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i'm 20 years old and i'm addicted to drinking gasoline eating bugs rescuing food from dumpsters eating sand people have some strange addictions and actually made a show about it and while you may be tempted to laugh hear me out at my points first before going to judge b my name is nathaniel i'm 27 years old and i'm in a serious relationship with my car [Music] interesting good morning baby it's a pretty car i'm not gonna lie i'm digging the color i say it was love at first sight his body and then his interior and everything just together just seemed to fit and i just felt an instant connection [Music] you know this objectophilia seems like it runs in a similar pattern as animism where someone believes that uh inanimate object has a spirit that uh is living on and that's why they fall in love with it nathaniel's relationship with chase goes beyond dates and presents we have our times when we get sexual does that feel good there has been some research that has showed a sexual gratification or objectification of an added object does sometimes run in a similar course also with autism so i don't know if autism was in fact diagnosed in this case i'm 19 years old and i'm addicted to eating sand sand okay i just love the crunch that's not good for the teeth there's a condition known as pica where individuals actually crave foods like sand soil paint even metal objects and there are treatments for it bria is so dependent on that satisfying crunch she turns to nail files when her sand supply runs low it has like sandpaper on it that gives me the same crunch so i put it like on the back of my teeth and just like this essentially you're sanding down your teeth when you grind them down with that uh very abrasive surface of the sandpaper you're actually doing serious damage to it i wouldn't be surprised if she's gonna need dentures or like implants very early on in her life unless this gets addressed i'm 20 years old and i'm addicted to drinking gasoline gasoline is toxic and i'm not just saying drinking it inhaling it getting it on your skin in fact individuals who work surrounding gasoline vapor have higher rates of certain illnesses animal studies have showed like kidney liver disease from extended exposure to gasoline vapors i can't go a day without it like i crave it i need it i'll wake up go to the washroom and drink the gas this is super dangerous because of a compound called hydrocarbons found within gasoline which actually act as a central nervous system depressant you can almost feel like you're drunk off of it but the danger that it causes to your gi tract your vital organs outweigh any potential benefit of consuming it stanley might be 31 years old but for the past 18 years he has gone to remarkable lengths to remain young at heart very young okay i understand if you're watching at home and you're quick to judge this gentleman and say wow this is clearly a disorder wait the way we decide in medicine in healthcare whether or not something is a disorder is based on the patient's own life if the patient is not having an issue maintaining a job maintaining healthy social connections maintaining a relationship if all these major developmental aspects of life are normal this is not a disorder we have to be very careful with our definitions here and he doesn't just talk the baby talk he dedicates eight hours a day role-playing as a toddler that's an important fact to hear because if you have to dedicate eight hours of the day to do this can you maintain a job can you maintain social connections it's a feeling of being safe something i didn't have when i was growing up and being an adult baby became my way of coping with the world and my own problems humans are great at finding unique coping mechanisms this works for him something else may work for you just we have to make the decision together with a patient and a doctor whether or not that coping mechanism is a appropriate for who you are and b whether or not it is distracting or detracting from your everyday life stanley has even tried baby formula but like every other toddler he can be extremely selective i mean baby food like that is basically just like mashed up fruits so it's not like the end of the world eating that but like baby formula breast milk all that really high fat content you really have to be careful i don't have any broken bones but i'm addicted to putting orthopedic cast on my body what i'm perfectly fine perfectly healthy i like the feeling of the chaos around me just wear a compression sleeve i've done like two full arm casts two full leg casts i've done two full length cast and an arm cast i put on so many different casts it's ridiculous he just wants to be cuddled i get it i need that too sometimes i just don't go all the way to getting a cast on but like sometimes i do that with a blanket and then i lay on top of it so i feel like i can't get out it's like being swaddled i was 12 years old i broke my arm rollerblading and i got my first cast i got a lot of attention with a cast on and it's just kind of been an ongoing process ever since then that is a medical diagnosis actually people who feign illness in order to get attention or sympathy that needs to be obviously diagnosed and addressed if that's the case my name is dave gracer and i'm obsessed with eating bugs initial impression of mine is this might not be so bad because bugs are actually kind of nutritious he has eaten more than 5 000 bugs over the past 11 years does he keep track of the numbers of bugs that's interesting when it comes to getting bugs you got to kill them and there's a variety of ways doing that i prefer freezing them because you go to sleep so i think it's the most humane way you don't just go to sleep you're viciously cold and then you go to sleep it's not like he's giving them a paralytic agent to knock them out and then freezing them david's interest in eating insects just kept getting bigger grasshopper grasshopper grasshopper bigger fly pupa cicada bigger scorpion