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Gene Hackman focused on staying fit before Alzheimer’s diagnosis: Getting old ‘bothered’ him

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Fox News Digital about how he was focused on his health, and was “bothered” by aging, before he died last month at age 95 as a result of advanced Alzheimer’s, as well as heart disease and hypertension.Hackman’s pals said he played golf and did yoga in particular. “He was very fit, you know, and he was 6-foot-2 plus an ex-Marine,” said Stuart Ashman, a friend of Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa’s, who passed last month from Hantavirus.“He did Pilates like three times a week.

And then on the days that he didn’t do Pilates, he would load his bicycle up to his SUV and drive to Albuquerque, which is 70 miles, and ride this trail down there, which is along the river and it’s paved and level,” Ashman continued. “So he didn’t want to do mountain biking, but he did that.

So he was in great shape.” Hackman and Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home on Feb. 26. She was 65.Following a police investigation, officials revealed Hackman died from heart disease with advanced Alzheimer’s disease being a contributing factor.

The “Bonnie and Clyde” star “was in very poor health” before his death, New Mexico Chief Medical Examiner Heather Jarrell said.Officials determined that Hackman died roughly a week after his wife’s death from Hantavirus, a flu-like illness spread mainly by rodent feces that attacks the lungs.

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