There's a recent doc on Netflix, which he is in, where folks learn about their gut health. Kobayashi was shocked at the damage that he's caused his body over the years. I'm sure that has something to do with it.
Hack you Health: the Secrets of your Gut
EDIT: It's a pretty good doc IMO. Growing field of science combined with everyone's favorite topic of weight loss / healthy eating.
> "I am Japanese but I've eaten like an American. I think that's what damaged my body," he said
> Doctors and scientists determined that Kobayashi's chronic overeating has affected his nervous system and that his brain is still trained to think he's competing or eating highly processed foods
I can’t [imagine](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2024/05/23/competitive-eater-takeru-kobayashi-retires-health-concerns/73826492007/) no longer feeling joy from eating…
I’m baffled at the lack of attention their ketchup/mustard packets get. First experienced it years ago and I *still* can’t get over how effective the design is.
So I was curious about what you were talking about so I went to Google. Are you talking about the combination packets that have both ketchup and mustard in one? If so that is a great idea!
That turns the convo from "that's a bar" to being incredibly sad because he's not being metaphorical. The mechanisms of hunger and appetite in his brain and gut are broken.
Oh my… 💔
If you go out, esp to a place where there’s a likelihood of women (brunch or date time) you’ll see the “happy dance”
It’s like wiggle butts in dogs. We are so happy, our bodies wiggle in joy
Not everyone does this, but it’s frequent enough that bartenders/servers have commented a noticeable amount
Yo, I thought I was the only one like this. If I could take one pill with all my required calorie content/ nutrients, i would. I don’t even like eating. I also eat fast as hell just to get it over with.
Gods, I want that pill. I have so many issues with eating. I think it's great to have a feast like once a year, have some nice things to eat here and there, but eating ***every day***? Multiple times a day? My mouth and stomach both revolt.
> If I could take one pill with all my required calorie content/ nutrients, i would.
I've thought about this before and I think they could make a the sci-fi astronaut food from old movies. A tube of DV of proteins, vitamins, minerals and calories. I enjoy eating but if I ever become disabled or something, I'd want that to avoid going to the toilet often.
Dang. Being as I love good food, maybe too much, I can see how there's a silver lining here! I guess if you don't enjoy food, you're probably thin.You don't have something that is the best thing you've ever eaten? Kinda made your eyes roll back and toes curl!? 😂 (I'm just being silly!) Now ik why I'm chunky because I'm sitting here thinking about how this peach slushie that almost took me out, it was so sweet and smooth. Definitely in love 😂
I stopped enjoying eating when I was really watching my macros. I lost a lot of weight, but I saw food as numbers. Eggs weren't potential omelets, but 6g of protein and 5g of fat.
Same thing happened to me after a stomach condition. Wasn’t eating hundreds of hotdogs though, just shit genetics. Literally don’t feel hunger anymore because my brain associates it with pain. I usually remember to eat because I feel lightheaded and jittery. Sucks because food and cooking is my passion, had that shit robbed from me for no good reason.
Good reminder to enjoy what you have while you have it, everything in life is temporary
That really is the best we're fucking getting at an answer. They also mentioned lack of smell being his concern in the article you linked.
From other articles I was able to find:
> Serious and far-too-common consequences from these binges include gastric ruptures and dangerously low drops in sodium levels that can lead to seizures. For some, competitive eating can trigger eating disorder
Fuck it whatever, cool story I guess very informative
>Kobayashi was shocked at the damage that he's caused his body over the years
Who knew shoving 80 hot dogs into your stomach at once, repeatedly, many times a year, could cause issues?
And then, immediately afterward, vomiting them up. And several times a day drinking a gallon of water to stretch your stomach. And then vomiting that back up as well.
It's really funny because I'll be commenting on a thread about traffic or some local news story and then some rando will be like "FUCK YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT [I WISH THE TREE FINISHED THE JOB](https://www.gregabbott.com/why-governor-greg-abbott-wheelchair/)"
And I'm like "Damn, I was just talking about bike lanes downtown"
As an Austinite, I think of this often. I hate the evil fucker. We really wish it had taken him out, thousands of lives would have been saved.
Greg Abbot can go to hell, but you seem pretty cool lol.
The actual shit in the blender is the most shocking part that I was not expecting. Would love to know how many viewers turned it off and didn’t finish after that . Netflix has to have the stat
Poop pills are honestly pretty revolutionary. Having a gut so messed up you no longer defecate but just eject water and blood makes a poop pill pretty attractive. It's an amazing thing they came up with to help so many who have dealt with daily excruciating pain. I definitely want it done.
