I had posted vids of Flex at 23 and slightly older, if he was so dumb, then he would not have consistently improve. And he was a proponate of unilateral training, you see very few people train legs like that, whether or not he learned it from Charles Glass or not, e took principles and used them. Sign of someone, stupid, I think not. And everybody back then used diuretics to large degree, not just Flex. Flex had a hard time getting dry in the lower back, glutes-ham tie in, that was a barometer to how in shape he was. His most cut up conditioning came in 1993, not later on...
If Flex is so intelligent, why the constant need to have an entourage of trainers and "nutritionists" hold his hand his entire career? The simple answer being that in addition to being dumb, he was also one of the laziest bodybuilders in history.