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below or at chubbyemu.store. A Mukbanger Ate 1 Gallon (3.78 Liters) of
Pickles For Lunch. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
BT is a 33 year old woman, presenting to the
emergency room with nausea, vomiting, and a splitting headache. She tells the admitting nurse that she had
never had less food inside her body than at this moment, because several gallons of liquid
had just exited her body, from the end that was supposed to put out solid waste. Earlier in the day, BT was trying to record
a pickle mukbang. Since March 2020, she had lost all interest
in work, when everything became “work at home.” Her job in sales, became a job of making it
look like work was happening, when really nothing was getting done because everything
was just endless, long-winded virtual calls of co-workers talking about nothing. She felt her career had become something that
could have been an email. Sometimes when she was required to be on camera,
but didnt need to say anything, she would point her work computer’s webcam at a video
loop of herself on her tablet to make it look like she was there, but really, she was off
doing her own thing. BT loved mukbangs, where people would eat
food on camera. She found these therapeutic, where she could
eat with a feeling like someone else was there with her. If no one was taking work seriously, and she
now had all this extra time on her hands, then why not make a few mukbangs myself now,
she thought. For BT, almost instantly, she had an audience. Every day, she’d notice the same names commenting. They would send her messages and tips and
as she made more videos, she knew exactly what to expect. But she wanted more. To grow her audience, she noticed that when
she ate something different or excessive, she’d attract bigger and bigger numbers. One day, while in the grocery store, BT found
gallon jars of pickles. She remembered seeing earlier that other people
had posted themselves eating these gallon jars, and those videos got huge numbers. But, she needed to be different. Maybe she could just eat the gallon and enjoy
it, without the need for a rush. She looked on her phone and pickles are healthy
and low in calories, so it’s going to be no problem, she thought, and she bought the
gallon jug, and prepped herself for the feast. At home now, excited for lunch, BT cracked
open the jug, and started eating the pickles. She felt good. She loved the crunch of the cucumber on her
teeth as the pickle juice dripped out with flavor. Nothing like a nutritious meal, she thought
as she started explaining to her audience the health benefits of pickles. Pickles are cucumbers and cucumbers are vegetables,
so all of this is obviously healthy. And you know what? Athletes use pickle juice to replenish their
electrolytes and prevent cramps, and can you believe this? It’s also a probiotic, so undoubtedly it
helps with digestion, and because stomach bacteria affects the brain, it basically just
heals the whole body, she said to everyone as she slowly finished the gallon jar of the
pickles. She had to take a few bathroom breaks inbetween. And then she started drinking the juice. By this time her lips were all puckered up
from all the vinegar and she could feel some sores in her mouth, but this didnt matter,
because there’s nothing wrong with a good pickle, she thought. Immediately after finishing the whole gallon
of pickles, BT felt bloated. She had seen some people get sick trying to
eat it quickly, so doing it slower was absolutely the right thing to do. But about 20 minutes after her last sip of
the juice, BT could feel her stomach rumble. At first, it was just a just a little shake,
but very quickly, it felt like her stomach was folding on itself as she clenched her
body together as hard as she could, and ran to the bathroom. On the toilet now, BT felt like all her organs
had liquefied and exited her body into the bowl. As the hours passed, she felt almost every
drop of water squeeze out of her body, as her stomach and her intestines kept shaking
and quaking. In a world of hurt, she imagined her brain
getting sucked out of her skull and flushed into the toilet as the trembling in her abdomen
become more and more intense. After all this time, she had no urge to drink
any water. Laying down now, BT could swear her skin was
inside out. She could see herself kneeling on the floor
while staring at the wall. She couldn’t speak but she wished she could. As she replayed herself eating the pickles,
she was there being laughed at and confused. It kept everyone watching pleasantly amused
enough to stay. But as it starts to feel like an ice pick
had been jammed into her head from the back, she becomes weak, and she calls for 911, as
she’s brought to the emergency room where we are now. At examination, BT told doctors something
about pickles. It wasn’t coherent because she was slurring
her words. They weren’t exactly sure what happened. But there’s several clues as to what could
be happening because she smells like pickles, and a blood test reveals that she has Acute
Hypernatremia. Hyper meaning high. Natr referring to sodium or more formally
natrium as indicated by its symbol on the periodic table of elements. And emia meaning presence in blood. High sodium presence in blood. Acute meaning that there were no underlying