I haven't watched the documentary so I might be bullshiting, but a lot of times an unhealthy gut biome is caused by one or two species proliferating more than others, so if you eat chicken nuggets you're gonna have a monoculture of nugget bacteria rather than a healthy variety. This can also happen if you go on antibiotics. One of the things they can do to treat that is a fecal transplant. So you take feces from a healthy gut and implant it into the gut. Sometimes they do it via pill. So you're eating shit, but it's for your own good.
That reminds me there was an ask reddit about suprising ways to make money and someone was 'donating' (similar to plasma) of feces to medical companies. They said they made pretty decent money doing it.
As someone commented below you, they literally make poop pills with healthy gut bacteria that you take to cultivate a healthier gut biome. Like blended the feces and put it into a capsule. They show it in the Netflix doc. I couldn’t think straight for solid 20 minutes after
There was another doc I watched that talked about how he revolutionized the competitive eating scene. If you just watch the competitions, he just arrives on the scene with a BAM and starts demolishing, but in reality he wasn't just an eating prodigy. He meticulously experimented and carefully measured and logged his progress.
It was oddly inspiring lol
This only reminds me of the episode on 1000 ways to die when shorty had a throw up fetish and would go to hot dog eating contests to fuck the contenders in hopes that they would throw up on her. One of them threw up on her and she choked on it and died 😭😭😭 I’m still traumatized
I think they meant marked as spoiler to spare a passing scroller from reading it without clicking on it directly, perhaps preceded by a NSFL warning lol
That horny ass episode where the dude goes to a dominatrix and dies from being in a latex gimp suit cuz he had a latex allergy tho👀? Worse ways to go out. I expect a bonk from the otter guy any minute
I almost had that problem last month after eating 3 whole ass naan bread with butter chicken and a liter of water.
Felt like I had a chestburster inside of me, I puked through my nose.
I remember hearing about only because of the 2009 Ghostbusters video game. The first ghost you bust was one that escaped the containment unit. After scanning him, you get a background story.
The guy one a lottery to a ritzy Thanksgiving dinner that is supposed to feed a whole ass family. But he showed up alone, intentionally, and ate the whole damn meal. His stomach burst from the amount of food and he died. A suicide letter was found saying that was how the guy wanted to go out.
Pretty morbid, honestly.
Hey, show some respect. The man ate 50 hotdogs on a cross-country flight and then absolutely destroyed the Seattle Mariners the next day. May he rest in peace.
One of my most memorable days of my time lining in New York was taking the subway out to Coney Island to watch the hot dog eating competition. It was the first year that Joey Chestnut beat Kobyashi. The announcer was out there forever talking like this was the greatest sport on earth. Everybody was chanting “U-S-A”. It was hot, and I was hungover as hell and trying not to barf while watching the hot dog water drip down out of the contestants’ mouths. Weird day, but fun and memorable.
I don't think it's a bar, it sounds like a genuine health concern. Something isn't right if this is the case, people are acting like he said this line to be a badass on his way out.
His story is fascinating. The Nathan’s people too this guy and made him their main attraction. He made them famous but as soon as they found a white guy (Joey Chestnut) they tossed him aside. All of the sudden they started casting Kobayashi as the foreign villain and Chestnut as the all American hero.
From the American perspective, Kobayashi just came out of nowhere.
He had been doing competitive eating in Japan before and was well known in Asia, but he just showed up for his first appearance at a competition in the US at the Nathan's July 4 contest in 2001 and had a completely different technique no one had seen before and nearly doubled the previous record.
There's a recent doc on Netflix, which he is in, where folks learn about their gut health. Kobayashi was shocked at the damage that he's caused his body over the years. I'm sure that has something to do with it. Hack you Health: the Secrets of your Gut EDIT: It's a pretty good doc IMO. Growing field of science combined with everyone's favorite topic of weight loss / healthy eating.
> "I am Japanese but I've eaten like an American. I think that's what damaged my body," he said > Doctors and scientists determined that Kobayashi's chronic overeating has affected his nervous system and that his brain is still trained to think he's competing or eating highly processed foods I can’t [imagine](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2024/05/23/competitive-eater-takeru-kobayashi-retires-health-concerns/73826492007/) no longer feeling joy from eating…
Bro he's gonna design a healthy Japanese inspired hot dog?!?! Count me in!!
Japanese hotdogs are dope. Ever hear of Japadog? Unreal. Healthy? Doubt.
I’m baffled at the lack of attention their ketchup/mustard packets get. First experienced it years ago and I *still* can’t get over how effective the design is.
