"He can't straighten his arm because the triceps muscle helps extension ... unusual because not much history of injecting history of coconut oil in body building," says Sahu.

“It is extremely dangerous for anyone to be injecting substances” like coconut oil, Johnson said ... his preoccupation with building muscle, the muscle impairment and his distress.

Synthol usually consists of a mixture of oil, benzyl alcohol and lidocaine that overzealous gym enthusiasts and wannabe models use to jack up their assets, but doctors are sounding the alarm on ...

Brazilian amateur bodybuilder Romario Dos Santos regularly injected his arms with synthol, an oil injection used to ... have to amputate his arms as the muscle was deteriorating.

A Brazilian bodybuilder is risking his life by injecting oil into his biceps but continues ... but nerve damage and muscle disfigurement are at the minor scale of lethal health risks he faces.

Doctors are warning about the practice among bodybuilders in the UK of injecting substances such as coconut oil to enhance their muscle shape ... he’d taken up body building four years earlier, ...

Kirill Tereshin developed 24 inch biceps using a deadly homemade oil known as 'synthol' A RUSSIAN builder who injected ... going to inject himself with the muscle enhancer though - despite one ...

Instead of just lifting weights, an amateur bodybuilder in the United Kingdom tried to plump up his arm muscles and by injecting them with coconut oil ... the triceps muscle (in the upper arm ...

A bodybuilder who wanted to look like the Incredible Hulk risked his life injecting oil into his arms ... the substance for two years but other muscle enhancing drugs still tempt him from time ...

He was injecting litres into his arm. Picture: CEN/Australscope Synthol is a blend of oil (85 per cent), painkillers and alcohol, and once injected expands between muscle fibres and hardens.

A Brazilian man almost had to have his arms amputated after injecting his muscles with a muscle enhancer called Synthol, a mixture of oil, alcohol, and painkillers, Barcroft TV reports.

A much quicker – but equally ill-advised – shortcut for massive guns (but not gains) involves injecting an oil called “synthol ... worse by activating the muscle. If the needle damages ...