He ate 69 hot dogs in 10 minutes! After 20 years of competing in the eating contest, his brain was damaged...
2024-08-24
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I wonder if you have heard of Kobayashi Tsuyoshi?
As a big eater, he was once famous all over the world. After all, only he can Stuff 69 hot dogs in 10 minutesBut now his brain is different from that of a normal person...
Takeru Kobayashi, born on March 15, 1978 in Nagano, Japan, is a famous competitive mukbang contestant. His career began in 2000 when he appeared on the Japanese reality show TV Champion and ate 60 plates of sushi, 2.7 kg of potatoes and 16 bowls of ramen in one go.
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Kobayashi quickly rose to prominence in the competitive mukbang world, becoming a world-renowned mukbang contestant after winning six consecutive Nathan's Hot Dog Contests between 2001 and 2006. He also became famous for his unique way of eating, the "Kobayashi Shake," which involves dipping the hot dog in water and shaking the body to make the food slide more smoothly into the stomach.
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In 2006, Kobayashi won the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest by eating 53 hot dogs in 12 minutes, a feat that helped him gain a large number of fans and fame around the world. In 2001, he set a world record by eating 69 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
In 2019, Xiaolin is over 41 years old, but he has no problem eating 62 slices of pizza in 12 minutes or 337 chicken wings in half an hour.
However, all this comes at a price...
In the same year, ESPN produced a documentary "The Good, The Bad, The Hungry", in which Kobayashi revealed a series of health problems he had in the later stages of his career.
Kobayashi uses a series of methods to expand his stomach capacity to accommodate the intake of large amounts of food.Before a game, Xiaolin drinks a lot of water to expand his stomach. This process helps him adapt to the need to eat a lot in a short period of time. He also uses a lot of low-calorie foods, such as vegetables or boiled noodles, to simulate the game situation, and gradually increase the intake to train the elasticity and tolerance of the stomach.
Previously, a Japanese TV program used X-rays to shoot the stomach of another big eater, Moe Azusa. It can be seen that the size of her stomach is very different before and after eating. It is so big that even the kidneys next to it are almost squeezed out of shape......
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After years of extreme training and diet, Xiaolin lost his appetite for food and could not feel hungry. Sometimes he would not feel hungry even if he did not eat for several days. This not only affected his quality of life, but also made his performance in the competition much worse than before. In addition,Doctors discovered that Xiaolin's brain was reacting to highly processed foods.
When a normal person sees delicious food, several key areas in the brain (hypothalamus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex, striatum) will be activated. These areas are mainly involved in the processing of appetite, pleasure, and satiety.
For Kobayashi, the results were completely different. Due to a long-term and large intake of highly processed foods, his brain had developed a negative reaction to these foods. When he saw food, the areas of Kobayashi's brain associated with fullness and nausea were activated simultaneously.This reaction means his brain is still in competitive eating broadcast mode, even though he has no intention of eating.
Xiaolin's brain had adapted to his extreme eating habits, causing normal hunger and fullness signals to become distorted.His brain is more likely to trigger stress and protective responses to the sight of food than pleasure and anticipation.
This is not an isolated case, but has been confirmed by large-scale studies. In 2013, scientists used a cross-sectional and longitudinal study design to evaluate the impact of long-term overeating on brain response patterns. The subjects were divided into two groups: a chronic overeating group (defined as at least three binge eating behaviors per week for at least two years) and a normal diet group.
During the experiment, the subjects were asked to look at a series of food images while undergoing an fMRI scan, which recorded activity in brain areas associated with satiety, pleasure, and nausea.
turn out,When chronic overeaters were shown images of food, areas of the brain associated with both satiety (such as the hypothalamus) and nausea (such as the insula) were activated simultaneously.When the control group saw the food images, they activated primarily areas associated with pleasure and anticipation, such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex.
The figure below shows the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) results of the brain under different conditions, comparing the brain activity of normal controls and patients with binge eating disorder under two stimulation conditions.
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In the chart,Even without food stimulation, the brain activity of patients with binge eating disorder is higher than that of normal controls., indicating that their brains are highly active under baseline conditions. In addition, patients with binge eating disorder have a stronger response to food stimuli, as shown by high activity in the brain's reward system, which may be the neural basis of their binge eating behavior.
Research shows thatWhen people consume high-calorie, high-sugar foods for a long time, the dopamine receptors in the brain will gradually decrease, making people need more food to achieve the same sense of satisfaction.
In the brains of people with depression, dopamine activity may be suppressed. Eating foods high in sugar and fat can temporarily increase dopamine levels, thereby improving mood. However, this mechanism may lead to a vicious cycle, making individuals more dependent on these foods for short-term mood relief.
In addition, studies have found that long-term intake of high-sugar, high-fat diets can lead to decreased cognitive function and affect memory and learning ability.Overeating may also make you stupid.
Not only the brain, but also the cardiovascular system and other parts of the body have many adverse effects. Kobayashi has consumed a large amount of highly processed American diet during his career, which is usually rich in high-calorie, high-sugar and high-fat foods such as fast food, desserts and sugary drinks.Long-term consumption of this diet can lead to a variety of health problems, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.
Recently, Kobayashi finally announced his retirement decision. He said: "I have been in this field for the past 20 years. I am worried about the consequences of my decision, but most importantly, I want to repair my brain and intestines."
Kobayashi's legendary status in the competitive eating broadcasting world is irreplaceable, and his retirement marks the end of an era. His story is not only about the victory of extreme challenges, but also about the renewed pursuit of healthy living.
