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I heard the other day that Elvis didn't have black hair - he always dyed it.
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I read somewhere that Elvis was the result of several generations of in-breeding so had lots of physical problems.
His twin died in childbirth of course.
It is mooted that if the distorted intestines he was born with hadn't led to his eating disorders and early death something else would have given out soon enough. Very sad.
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His twin died in childbirth of course.
It is mooted that if the distorted intestines he was born with hadn't led to his eating disorders and early death something else would have given out soon enough. Very sad.
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Elvis Presley didn't have black hair, In reality it was a light sandy colour but in his early days his publicity machine tried to make out that he was descended from Cherokee Indians. This was, of course, untrue but fostered because of his high cheek bones and dark skin and they thought it would sell his image better. Early pictures of him with red hair are very unflattering. In fact his family were hillbillies and he was a truck driver. One of the reasons he was so addicted to fast food such as hamburgers, which eventually, along with his drug misuse, caused him to become vastly overweight, was because his family ate mostly with their hands and he was never comfortable with using a knife and fork when eating. His hair was dyed black all his life.
The doctor, who attempted to resuscitate Elvis on the day of his death, said that it wasn't until the autopsy that he realised had severe the constipation had been.
According to Dr Nichopoulos, the autopsy found Elvis’s colon to be five to six inches in diameter, compared to an average of two to three inches. And rather than the standard four to five feet long, Elvis's colon was eight to nine feet.
'After he died we weren’t sure [of his cause of death] so I continued to do some research and I had some doctors call me from different places and different med schools that were doing research on constipation and different problems you can get into with it.
He said that although he offered Elvis a colostomy, to remove part of his bowel, his pride meant he rejected the treatment.
And Dr Nichopoulos thinks that if Elvis had undergone the treatment he might still be alive today.
'He would get embarrassed, he’d have accidents onstage,' said Dr Nichopoulos.
'He’d have to change clothes and come back because of the way we were trying to treat his constipation.
'So if they had done the colostomy then, he’d probably still be here. But it wasn’t acceptable treatment at that time. Now the treatment is short.'
Dr Nichopoulos also says that Elvis's weight gain in the years before his death was at least partly due to his constipation.
'During the last few years we were going back and comparing pictures, some of them were taken just two weeks a part but he looked like he’d gained 20 pounds when the only difference was that he had a good healthy bowel movement and then lost a lot of weight from that,' he said.
Elvis died on August 16, 1977, at the age of just 42. His body was found in the bathroom at his home Graceland.
According to Dr Nichopoulos, the autopsy found Elvis’s colon to be five to six inches in diameter, compared to an average of two to three inches. And rather than the standard four to five feet long, Elvis's colon was eight to nine feet.
'After he died we weren’t sure [of his cause of death] so I continued to do some research and I had some doctors call me from different places and different med schools that were doing research on constipation and different problems you can get into with it.
He said that although he offered Elvis a colostomy, to remove part of his bowel, his pride meant he rejected the treatment.
And Dr Nichopoulos thinks that if Elvis had undergone the treatment he might still be alive today.
'He would get embarrassed, he’d have accidents onstage,' said Dr Nichopoulos.
'He’d have to change clothes and come back because of the way we were trying to treat his constipation.
'So if they had done the colostomy then, he’d probably still be here. But it wasn’t acceptable treatment at that time. Now the treatment is short.'
Dr Nichopoulos also says that Elvis's weight gain in the years before his death was at least partly due to his constipation.
'During the last few years we were going back and comparing pictures, some of them were taken just two weeks a part but he looked like he’d gained 20 pounds when the only difference was that he had a good healthy bowel movement and then lost a lot of weight from that,' he said.
Elvis died on August 16, 1977, at the age of just 42. His body was found in the bathroom at his home Graceland.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dINMVPRA3DY
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