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On 20 November 2021, Beatriz Flamini headed down into a cave in Granada, Spain. And she did not come back out for 500 days.

You might not be totally surprised to hear that during this time in the 70m deep cave, the Spanish extreme athlete suffered a rather terrifying side effect.

Flamini entered the age at the age of 48 while being monitored by a group of psychologists, researchers and speleologists. But she had no contact with humans for the whopping 500 days.

You might think that would have felt like forever, but she actually told reporters after that she had quickly lost her sense of time – she believed she’d only been there for about 160-170 days when the support team went to retrieve her.

During the experiment, Flamini documented her experiences in order to help scientists understand the effects of extreme isolation.

And at one point, she experienced auditory hallucinations.

“You are silent and the brain makes it up,” she described following after emerging in April 2023.

The extreme athlete had asked the team to send down a device so she could record the sound as she insisted it was ‘not hallucinations’.

Some of the team felt that these ‘apparent auditory hallucinations’ suggested distress and were concerned about her stability.

But sports psychologist Débora Godoy Izquierdo told the New Yorker that she did not share the worries for Flamini.

Instead, she endorsed that the idea that the team should send more books and puzzles to help her focus. The psychologist believed Flamini had dealt with the hallucinations appropriately ‘even if they might be strange experiences for most people in their daily lives’.

During her time in the cave, she exercised, drew and knitted woolly hats while getting through 60 books and 1,000 litres of water.

“I’m still stuck on November 21, 2021. I don’t know anything about the world,” she said after exiting the cave.

Flamini told the New Yorker that tests at the hospital afterwards came back positively but she continued to suffer problems with her balance.

With 500 days down in the cave with normal walking impossible, she was walking unevenly with a ‘stooped’ posture. She also wore sunglasses for a while as her pupils hadn’t readjusted to the bright light.

Flamini added to the New Yorker that her short-term memory had suffered and she had lost much of her peripheral vision.

Speaking shortly after leaving the cave, she described her experience as ‘excellent, unbeatable’.

If you’ve ever lived in a sharehouse, you’ll know the group chat has a very specific lifecycle. Someone suggests buying something everyone agrees would be “so good”, there are a few enthusiastic reactions, and then it disappears beneath memes, someone’s dinner order and a reminder that the internet bill is due.

Which is why getting everyone to actually put money towards something requires a pretty strong argument. Nobody wants to be the housemate who spends $300 on something that gets used twice, but if everyone can get something out of it, suddenly the conversation looks a lot more reasonable.

The projector that turns a blank wall into the main event

The lounge room TV has had a good run, but there is something considerably more exciting about turning a completely normal wall into a massive screen. Particularly when you can move the whole setup somewhere else afterwards.

The new Hisense P1 Laser Projector is built for exactly that, with a built-in battery giving you up to 2.5 hours of untethered video playback* and projection up to 150 inches in Full HD. It’s portable enough to move between bedrooms, the lounge room and shared outdoor spaces, so the person who wants movie nights doesn’t have to fight with the person who wants to game.

And then there’s the footy. Put it outside for a backyard BBQ, make the screen absolutely enormous and suddenly the housemate who initially said “do we really need this?” is hogging the prime viewing position.

It can also do a bit more than put a film on the wall. Throwing visuals onto a blank wall can change the whole feel of a room, whether that’s something playing in the background while everyone’s hanging out or a bit of colour and movement when you’ve got people over.

The P1 also uses AutoMagic AI Adjusting 3.0 for automatic focus, keystone correction and obstacle avoidance, so you can spend less time trying to get the picture straight and more time actually watching it. Which is helpful because nobody wants projector setup to become the evening’s main event.

The outdoor furniture that makes the backyard worth leaving the couch for

A backyard is a nice thing to have, but if the only furniture out there is two plastic chairs and a table that wobbles when you look at it, you’re probably not getting the full benefit.

This is where a few decent outdoor upgrades start making sense. Add comfortable seating, a table that can handle everyone’s food and drinks and some shade, and you’ve got somewhere to sit when the weather is actually doing what Australian weather is supposed to do.

It also means that when someone says “BBQ at ours?” you won’t have to spend the next 20 minutes working out whether everyone can physically fit outside. Although whoever suggests the BBQ should probably also be responsible for the clean-up, because everyone else agreed to split the cost, not the consequences.

The kitchen purchase that earns its place in the cupboard

There are two types of things in a share-house kitchen. Things everyone uses and things someone bought during a brief period where they thought they were going to become the sort of person who makes elaborate breakfasts every Sunday.

