This Is What Happens To Your Body When You Stream Every Day

One of the most eye-opening accounts of the potential negative consequences that the body can suffer due to excessive streaming comes from Joe Marino, a former full-time streamer who runs the Twitch channel Geekdomo.

In 2017, Marino published an article on Medium titled “Dying to Stream.” In it, Marino described a grueling seven-day-a-week streaming routine in which “18 hour days were the norm.” Opportunities to exercise were at a minimum while he spent that much time streaming, and that reality, plus a thyroid problem that developed during Mariono’s military service, contributed to weight gain.

Marino was largely unconcerned about the potential health hazards of streaming every day, until tragedy struck his community. Dalsarius82, a fellow Twitch streamer, was found dead by his girlfriend in April 2016. While Dalsarius82’s cause of death was not shared, it prompted Marino to assess his physical health with a visit to his doctor, who soon informed him that he had three blocked arteries that would require bypass surgery.

Failure to get that surgery and subsequently begin leading a healthier lifestyle would have put Marino at risk of a “drop dead event like the one that took out Dalsarius82.”