Competitive eaters have stretched their stomachs so often that signals that tell you to stop eating no longer seem to apply
Competitive eater Miki Sudo eats a record 48 and a half hot dogs to win the women's division of the Nathan's Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest, July 4, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.Earlier this month, those among us who thought that humanity had already hit its peak got a reminder that we’re still on an upward slope. At the annualin Coney Island, Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo shattered the men’s and women’s world records by eating 75 and 48.
But since around 2010, the curve has levelled off once again, this time at around seven dogs a minute, raising the question of whether we’re approaching fundamental human limits of gluttony.an analysis of extreme feats of endurance The presence of food in your stomach and digestive tract triggers a cascade of neural and hormonal signals that tell you to stop eating, Smoliga explains. If you try to push beyond satiety, you’ll feel intense nausea and discomfort long before your stomach is stretched to its limit.
“The toilet bowl gets full, and it gets to the point where it starts to overflow,” he says, illustrating the post-contest carnage by piling marshmallows into a brimming bowl.
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