**Man Tries to Cure His Own Rare Disease by Eating 50 Pounds of Raw Carrots From a Single Farm, Gets Rekt by Hospital Bill Instead**
AITA for laughing at this guy? Carl Rinsch, some dude with a mysterious "auto-immune thing," decided conventional medicine was a scam (shocking, I know) and went full bio-hacker. His master plan? Eat 50 pounds of unwashed, dirt-caked carrots from a single, probably sketchy organic farm. Claims his "ancestral gut bacteria" needed it. TL;DR: He didn't cure his disease. He got a gnarly case of *E. coli*, his skin turned a vibrant shade of Oompa-Loompa orange (Vitamin A toxicity is a hell of a look), and his "enlightened" journey ended with a $47,000 ER bill and a doctor telling him "maybe don't eat a whole garden's worth of root vegetables."
Bro went from "healing my microbiome" to "I am become poop, destroyer of toilets."