You want the first kind.

A genuinely useful multi-purpose kitchen appliance can be used for dinner, meal prep, leftovers and those late-night meals where someone has decided they’re hungry despite having eaten dinner two hours earlier. When several people are using it throughout the week, splitting the cost starts looking considerably better than buying another appliance that spends six months hiding behind the toaster.

Just agree on where it lives first. Otherwise it’ll disappear into someone’s room and you’ll be back in the group chat asking where the hell it went.

The living room additions that’ll make everyone want to stay in

The living room is already doing a lot of work, so you may as well make it somewhere people actually want to spend time. A decent sofa, some extra seating, better lighting and a coffee table with enough room for everyone’s drinks can go a surprisingly long way.

You also don’t need to turn it into an interiors project that requires everyone to develop a shared vision for the space. This is a sharehouse, not a challenge-based reno show.

The best additions are the ones that make the room more comfortable without making one person responsible for maintaining a showroom. If it can survive a few takeaway nights and someone inevitably putting their feet on it, even better.

The summer upgrades you become very passionate about when the temperature rises

Nobody is thinking about the heat when it’s 18 degrees outside. Then summer arrives and suddenly everyone has a strong opinion about fans, windows, curtains and who keeps leaving the back door open.

A decent cooling setup is one of those things that seems boring right up until you need it. Add some shade outside and decent lighting for evenings and you’ve got a house that’s considerably easier to survive when the temperature decides to get ridiculous.

It’s also much easier to convince everyone to chip in when the alternative is four people sitting in the lounge room sweating and arguing over whether opening the window is making things better or worse.

By the time you’ve upgraded the lounge room, sorted out the backyard and added a few things everyone actually wants to use, the sharehouse starts to feel like somewhere you actually want to spend your time.

The Hisense P1 Laser Projector can add to that atmosphere too, giving the house a bit more personality when you’re having people over.

“Come back to ours” might quickly become you and your housemates’ favourite phrase, because when you’ve finally got the digs looking this good, you’re going to want to show them off.

*Performance may vary depending on usage and environmental conditions.

At the end of Jane Bradshaw and her husband Marcus’s holiday to Tenerife, they decided to go on one final stroll down to the harbour.

After looking after Jane’s parents throughout the trip, including her mum with Alzheimer’s, the married couple from Manchester ventured for one last outing at Puerto de la Cruz before flying back home.

But in an instant, they were faced with what could’ve been their tragic last moments.

A mammoth tidal wave came crashing down onto the pier, wiping out swathes of people and dragging some helplessly out into the water as they scrambled to survive.

Holidaymakers were pulled off the pier and down into the ocean in a horror incident that injured 15 and tragically killed one person.

Jane and Marcus were among those caught up in the chaos, yanked into the water and separated by the brutal waves.

“I opened my eyes and knew I was deep down in the water”

“Whilst we were letting my parents pack away their things, Marcus and I decided to go for one final walk down to the harbour,” Jane explained. “I wish I had never suggested it.

“I turned to Marcus and shouted to run, but it hit us in what felt like an instant.”

Now Jane has remembered the ordeal, and how she desperately scrambled for safety despite being injured.

Her arm was broken and it was impossible to swim out of the current. Thankfully, Marcus’ backpack string inadvertently saved him.

“It was so quick I had no idea what had happened,” she said. “I opened my eyes and I knew I was deep down in the water, but I somehow managed to get to the surface.

“I could hear a lot of screaming from the side and I panicked and shouted, ‘where is my husband?’

“Passers-by were jumping into the water to try and rescue people, I saw Marcus fighting the tide by the side of the wall.

“Fortunately, he had rope in his rucksack but the surge was horrific.

“One minute you’d be down low and then the surge would push you up really high, so getting out was still a battle for him. Someone at the top of the 15ft wall caught his rope and pulled him up.”

Describing her own attempt at an escape, which saw members of the public use towels tied together to help her clamber out, she continued: “I tried to swim to the harbour side, but my arm was broken and I was struggling to keep my head above the water.

“Another man fastened some towels together and dangled them into the water for me to grab and pulled me along the wall to get me to some steps.

“Marcus implored me to climb out of the water in case there was another wave.

“I don’t know how I climbed the slimy, slippery steps, it was just adrenaline surging through my body.

