The charmed life of Dan Bilzerian is carefully chronicled on his Instagram account. It's veritable paradise for young, impressionable men, who flock to it for their daily dose of aspiration - by and by images of scantily clad women who bear a striking resemblance to the Playboy centrefolds of yesteryear. Bilzerian's existence certainly seems to be one big vacation; more often than not, he's seen flying off on his private jet to exotic locales, or luxuriating on super-yachts. And I haven't even got to all the alcohol, drugs and gambling that make it
all go round, like the carousel of never-ending excess that it is.
And it's safe to say that
this
is what Bilzerian's 23.2 million Instagram followers tune in for. I mean, it's a type of lavishness that the majority of people don't come close to touching in their 80-something years on earth. However, as our mothers and fathers have undoubtedly informed us, "too much of anything is bad thing", and that's purportedly the case with the 37-year-old who recently revealed that his incessant partying lead to him having two heart attacks.
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In an interview with Graham Bensinger, Dan
Bilzerian disclosed that he suffered two back-to-back heart attacks after a four-day drink and drugs binge that landed him critically-ill in hospital.
When Dan was just 25-years-old, a skiing holiday somehow ended up in a trip to Vegas. During this period of partying, Dan thought it was a good idea to take six times the recommended dose of Viagra, and this was on top of copious amounts of cocaine and alcohol.
It's clear to anyone that this was never going to end well...
Watch the entire interview below.
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Speaking to Graham Bensinger, the professional poker player, describes the feeling of the first heart attack as "this pain in [his] shoulder", and his immediate reaction was not to get himself to the hospital, or even to call an ambulance, but to do some push-ups.
After working out for a short while, and experiencing increasing shortness of breath, Dan finally realised that something was not right, and managed to drive himself to the nearest hospital. This, of course, was not very advisable given how many substances, illicit or otherwise, he had consumed by this point.
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At hospital, a doctor explained to Dan that he was experiencing a heart attack, and managed to save his life. However, the ordeal was not over for the party animal, who had another heart attack the following day, and somehow lived to tell the tale.
Oh and at the end of it all, Dan brazenly revealed that he threw out the pills his doctors gave him to treat his heart condition (pills he should have been taking for the rest of his life, may I add), a week after he suffered the heart attack.
While Bilzerian still seems to be partying as fiercely as ever, it appears that he really should slow down - you can only abuse your body for so long before you have to deal with the consequences - a lesson he really should have learned at 25.
