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Chris Bumstead on his health scare before Mr. Olympia

Name: Chris Bumstead on his health scare before Mr. Olympia
Uploaded: 2025-11-10T20:01:00+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Darrian Peck
Description: Chris Bumstead gained 15 pounds in one day from kidney inflammation before Mr. Olympia. An autoimmune condition sent him to the hospital on loop and IV…

10 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Chris Bumstead gained 15 pounds in one day from kidney inflammation before Mr. Olympia. An autoimmune condition sent him to the hospital on loop and IV diuretics. Eight weeks out from the competition, he tore a muscle and was terrified he wouldn't make it.

Questions this video answers

22 years old

About 15 pounds (reported as '£15' in the transcript)

Loop diuretics and IV diuretics (hospital-administered)

About eight weeks before Olympia

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My journey started with something very health related. I had plenty of years of obstacles like an injury before I ever won Olympia. I got really sick and I didn't know what was going on. It was autoimmune to my kidneys so I had this insane amount of inflammation edema in my legs. I put on like £15 in a day and I had like no knee, no ankle, it was just inflamed. Didn't know what was going on. I was put in the hospital, put on loop diuretics, IV diuretics and all such. Get the water off and they didn't know what was going on. I was like 22 years old, terrified from my life at the time, not knowing what was going to go on. I tore my lap one year, eight weeks at the Olympia and I'm like there's no way I'm going to be able to compete. All I could do was, okay, well what can I do today?