Bruce Lee allegedly died after consuming too much water

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Nearly 50 years after the legendary martial artist’s death in Hong Kong in the summer of 1973 at the age of 32, doctors are claiming the same thing.

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The “Enter the Dragon” actor was found dead from brain enlargement, which doctors attributed to him using painkillers, according to an autopsy from the time.

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Following an assessment of the available data, researchers have 

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determined that Bruce is more likely to have passed away from hyponatraemia. –

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“In other words, we propose that Bruce Lee was murdered by the kidney’s inability to excrete extra water,” a group of scientists wrote in the Clinical Kidney Journal.

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The inability to excrete enough water to sustain water homeostasis, which is primarily a tubular function, is our theory as to why Bruce Lee passed away.

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“If excessive water intake is not matched by water excretion in urine, this may lead to hyponatraemia, cerebral oedema (brain swelling), and death within hours, which is in line with the timeline of Lee’s demise… Ironically,

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Lee made famous the quote, “Be water, my friend,” but excessive water appears to have ultimately killed him.”

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