Jeff Seid, an immensely popular Men’s Physique talent and model, took home a win recently at the 2024 Diana Kakos Pro-Am — a drug-tested bodybuilding contest. During his victory lap, Seid posted a video on his YouTube channel claiming to be a lifetime natural athlete.
This caught the attention of Derek More Plates More Dates, who has made a career out of exposing ‘fake nattys.’ In his latest video, Derek of MPMD analyzes Seid’s physique and determined that he likely used performance-enhancing drugs for his participation at the 2016 Mr. Olympia show.
Boasting nearly two million YouTube subscribers, Derek of MPMD has become a trusted voice in the fitness community. He has given his natural or not verdict on several high-profile names in the industry, from the Liver King and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson to Andrew Tate and bodybuilder Mike O’Hearn. In response to Jeff Seid’s bold claim, Derek of MPMD presented a compelling argument suggesting that he’s been enhanced at some point in his life.
Jeff Seid Wins Drug-Tested Bodybuilding Show, Says He’s a Lifetime Natural; Derek of MPMD Gives His Analysis
After competing at a drug-tested natural bodybuilding competition, Seid reaffirmed that he has never used steroids in his lifetime.
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“Lifetime natural bodybuilder. I don’t know why whenever I say I’m fucking natural it triggers you guys so much. It’s kind of funny to be honest. I’ll throw that up in my caption because I know it’s going to get a fucking shit storm going on.”
Unsatisfied with the ‘current trajectory’ of bodybuilding, Seid mentioned that he wanted to show off his aesthetics by competing in a natural show.
“I am a natural bodybuilder so I haven’t competed in eight years. I wanted to come back, hit the stage, and you know I look at the current state of bodybuilding and I don’t really want to comment on the trajectory of where it’s going and my opinion of it.”
“I’m always training, I’m always in good shape, throughout the years of even though I wasn’t competing, I still been training hard. Still been dieting hard, still been maintaining my physique, still looking fucking aesthetic,” said Seid.
Derek of MPMD examined Seid’s physique, arguing that he looked ‘stringed out’ for his first few Olympia shows before 2016.
“In general, when we’ve seen him really really lean, he just kind of looks stringed out. Here he is at the 2013 Olympia, 2014, it’s not like this guy has a problem getting in shape, the guy is perpetually shredded out of his god damn mind. But for him to look like this on stage… it’s like okay, this is not just you happened to shave another percent off your body fat, you are clearly heavier with a significant amount more mass, seemingly.”
He believes Seid ‘looked different’ and presented a physique he hadn’t achieved before at the 2016 Mr. Olympia, adding that he ‘probably did something for this show.’
“Is the progression from all of these [photos] that enhanced looking? Tough call man. I would say in my perspective, he probably did something for this show [2016 Mr. Olympia] in particular.
He stood on stage and looked different than he ever had and hasn’t achieved that look since, in my opinion, and hasn’t actually at this show either.”
Derek of MPMD doesn’t believe lighting or circumstances were the cause for Seid’s improved physique in 2016, revealing that the Men’s Physique contender had to take measures to place well.
“In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, a cut above with a level of mass that probably couldn’t be attributed to just lighting and circumstances. Because it’s just different, it just looks like there’s more tissue added here. So, is he where he was at in the 2016 Olympia? It’s a tough call man. I would say he’s definitely maybe regressed a little bit but was it within the realms of what you could perceive to be natural regression just by not being as regimented and dialed? He suggests that that’s not the case and he’s as big as he’s ever been.”
“My stance at least as of now, he probably did something for the Olympia that he knew he probably had to to even have a chance of placing well and is conceivably natural for this natural show, they have a drug testing protocol in place that is obviously not bulletproof,” explains Derek of MPMD.
‘At minimum,’ Derek of MPMD suspects Seid used enhancements for the 2016 Mr. Olympia.
“I would say he was probably enhanced in 2016, at minimum. Who knows if he was for sure but this is a really interesting highlight of him stepping into the crossfire essentially of people debating about this shit in his comment section when historically, he’s never touched it.
He basically just pokes fun at it once in a while makes captions about it but he’s never posted a near-20-minute video addressing it directly.”
What is Derek of MPMD’s final verdict? He doesn’t buy Jeff Seid’s claim of being a lifetime natural athlete.
“For him, do I think he’s natural here at this competition? Yes. Do I think overall it’s likely that he’s lifetime? Probably not. Who knows man? At the end of the day, I do think this guy is an interesting case of insane genetics and conceivably perhaps natural most of the time.”
Jeff Seid has kept fans in the loop on his physique progress. At one point, he was eating 5,000 calories a day to add mass. However, after gaining 40 pounds and suffering from high blood pressure, he decided to distance himself from dirty bulking.
Derek remains skeptical of Seid’s lifetime natural claim, suggesting that the 2016 Mr. Olympia preparation may have involved enhancements. Seid, meanwhile, continues to embrace the controversy, maintaining his stance.
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