Beefcake Lifestyle Dependency

Beefcake Lifestyle Dependency (colloquially called beefcakeism) is actually combination of common nutritional deficiencies and a blood pressure disorder leading to an addictive disorder that can have terribly consequences for sufferers and their loved ones. The afflicted have uncontrollable urges to lift heavy weights, perform unnecessary squat thrusts, apply various oils to their bodies to increase visibility of muscle definition, spend inordinate amounts of time in the tanning booth, and taking unnecessary and, at times, dangerous nutritional supplements. They also tend to wear bow ties, as a means of raising the blood pressure.

It should be noted that those with Beefcake Lifestyle Dependency are not professional or amateur bodybuilders, whose profession/hobby necessitates these activities. Those afflicted with the addiction are simply addicted to the trappings of the beefcake lifestyle, with no goal beyond performing these activities on a daily or even hourly basis. They are simply responses subconsciously meant to compensate for bodily deficiencies.

The causes of beefcake lifestyle dependency are manifold. A confluence of genetic disorders cause the nutritional difficienies and the tendency toward lower blood pressure (hypotension). Many sufferers do report having seen body building programs and professional wrestling on television in their youths, and it is theorized that this ia vector through which their simple need to replace missing nutrients is transformed into an embrace of a wholly inappropriate lifestyle.

The primary cause of the disorder is a. The most commonly reported is skin moisturizer. As a common household toiletry, moisturizer is easy for a young pre-beefcake to acquire in the home. What starts as simple moisterizing of dry elbows progresses to full arm application. Frequently, the trigger is see oneself in the mirror after applying moisterizer to a portion of the arm, noticing that muscular definition is more easily noticed after moisterizer application. Within months, the pre-beefcake is apply moisturizer to the full body, taking hours to pose in the mirror. Of course, the moisturizer eventually does not enhance definition well-enough. The pre-beefcake then graduates to baby oil or other muscular definition specific oil. With muscular definition now fully visible to the young beefcake, it becomes abundantly clear in their minds that more definition must be added, and that way lies madness. Soon, the young pre-beefcake is fully ensconsed in the addiction: lifting weights, performing squat thrusts, applying body oils multiple times per day, going out into the world wearing no shirt and only a bow-tie, eat nutritional supplements, etc.

It should be noted that sufferers of this disorder or not actually addicted to making their bodies perfect or muscular. They do not lift more weight than is healthy. They are addicted to the beefcake lifestyle, as the name entails. The trappings of the lifestyle are what gives sufferers their fix.

As it is a lifelong addiction, there is no "cure" for beefcake lifestyle dependency. Successfully overcoming the disorder requires constant vigilance of the sufferer and those around them. There are many triggers for relapse. Even something as simple as applying moisturizer to ones dry skin can lead to a sufferer to fall back into familiar detrimental patterns.