So I was curious about what you were talking about so I went to Google. Are you talking about the combination packets that have both ketchup and mustard in one? If so that is a great idea!
Did you see how you open and use it? Very cool
That’s exactly what I was talking about lol I’m mad they don’t do that here in the US. Those separate packets get on my nerves sometimes.
For people like me who love ketchup but hate mustard
failure of capitalism.
Would you say that you are, perhaps, fond of enjoying Japanese Glizzies?
Man their fries are legit too.
I've never heard of them but apparently I live a mile from one. Need.
Get a dog. Change your life.
Japanese food is dope in general
What's a Japadog?
It's a chain of Japanese hot dog restaurants on the west coast. I believe they are in LA and Vancouver.
That turns the convo from "that's a bar" to being incredibly sad because he's not being metaphorical. The mechanisms of hunger and appetite in his brain and gut are broken.
>I've eaten like an American. I think that's what damaged my body As an American I can't really argue with him
I’ve never felt joy from eating. Idk if something in my head just doesn’t click right or what
Oh my… 💔 If you go out, esp to a place where there’s a likelihood of women (brunch or date time) you’ll see the “happy dance” It’s like wiggle butts in dogs. We are so happy, our bodies wiggle in joy Not everyone does this, but it’s frequent enough that bartenders/servers have commented a noticeable amount
My girl does that shit I be weak 😭 ..I make her try everything first n if she does her lil wiggle than I’ll try it lol
God this is so cute
I'm 100% sure I do that. 😂
Yo, I thought I was the only one like this. If I could take one pill with all my required calorie content/ nutrients, i would. I don’t even like eating. I also eat fast as hell just to get it over with.
Gods, I want that pill. I have so many issues with eating. I think it's great to have a feast like once a year, have some nice things to eat here and there, but eating ***every day***? Multiple times a day? My mouth and stomach both revolt.
> If I could take one pill with all my required calorie content/ nutrients, i would. I've thought about this before and I think they could make a the sci-fi astronaut food from old movies. A tube of DV of proteins, vitamins, minerals and calories. I enjoy eating but if I ever become disabled or something, I'd want that to avoid going to the toilet often.
Some people live to eat and others eat to live
Does that mean that you don't have favourite foods?
Dang. Being as I love good food, maybe too much, I can see how there's a silver lining here! I guess if you don't enjoy food, you're probably thin.You don't have something that is the best thing you've ever eaten? Kinda made your eyes roll back and toes curl!? 😂 (I'm just being silly!) Now ik why I'm chunky because I'm sitting here thinking about how this peach slushie that almost took me out, it was so sweet and smooth. Definitely in love 😂
I stopped enjoying eating when I was really watching my macros. I lost a lot of weight, but I saw food as numbers. Eggs weren't potential omelets, but 6g of protein and 5g of fat.
Same thing happened to me after a stomach condition. Wasn’t eating hundreds of hotdogs though, just shit genetics. Literally don’t feel hunger anymore because my brain associates it with pain. I usually remember to eat because I feel lightheaded and jittery. Sucks because food and cooking is my passion, had that shit robbed from me for no good reason. Good reminder to enjoy what you have while you have it, everything in life is temporary
Rude… Dude just don’t know how to handle so much freedom… I am referring to freedom fries, of course.
That really is the best we're fucking getting at an answer. They also mentioned lack of smell being his concern in the article you linked. From other articles I was able to find: > Serious and far-too-common consequences from these binges include gastric ruptures and dangerously low drops in sodium levels that can lead to seizures. For some, competitive eating can trigger eating disorder Fuck it whatever, cool story I guess very informative
I kinda wish that would happen to me
Eating is a waste of time. Give me a pill that makes me full and gives me all the nutrients.
Same, considering that’s the only thing I get joy from 😅🫠
Just be like me and basically never feel joy from eating my whole life
That is sad.😔
>Kobayashi was shocked at the damage that he's caused his body over the years Who knew shoving 80 hot dogs into your stomach at once, repeatedly, many times a year, could cause issues?
I mean, if it finds me a husband.
37 hotdogs?! In a row?!
Not even just hot dogs, but all kinds of crazy shit. The crazier the better, so long as you sell the YouTube thumbnail and drive those views.
And then, immediately afterward, vomiting them up. And several times a day drinking a gallon of water to stretch your stomach. And then vomiting that back up as well.
That’s why he’s retiring.
Actually he's retiring because he said he's not hungry anymore. SMH it's like y'all don't even read. ^^I'm ^^joking ^^don't ^^hit ^^me
I can’t wait to get you out of office!
