Is it true that Bruce Li died due to the fact that he drank too much water?

In the media, the information broke up that the real cause of the death of actor Bruce Lee became known - he drank too much water and earned a hyponremia. We decided to check if this is so.

Sensational news about the alleged cause of death of Bruce Lee was written by the largest Russian news editions - “”Gazeta.ru","Moscow Komsomolets","TASS" RTVI, Lenta.ru, "Snob","Komsomolskaya Truth","Tsargrad"And others did not ignore news thematic Film portals. Write about it and Scientific and popular And cognitive publications.

Actor and master of eastern martial arts Bruce Lee He died in 1973 at the age of 32. The official cause of death, then published by doctors, is the edema of the brain due to an allergic reaction to a medicine for headaches. The death of a young and healthy (at least outwardly) men many people considered a mysterious. Over the past decades, fans managed to build a lot theories Around the cause of his death - from the murder of a jealous mistress, the Chinese mafia or greedy business partners to drugs and even a family curse. Matthew Polly, author biographies Lee, published in 2018, claimed that the actor died due to a thermal blow caused by the lack of sweat glands that he had previously removed to look better in the frame.

In 2022, Spanish scientists nominated their version what happened-they believe that Bruce Lee drank too much water, which was why he developed Hyponatremia (too low sodium level in the body, due to which in severe cases can begin edema of the brain). We are already They wrote About this condition. It really can occur due to a large amount of water drunk, which for some reason is not excreted from the body. That is why you should not try to force yourself to drink the same notorious 2 liters of water per day, if you are not thirsty. Flying Cases Hyponatremia is not so frequent, but still possible.

Scientists took one of such cases as an example in their study. In 2007, one of the American radio stations was held contest, during which it was necessary to drink the maximum amount of water without visiting the toilet. As a result, one of the participants died, and a few more serious health problems were received. With the symptoms of the very dead girl, researchers and Compare Is the condition. So, they both had headaches, difficulties in walking, weakness and dizziness, vomiting and, finally, death within a few hours after the appearance of the first symptoms.

Researchers believe that the actor had several risk factors for hyponatremia, namely: kidney injuries (because of which they could not cope with the timely excretion of fluid), the use of marijuana, which can cause thirst for thirst, and drugs that can retain fluid in the body. In addition, with reference to the very biography of Polly, researchers indicate that there are evidence of repeated use of fluid on the day of his death.

This theory has the right to exist, like many others. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that the scientists did not present any new evidence that could somehow confirm this hypothesis. About 50 years have passed since death, so relying on the memories of eyewitnesses about the amount of water that he had drunk that day is quite strange. The conclusions of scientists, according to their evidence, are based on open data (judging by the links in the text - mainly on the biography of 2018), and not, for example, on exhumation and re -autopsy, which could really shed some light on the circumstances of his death.

Photo on the cover: X/f "Dragon Exit", 1973

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