In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, comedian Joey Diaz opened up about serious health problems he experienced related to supplement use, including testosterone and MK677, which led to a hospitalization earlier this year.
Diaz revealed that he was recently hospitalized with congestive heart failure after his body began retaining dangerous amounts of fluid. “When I walked into the hospital I was 319 [pounds],” Diaz explained. This was sho cking because he had maintained a weight of around 265 pounds throughout the summer, meaning he had gained over 50 pounds of water weight in just a month.
“I wasn’t eating in the hospital. Nothing,” Diaz said. “I was just retaining water. Edema is when you retain water.”
The fluid retention became so severe it affected his lungs and breathing. “My lungs was getting the water so I couldn’t breathe,” he explained. “If I would walk from here I wouldn’t make it to your bathroom. I would have to stop in between and take like a five minute breath.”
Diaz traced his health crisis to his use of MK677, a supplement that’s technically classified as a peptide. “I was taking MK677,” Diaz explained. “It’s a amino acid peptide which mimics growth hormone in your brain. And it had a lot of dumps like it do insulin dumps and all this type of s*it and it was raising my sugar. It was doing a ton of s*it I didn’t even know it.”
This wasn’t Diaz’s first supplement-related health scare. He revealed a similar situation occurred when he was taking testosterone supplements several years ago. “This ain’t the first time it happened. It happened when I was doing testosterone when I was 50. I had a rush of red blood cells and I had to go to—I was in DC and I had the worst f*cking migraine headache for days and they took blood out. They go, ‘You got too many red blood cells.'”
The experience has left Diaz with a valuable lesson about supplement use: “If you’re going to do growth, do growth. Don’t get something that’s going to mimic growth.”
During his hospital stay, doctors had to drain the excess fluid from his system. “As soon as I went in, they put me on these f*cking things for 3 days and I lost like 20 lbs of fluid,” he recalled. “It was f*cking amazing. I was peeing one of those full things, one an hour.”
The health scare served as a wake-up call for Diaz. “When you end up in a hospital, there’s a problem, okay?” he reflected. “That’s how I looked at it. There’s a problem here. We got to get to the bottom of this s*it.”
Rogan, who has had many discussions about hormone therapy and supplements on his podcast over the years, suggested Diaz visit a health clinic for proper testing and guidance moving forward. “We get you a full blood panel and figure out what’s going on. Adjust your nutrition,” Rogan advised.
