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Sounds like he had an extremely high resting metabolic rate. Any similar modern medical examples?
by lanius 8y ago
Sounds like he had an extremely high resting metabolic rate. Any similar modern medical examples?
- jandrese 8y agoI'm not sure he was absorbing so many calories from those meals. It sounds more like he had an extremely overactive digestive tract and just couldn't keep anything inside long enough to digest. Think of it more as a permanent case of explosive diarrhea. His use as a courier suggests that material was going through his digestive tract mostly intact.
- newnewpdro 8y ago"Hyperthyroidism can induce an extreme appetite, rapid weight loss, profuse sweating, heat intolerance, and fine hair. Bondeson (2006) speculates that Tarrare had a damaged amygdala; it is known that injuries to the amygdala in animals can induce polyphagia."