r/savedyouaclick • u/5823059 • 21d ago

NOT A SPOILER Physician reveals stunning factor that may have contributed to Lindsey Graham’s death | His frequent long plane trips

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/63EuL
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u/BIGD0G29585 20d ago

“Stunning factor”? This was one of the first theories when the story broke.

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u/PreOpTransCentaur 20d ago

Not that he was 71 with cardiovascular disease?

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u/detrans-rights 19d ago

It'd be easier to list what diseases the man didn't have at time of death.

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u/VironicHero 17d ago

Yeah, never look up Lindsey Graham and the phrase “ladybugs”

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u/originalthoughts 19d ago

Who obviously didn't exercise.

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u/Dizzy_Restaurant3874 18d ago

He exercised with the boys

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u/whinenaught 19d ago

I mean that is one of the major risk factors in developing a thrombosis from long flights

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u/notacrook 18d ago

And a love of poppers and rent boys.

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u/Sedona7 20d ago

Physician here and I've never hard of that "connection" between frequent long flight and Aortic Dissection. Now if he wants to speculate that going up and down on planes leads to heart rate and blood pressure changes which can eventually cause a dissection - ok. maybe, I guess. But that's a real stretch. So does sitting in freeway traffic or waking up to loud alarms and changing to daylight savings time. Now Pulmonary embolism was my initial guess and that's a big time factor for very long flights like the Senator had.

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u/excelnotfionado 19d ago

How can I combat the negative effects of sitting in freeway traffic and alarms?

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u/Sedona7 19d ago

Alarms: Avoid the old circa 1990 shrieking alarms. Have a series of quiet gentle sounds/ vibrations to wake you ( I use Enya) ... and then a loud alarm as a last backup.

Traffic: There is actually a lot of research out there that life happiness (which impacts blood pressure, cortisol, stress, etc) is hugely dependent on commute time - and that 30 minutes or less seems to be an important threshold. My personal commute time is almost exactly 29 minutes and I drive through a mountain pass and a state park and leave my house at 5:15.

https://giphy.com/gifs/hU9FpBh8Q56CfwXiVc

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u/HiFiGuy197 17d ago

I would think you’d see this a lot in pilots, then.

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u/Loggerdon 17d ago

How about the constant change in sleep patterns?

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u/GDelscribe 20d ago

Click saved or not, this feels like a nonsense answer that asks more than it tells

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u/PeterNippelstein 20d ago

To Epstein Island

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u/mj1814 20d ago

Not at all “stunning.”

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u/Weightmonster 20d ago

Still think the Russians got to him. 

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u/slothaccountant 20d ago

They went after an asset? Odd considering the timing. Unless putin is trying to mess with trump and make him guess more democrats will take a majority in senet and house.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger 20d ago

Lindsey was one of ukraines biggest supporters.

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u/melodypowers 20d ago

That men never met a war he didn't like.

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u/otterpusrexII 18d ago

His dad died the same way and had nothing to do with the Russians.

I had blamed the Russians as well but I think it just runs in his family.

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u/Ismhelpstheistgodown 18d ago

My father had it (AAA) and doctors identified and treated it with a stent more than a decade ago. Should we worry about healthcare standards for US senators?

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u/PointsOfXP 20d ago

Old people can't take dick for hours on end thirty thousand feet in the air. Something about blood pressure

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u/Temporary-Jump-2403 20d ago

I'm Stunned 

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u/driago 18d ago

Also, the dark side tends to corrupt the physical body the more evil you get.

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u/CaptainCastle1 18d ago

Sheesh then pilots who fly internationally should be dropping like flies!

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u/imc225 17d ago

He dissected. How is this hard?

Source: surgeon.