tastes kind of like this weird plastic and you enjoy eating weird plastic like i want to know his explanation i have follow-up questions i started going into the woods and getting my own bugs and i think the first ones i found was a whole log full of carpenter ants and i tried those ants are very rich in protein ants grasshoppers like grasshoppers almost have the same amount of protein per hundred grams as red meat does when he wants something more exotic he goes to his personal supermarket the pet store today he is picking up a specially ordered bug he has never encountered that that is a monster i will eat a monster you want to make sure that you're thinking about toxins that the bug has inside of them the bacteria that's on the bugs you also want to think about anti-nutrients that are actually meant to discourage predators from eating them by not allowing us to withdraw the protein from the foods and it actually stops the protein absorption inside our bodies the vietnamese centipede is the only species of centipede to have ever killed a human being right in the oil i'll season him again just real quick with salt and pepper how does he know to season it with salt and pepper how does he know those flavors go together if he's never eaten it before that's just like throwing salt on an already potentially salty food and be like the heat not only cooks the insect it also breaks down the poisonous venom there you go take a peek and see what we've done today for you dave oh my god it's still got the very much the look of the beast the luck of the beast but there's so much muscle tissue i feel like i was about to throw up i understand why you say that this concept isn't that out there for me because by eating more insects we can place less strain on our land have highly highly nutritious and protein-rich foods brought to our diet especially in areas where we don't have farming abilities i've actually tasted grasshopper before not too shabby we're the strongest family in the world nick cali dylan and jessica best you can do it train their bodies up to 240 hours each week that's a lot of hours of training while some pediatricians warn against weight training for kids eleven-year-old dylan routinely deadlifts 130 pounds i do like working out it's like my coffee in the morning if i don't do it i don't feel right i love that this kid is so mature i'm initially looking at this 11 years old is probably on the earlier side of starting to lift heavy weights the idea is that you risk injury when you have non-fully formed muscles tendons ligaments bones and start lifting heavy weights it can be done safely you just need to be very careful and monitored by a professional kids like below the age of seven shouldn't be doing weightlifting at all starting at age seven you could start incorporating strength training that's good but just not with heavy weights oh my gosh jj experts recommend children her age trained with one pound weights but she can lift 100 pounds that's probably not ideal that being said i doubt that this was going to do any real damage to her growth plates that was kind of a myth that we had published by the american academy of pediatrics in 1983 where we thought that could happen it was a potential risk and as time went on we saw that happen less and less especially with proper training dylan and jessica consume nearly twice the recommended calories for their age while we do give recommendations on caloric intake that is a wide-ranging recommendation needs to be individualized so for children that are highly active like them and we see how their weight and their bmi is trending we can make different changes to their diets and to the recommendations so the fact that they're eating a lot more than an average child isn't that wild to me because they're burning a lot of calories by doing all these workouts several times a day hi i'm kelly athena and i'm obsessed with rescuing food from dumpsters ah i'm with it we waste so much food in this country while other countries starve i don't think this is a terrible idea i just hope they're doing it safely the average american household spends over 500 dollars a month on groceries and we oftentimes spend money on groceries that look the prettiest and waste the food that may not look pretty but is just as nutritious just as tasty everything i have in my fridge i got from the dumpster apples cucumbers pickles condiments grapes cantaloupe here's some soy milk i had and it it even expired more than a month ago sometimes it's a full on expiration date but you really need to understand what that date is for because that date could be like for ideal freshness or for ideal taste it still might be calorically nutritionally valuable i'm not afraid to eat right out of the dumpster if it's if it's good stuff there's this peach if i peel it that'll be pretty safe to eat if i eat out at a restaurant i don't know who's preparing that food back there i don't know if i'm a fan of that logic you don't know who's preparing the food at least it's cooked here you're getting food that's been living in a dumpster what if a raccoon pooped on it b is spicing up the four-month-old dumpster pizza with cheese two weeks past its expiration date over ripe tomatoes kelly found a week ago maybe a little diced fennel fennel found at the bottom of a trash bin just this morning it's a fresh dumpster fennel and frozen chicken chicken if it was even not frozen for a short period of time bacteria can start proliferating on it especially if it wasn't stored or prepared properly oh man i've had a personal close friend of mine who eats thoroughly cooked foods eat out at a restaurant get an infection from one of those foods and then develop an abscess which is a pocket of infection inside his brain and he still has neurologic effects as a result of that so this isn't like totally benign i also reviewed family by the time living life as an 800 pound person click here to check that out as always stay happy and healthy

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