
When rock star Glenn Frey, the multiple Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, producer and actor, who was best known as a founding member of the Eagles, died on January 18, 2016 at the ago of 67, there were not that many people who knew how seriously ill he was.
The cause of death was listed as complications from rheumatoid arthritis – something he had been dealing with for 15 years – ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. In November 2015, Frey had undergone major surgery for his colitis, and following the surgery he was placed in a medically induced coma. About a month before Frey passed away, his treating doctors had exhausted all possible treatments, and were aware that it was just a matter of time before Frey passed away.
The same day that he died, his good friend and manager Irving Azoff said it was the drugs Frey was taking for his rheumatoid arthritis that were partly or fully to blame for his death. Furthermore, Azoff said the drugs also caused Frey’s ulcerative colitis and pneumonia.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by itself is not a fatal disease; treatments for RA are used to attempt to slow the debilitating effects of the disease. Unfortunately, side effects of the treatments often contribute to the severity of the disease.
The effects of ulcerative colitis are also rarely fatal in and of themselves, but there are complications from it that can be fatal.
Many of the medications that treat RA, which is an autoimmune disease, come with a host of possible side effects, from heart failure to tuberculosis. That’s because the drugs used, known as disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), work to suppress patients’ overactive immune systems, which can make them vulnerable to infection.
Those who suffer from RA and other chronic inflammatory disorders have to weigh the many life-changing benefits of strong drugs that treat the disease against their nasty side effects.
The leading anti-inflammatory drug, Humira, for example, can lead to an increased risk of certain types of cancers, serious infections and nervous system problems, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Similar drugs, all of which are in a newer class called biologic agents, such as Remicade and Enbrel, come with the same possible side effects.

In other words, if a person has RA or other autoimmune issues, in making the choice to go the modern medical treatment route of using these strong drugs, it can leave them, as the Eagles sang in “Hotel California,” on a path that “could be heaven or it could be hell.”
And for Glenn Frey, it surely led him towards the path to hell.
What could Frey have done differently? First off, during his heyday with the Eagles, he lived life in the fast lane, succumbing to the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. Surely, that lifestyle played a prime role in the deterioration of his health in his later years, and only in hindsight can it be said that if he had tempered his lifestyle way back when, perhaps he wouldn’t have suffered the way he did in his later years.
That being said, there’s still a lot Frey could have done over the last 15 years of his life, when he was suffering from the RA. If he had chosen to follow a more healthy and wellness oriented lifestyle approach, it’s possible that he could have then relied less on the drugs, or not taken them at all.
The thing about modern medicine, while it is good at offering band-aids and giving symptomatic treatments – such as strong drugs for the debilitating effects of RA – it has no treating approach or philosophy that can help a person move towards healing and wellness.
Most probably, Frey wasn’t getting advice from his doctors suggesting that he make big changes in his diet, or develop better tools to manage his stress – such as meditation, yoga, being in nature, and other ways that can help a person find their inner stillness.
To make these changes, Frey would have had to empower himself to move in that direction. Now granted, I don’t know what Frey’s lifestyle was like, nor am I blaming Frey for his health issues, but I do believe he could have done better for his health and not have had to die an untimely, and lonely, death, nor been forced to choose between heaven and hell, in regards to taking the medications.
And with the large number of people suffering from autoimmune disease and chronic and degenerative health problems, the same scenario is in effect for everyone in this boat – drugs at best can arrest symptoms, but they are not curative. Lifestyle changes – diet, tending after your emotional well-being, having healthy stress management approaches – are the key.
And the best kind of diet: as all research now tells us, it’s a plant-based, whole foods diet. Which means cutting out the processed foods, the sugars, and less or no animal foods and animal protein (animal protein includes dairy foods).
This is the approach that could have kept Glenn Frey singing for many years to come, and one that would have allowed him to maintain a peaceful, easy feeling and to take it to the limit.
Very easy to analyse after death something the doctor(s) should have been more proficient about in the beginning. People do not ordinarily die from RA and Pneumonia etc. I am happy the Frey family is suing as most people are – – It is rumored and I also believe that he was wrongly over-medicated – far too young to be taken from his fans and primarily the Frey family,
Maybe. I would wager however that a strict meat based diet would do better than a plant based diet.
Dr. Michael Wayne, the cause of every symptom Mr. Glenn Frey experienced can be found in an archiac dictionary. The way of life, to include lying, allowed a blaming senario to incorporate someone besides themselves in on their escapades to try to remain part of a plan. The plan was established long ago, to include someone that another can survive off of. This is point blank called a parasite and Glenn had many after his life. I shall not divulge the main one, only that he presents like a man. Anger is the defining word, belonging elsewhere, but finding its way upon Glenn Frey from pushing, trying to dominate and bringing hardship until a fight can ensue. Lied about, hidden, is the true definition: A “manifestation or embodiment” of intense inflammation, fiery, strangling, narrowing, angina, all pain and is passed off when someone helps by inciting fury with inappropriate action. An example: Someone destroying your property is likely to ignite a flood of intense emotion. This can ignite a flood as well, from the angle you are guessing. The doer, parasite, onto the target, it’s desired host. Anger is “not” simply the emotion; it is the creator of body problems and is known how to incite this on another, without which low life finally dies. Glenn’s outstanding adherence of integrity is likely seen by an outsider like their way in. To get in on Glenn and live off him, someone ignited this flame from the perspective we are all familiar with called an antagonistic approach. Initially someone tries to knock the balance that Glenn lives from, off, by harsh language. This can upset someone until the “pass off” cannot be avoided. No matter what, Glenn has to respond, be it silently or with language. From that time forward, what can be counted on is the fact of Glenn now being in on whatever parasites are. None have found out how to thwart off what becomes as this angered state lives off of themselves now; although belonging upon another. The igniting can contain vast amounts of suicidal harm that the human cannot define; being foreign and unknown. The colitis has behind it the form that has killed so many; that of hardship nonstop from parasites gaining life alongside high human existence without acknowledgement that their part is not half of the problem they have caused. Suffice it to say, one igniting can follow the next, so that parasite life can feed off high life and continue killing without cause being known. To halt this process, one must not acknowledge the cause as any part of oneself. It is not. Society continues to blame Glenn for this and that. Know that by my being firmly aware of “who” is behind everything that appeared upon Glenn, I set free Glenn. Life’s downturn being abrupt is likely to render anyone carrying on with harm to another one downfall, the likes of which are unprecedented. While….The “actual” Glenn Frey is held safely. Glenn’s body can in no way encompass such change as someone’s harsh anger abided. It appeared Glenn’s body died. Instead some parasite held place by torturing until killing became thought of like a natural occurrence. The entire parasite proceeding has been thrown off by my disallowing anyone placement as they thought they could always pull off. I will close with the following: Known are how seven scrolls open, while The Lion folds them neatly away never to impose upon high human life again. My regards, Rebecca Ann Grubb