Tzuyang, a young mukbang streamer and one of South Korea’s most popular YouTubers, is somehow able to consume absurd amounts of food in a single sitting and maintain a slender figure.
28-year-old Tzuyang’s physique has long been the topic of online debates and conspiracy theories. Mukbang streamers often get accused of “fake eating” by speeding up their videos or cutting certain parts of them, and of throwing up most of the food they ingest to give the illusion of an impossibly large stomach capacity, but we’ve never seen any evidence of Tzuyang engaging in such shady practices. Some people speculate that she suffers from an eating disorder, but she has always appeared very healthy, and there has never been any evidence to suggest any problems. She livestreams most of her mukbang sessions from various restaurants and almost never takes bathroom breaks or goes off camera, instead consuming dozens of portions in one sitting, sometimes more than once a day. So, how can she eat over 10,000 calories worth of food per day without gaining any weight?
Photo: Tzuyang/YouTube
During one of her mukbang streams, “Korea’s most famous YouTuber” ate 20 hamburgers, 20 ramen noodles, 3 kg of meat, 240 pieces of sushi, and 16 m of beef intestines. Another time, she gobbled down 10 m of Korean rice cakes, 100 shrimp, 200 oysters, and 140 skewers of grilled lamb in one sitting. These kinds of feats have earned her millions of loyal fans across several social networks, but also a lot of criticism for promoting food waste and painting the illusion that she can eat as much as she wants without putting in weight.
Tzuyang always claimed that she had a healthy appetite and that she was able to keep her weight at a constant 50 kg (110 lbs) without working out. That did very little to appease her critics, who continued to accuse her of deceiving her audience, but the young streamer recently posted a video from a clinic where she underwent both a gastroscopy and a colonoscopy to uncover the secrets of her amazing stomach.
Photo: Tzuyang/YouTube
“Compared to other women of a similar build, your stomach is larger,” the doctor told the 28-year-old mukbank queen. “As a professional, I can tell your stomach volume is slightly bigger than average. It appears to be 30 to 40 percent larger. This likely means your absorption, digestion, and elimination capabilities are more efficient than most.”
“I was surprised too,” the doctor added. “Your body mass index is 17.5, which classifies you as underweight, yet your stomach is larger than that of most adult men. Your colon was also clean — no polyps, no inflammation. People who need to eat large amounts of food often have elevated blood sugar levels, but your six-month average was only 5.2%. That means you’re either exercising enough to manage your blood sugar, or your pancreas is producing enough insulin to regulate it after binge eating. It’s really excellent.”
Photo: Tzuyang/YouTube
For years, many of Tzuyang’s viewers had been speculating about her small intestine lining preventing her from absorbing most of her food intake and pushing it into her colon very quickly, and most of these theories were confirmed by Dr. Seo Jae Gul, a public health expert in Seoul.
After concluding her checkup, Tzuyang declared herself “starving” and rectified the situation by buying some bread at a bakery and following that up with a massive meal at a Chinese restaurant.
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