Bruce Lee ‘died from drinking too much water’
Bruce Lee may have died from drinking too much water. Doctors are making the claim almost 50 years after the martial arts icon died aged 32 in the summer of 1973 in Hong Kong. An autopsy from the time showed the ‘Enter the Dragon’ star had been killed by brain swelling, which medics blamed on him taking a painkiller. Researchers have now reviewed the evidence and concluded Bruce is more likely to have died from hyponatraemia. A team of experts wrote in the Clinical Kidney Journal: “In other words, we propose that the kidney’s inability to excrete excess water killed Bruce Lee. “We hypothesize ...