Fitness influencer Jaxon Tippet passed away days after his birthday post

An Australian fitness influencer and father who previously discussed his battle with steroid addiction died suddenly while on holiday this month.

Jaxon Tippet had just turned 30 when he passed away while traveling in Turkey with his loved ones on Sunday. Destroyed family announced.

In an update, they said the cause of death was a heart attack.

Tippet, a single father of one child, had more than 225,000 followers on Instagram, where he shared fitness updates and motivational content.

Podcaster just days before his death celebrated his milestone birthday with some forethought advice.

“Growing old is better than the alternative: dying young,” he wrote. “The only thing that really matters in the end is that you loved.”

Tippet was: open about his past struggles, Including a crippling steroid addiction that completely derailed his life and career for several years.

In 2017, he was arrested with more than 250 steroid tablets and a vial of testosterone and was fined $4,000 by the courts.

“It was hell, bro,” he said during a 2022 interview. “I lost a girlfriend because of this incident, I almost lost my family. I almost went to jail because I was caught for my own personal steroid use.

Tippet’s family is now raising money to bring his body back to Australia.

As of Tuesday morning, the GoFundMe had raised more than $21,000 of its nearly $33,000 goal.