Episode 220: Hulk Hogan / Heart Complications from Steroids

Today, after a brief discussion on the recent deaths of Ozzy Osbourne and Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Asif and Ali discuss the career and complicated life of Hulk Hogan (7:15). They guys start off by discussing when they first heard of Hogan. They then go over his meteoric rise to become the most famous professional wrestler of all time. They then discuss his controversies including videos of Hogan using racist language and the Gawker trial, and the ongoing repercussions of these events. 

Hogan had a history of anabolic steroid use and died of cardiac arrest and so in the second half of the episode, Ali asks Asif about the heart complications of anabolic steroid use (34:30). He talks about how these steroids “build up” tissues and muscles and result in masculine-like effects (androgenization). He discusses how common anabolic steroid use is and how it has been linked to heart disease and heart failure in particular. Asif goes over the common symptoms that this type of heart failure would present with. He then goes over the testing that should be done as well as the treatment (mainly stopping steroid use). 

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Show Notes:

• Can You Mourn Hulk Hogan the Wrestler, But Not the Man? https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hulk-hogan-legacy-remembrance-1235393582/
• The Mortal Hulk Hogan: https://www.theringer.com/2025/07/24/wwe/hulk-hogan-obituary-wrestling-legacy
• What Hulk Hogan Left Behind: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/opinion/hulk-hogan-gawker.html
• Hulk Hogan's son arrested on DUI charge in Florida city where he was involved in a car crash 16 years ago: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hulk-hogans-son-arrested-dui-florida-city-was-involved-car-crash-16-ye-rcna125905
• Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press review – Hulk v Gawker in portrait of wealthy arrogance: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/22/nobody-speak-trials-of-a-free-press-review-hulk-hogan-gawker-netflix
• Anabolic androgenic steroids and cardiomyopathy: an update https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cardiovascular-medicine/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1214374/full#B11
• Steroid-Induced Cardiomyopathy: Insights From a Systematic Literature Review and a Case Report https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ccr3.70171
• Cardiovascular Toxicity of Illicit Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Use https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.116.026945

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