• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Or conclude that they were accumulating mass some other way, such as

      • Accumulating water
      • Being severely constipated
      • Some obscure bone disease that causes them to accumulate absurd amounts of minerals

      My bet would be on (1) and/or (2).

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        1 and 2 are very easily ruled out simply by increasing the length of observation. eventually, they’re gonna have to, uhm. piss or shit. for 3, well. uhm. yeah.

        though I did have an exasperated conversation with a friend of mine who insisted his insulin resistance kept him from not losing weight once he reached 270. he was confiding that his doctors didn’t understand and refused to check it (again.)(yes, that’s doctors plural. he bounced through three or four because they kept trying to explain that insulin resistance didn’t do that.)

        It finally got to the point where I was like “Then you should call some physicists because as we understand the laws of the universe, that’s a literal impossibility.”

        he… did not like that.

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        9 months ago

        Accumulating water

        Is there a condition that accumulates water like that where weight goes up consistently over a long period of time?