He was the greatest basketball player and possibly the greatest athlete who ever lived. Wilt Chamberlain, 63, is reported to have died of a heart attack, but that says nothing. Are you supposed to ask why the best athlete in the world would die of a heart attack?
He was born in 1936, in Philadelphia. He was 6-11 when he entered Philadelphia’s Overbrook High School, led them to three public school championships and two all-city titles, Chamberlain became one of the most-recruited players in history with over 200 colleges interested, scored over 100 points in a single National Basketball Association game and averaged over 30 points per game throughout his professional career. However, when he was in high school, he was the best high school quarter mileer in the United States and ran under 48 seconds. He also jumped over 6 feet, five inches and was the best shot putter in Pennsylvania. He remained active after his NBA career and was considered an outstanding volleyball player. He also ran in the Honolulu Marathon and competed in a 50-mile race in Canada.
Long after his career was over, Chamberlain made headlines by claiming in an autobiography that he had had sex with 20,000 women. Let’s see how good you are at diagnosing diseases. Chamberlain’s health first became an issue in the 1960s, when a former coach told the media that the star player might have had a heart attack before the 1964 season. denied. In 1992, when Chamberlain reunited with former teammates for a halftime ceremony marking the anniversary of his 1971-72 NBA championship, he had to leave early because he was having trouble breathing. He was admitted to a hospital and it was discovered that he had an irregular heartbeat. He was released from the hospital after three days wearing a heart monitoring device.
During his later years, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, meaning his heart was too weak to pump blood through his body, and he lost 50 pounds in the months before his death. There are three causes of a weak heart muscle. Lack of nutrients, blocked arteries and infection.
You may suffer from a nutritional deficiency such as beriberi caused by a lack of the vitamin thiamin or pellagra caused by a lack of the vitamin niacin. This is almost impossible today in North America. The second possible cause of a failing heart is blocked arteries caused by atherosclerosis and he didn’t have very high cholesterol and he didn’t have atherosclerosis. The third possibility is an infection in your heart caused by bacteria such as chlamydia and mycoplasma.
The fact that he lost 50 pounds and was unable to go anywhere in the last months of his life indicates a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, that is, damage to the heart muscle, caused by infection with chlamydia or mycoplasma, from making love to much less than the 20,000 women. which she claimed. That works out to 500 women a year, or 10 different women a week for 40 years, which would make the world’s greatest athlete the most prolific lover of all time. Cardiomyopathy is often caused by chlamydia.
Chamberlain’s body was cremated, so we will never know for sure how he died.