“Once I was out, I collapsed from the pain of my injuries. I couldn’t speak to explain to anybody, I was just in horrific pain.”

“It was a living nightmare”

Jane’s injuries were horrific. She was rushed to hospital and told she had a broken humerus in her arm, eight broken ribs, large swelling on her left hip and a massive haematoma on her back.

Previously, she had led a very active and energetic lifestyle, running 10ks, half marathons, cycling and walking.

Also in the incident, a woman suffered a heart attack and died. Three people were seriously injured and taken to hospital.

Jane was kept in observation for two days whilst her husband was given stitches for a badly cut arm.

She was then moved from the public hospital to a private one when the hospital realised she had health insurance – but the ordeal was far from over.

There were errors in her treatment, including chest drains being incorrectly inserted into her body. Her husband Marcus had to take IVs out for her instead.

“In hindsight, that [private hospital] was the worst thing that could have happened to us,” she explained.

“When they said I was going to private care I thought ‘great’ as the image often portrayed to us is that private healthcare is better, but it was shocking and the mental trauma from being treated by them is almost as bad as the physical injuries from the incident itself.

“They were not used to dealing with multiple traumas and didn’t know how to properly look after my injuries. They made several mistakes and it was incredibly frightening.

“There were several instances where chest drains were painfully and incorrectly inserted into my body making me feel like I was constantly being stabbed, there were extended periods of time where I saw nobody, there was just a massive lack of care which we’d become accustomed to in the UK.

“I mean, my husband was having to take my IVs out for me. It was that bad.

“I was in Tenerife hospital for five weeks because the insurance company would not fly us back due to the complication in my lungs which had not been adequately treated by the hospital. “Between the insurance company and the hospital, it became a living nightmare.”

Mistakes in medical notes

Jane was eventually flown to Manchester Airport with a doctor where a waiting ambulance rushed her to Manchester Royal Infirmary’s emergency department and then she was immediately transferred to the hospital’s major trauma ward.

It was there she said doctors diagnosed ‘more in 30 minutes’ than her time in Tenerife, when they discovered a fractured pelvis and sacrum.

“The level of care and attention to detail was mindblowing” she said.

“The attention to detail and compassion has been crucial in making sure I’m being properly rehabilitated.

“There was a physio who noted an important error in the Tenerife medical notes. I’d been confused as staff kept asking me how much I liked surfing. The physio mentioned it was in my notes that I had hurt myself in a surfing accident.

“I was hysterically crying as it dawned on me that everyone in the hospital had been thinking I was an avid surfer.

“The difference was actually quite important, as staff realised that the incident was one that would carry emotional and mental trauma as well as physical damage.

“From that, the physio went away and organised for me to see a clinical psychologist, who has been amazing and I still see her now alongside my physical rehab work.”

“I have cried a lot… I still suffer with PTSD”

Jane is now supported by the Manchester Institute of Health and Performance, Manchester’s specialist Major Trauma Enhanced Rehab Service (MTERS), where she is offered intensive physiotherapy and trauma-focused psychological therapy.

However she said it is the mental scars that are the toughest to truly get over.

“Aside from the incident itself, it was a very depressing experience sitting in the same hospital for five weeks,” she said.

“I have cried a lot, I still suffer with PTSD from the incident with flashbacks. I am coming to terms with my body not doing what my brain wants it to do, my arm is still not strong enough, I can almost reach above my head but I can’t reach behind my back.

“I have been able to get back on my bike but my level of fitness is gone and I can’t run for now. I look better but I have so much work to do as my head is a mess – I am grieving for the body I usd to have who could do all those activities I loved.

“It’s also been really hard on my loved ones. Marcus has been my absolute rock, a tower of strength. He had to deal with what happened to me and all the logistics.

“We lost our phones and glasses in the water, we ended up in different hospitals and didn’t know where the other was. He tracked me down and let my parents and our daughter know, then there was all the endless admin with the airline and insurance.

“Even when we got home, he still had to care for me and take time off work.”

One of the most common cancers in the UK, over 48,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year.

It can affect anyone, regardless of age, but some people often don’t get diagnosed at first as they may not take the symptoms seriously.

And some of the symptoms are similar to that of other issues. In some cases, doctors may initially dismiss symptoms of bowel cancer for the likes of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). This can cause the likes of stomach pain, diarrhoea and constipation.

But a doctor says there is a key warning sign that can indicate your stomach troubles are due to bowel cancer rather than something else. This is as well as the very vital red flag of blood when you go to the toilet.

