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Ghost Pepper Leads to Torn Esophagus
- finid 10y agoAs hot as ghost pepper is, it barely makes the top 10 of the hottest peppers anymore. Sitting atop that list is the Carolina Reaper, which at about 2,000,000 Scoville units, is twice as hot as Bhut Jolokia. I use Bhut Jolokia whenever I cook, but I only add just enough in my food to give it a kick. About two years ago I cut one up and swallowed the pieces with water. Chewing them would have been too punishing. The effect was not funny. For the next two days, the heat was slowly melting all the fat in my body. Even my brain started to feel like it was melting. I swore never to eat it like that again.
- grzm 10y agothe heat was slowly melting all the fat in my body Did you actually lose weight? Honest question. I'm always interested to hear about fat burning metabolism triggers. That said, I'm not much for spicy food, so this one might not be for me. :)
- finid 10y agoIt didn't last long enough for me to notice any weight loss, but I could just feel things melting away slowly. It's something you have to experience to know how it really feels.
- jazoom 10y agoSounds medically legit
- aaron695 10y agoLink bait. It did not. Person had pre-existing condition. Vomiting caused issue.
- seandougall 10y agoWhere did you draw the conclusion that he had a pre-existing condition? I can't find that in the article; it says he was otherwise healthy. I can see the title being clickbait if it had said "causes", but "leads to" seems perfectly apt.
- aaron695 10y ago> Where did you draw the conclusion that he had a pre-existing condition? Might be wrong another article implied it. I thought Boerhaave syndrome had pre-cursors. Ghost pepper is pure clickbait. He also had 6 glasses of water which was the probable "leads to" of the real cause and the thing that mattered, vomiting.