The mystery surrounding the death of Bruce Lee , an actor who died mysteriously in Hong Kong in 1973, seems to have reached a new turning point .
According to the study published by the Clinical Kidney Journal , the actor would have been killed by a particular kidney dysfunction .
At the time of his death, doctors established that the 32-year-old's life had been cut short by cerebral edema. The most recent research, however, relaunched in the American media, suggests that Lee died "due to a specific form of renal dysfunction, i.e. the inability to expel enough water" . According to the Spanish kidney specialists who conducted the study, Lee probably died of hyponatremia, which is an abnormally low concentration of sodium in the blood that can be caused by too high a water level in the body.
As the nonprofit Mayo Clinic explains, sodium helps regulate the amount of water that surrounds and is found within cells. “Let's assume that Bruce Lee died of a specific form of renal dysfunction: the inability to excrete enough water to maintain homeostasis. This can lead to hyponatraemia, cerebral edema and death within hours if excessive water intake is not accompanied by excretion of the fluid in the urine.
And again: "The fact that we are made up of 60% water does not protect us from the potentially lethal consequences of drinking water at a rate greater than that which our kidneys can excrete," reads the association's report.
(Unioneonline/vf)
