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00:00A few days later
00:04Here in Cebu City, there is a man who loves to cook.
00:09His food is still hot.
00:12Nothing else but fire.
00:17That's not fair, guys.
00:20Doesn't this prayer hurt?
00:24I hope so.
00:30The Man on Fire
00:35The Man on Fire
00:37Nothing else but Jerwin.
00:40He has been cooking fire for more than two decades.
00:44Someone came to our circus.
00:48I was intrigued, so I joined.
00:51I saw a performer eating fire.
00:57Fire?
00:59He can light a candle.
01:01That's a new type of fire.
01:03He doesn't back down.
01:08How do you feel, sir?
01:10Nothing.
01:12I've been doing this for a long time.
01:15I'm used to it.
01:17The Man on Fire
01:21The Man on Fire
01:24To prove that eating fire is not unfair,
01:27he will do this in front of a live audience.
01:29Just a reminder, guys.
01:31Don't try this at home,
01:33because you might get hurt.
01:35The Man on Fire
01:39The Man on Fire
01:41For his appetizer,
01:43he will eat a candle and a lighter.
01:45Yay!
01:46The Man on Fire
01:48The Man on Fire
01:50The Man on Fire
01:52The Man on Fire
01:54When I go back in, I will put out the fire.
01:56The Man on Fire
01:58The Man on Fire
02:00I was surprised by him because he's so hot.
02:03For Jerwin's main course,
02:05wait for it.
02:07The Man on Fire
02:09Everyone has different pain tolerance
02:12or severe pain.
02:13But what factors affect
02:16the pain tolerance of a person?
02:18How many genes, age,
02:20sexuality, and past experiences?
02:23When he's just starting,
02:25Jerwin is measuring the pain he feels.
02:27I haven't eaten rice for 4 days
02:31because my mouth is hurting here and here.
02:36It's like my whole mouth is crossing.
02:39What I eat is
02:41a slice of bread dipped in water
02:45and I swallow it right away
02:47because it's hot and painful.
02:49But Jerwin wants to learn this trick.
02:53When I got better
02:55within 10 days,
02:59I repeated it again
03:01because I really want to learn it.
03:03Because this thing
03:05cannot be taught.
03:07I will make my own decisions.
03:09While I've been doing this for a long time,
03:12I learned how to discard
03:15and not let it pass.
03:19For Jerwin,
03:21the pain he feels is worth it.
03:23I am proud of myself
03:25that I was able to do this trick
03:28and I was able to impress
03:30a lot of people I know.
03:32I keep doing this
03:34because I earned money
03:36when I joined the circus.
03:37Now, a lot of people are popular on social media.
03:41I also want that to happen to me.
03:43I don't get hurt by what I do
03:45because if I get hurt,
03:47why would I do this?
03:51Now, let's go back to Jerwin's main course,
03:54the food with low heat.
03:59It's crispy,
04:01fatty,
04:03and a bit bitter.
04:08Let's taste it.
04:13It's surprising
04:15because it's not easy
04:17to eat hot food
04:19because
04:21if you eat it,
04:23it will burn your tongue.
04:25But for him,
04:27it's like nothing.
04:29He also continues his talent
04:31in eating fire.
04:33That's why he has participated
04:35in various talent competitions
04:37that are not absorbed
04:39or digested by our body.
04:41At first, it could show
04:43gastrointestinal irritations
04:45like stomach pain,
04:47vomiting, diarrhea.
04:49At the same time,
04:51it has heavy metals or carcinogens.
04:53So, if it has carcinogens,
04:55it's prone for cancerous diseases
04:58to do this.
05:00At the same time, it's hot.
05:02So, if it's hot,
05:04it can cause trauma
05:05to our esophagus.
05:07This is where our esophagus
05:09is attached.
05:13Did you know that there are people
05:15who don't get hurt?
05:17For real!
05:19It's a rare disorder called
05:21congenital insensitivity to pain
05:23with anhydrosis.
05:25For people with this condition,
05:27their pain-sensing nerves
05:29are not properly connected
05:31to the part of the brain
05:33that receives pain messages.
05:35In the history of medicine,
05:37only 1 in 125 million
05:39can have this disorder.
05:41Superhero levels, right?
05:43It's astounding to hear
05:45that there are people
05:47who don't get hurt
05:49or have high pain tolerance
05:51can have this disorder.
05:53When we feel pain,
05:55our body does this
05:57to keep us safe.
05:59Not because our body can do it
06:01or we can do it,
06:03but we will do it
06:05to keep us safe.