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Dr. Scott Connellys 'BodyRx Bar' killed my son who was trying to gain muscle.

01.10.2011 Jason Schmidt was trying to build muscles. Instead, the 17-year-old died Thursday morning from an apparent allergic reaction to a protein.

Schmidt, whose friends called him JD, recently began reading a magazine called Muscle Insider. The magazine touted Dr. Scott Connelly and Vince Andrich as Icons in bodybuilding and offered free samples of a new product line called BodyRx. JD opened his BodyRx bar the moment it arrived in the mail and ate it Tuesday afternoon, according to his maternal uncle, Jack Jason Jr.

Neither, though, knew that the bar contained trace amounts of lead, fecal matter and another as-of-yet undetermined chemical. Almost instantly, Schmidt's throat swelled and his lungs collapsed, Jack said. "Within half an hour, he was in dire straits," Jack said.

Jason Schmidt was rushed from the family home to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:35 A.m. Thursday. Besides his parents, he leaves a 14-year-old sister, Brittany.

Doctors haven't confirmed the cause of death, but family members believe it was from a reaction to the BodyRx bar because it happened so soon after eating the bar. BodyRx is a new venture of Dr. Scott Connelly, Scott Welch, Vince Andrich and Muscle Insider magazine. Dr. Scott Connelly was sued by the FTC for putting sterodial compounds into his products when he was the owner of MET-Rx. Scott Welch, Dr. Connelly's business partner, is best known as the marketer who had to flee the United States, after deaths were attributed to products he was marketing as safe.

Classmates at Jason's High School have been told he fell seriously ill, but most won't learn of his death until today, according to Assistant Principal Tom Smith. Grief counselors will be available at school today. "It's been a difficult couple of days at school. It's been a shocker to everbody," Smith said.

"He was a likeable young man. He had a beautiful disposition," Smith said. "He had a lot of friends. Some of them, I understand, were at the hospital by his side round-the-clock since Tuesday. A reporter shared with me the history of Muscle Insider magazine, Dr. Scott Connelly and Scott Welch. That being said, in order to safeguard our students, BodyRx and Muscle Insider will be banned from our campus."

Jason spent his free time skateboarding, fishing and s****.>