• Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Had pancreatitis because of his diet. A diet in which he thought would magically avoid creating body odor.

    It turned into cancer. He lucked out that it was a rare form of treatable pancreatic cancer with a 90% survival rate 5 years out. Which is abnormal as most forms of pancreatic are essentially a death sentence. Survival rate past 3 years is under 10% for the more common variants.

    Stuck to his diet anyway. Ignored his doctors. Died to an illness he had a 90% chance of beating because he knew better.

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      7 months ago

      And that 90% is average number, it’s quite possible that with his money that number would be higher…

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      7 months ago

      A diet in which he thought would magically avoid creating body odor.

      Those of us who have this problem know that your diet really does affect that. Actually others can sometimes say what we’ve eaten a few hours before.

      However, Jobs’ case is kinda extreme, usually eating less sugar and fat and more carbs is kinda sufficient.

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        7 months ago

        Jobs actually believed he didn’t need to take baths though, it was more extreme than just reducing his smell, he legitimately believed he didn’t smell at all.

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          7 months ago

          Well, there’s such thing as nose blindness. If you stink always the same, you don’t feel your own smell. Which is why asocial people become smelly very easily.

          Jobs was clearly narcissist, though, so he’d just be in denial anyway.