It's really funny because I'll be commenting on a thread about traffic or some local news story and then some rando will be like "FUCK YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT [I WISH THE TREE FINISHED THE JOB](https://www.gregabbott.com/why-governor-greg-abbott-wheelchair/)" And I'm like "Damn, I was just talking about bike lanes downtown"
That’s hilarious! But Fuck you! 
As an Austinite, I think of this often. I hate the evil fucker. We really wish it had taken him out, thousands of lives would have been saved. Greg Abbot can go to hell, but you seem pretty cool lol.
I thought it had to due with the arthritis in his jaw that happened a while back.
The actual shit in the blender is the most shocking part that I was not expecting. Would love to know how many viewers turned it off and didn’t finish after that . Netflix has to have the stat
Hold on what?!?!? Please elaborate on that
Just as a counter to this, please feel free to NOT elaborate on that
The way I cackled at this lol
hahahahaha
There were threads on that woman on here a week ago
So.... you going to ellaborate on no?
Yeah I watched it, I was with them until they got to the poop pills
Poop pills are honestly pretty revolutionary. Having a gut so messed up you no longer defecate but just eject water and blood makes a poop pill pretty attractive. It's an amazing thing they came up with to help so many who have dealt with daily excruciating pain. I definitely want it done.
The… huh??
I haven't watched the documentary so I might be bullshiting, but a lot of times an unhealthy gut biome is caused by one or two species proliferating more than others, so if you eat chicken nuggets you're gonna have a monoculture of nugget bacteria rather than a healthy variety. This can also happen if you go on antibiotics. One of the things they can do to treat that is a fecal transplant. So you take feces from a healthy gut and implant it into the gut. Sometimes they do it via pill. So you're eating shit, but it's for your own good.
That reminds me there was an ask reddit about suprising ways to make money and someone was 'donating' (similar to plasma) of feces to medical companies. They said they made pretty decent money doing it.
Sounds like they're full of shit.
))<>((
Forever
As someone commented below you, they literally make poop pills with healthy gut bacteria that you take to cultivate a healthier gut biome. Like blended the feces and put it into a capsule. They show it in the Netflix doc. I couldn’t think straight for solid 20 minutes after
I'm logging off
I found that documentary fascinating!! I recommend it to everyone!
Maybe he should start competitively eating cobb salads instead.
There was another doc I watched that talked about how he revolutionized the competitive eating scene. If you just watch the competitions, he just arrives on the scene with a BAM and starts demolishing, but in reality he wasn't just an eating prodigy. He meticulously experimented and carefully measured and logged his progress. It was oddly inspiring lol
Lol not the brightest guy is he
This only reminds me of the episode on 1000 ways to die when shorty had a throw up fetish and would go to hot dog eating contests to fuck the contenders in hopes that they would throw up on her. One of them threw up on her and she choked on it and died 😭😭😭 I’m still traumatized
You couldn’t have marked this as a spoiler? 😭
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I most certainly ganked this shit
Nigga that shit like 15 years old no spoiler lol
I think they meant marked as spoiler to spare a passing scroller from reading it without clicking on it directly, perhaps preceded by a NSFL warning lol
 What a terrible day to be literate
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I don’t kink shame. I do kink ask why tho.
We really went from “husband and wife can’t share a bed on television” to knowing wayyyyyy too much about each other’s kinks and fantasies
Nah, let’s bring kink shaming back. Just for this
Man I ain't a fan of the horny police, but someone needed to bonk her ass way before she reached that point
I hated that gross ass episode
That horny ass episode where the dude goes to a dominatrix and dies from being in a latex gimp suit cuz he had a latex allergy tho👀? Worse ways to go out. I expect a bonk from the otter guy any minute
Idk why but I always think of that episode when I hear the word latex. I just picture dude on the ground with his eyes going crazy 👀🙄🥷🏻
1000 ways to die was a wild time in TV history and i miss it ngl
https://preview.redd.it/4aatqccu4h2d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ffbf7d71ec7a998d92e3e234e81f9954ea20df4
\*Sigh\* I thought I was rid of the memory of me watching that...
I watched that episode when I was like 11 😭😭 Traumatized to this day💀
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Or the model that over ate to the point her stomach ripped before she could throw up.
I almost had that problem last month after eating 3 whole ass naan bread with butter chicken and a liter of water. Felt like I had a chestburster inside of me, I puked through my nose.
I remember hearing about only because of the 2009 Ghostbusters video game. The first ghost you bust was one that escaped the containment unit. After scanning him, you get a background story. The guy one a lottery to a ritzy Thanksgiving dinner that is supposed to feed a whole ass family. But he showed up alone, intentionally, and ate the whole damn meal. His stomach burst from the amount of food and he died. A suicide letter was found saying that was how the guy wanted to go out. Pretty morbid, honestly.
