re: Morgan Spurlock dead at 53

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1. He was on an extreme, vegan diet just prior to his initial medical checks, which deflated a lot of the bad stuff.

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correct, so most of his day one baseline numbers were total bullshite

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2. He went on a fricking alcoholism bender while making the doc, which explains all the health issues he had during the movie.

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correct, he was a hardcore alcoholic that sat in the doctor’s office and lied repeatedly about his true condition and their causes

his biggest points about his negative side effects were not so much the weight gain but his endocrine levels and damage to his liver

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Spurlock wrote: “Or is it because I’ve consistently been drinking since the age of 13? I haven’t been sober for more than a week in 30 years, something our society doesn’t shun or condemn but which only served to fill the emotional hole inside me and the daily depression I coped with.”

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here is the quote from the Doctor from the movie:

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"The results for your liver are obscene. Beyond anything I would have thought. Truly. I mean... you know that movie 'Death in Las Vegas' -- Nicolas cage, that pickled his liver during the course of a few weeks in Las Vegas?

I would never have thought you could do the same thing with a high-fat diet. My advice to you, as a physician, is that you've got to stop pickling your liver. And you're kicking it while its down now. Now it's down, and you're kicking it further. I mean, if you were an alcoholic, I'd say, 'You're gonna die. You keep drinking, you'll die.'

If the pain starts to radiate to your jaw or down your arm, that's life-threatening, and immediately so. So i need to hear about that, or you need to call all right?"

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