Doctor’s warning sign

Having regular ‘incomplete’ bowel movements is a sign that your stomach problems need to be assessed by a doctor.

Dr Asiya Maula, a GP at The Health Suite, explained to Daily Mail: “The sensation of needing to open your bowels even after you have just been to the toilet.”

She said this is referred to as ‘incomplete bowel emptying’.

“A growth in the bowel or rectum can sometimes cause a feeling of pressure or irritation, or partially obstruct the passage of stool, which can leave someone feeling as though they still need to go even after they have emptied their bowels.”

However, like many of the other symptoms of bowel cancer, having the incomplete movements isn’t always down to this. But if this is a change for you and is happening regularly, it’s important to see your GP.

Symptoms of bowel cancer

If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, as listed by the NHS, you should see a GP. They may include:

• changes in your poo, such as having softer poo, diarrhoea or constipation that is not usual for you
• needing to poo more or less often than is usual for you
• blood in your poo, which may look red or black
• bleeding from your bottom
• often feeling like you need to poo, even if you’ve just been to the toilet
• tummy pain
• a lump in your tummy
• bloating
• losing weight without trying
• feeling very tired or short of breath – these are signs of anaemia, which can be caused by bowel cancer

If your poo is black or dark red or if you have bloody diarrhoea, you should ask for an urgent GP appointment or seek help from NHS 111.

And if you’re bleeding non-stop from your bottom or if when you poo there is a lot of blood or large blood clots, call 999 or go to A&E.

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence, contact Macmillan’s Cancer Support Line on 0808 808 00 00, 8am–8pm seven days a week.

If you’re someone currently considering popping a blister, you might want to take a look at this simulation first.

Although it can be extremely tempting to get rid of the small, painful lump that has appeared on your skin, it’s best to leave it alone.

That’s because that pesky bubble is actually protecting you – as this gruesome simulation explains.

Despite them having a bad reputation, blisters are actually doing us a favour in the health department, as they develop to protect skin that has been damaged to help it heal.

They often crop up in an area that might have been subject to irritation, as we’ve all experienced when wearing a pair of new shoes for the first time that need wearing in a bit.

You might have also come into contact with irritating chemicals and ended up with one, while extreme heat or cold can also bring on a blister.

According to Harvard Health, infections, skin diseases and certain medications can also cause them. As a result, you’re left dealing with an uncomfortable round or oval bubble of fluid on your skin.

Blisters can often be painful or itchy, but no matter how desperate you are to get rid of it, you’re best off leaving it be.

If it’s a run-of-the-mill blister, they typically go away on their own after a few days, so it’s just a matter of riding it out. Tampering with it could do a lot more harm than good, as YouTuber Zack D Films explained.

He mocked up one of his famous simulations to depict how blisters protect us, and the visuals will no doubt encourage you to leave yours well alone.

In the stomach-churning clip, he explains: “If you get a blister, most people assume you are supposed to pop them. Blisters usually form on a spot of your skin that has become damaged.

“Inside the bubble, there is a small pocket of clear fluid that builds up. This fluid actually protects and heals the skin underneath, acting as a barrier to keep it clean.

“But when you pop a blister, it exposes the skin prematurely, before it has time to properly heal, which is why you shouldn’t pop them.”

Social media users heaped praise on the content creator for sharing what they considered to be very valuable knowledge, as a lot of people said they were unaware of this.

“He actually explains more then my science teacher,” one person wrote, while a second said: “Bro is answering questions we didn’t ask but secretly wanted to know.”

A third commented: “Always heard that we should never pop a blister but never knew why. Thanks you for explaining.”

A fourth remarked: “I’ll go crazy if I don’t pop it!”

And a fifth said: “It’s amazing how much our bodies fight for us.”

As Zack pointed out, it is best to leave blisters alone, as they ‘protect the underlying skin, breaking blisters open can increase the chance of infection’, according to Harvard Health.

Sharing some tips to speed up the healing process, it adds: “Protect blisters with a bandage and cover them until they heal on their own. The liquid in the blister will be re-absorbed and the skin will flatten naturally. If a blister breaks, wash the area with soap and water, then apply a bandage. If a blister is very large or painful, your doctor may drain it and apply an antibacterial cream to prevent infection.”

You can also prevent blisters on your feet that are caused by skin irritation if you wear well-fitting shoes and thick socks.

A TikTok creator has issued an urgent warning about the weight-loss drug retatrutide after claiming a dosing mistake left her seriously ill.