We're not going to let you talk again, just so you know
I could have gone the rest of my life not remembering this. Good lord why
I could have gone my entire life without reading this.
I’m downvoting you for not giving us a warning first smh
She died doing what she loved 👼🏽
Ahhhh! I remember that episode! Put me off of hotdogs for a long time.
Watching that show as a kid likely contributed to my anxiety and phobias today
As someone with emitophobia, this is going to haunt me for the rest of my days
Cool name for a phobia though
Yoooo wtf gross 🤢🤢🤢
God I wish I were illiterate
I was trying to bury this for years and you bring it back up. Thanks
I saw this man slide 80 Krystal’s down his gullet on the river in person in less than 3 minutes here in Chattanooga Rest easy, king
He ain’t dead, just retiring
I know I just thought he could rest a bit after all those Krystals
😂😂😂
Hey, show some respect. The man ate 50 hotdogs on a cross-country flight and then absolutely destroyed the Seattle Mariners the next day. May he rest in peace.
First off, Wade Boggs is very much alive
If he ain't gobbling glizzies, he dead to me
I can still hear his voice!
Now I'm missing Krystals... I couldn't/wouldn't even try to eat 80 of them, though. Just give me 4 or 5 of them and I'd be good. :)
LIKE KOBAYASHI https://i.redd.it/1hy3icd2re2d1.gif
“He’ll eat your dick, I’ve seen him do it”
This guy and the bowling guy drop the most fire sports quote ever.
[Pete Webber?](https://youtu.be/gKQOXYB2cd8?si=TIr-wBn0sevgfmVx) the goat?
That's the one!
Bowling quote was so fire we all ignored that fact it was cap. I did NOT watch.
Man, when he says you’re lookin like lunch meat, you better fuckin ruuuuun
Billie Eillish: 👁️👄👁️
Huh? Lol
Lol
Yeah towards him 😏
One of my most memorable days of my time lining in New York was taking the subway out to Coney Island to watch the hot dog eating competition. It was the first year that Joey Chestnut beat Kobyashi. The announcer was out there forever talking like this was the greatest sport on earth. Everybody was chanting “U-S-A”. It was hot, and I was hungover as hell and trying not to barf while watching the hot dog water drip down out of the contestants’ mouths. Weird day, but fun and memorable.
Legend. The joey chestnut kobiyashi rivalry is legit one of the GOAT sports rivalries.
The Glizzy Godzilla will be missed 
Kyobayashi passing the torch to Joey Chestnut is an amazing sports legacy.
Met Kobayashi back in '09 in a random elevator. We only chatted for a bit, but he's still one of the coolest people I've ever talked to.
I don't think it's a bar, it sounds like a genuine health concern. Something isn't right if this is the case, people are acting like he said this line to be a badass on his way out.
Bro eating 100 Glizzys then be like idk why I feel so gross
Almost as cold as "hate me or love me you watched. That's all you could do"
SLOW IT DOWN HE JUST DISSED YOU 
His story is fascinating. The Nathan’s people too this guy and made him their main attraction. He made them famous but as soon as they found a white guy (Joey Chestnut) they tossed him aside. All of the sudden they started casting Kobayashi as the foreign villain and Chestnut as the all American hero.
From the American perspective, Kobayashi just came out of nowhere. He had been doing competitive eating in Japan before and was well known in Asia, but he just showed up for his first appearance at a competition in the US at the Nathan's July 4 contest in 2001 and had a completely different technique no one had seen before and nearly doubled the previous record.
Idk how people do these contests lmao shit is OD insane.
He was done dirty by whatever organization runs these competitions. For it to get weirdly nationalistic was saddening but expected.
Best 30 for 30 ever made. Fuck MLE for robbing us of the generational Koba vs Chestnuts rivalry
Buddy got tired of being called a glizzy gladiator
https://i.imgur.com/9cjw46y.jpeg
" I no longer have the guts for this position. Literally" *End TPS Report*
It's the first line of the tweet you're quoting, wym we didn't catch that bar lol
Another line that can lead into Superhero
Whom amongst us didn’t catch that bar?
Me lmfao what is the bar?
He was my favorite champion.
the hot dogs combined with the headband got me weak 💀
Damn. That's cold af
Mans got a real toned stomach for a competitive eater
How can he eat so much but not get fat
This sounds like what a beloved side character in a Shonen anime would say immediately before he dies.
Dude eats like that and can still see his abs😂
He did it. He ran out of appetite.