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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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For his entire adult life, a successful businessman deals with a bizarre problem: whenever he bends over, he throws up. On top of that, he struggles with asthma-like symptoms. But no matter what techniques he tries or medicine he takes, the man can’t shake his symptoms, sometimes with embarrassing results.
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0:11.4 | On a warm afternoon in Rhode Island, in the summer of 2003, a 50-year-old man flipped burgers on the grill while |
0:21.7 | sipping a beer. He had moved to the area for a job a few years ago, but he still felt like the |
0:26.4 | new guy at work. And so a midsummer barbecue was a perfect excuse to get the whole team together |
0:31.3 | for some extracurricular bonding. As the sun set in the backyard full of people turned dark, |
0:39.9 | he crouched down to plug in some lights strung along the deck. |
0:44.1 | But as he bent over, he felt a sudden surge from his gut. |
0:53.0 | He lurched to the edge of the lawn, fell to his knees, and heaved as stomach acid and half-digested food flowed up into his throat and spilled out of his mouth. |
0:55.2 | The man's co-workers rushed over with napkins and water and helped prop him up against the railing. Once he was upright, his |
1:00.2 | stomach gradually settled, and after the man got over his embarrassment, the party returned to normal. |
1:06.0 | But the experience confused and disturbed him. He wasn't drunk. He hadn't been nauseous. It hadn't |
1:12.1 | really even felt like he was vomiting exactly. It was like the contents of his stomach had |
1:16.6 | just decided to exit his body. And he was powerless to stop it. |
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