problems that are leading to this issue, aside from the 1 gallon of pickles inside
her body at the moment, which brings us to the first clue. Pickles are high in sodium. The one gallon that BT ate has at least 20
grams of sodium in just pickles alone, not counting the pickle juice that she drank. If the juice has the same sodium content as
the small pickle juicer bottles, then the juice alone could be around 10-15 grams of sodium. But this brings us to the difference between
sodium and salt. Table salt is usually sodium chloride, that’s
a chemical solid made of sodium and chloride. The reason why this is important, is because
baking soda, which doesnt really taste salty, can also cause hypernatremia because it’s
sodium bicarbonate. If BT packed around 30 grams of sodium into
her body during the gallon pickle mukbang, then it’s like she ate 78 grams of table salt. This is a problem because 40 grams of table
salt, can be lethal, as doctors see BT quickly start to lose consciousness and have a seizure. The medical team notes that BT doesn’t respond
when they call her name. She’s still breathing, but she doesnt respond
to pain, her muscles seem stiff, but when they shine a light into her eyes, they notice
that her pupils do respond. All of this meaning that something is happening
to her brain, but why? This brings us back to hypernatremia, high
sodium presence in blood. If a potentially lethal dose of sodium went
in to her body, then that should explain it, but, is that real? She had watery stools for hours, meaning there
was a net flow out of her body. So, wouldn’t the sodium have exited her
body there? Maybe. You see, the interesting thing about sodium
is that wherever it is, water will flow towards it. In this small science experiment, I take salty
water and place it into a semi-permeable tube, meaning only water can flow in and out of
it. I submerge the tube in a pool of distilled
water that has no salt in it. And you’ll see that water flows in to the
tube. That water flows towards where there's sodium. If a gallon of pickles and juice were sitting
inside BT’s stomach and intestines, and water follows sodium, then it means not only
is the gallon in there, but more water was drawn in to her gut. This explains why she felt bloated after finishing
the jar. But the stomach and intestines are muscles,
so when they stretch because water is flowing in, that reflex ripples down and tells the
other end of the GI tract to push things out. This reflex explains why you use the toilet
after a big meal. But in BT’s case, it was a big stretch. And all those watery stools are big a problem,
bringing us to the next clue. The thing about hypernatremia, is that it’s
measured as the amount of sodium per liter of water. We already know BT ate a lethal amount of
sodium from the pickles, but this isn’t her only problem. She also has massive water loss after hours
on the toilet. She doesn’t just have high sodium presence
in blood, she has less total body water. When the denominator is a smaller number,
the value increases, making the sodium measurement even more concentrated. She may have put out some sodium from the
watery stools, but the blood levels point to the fact that the sodium absorbed in to
her body from the small intestines into her blood… And if water follows sodium, then it means
BT’s salty blood is sucking water out of all her organs. The muscles hold on to water, so if they lose
some volume, it could cause some cramps, maybe explaining why she’s stiff. The liver is big, and if it shrivels up, maybe
something could go wrong there, but probably not too big of a deal. But if she’s had a seizure and is unresponsive
and unconscious, and those are related to the brain, then it means her brain is shrinking
because she’s so salty. As the water gets sucked out of her brain
quickly, the blood vessels shear and rip apart. This bleeding can cause permanent damage. If she’s lost a lot of water, then the answer
is to replace that water, and add even more to try to dilute the sodium. We can’t pull out the sodium from her body,
but the more water present, the lower the sodium as the medical team starts fluids to
rehydrate her, but, something’s wrong. When there’s hypernatremia, the brain will
try as hard as it can to resist shrinking. It makes itself saltier by pumping things
in so that less water gets drawn out. This adaptation takes around a day to happen. Meaning if the medical team corrects BT’s
hypernatremia quickly, then the brain might be too salty from the adaptation, and the
water needed to correct her hypernatremia would swell in, causing to brain to expand,
maybe to the point of crushing up against the sides of the skull. The medical team don’t know how long ago
she ate all the pickles. They don’t know exactly the details of how
it all went down for her. But it seems to be working. BT seems to be doing ok. But as the hours pass, her blood pressure
starts to drop. Her kidneys stop making urine as they completely
shut down. But her reflexes were still in tact. Her pupils still reacted to light. So it may not yet be too late. And it wasn’t. As BT regained consciousness in the hospital,
she was transferred to the step-down unit before being sent home, where she was able to make
a full recovery. Gallon of anything challenge, is never worth
it. Thanks so much for watching. Take care of yourself. And Be Well.
