00:00We all know Elvis Presley died on a bathroom floor in 1977, but the real reason he was there?
00:07It's more shocking and a lot more painful than the official heart failure report ever told you.
00:15By the end of his life, the king of rock and roll wasn't just struggling with fame.
00:20He was losing a battle with his own body.
00:23His longtime physician, Dr. Nick, later revealed a detail that'll make your stomach turn.
00:30Elvis was suffering from chronic constipation so severe, it had literally deformed his body.
00:37At the time of his autopsy, doctors discovered that Elvis hadn't had a proper bowel movement in four months.
00:44Let that sink in.
00:46Most people feel miserable after three days.
00:50Elvis went 120 days.
00:53His colon was twice the normal diameter and nearly twice the length it should have been.
00:59This wasn't just a stomach ache.
01:01It was a condition called megacolon.
01:04The strain of trying to pass that waste put such an impossible load on his heart that it simply gave
01:10out.
01:11It turns out, the king wasn't killed by a junk food overdose or a simple heart attack.
01:17He was a man trapped in a medical nightmare he was too embarrassed to talk about.
01:23Makes you look at those final performances a little differently, doesn't it?
01:27Drop a comment.
01:28Did you know the king's death was this preventable?
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