A 240-pound man relied on AI to formulate a weight loss plan and almost died after losing 40 pounds in 45 days!

Kuai Technology reported on August 5 that recently, Chengdu First People’s Hospital shared a serious illness case caused by excessive trust in AI. Mr. Chen (pseudonym), 34 years old in Chengdu, is a self-media practitioner. Staying up late is the norm. Coupled with his heavy oil and salt eating habits, his weight has soared to 240 pounds. He is determined to change. So I checked the information online and developed a "scientific" weight loss plan with the help of AI tools: climbing stairs for one and a half hours every day, playing badminton twice a week, each game lasting 2-3 hours, and not taking any rest until my clothes were soaked with sweat to ensure sufficient calorie consumption. And based on exercise data, maintain a calorie gap in the diet, eat less, and have comprehensive nutrition. Breakfast is two eggs, half a steamed bun, and a cup of milk; lunch is 75g beef and 75g vegetables; dinner is a box of yogurt. After persisting like this for a month and a half, he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had lost a full 40 kilograms in weight. Mr. Chen thought he had found the right way, but he did not realize that his body was already overstretched. In February this year, Mr. Chen caught a cold, but he still gritted his teeth and completed the fitness plan for the day. However, at night he felt sore all over, dizzy, weak, hot and cold. He peed several times but nothing came out. But Mr. Chen didn't pay attention, thinking he was catching a cold, so he took a simple cold medicine and took a shower and went to sleep. However, he suddenly had a high fever in the middle of the night and was shivering from the cold. His family rushed him to Chengdu Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. He had fallen into a coma when he was admitted to the hospital. He was diagnosed with urosepsis and septic shock in the emergency department. At this time, the immune system was fully activated and the whole body system was heading toward failure. This symptom is medically called "Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome" (MODS), and the patient mortality rate is as high as 30%-50%. If Mr. Chen had been sent a few hours later, the doctors would have been unable to do anything. The hospital immediately launched rescue operations for him, providing him with fluid resuscitation, vasoactive drugs to maintain circulation, protecting various organs, and multidisciplinary efforts to control the source of infection. Afterwards, doctors analyzed that AI could only calculate the theoretical calorie gap and could not dynamically adjust the plan based on individual physical conditions, underlying diseases, and fatigue levels. This plan created an extreme calorie gap, superimposed on long-term overload exercise, and directly induced cold immunity.