Based on my theory of Elhashemy's Stomach Satiety Spot (ESSS), competitive speed eaters can consume large quantities of food in short period of time (such as 15 minutes) due to suppressing stomach Satiety Spot (neuronal effect) and not due to suppressing the satiety hormones.

Many scientists suggest that successful speed eaters have the ability to expand the stomach to form an enormous flaccid sac capable of accommodating huge amounts of food.

Stomach elasticity is usually considered the key to huge food volumes eaten by competitive eaters, and competitors commonly train themselves by drinking large amounts of fluids over a short time to stretch out the stomach. Eating champions are able to keep eating huge volumes of food way past beyond the point where most people would be nauseated by such amounts of food.

Many competitive eaters train for an event by drinking gallons of water to help stretch the stomach. Others eat large quantities of low-calorie, high-fiber foods, like cabbage, that stay in the stomach longer before breaking down. Many scientists believe that competitive eaters may have the ability to keep eating after they're full by suppressing the satiety hormones that signals to the brain that the stomach is full.

As the stomach fills with food, its muscles relax in response, enabling it to swell. Competitive speed eaters can tolerate a higher degree of tension before becoming uncomfortable.

Scientists noticed that the empty stomach of some competitive eaters showed virtually no peristalsis nor normal squeezing motion that helps the stomach break down food.

I think that the present hormonal hypothesis has a number of weak points in comparison of my neuronal hypothesis (ESSS) because:



1. Hormones of satiety take more than 20 minutes to travel from stomach to the brain through the blood stream to inform brain satiety's center about fullness. Within those 20 minutes ordinary persons like competitor participants will finish their meals, so suppressing satiety hormones cannot be a cause for gorging stomach of a competitive eater.

In contrast, gastric sensory nerves at the satiety spot (ESSS) may be stimulated immediately by contact of food to inform the brain about satiety in ordinary persons. In cases of competitor eaters, the frequent suppression by training of these sensory nerves may weaken the satiety response, hence allowing them to eat huge amounts of food.

2. Hormones cannot be trained by frequent actions, while satiety spot (ESSS), similar to other sensory nerves, could be suppressed by compression training using heavy meals in cases of competitive eaters similar to the desensitization of finger tips of carat champions.

According to Elhashemy's hypothesis, competitive eaters used to blunt their stomach satiety spot sensations through frequent training using huge meals plus directed thinking process. This satiety spot which is neurologically innervated by afferent vagus nerve (sensory) become non-responsive to satiety signals, hence stretching the stomach extensively. As a result their stomachs can gorge huge volumes of hot dogs or any other foods. This scientific explanation of competitive eaters capacity may direct scientists' research to study my hypothesis about Elhashemy's Stomach Satiety Spot (ESSS).