ELVIS PRESLEY — WHAT REALLY KILLED THE KING OF ROCK ‘N ROLL

Kill Zone ^ | April 22, 2019 | Sue Coletta

[upchuck]

... don’t bother clicking on the blog. It’s likely clickbait.

Your loss Larry. Really good article.

[catnipman]

it’s very common for a person who has one autoimmune condition to also have other automimmune conditions, and a large number of Elvis’s symptoms when he first started to become ill (as well as the end stage conditions that ultimately killed him) sound an awful lot like he was hypothyrotic, presumably from Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, and all he really needed was levothyroxine as treatment, instead of all of the other drugs, which did nothing to treat the underlying disease, but merely were palliatives to ameliorate some of the symptoms until the hypothroidism destroyed his heart ...

[Notthereyet]

I think there is an age group that can recall where they were and what they were doing when the news came across the radio or television.

[SamAdams76]

Elvis did not have a low-carb diet. Nor did he go Paleo. Had he done so, he could still be alive today, singing "Suspicious Minds" on the Las Vegas strip to screaming throngs of 80-year-old ladies having just finished an afternoon of playing Bingo and slot machines.

Elvis did have an enormous appetite for all the wrong kinds of foods. One of them was called the "Fool's Gold Loaf" which was basically an entire loaf of bread cut sideways and slathered with a full stick of butter. Then you would smear on an entire jar of peanut butter, an entire jar of jelly, and a full pound of bacon.

This was an 9,000 calorie sandwich that contained over 650 carbs and over 4,000 grams of fat.

Elvis would often consume the entire sandwich in one sitting. He was also known to take his private jet from Graceland to Denver, where a restaurant out there called "The Colorado Mine Company" made it especially to the King's specifications.

Below is what the sandwich looked like just after assembly.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[tet68]

If that’s a pound of bacon, I’m doing it wrong.
Anyway, there’s the nanners?

[cornfedcowboy]

I highly recommend a tour of Graceland if you get the chance. Neat place that Elvis spent a lot of his time.

[tuffydoodle]

“I dunno what to tell you, he died taking a s***.”

He died TRYING to take a s***.

[dfwgator]

He’s playing cards with Jim Morrison.

[chris37]

Poor bastard.

Well The King’s body is perfect now.

[Albion Wilde]

His voice doesn’t match his lips at the end.

Nor his arms the piano finale. He smiles over at someone outside camera range who must have been supplementing some of the tough parts.

The slurring of his words in the opening section is sad to hear. I was never a fan of Elvis at the time, and even now that I'm old, nothing can make me accept his self-indulgence, despite that I do pity how his life descended.

From the constellation of chronic health problems described in the article, I suspect he had underlying thyroid malfunction, which often goes completely undiagnosed. It is one of the most common, misunderstood and unresearched genetic conditions.

[Moonman62]

His Mom was overweight and died from heart failure at 46.

[TalBlack]

I believe Albert Goldman got it right arguing that Elvis committed suicide over the impending release of a book blowing the whistle on his secret lifestyle. IIRC the book was coming out within a day or days of his death. Goldman made the argument in an addendum to his Elvis bio.