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Tarrare
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维基百科条目介绍18世纪法国人塔拉尔（Tarrare），他以异常惊人的食量和吞食各种非食物物品闻名，曾因疑似吃掉幼儿而被赶出医院，相关记载充满争议与恐怖色彩。
为什么经久不衰：它把一桩有据可查的医学奇案写成令人不安的人性故事，饥饿、代谢异常与道德边界交织，今天读来仍震撼并引发讨论。
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指出“无精神疾病迹象”与极端食人行为并置令人不安，全文像噩梦素材。
只有我觉得不安吗？文章说在他身上看不出精神疾病的迹象，可他却吃活的小狗小猫、吃停尸房的尸体，还因被怀疑吃掉一个幼儿而被医院赶出去。老实说，整篇文章就是噩梦素材：如果吞噬一切的饥饿成为一个人一生的驱动力，他会变成什么样。
kbenson查看英文原文
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that it's mentioned that people saw no sign of mental illness in him yet he ate live puppies and kittens, dead bodies from the morgue, and was ejected from the hospital when he was suspected of eating a toddler? Honestly this whole article is nightmare fuel about what a person might become if all-consuming hunger is the driving urge of their life.
分享一个类似但较轻的病例，怀疑与线粒体功能异常有关。
我认识一个人，症状似乎比这轻一些。我们一起工作，他出去吃午饭能狼吞虎咽吃掉一整张大披萨，之后会变得很热、大汗淋漓。他个子不算特别高，瘦得像竹竿，不是运动员，做久坐的工作，却每天至少摄入正常量2-3倍的热量，可能5-6千卡。其他方面他看起来正常，据我所知也没吃幼儿。显然有某种医学原因，但他没去看医生。我不是医学人士，不知道他是什么综合征，但怀疑可能与线粒体功能有关。参见 https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/shilling-for-big-mitochondria 。我不是说Tarrare吃了当时还没发明的药，而是说他可能天生就有类似DNP诱发的线粒体通透性综合征。
nmaley查看英文原文
I knew a guy once with a milder version of what appears to be a similar syndrome. We worked together, and he would go out for lunch and wolf down a whole large pizza. Afterwards, he would get very hot and sweaty. He was not particularly tall and skinny as a rake. He wasn't an athlete, had a sedentary job, yet he was eating 2-3 times normal calorie intake, maybe 5-6K calories/day at least. In all other respects he seemed a normal guy, who to my knowledge did not eat toddlers. There was clearly some medical reason for what was going on, but since he seemed normal in other respects as far as I know he never went to the doctor about it. I'm not medical and have no idea what his syndrome was, but I wonder if it could have had something to do with his mitochondrial functions. See https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/shilling-for-big-mitochondria I'm not suggesting Tarrare was taking a drug that hadn't been invented yet, but that possibly he naturally had a natural version of the mitochondrial permeability syndrome that DNP induces.
用一位高中老师的夸张轶事说明严重代谢/食欲问题如何影响生活，并引出对“能大量进食又不厌倦的食物”的终身寻找。
我高中时最棒的一位老师总吃不够来维持体重——整天抿着小盒装的蛋白质糊，满脸痛苦地从办公室后墙熊一样大的一摞托盘上拿。他将近七英尺高，觉得自己胃不够大。年轻时他瘦得像竹竿。大学实验室里，他发现自己能尝出极低浓度的化学物质；不知怎么消息传到一家冰淇淋厂，他暑假去品尝冰淇淋里有没有“错误”味道，比如生产线从冰咖啡换成草莓后他还能不能尝出咖啡。传说三个月里他整天吃冰淇淋，竟长成了肌肉分明的阿多尼斯，后来还成了风帆冲浪冠军。但吃冰淇淋并不是你我想当然的乐事，对他是一场漫长折磨，一勺接一勺。夏天结束时，这位冠军再也受不了另一桶冰淇淋，开始终身寻找一种能大量吃下去又不厌倦、足以满足代谢的食物。
monkeycantype查看英文原文
The best teacher at my high school could never eat enough to maintain his body weight - all day long he sipped little juice boxes of protein goop that he took with a grimace from a bear sized stack of pallets against the back wall of his office . He was nearish to seven foot, and in his opinion, didn't have a big enough stomach for the task. As a young man he'd been a skinny pole. During a university science lab he had discovered he has an extraordinary ability to taste tiny concentrations of chemicals, somehow this information got passed on to an ice cream factory, and he got a summer holiday job tasting the ice cream for traces of the 'wrong' flavour e.g. could he still taste coffee after the line had been switched form ice coffee to strawberry. The story went that over three months of eating ice cream all day everyday, he blossomed into a ripped Adonis, and subsequently with his new athletic physique become a windsurfing champion. (yes there is such a thing as a windsurfing champion) But eating ice cream is not the universal delight you and I assume it is. It was a subjective ordeal, a long torturous slog, long days of spoon upon spoon. At the end of the summer, the now champion, couldn't face another bucket and began the lifelong search for something he could endure eating in quantities to satisfy his metabolism
推荐一个更通俗有趣的科普视频。
想更轻松地了解 Tarrare，可以看 Sam O'Nella 的这个视频：https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc
vijayrs查看英文原文
For a more entertaining lesson on Tarrare, see this video by Sam O'Nella: https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc
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