The Man Who Can't Get Fat
Mr Perry, 59, can eat whatever he likes - including unlimited pies,
burgers and desserts - and never get fat. He cannot put on weight
because of a condition called lipodystrophy that makes his body rapidly burn fat.
He used to be a chubby child, but at age 12 the fat dropped off
"almost over night". He initially tried to eat more to gain weight,
but it had no effect. Mr Perry, of Ilford in Essex, endured a decade of
tests before the illness was diagnosed. It finally emerged that his body
produces six times the normal level of insulin. Doctors have admitted
that the condition would be a "slimmer's dream".
The Man Who Doesn't Feel Cold
Dutchman Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman, is the man that swam
under ice, and stood in bins filled with ice. He climbed the Mt. Blanc in
shorts in the icy cold, harvested world records and
always stands for new challenges.
Scientists can't really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able
to withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that
could be fatal to the average person.
The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep: stayed awake 24 hours a day for years
Rhett Lamb is often cranky like any other 3-year-old toddler,
but there's one thing that makes him completely different:
he has a rare medical condition in which he can't sleep a wink.
Rhett is awake nearly 24 hours a day, and his condition has baffled
his parents and doctors for years. They took clock shifts watching his
every sleep-deprived mood to determine what ailed the young boy.
After a number of conflicting opinions, Shannon and David Lamb
finally learned what was wrong with their child: Doctors diagnosed
Rhett with an extremely rare condition called chiari malformation.
"The brain literally is squeezed into the spinal column.
What happens is you get compression, squeezing, strangulating
of the brain stem, which has all the vital functions that control sleep,
speech, our cranial nerves, our circulatory system,
even our breathing system," Savard said.
The Woman Who Can't Forget
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