A 40-year-old man has revealed he is addicted to raw meat and spends over $9,000 a year to fund his unusual habit – devouring uncooked chicken with his bare hands.
In the season finale of TLC’s My Strange Addiction: Still Addicted?, which airs Wednesday, Weston admits he eats at least four pounds of raw meat every week.
“In four years I’ve eaten about 100 raw chickens and I’ve never been sick,” he proudly proclaims in a spoiler clip shared exclusively with .
“In fact, I’ve never met other raw meat eaters.”
Unusual Habit: Weston is addicted to raw meat and has eaten about 100 raw chickens in four years
Weston turned to the bizarre diet after his life was turned upside down after a seizure.
Speaking to the camera, his mother Lori revealed: “Weston suffered from many physical ailments. He just wasn’t able to think straight, he was lethargic. He just wasn’t healthy.’
“At one point I felt low on energy, my mood was swinging, and I had skin problems and rashes all over,” he adds. “Things got really weird.
“I had a terrible headache, I thought it was an aneurysm or something, and then I had a bad seizure where I fell on my face, crushed my jaw in three places and broke 12 of my teeth in half.”
Weston claims doctors left him unaware of what triggered his seizure, forcing him to take matters into his own hands.
“The first thing I looked at was diet,” he continues. “I heard about this diet where people eat raw meat. It’s the quickest way to heal the body, the best way to take in nutrients, and that’s how I went along with it.”
Eating raw or undercooked meat can cause salmonella, a bacterial disease that affects the intestinal tract and hospitalizes 26,500 people in the United States each year.
According to the Mayo Clinic, possible symptoms of salmonella include diarrhea, stomach cramps, fever, nausea, vomiting, chills, headache, and blood in the stool.
Strange diet: The 40-year-old states that he has never been ill, despite the risk of contracting salmonella
Expensive Flavor: Weston spends $175 every week to fund his raw meat diet, which equates to over $9,000 a year
Lifestyle Change: He switched to his unusual diet after a severe seizure that broke his 12 teeth in half
Lone Wolf: Weston was introduced to the raw meat diet after doctors couldn’t explain what caused his seizure
These signs can last from a few days to a week, but it may take longer for bowel movements to return to normal bowel habits.
While Weston hasn’t personally met any other raw meat eaters, last month a wellness guru revealed that she regularly eats raw animal products and claimed that her health has improved as a result.
Emily Ciosek, 31, a Michigan-based health coach, eats a daily diet of raw beef, chicken, pork and homemade cheese made from her own saliva because it “adapts the bacteria to her body’s needs.”
She eats up to seven pounds of raw meat a week and claims it has improved her mental and physical health, as well as her spirituality, despite overwhelming health advice to stay away from uncooked meat, especially chicken.
When Emily switched to the diet in May 2022, she said, “It was so delicious and I loved it.”
After starting eating raw meat in May 2022, Emily Ciosek is now eating around seven pounds a week
The 31-year-old Michigan native eats raw meat regularly and makes her own cheese, which she says has transformed her health
And if that wasn’t enough, in April in a busy Westfield in Australia, a man was spotted eating raw chicken, much to the shock of his fellow shoppers.
Elsewhere in the final episode of “My Strange Addiction,” a woman causes an uproar among her family and friends after revealing she’s breastfeeding her husband, and a pillow addict meets a car enthusiast.
TLC’s My Strange Addiction follows individuals as they share their struggle with the compulsive behaviors and strange fixations that are about to take over their lives.
Last week, an American man admitted to being so addicted to smelling, eating and sipping canned tuna that he consumes a whopping 15 cans every week.
Crazy about fish: A man carries a small can of tuna out of his pocket and sniffs it
Strange addiction: A woman who is addicted to eating toilet paper and spends nearly $2,700 a year on it has revealed that she sometimes eats the household item “before she even brushes her teeth.”
According to the tuna lover, he has preferred fish to other foods since childhood, even demanding canned tuna as Easter and Christmas gifts over toys and chocolate.
He described why he loves tuna, citing its “smell, texture, sweetness, wetness and dryness.”
In July, a woman who is addicted to toilet paper and spends nearly $2,700 a year on it admitted that she sometimes nibbles on the household item “before she even brushes her teeth.”
“I eat toilet paper as soon as I get up in the morning,” Kinah told the show.
My Strange Addiction: Still Addicted? will air Wednesday, August 23 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.