Nothing to do with the different strains of flu that are killing people from all walks of life then? 🤔
Geoff Woodward The flu – unchecked, can kill anyone. I think Greg’s point is that if you are constantly walking around with less than 8% body fat – your immune system will not be able to mount a robust defense against disease.
Chris Bourff exactly …. everyone knows stage weight isn’t realistic for a daily life … I’m normally a solid 260 .. stage I got down to 220 a lot of factors in immunity and health there
I’m sorry guys but how would having a higher body fat level do for this young man?!?! You guys are talking crazy. He got sepsis. You can get sepsis from a fucking papercut. Had a 18yr old girl i knew get sepsis from a UTI and she too died.This had nothing to do with bodybuilding and GI shouldn’t even post this stuff. Sorry to the family for the loss, R.I.P. young man.
Dallas was 26, took massive amounts of steroids and his heart was 3x the size of a normal persons and almost 30% bigger than the size of rich pianas, who was on steroids for over 20 years. Dallas killed himself basically
Greg Hudgins Flu with < 10% body fat is a life risking endeavor. Sorry to break it to you - if you want to take that risk then all I can say is, go with God my friend...Essential body fat is just that - ESSENTIAL - your biology does not give a good Godddamn about what you THINK you should look like...
Greg Jameson Yup – even the pros know this is not a sustainable condition. If you are a pro and can make a living at it – I’m jealous – for the rest of the lifting public – back the hell off and just enjoy the fact that woman can’t stop looking at you…
First they said Dallas died of food choking, now this kid died because of flu??? Stop using steroids.
I have a body fat of 4-5% … no immune system problems here. Maybe shut the fuck up and quit the disrespectful bullshit.
Someone has that roid rage going there Ryan Horton way to make yourself the victim Bro … no one gives shit about you or you immune system it’s not about you lmao haaahaaah you made yourself look fucking stupid with your rebuttal…. Dallas had a heart valve genetic displacement … it couldn’t handle to the over drive you fucking idiot you look very stupid rite now ….
Chris Burns actully in the autopsy it was reported that Dallas had a heart valve issue .. it couldn’t handle the over drive
he did die from steroid abuse
There’s no proof of that
I do know if you’re using gear your immune system is compromised.
You can clearly see by his physique that he doesnt abuse steroids lol
David Pratt wtf are you talking about?
Matt C McLaughlin it is actually true. Steroid use does affect your immune system
Larry Spears this is him
Clay Bohler
Why do people make stupid comments assuming he had some other condition or due to something he was putting in his body. Do you know his medical history? No. So shut up and be respectful.
Rip
Lorraine Amabile Morchen
Lee RC
Holly shit
THE FLU KILLS NO ONE KNOWS WHO ITS GOING TO KILL NEXT.
R.I.P
Pawan Joshi
I can’t
RIP bro
Shit I thought I had it bad
Might have had other problems other than the flu.
It must be steroids not flu.
And you must be retarded, not ignorant.
William Mokonyama lol you starting to sound like a broken record bud lol
Roids kills
Not every single bodybuilder lol
Keep using okay
That kid is built the same way you are… so how can you say he died of roids? His physique doesnt look like someone who abuses or most likely even uses steroids. Flu affects muscle. Your heart is a muscle. He probably had flu and trained on pre workout or whatever and the high heart rate did damage to his heart.
He is dead bro, how can you compare me with someone who is no more, imma still gonna lift weights. What about him huh
Im talking about his physique. Yes he is dead. But he died from flu not roids like you are stating.
I’m 26, he was only 21 and you say his physique is the same as mine, what does that tell you, this boy might have used something stronger that his heart rate.
Steroids do not increase your heart rate. Maybe he eats better than you do? Trained smarter? Had a coach since he started? He might have started at 15 … who knows. To say he died from using steroids is both rediculous and insensitive.
Remember when the dr say don’t train when you have flu because your cardiac muscles become weak
Carrying low body fat on off season or winter then really the poor fucks dont stand a chace.stupidity
Some people are over-reaching on their quest to convince everyone that steroids kill… based on minutes and minutes of careful research and zero personal experience with them…
This guy looks like I did at 21, lifting maybe 3 days a week, on no hormones, and drinking 5 nights a week. I was no bodybuilder…
Plus the flu kills over 50,000 people a year. Let this one go please…
I just had the flu and was so dehydrated that i fainted, face planted and woke up on the floor in my own sweat.
Always wash your hands after lifting, the animals will give mortals all kinds of non curable problems!
Lol it was not just a flu… It was influenza…