Lyndsey Jones (@Lyndz99) opened up about her frightening experience after previously sharing positive opinions about GLP-1 medications and retatrutide.

Despite suggesting that she was a supporter of the injections, Lyndsey said she felt it was important to share what happened to her.

“I think it’s only fair that I come on here, tell you guys how it almost killed me,” she explained.

The TikToker revealed that her ordeal began after she took retatrutide earlier than she was supposed to, something she is now urging others never to do.

“Never take your reta before you’re supposed to. I made that mistake, ended up in the ER twice, couldn’t keep down any food or water,” she said.

Lyndsey described suffering extreme abdominal pain and frightening digestive symptoms, claiming her stomach began to feel as though it was becoming paralysed.

“I was in excruciating pain. My stomach was like starting to become paralyzed. It was terrifying.”

The experience became so severe that Lyndsey feared she might not survive.

“I seriously thought I was going to die at some point,” she admitted.

Her health struggles also had a dramatic impact on her weight and ability to eat.

According to Lyndsey, she went an entire week without being able to consume food, eventually dropping below 100 pounds, equivalent to approximately seven stone two pounds.

“I ended up weighing under 100 pounds. I couldn’t eat for a whole entire week.”

Following the frightening ordeal, Lyndsey has decided to stop taking GLP-1 medications and is now receiving professional nutritional support as she focuses on maintaining her weight.

“Currently I am now seeing a nutritionist and I am not on GLP-1s, but I’m going to try to maintain the healthy way or the healthier way.”

What is retatrutide?

Retatrutide is an experimental medication that’s being developed by Eli Lilly and Company – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company and makers of Mounjaro.

Phased clinical trials have been taking place for both obesity and type 2 diabetes, with some remarkable results.

Often dubbed the ‘Godzilla’ of weight loss drugs, retatrutide targets three different hormone receptors to dramatically suppress appetite and increase fat burning, while current medications like Wegovy and Mounjaro only target one or two.

In a major trial involving more than 2,300 overweight adults, people taking the highest dose lost an average of 28.3 percent of their body weight, while some patients lost around 5st.

Retatrutide side effects

In Phase 2 trial data, the most commonly reported adverse effects included:

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Constipation
• Decreased appetite

“Retatrutide is not yet available in the UK and has not been approved for use by any regulatory bodies – it is still undergoing clinical trials to assess its safety and effectiveness,” Dr Clair Grainger, from Superdrug Online Doctor, said.

LADbible Group has contacted Eli Lilly and Company for comment.

A family who decided to leave the UK say they’ve ‘basically replicated’ their routine now they live in Thailand and they’ve saved over £1,000 a month in costs since the move.

Saskia Dalyanci, 27 and partner Ben, 26, were renting a three-bed home in Tunbridge Wells for £1,000 a month when they decided to leave the UK.

The mum, a former tutor, was already home schooling her children as she reckons her kids ‘didn’t require Ofsted-excellent rated schools’, and when Ben got a job in Chiang Mai they decided to up sticks and move as they flew out on 7 July.

In the UK they were spending over £1,950 a month on their rent, bills, council tax and food, but out in Thailand their rent has almost halved and combined with the rest of their bills it comes to just over £735 a month for the family of five.

They’d also pocketed £4,000 by selling all their things on Facebook Marketplace and they plan to live in Thailand for the foreseeable future.

Family upped sticks to move across the world

“It was mostly down to my adventurous spirit and wanting to do something a bit different and outside of the box,” Saskia said of the decision to move to the other side of the world.

“I wanted to give the children more experiences and it just sort of materialised from that.

“I didn’t feel like I had to be where we were living and it didn’t necessarily suit the lifestyle we wanted because we were in a very affluent area with incredibly good schools that we didn’t need as our children weren’t attending school.

“We were paying a lot of money living in an area where the cost of living was high with good schools we didn’t require for our children. We wanted to make a move anyway and considered moving in the UK but we’d always dreamt about moving abroad.

“We thought, why not do that first and settle back in the UK afterwards.”

“We have a bigger house for less”

Settling in Thailand on Ben’s non-immigrant b visa, with Saskia and their children as dependents, they looked around different neighbourhoods to find one that suited them before landing on Chiang Mai.

“We have a bigger house now it’s a three-bed property with a utility room, two reception rooms, a rice barn, added outdoor space and a dining room,” Saskia says.

