The Trafficked podcast with Marianna Van Zeller is intended for mature audiences.

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Amazing posing, incredible stamina, but how do you feel?

Do you feel flat?

Do you feel full?

People who use steroids and performance-enhancing substances usually do so behind closed doors.

But I managed to get through that door. This season, on the trafficked TV show, on National Geographic,

I followed a young bodybuilder named Zach to a big competition in Las Vegas.

And he invited his supplier to come with him.

... experiment to see how much we can fill you out with some more advanced chemistry before the finals,

then that's what we could do right now.

This was all part of my investigation into the black market for performance-enhancing drugs.

I don't think I was ready for just how intense it could be.

So between qualifying rounds, I watched Zach essentially take his supplier back to his Airbnb,

where the supplier opened a huge duffel bag with a pharmacy supply of illegal PEDs,

performance-enhancing drugs.

And one after another, I saw him injecting them into Zach's body.

Okay, I'm going to put the insulin in last.

So first I'm putting IGF DES, 200 micrograms.

How to heck?

250 micrograms.

Zach didn't end up advancing, but the craziest thing was their takeaway from the experience.

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