LOOKS CAN KILL

For readers of David Epstein's The Sports Gene and Alex Hutchinson's Endure and Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?, a leader in sports medicine and regenerative therapy and champion powerlifter exposes the myths and silence around dangerous appearanceenhancing drugs in the Instagram era

From #fitspiration vloggers touting "fit" as the new skinny to magazines imploring men to get "shredded" and "massive" in the gym, there is industry meant, ostensibly, to make us all more healthy – but those images rippling abs, bulging shoulders and tiny waists are actually the opposite of healthy

• A vivid, eye-opening and compassionate journey alongside a young doctor as he discovers an underworld of misinformation and misdirected ambition, drug abuse and lives cut short for the glory of competition, pageantry or the mistaken belief that we need to be fantastically beautiful in order to be fit