- 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 they actually made a show about it, and while you may be tempted to laugh, hear me out in my points
first before going to judge. Bewoop. - My name is Nathaniel, I'm 27 years old and I'm in a serious
relationship with my car. - Interesting. - [Nathaniel] Morning, baby. - It's a pretty car, I'm not gonna lie, I'm digging the color. - It's like 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. (suspenseful music) - You know, this objectophilia
seems like it runs in a similar pattern as animism,
where someone believes that a inanimate object has a
spirit that is living on and that's why they fall in love with it. - [Narrator] 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 inanimate objects 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. - [Brea] I just love the crutch. - 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. - [Narrator] Brea 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 in the back of my teeth and just go like this. - Essentially, you're
sanding down your teeth. When you grind them down with
that very abrasive surface of the sandpaper, you're
actually doing serious damage to it. I wouldn't be surprised if
she's going to need dentures or 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
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 essential
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. - [Narrator] 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 and 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. - [Narrator] 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. - [Narrator] 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 fruit, 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 casts on my body. - What? - I'm perfectly fine, perfectly healthy, I like the feeling of the cast around me. - Just wear a compression sleeve. - I've done like two full arm
casts, two full leg casts, I've done two full leg
cast and an arm cast. I've 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 done, 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 the cast on and it's just kinda 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 - 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. - [Narrator] He's 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 of 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. - And bigger.
- [David] Fly, pupa, cicada. - And 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. - [Narrator] 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. - [David] That gnat 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. - [Narrator] The Vietnamese Centipede is the only species of centipede to have ever killed a human being. - Wow.
- Right in the oil. I'll season them again just real quick, we'll do 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, hmm. - [Narrator] The heat not
only cooks the insect, it also breaks down the poisonous venom. - There you go, take a peak
and see what we've done today for you, Dave. - [Dave] Oh, my God. It's still got the very
much the look of the beast. - The look 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. - Whoa. - [Narrator] Nick, Kelly, Dylan and Jessica Best, train their bodies up
to 240 hours each week. - That's a lot of hours of training. - [Narrator] While some
pediatricians warn against weight training for
kids, 11 year old Dylan routinely deadlifts 130 pounds. - I do like working out. Just 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. 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 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. - [Kelly] Oh my gosh, JJ. - [Narrator] Experts
recommend children her age train with one pound weights. - [Kelly] Whoa! - [Narrator] But she can lift 100 pounds. - That's probably not ideal. That being said, I doubt
that this is 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 then as time went on, we
saw that happen less and less, especially with proper training. - [Narrator] 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 that 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 their 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 of these
workouts several times a day. - Hi, I'm Kelly Athena and I'm obsessed with
rescuing food from dumpsters. - 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. - [Narrator] The average
American household spends over $500 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 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 'cause that date could be
like for ideal freshness or for ideal taste, it still might be calorically, nutritionally, valuable. - [Kelly] I'm not afraid to
eat right out of the dumpster 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 bag 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? - [Narrator] She is spicing up the four month old
dumpster pizza with cheese two weeks past its expiration date, overripe tomatoes Kelly found a week ago. - [Husband] Maybe a little diced fennel. - [Narrator] Fennel found
at the bottom of a trash bin just this morning. - Well, it's a fresh dumpster fennel. - [Narrator] 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 Ton, living life as an 800 pound person. Click here to check that out. As always, stay happy and healthy.
