Dr George Nichopoulos,
nicknamed Dr Nick, was Elvis’s
personal doctor for the last ten years of Elvis’s life.
According to George Nichopoulos’s uncorroborated speculation
over his death was caused by his fondness for junk food like
burgers is false ... though junk food would not have
helped Elvis' physiological condition which
Elvis suffered from for most of he most of his adult life.
It has been widely reported
that Elvis Presley died in 1977 from cardiac
arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, possibly
brought on by drug dependency, obesity and a
weak heart. But Elvis' friend and physician,
Dr. George "Dr Nick Nichopoulos, has put penned a book and revealed that it
was chronic constipation that actually killed
Elvis Presley...
Dr Nick
reports: "After Elvis died we weren’t sure (of
the exact cause of death) so I continued to do
some research and I had several doctors call
me that were doing research on constipation
and different problems you can get into with
it. I just want to get the story straight – it
all made sense with the new research that was
done"
Dr. Nick was by Presley's side and tried to
resuscitate him the day he died. He recently
released the book The King and Dr. Nick
about his time with The King, and his theory
on the death that shocked America.
"We didn’t realize until the autopsy that his
constipation was as bad – we knew it was bad
because it was hard for us to treat, but we
didn’t realize what it had done," the doctor
explains of Elvis' condition. "We just assumed
that the constipation was secondary to the
meds that he was taking for his arthritic pain
and for his insomnia.”
According to Dr. Nick, the autopsy revealed
that Presley’s colon was 5 to 6 inches in
diameter (whereas the normal width is 2 to 3
inches) and instead of being the standard 4 to
5 feet long, his colon was 8 to 9 feet in
length.
"Constipation upset him quite a bit because
Elvis thought that he could handle almost
anything, he thought he was really a man’s man
and he wasn’t going to let something like this
… he thought that this was a sign of weakness
and he wasn’t going to be weak... And it’s not
the kind of thing you table talk. Back in the
‘60s and ‘70s you didn’t talk about
constipation much, you didn’t’ hear people
complaining about it, or saying what they did
or how much trouble they had with it..."
Dr Nick paints the final years of Elvis as quite tragic with
frequent accidents on stage which meant he had to change his
jump suit during performances due to the debilitating
condition which caused him great embarrassment.
Apparently Elvis was offered a colostomy operation but refused
because of pride but the operation was not regarded as
acceptable treatment at the time which may have also
influenced Elvis’s decision not to have the operation.
Elvis Medical Report |
Elvis Cause of Death
So Elvis Presley conspiracy theorists may have to resign to
the fact that the much loved singer really is dead and now is
the time to let him rest in well earned peace.
