RIP King of Spin.

The apparent contributing cause of death is a fully liquid diet at that health spa. Not alcohol, just a weight loss attempt.
 
Are you fucking serious Vince? What deep dark depths of the interwed did you stumble into to find this diatribe? Liquid diet in Koh Samui not alcohol just a weight loss attempt, dust off your passport, if you have one book yourself a ticket check into the said spa and see how you go on the non alcoholic liquid diet, I guarantee you won’t die in a month let alone the 24 hours he was there, not everything you read on the internet is true bud, if you posted that he was found with 3 hookers, 1 a ladyboy, a small cheeky monkey and a
Goat that spoke fluent Spanish wed all be happy, but apparently over hydration tumbled
The big guy… ffs
 
Some people on hunger strike survive months on a liquid diet and they ain't high level athletes.
You have to die someday.

Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
Some people on hunger strike survive months on a liquid diet ...
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"Some people" implies that others don't survive.

As for Dr Cosi's opinion above ... Hmm, well, I think I'll stick with the medical profession for health advice.

I've twice gone into atrial fibrillation because I hadn't maintained a healthy diet. The first time may have been alcohol related. The second time was a bit more of a mystery, but I was on a low calorie intake in an attempt to lose weight, so maybe that's a possible trigger. AF is not a heart attack in the normal understanding of the term. It's more of an electrical issue than plumbing (can't be fixed with bypass surgery) and there's usually no prior warning signs. You don't know if you have a tendency for this sort of thing until it happens. It can also flip the heart into Ventricular Fibrillation, in which case it's pretty much lights out unless you get immediate medical attention. A mate of mine went exactly that way about a year ago.

I no longer drink alcohol and I take dietary electrolyte supplements and a drug that helps keep my heartbeat regular. So I can well believe that being on a crash diet for a fortnight (not 24 hrs as Cosi implies) could have triggered Warnie's heart attack.
 
Dellortoman said:
"Some people" implies that others don't survive.

As for Dr Cosi's opinion above ... Hmm, well, I think I'll stick with the medical profession for health advice.

I've twice gone into atrial fibrillation because I hadn't maintained a healthy diet. The first time may have been alcohol related. The second time was a bit more of a mystery, but I was on a low calorie intake in an attempt to lose weight, so maybe that's a possible trigger. AF is not a heart attack in the normal understanding of the term. It's more of an electrical issue than plumbing (can't be fixed with bypass surgery) and there's usually no prior warning signs. You don't know if you have a tendency for this sort of thing until it happens. It can also flip the heart into Ventricular Fibrillation, in which case it's pretty much lights out unless you get immediate medical attention. A mate of mine went exactly that way about a year ago.

I no longer drink alcohol and I take dietary electrolyte supplements and a drug that helps keep my heartbeat regular. So I can well believe that being on a crash diet for a fortnight (not 24 hrs as Cosi implies) could have triggered Warnie's heart attack.
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Especially as he already had known heart disease, asthma, was a lifelong smoker, and had been suffering with chest pains before flying to Thailand.
 
Dellortoman said:
"Some people" implies that others don't survive.

As for Dr Cosi's opinion above ... Hmm, well, I think I'll stick with the medical profession for health advice.

I've twice gone into atrial fibrillation because I hadn't maintained a healthy diet. The first time may have been alcohol related. The second time was a bit more of a mystery, but I was on a low calorie intake in an attempt to lose weight, so maybe that's a possible trigger. AF is not a heart attack in the normal understanding of the term. It's more of an electrical issue than plumbing (can't be fixed with bypass surgery) and there's usually no prior warning signs. You don't know if you have a tendency for this sort of thing until it happens. It can also flip the heart into Ventricular Fibrillation, in which case it's pretty much lights out unless you get immediate medical attention. A mate of mine went exactly that way about a year ago.

I no longer drink alcohol and I take dietary electrolyte supplements and a drug that helps keep my heartbeat regular. So I can well believe that being on a crash diet for a fortnight (not 24 hrs as Cosi implies) could have triggered Warnie's heart attack.
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The risk of prolonged atrial fibrillation is embolism because the blood clots in the atrial chambers due to ineffective pumping. From there, to the brain. Otherwise, with anticoagulants if specific treatment fails, you can live with it for years.

It can be triggered by plenty of things, age, stress, lifestyle changes and electrolytic disorders due to metabolic problems.
Prolonged regular alcohol ingestion brings about cardiomyopathy, a modification of the cardiac muscle itself which will also bring about a risk of fibrillation, be it atrial or ventricular.

Some people survive long hunger strikes, implies of course that the others don't. Medicine is also statistics. A life expectancy of 80, means that 50 % are dead before.

Paul
 
Yes, thanks Paul. I'm also on anticoagulant meds (blood thinners) to minimise the risk of clotting if it happens again.

My mate who died had a history of AF. But he didn't follow medical advice. He was a heavy drinker (probably a borderline alcoholic) and didn't quit after his first AF episode. I reckon he (and perhaps his wife) became habituated to his occasional episodes of AF being sorted after a trip to hospital and not leading to anything worse. But while waiting for the ambulance to arrive during his last AF event, he went into VF. He was sitting there peacefully with his eyes closed and his wife thought he was just relaxing, so it was several minutes before she discovered he was unconscious without a pulse, and started CPR. The ambulance guys used a defibrillator but weren't able to revive him. The sad thing is that she still blames herself for not monitoring his pulse more closely during the 10 minutes that they were waiting for the ambulance. If she'd started CPR immediately he might still be with us.
 
Warnie’s son Jackson tossed the coin at tonight’s footy. Got a big cheer ☺️
 

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