Doctors have recently warned about some people's attempt at strange challenges including eating raw, rotten meat to get high as it can lead to severe illness.
The Sun report said that people who have tried eating raw, rotten meat have also experienced "explosive incontinence" after they practiced primal eating.
Primal diet, according to Healthline, is an eating habit rich in fat and protein, low in carbohydrates, and designed closely similar to the early humans' presumed diet.
People taking part in this trend have titled it as "high meat" and consume meat that has been left for rotting for weeks, months and certain circumstances, years.
In this challenge, participants are not cooking the meat, and instead, they are eating the grey flesh raw. The meat consumed is frequently covered in slime and tiny patches grey mold, with some of meat even turning grey or brown as it approaches decomposition.
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Doctors have recently warned about some people’s attempt at strange challenges including eating raw, rotten meat as it can lead to severe illness.
'Tummy Bugs'
GP and Clinical Director of Patientaccess.com, Dr. Sarah Jarvis told this news company at the very least, consuming rotten meat carries a risk of resulting in "tummy bugs."
She also said, at worst, it can lead to severe illness, severe tummy pain, diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration.
While supporters of this challenge may talk about the habit of the Inuit people of eating kiviak, Dr. Jarvis described as, mainly a carcass of seal stuffed with whole birth and left to ferment.
Fermentation, typically used in producing alcoholic drinks, yogurt and sauerkraut, is very much different from rotting.
One Twitter subscriber said a friend had persuaded them to consume the raw, rotten meat and that, it in fact, "felt great." They were asked as well, if they turned ill after they ate the meat and responded, "not at all."
Another user of the said social media explained, normally he had mason jars where he would leave chicken or meat in it. He'd let the jar sit in the fridge for a few weeks and then consume it.
Eating 'High Meat'
One of the respondents said, when he ate raw meat, he'd get an "immediate high." Rotten meat, he also tweeted, is the best treatment for depression.
There are lots of risks linked to eating raw, rotten meat, like Salmonella, E.coli and Listeria, all of which are destroyed when meat is properly cooked.
If one consumes rotten meat, then it is likely that he will get food poisoning and will experience symptoms like nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.
It is unclear why these participants have experienced the sensation of getting high from their rotten meat consumption.
Such a reaction could go down to a number of things that include the delirium resulting from poisoning or the reaction to the microbes that hit the stomach.
People who are supporters of the primal diet, which includes consuming raw meat nonetheless, admitted that it can have negative impacts.
'Explosive Incontinence'
One of the main supporters of the primal diet, Aajonus Vonderplaintz previously said that it made people sick and explosively "incontinent," which they called detoxification.
Meanwhile, a YouTube user also filmed himself previously, while he was eating raw, rotten meat that was a year old. The YouTuber described the meat's taste as overwhelmingly spicy.
He added, the meat was dry because of how long it had sat there and continued eating the whole jar of the meat. He explained, the taste very strong but not bad. It certainly gets to the throat, big time.
The YouTube user's facial reaction to the dish nonetheless, does not seem favorable as he frowns when he continues spooning the meat into his mouth.
Similar information is shown on sv3rige's YouTube video below:
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