People Are Intentionally Getting Cyclospora To Lose Weight

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Um, we have an explosive diarrhea update.

**Grants** (0:05)
There it is.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:07)
Apparently, this is a thing that doctors have had to come out and address. Doctors are now all in agreeing. Grants, you should not eat the diarrhea lettuce just to lose weight.
There's this new quote unquote diet trend.

**Grants** (0:25)
What?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:26)
Called cyclospora skinny. And there's videos on social media and TikTok and Instagram about how you could lose a bunch of weight, a lot of pounds, by intentionally eating the contaminated lettuce in hopes to get the diarrhea.

**Grants** (0:45)
No.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:45)
All of these doctors have came out and said, don't be stupid. That's a really, really bad idea.

**Grants** (0:51)
Yeah.
I got some questions. First of all, how do you know the lettuce? How do you know, like, when you go to the grocery store, oh, that lettuce has cyclospora. I'm going to buy that. Like, how do you know?

**SPEAKER_1** (1:00)
I think you probably research the kind that's been recalled and then you try to find it.

**Grants** (1:04)
All right.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:05)
It's like, oh, look, honey, this is the stuff that's contaminated. This has got the bacteria on it. Let's drop that extra 10 to 12 pounds this weekend. What do you say?

**Grants** (1:14)
Man, I've had. I don't think I've had cyclospora before, but I've had similar ailments, food poisoning, the stomach flu. And yeah, you do lose a lot of weight in a quick amount of time. Yes, I would say no, I better not say that. I don't want to recommend that to anybody. If I were if I were going to go that that route, I'd like do like the colonoscopy prep.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:41)
Oh, yeah.

**Grants** (1:42)
Boy, that's a good lose a good five pounds in a hurry.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:46)
That way, you'll spend your whole night looking like Jeff Daniels and Dumb and Dumber sitting on that can.

**Grants** (1:51)
It's the worst.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:52)
Oh, it's the worst.

**Grants** (1:54)
So no, I'm not recommending anybody do that. I'm just saying, given the choice between the cyclospora skinny diet and doing the colonoscopy prep, give me the prep anytime.