Posted on 01/13/2023 8:24:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
“Elvis’ maternal grandparents were first cousins,” Hoedel wrote of Robert Lee “Bob” Smith and Octavia “Doll” Smith, who married in 1903.
According to Hoedel’s book, the deaths were the result of Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a genetic condition passed through generations.
“It is known from Elvis’ autopsy that he was ‘a carrier’ for this disorder,” the Michigan-based author wrote, stressing that it “can have debilitating outcomes, even as a carrier.”
Such “genetic complications” then “impacted [Elvis’] entire life,” Hoedel wrote — saying it “led to poor health, impacted brain function, compromised bodily functions and damaged organs.”
While it was written more than two years before Lisa Marie’s death this week, Hoedel noted that the King’s daughter had complained of similar ailments as her dad suffered, specifically intestinal problems that she said often left her “chronically constipated.” Elvis also suffered from bowel issues.
Elvis’ health woes may well have been why he started popping pills, Hoedel suggests, leading “to an addiction to the very thing that had helped him.”
“Often he is dismissed as just another rock ‘n’ roll drug addict,” the author said — while suggesting that instead his “fate was set on the morning he was born.”
“Elvis certainly was a victim of his own DNA,” she concluded her book, saying it left him — and other members of the family — “destined to die young.”
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“I had to pull fluid off her lungs.”
How do you do that?
WRONG....
....again
LOL!
The only cause of death for Elvis was booze and drugs.
So we can ask *this* question, but we can’t ask *the other* question?
First time in years.
Whatever ya gotta tell yerself to get by.
LOL!
If she was still a Scientologist—don’t they frown on vaccines or is it just psychiatric drugs?
Its possible she didn’t know what was wrong. It is also possible that the vaxx (theoretical—I don’t know if she took it) caused problems for her and she got no help from unbelieving doctors. She did not look well. It could also have been her heart giving out.
Well it’s better then your yapping all day. It’s no wonder your reputation is one of annoyance around here. Keep it up. Don’t want to tarnish that reputation.
No. It has to do with 5 stints in rehab for alcohol and drug abuse over the past 10 years. You can’t abuse your body like that and expect to live a long life.
No, it wasn’t’.
If she went to any events in HollyWierd or CA, she had to be jabbed. It was the cause.
COPD is almost always a symptom.
Another coincidental death, R.I.P.
popping pills might have made Elvis constipated.
Yep, opiods
if you have half expression of a particular genetic defect that runs in your family you have a great chance of giving full expression to a child if you are conceiving with a relative.
There is an interesting story about how it looks like Meghan Markle’s ancestor was a product of incest between two half siblings.
mental health issues may run in her family
"She looked like a classic DRUG ADDICT."
The vet put a line into her and I would pull off clear fluid with a syringe.
Then it became cloudy, a chylothorax.
About two or three months later she died while I was at work.
There did not seem to be anything different in the morning, but when I got home she was dead.
Depends on whether it’s a recessive or dominant gene (and some other things too), but this was far enough back and distant enough that it is unlikely to have affected Ms. Presley.
Her lifestyle would have greatly affected her longevity though.
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