He was the best basketball player and possibly the best athlete that ever lived. Wilt Chamberlain, 63, was reported to have died of a heart attack, but that doesn’t tell you anything. You are 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, leading them to three public school championships and two citywide titles, Chamberlain became one of the most recruited players in history with over 200 colleges interested, he scored more than 100 points in a single National Basketball Association game and averaged more than 30 points per game throughout his professional career. However, when he was in high school, he was the best high school quarter mile in America and ran less than 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 ended, Chamberlain made headlines by stating 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 a problem in the 1960s, when a former coach told the media that the star player could have had a heart attack before the 1964 season. But Chamberlain denied it. 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 found to have an irregular heartbeat. He was released from the hospital after three days using a heart monitoring device.

During his later years, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, which means that his heart was too weak to pump blood through his body and he lost 50 pounds in the months leading up to his death. There are three causes of heart muscle weakness. Lack of nutrients, blocked arteries, and infection.

You may suffer from a nutritional deficiency such as beriberi caused by a lack of the vitamin thiamine or pellagra caused by a lack of the vitamin niacin. This is almost impossible today in North America. The second possible cause of heart failure is blocked arteries caused by arteriosclerosis and I did not have very high cholesterol and I did not have arteriosclerosis. 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 points to a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, that is, damage to the heart muscle, caused by an infection with chlamydia or mycoplasma, from making love to considerably less than the 20,000 women. that he 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.