“It’s been really great and we’ve kind of slotted in really easily. Overall the kids are thriving and there’s a big community here of other expats.

“We met so many people each day. We’ve basically replicated the same sort of routine we had back in the UK.

“We’re allowing time to socialise, do activities and have family routines at home. For us, there is no specific curriculum we follow and we fall into a sort of category of unschooling.

“Essentially we’re following our children’s interests and planning and facilitating around what they’re interested in.

“We’re still actively supporting their learning, it’s just very different from a classroom.”

Exactly how much they save

Ben earns £15,400 a year in his job at an international primary school in Thailand, with them covering the flights and visa to get the family out there, and they live in a bigger house than the one they were renting back in the UK.

He also gets £112 housing allowance a month, and since the cost of living in Thailand is significantly cheaper than the UK that £15k can go a lot further.

Where the family were once paying £1,000 in rent a month they now spend £534.55 on it, their monthly water bill is £2.67 compared to £80, electricity bills are down from £140 a month to £89.90, there’s no council tax and the monthly food bill has dropped from over £500 to just £90 for the five of them.

They’re still having to budget because they’re living on Ben’s salary and Saskia says it being cheaper elsewhere in the world ‘depends how you are living’.

She said: “For us, there is no specific curriculum we follow and we fall into a sort of category of unschooling.

“Essentially we’re following our children’s interests and planning and facilitating around what they’re interested in.

“We’re still actively supporting their learning, it’s just very different from a classroom.”

While they’re not sure if they’ll stay in Thailand or return to the UK at some point they’re aware they’ll have to go through the cost of moving all over again if that’s what they choose.

A delivery man who says he was once so hard up for cash he stole his customers’ food to eat while working as a delivery driver and was forced to sell his plasma has revealed how he turned his life around.

Tyler Riches, from California, had racked up $2,000 of overdraft debt at age 18 while attempting to get his dream business off the ground.

While working for DoorDash, a popular American delivery chain like Deliveroo or Uber Eats, he says he found himself in a downward spiral when he couldn’t even afford the petrol needed to deliver the orders.

The now-24-year-old admits he got so desperate that he’d ask for cash tips from customers to keep his car running and often pocket the final food order of the night for his own dinner to save cash.

Tyler recalls ‘rock bottom’ moment

Recalling his rock bottom moment after being kicked out of the family home with no financial support, he said: “I literally had negative $2,000 in my bank account.

“I texted my parents and they said, ‘We’re not going to help you. You need to figure it out on your own.’

“So I was like, ‘Alright, let’s just start DoorDashing.’ I DoorDashed every single day, morning and night.”

Tyler was raised in a strict household but fell out with his family around the same time as his money struggles, aged 18.

After a major fallout and asking for help with his overdraft, Tyler says he didn’t speak to his parents for around two years.

Without the money for petrol to keep the car running, he then began knocking on doors of customers explaining the situation and asking for tips.

As DoorDash’s USP is contact-free deliveries, with ‘leave at door’ normally automatically selected for orders, this was an unusual move.

He said: “Instead of just dropping the food off, I would knock on every single door and ask for cash.

“Then I could take my car to the gas station, put the cash in and keep DoorDashing.

“Most times people would say no, but I really only needed one or two people that entire trip to say yes.”

“I did what I had to do”

With no money for food, Tyler explained how he also stole orders he was supposed to deliver as a way to save splashing on another meal.

“I wasn’t eating at all, so I would steal food on my drive. It sounds bad, but I had to do what I had to.

“At the end of every night, I would steal the last order. There were times where I would go DoorDash the lunch shift just so that I could eat – just so that I could steal an order.

“I would rather steal the food in private than fully admit, ‘I’m hungry.’”

Tyler also began donating his plasma, after researching ways to make cash quick. As a new donor, he was able to secure a bonus in exchange for donating multiple times a month.

In the US, selling ‘source plasma’ for commercial and pharmaceutical use for cash is legal and standard practice. In the UK, it is illegal to pay blood, plasma, and platelet donors.

He said: “It was crazy, just shooting a needle up your arm and giving blood just for some money to be able to clear that debt.

“There was a couple hundred dollar bonus if you came and donated four times within the same month. That was massive for me.”

Tyler made thousands from trading

While working for DoorDash, Tyler continued teaching himself about financial markets and eventually began making money through trading and cryptocurrency.

After he starting trading, Tyler then suffered another huge blow, loosing the entirety of the $112,000 he had made.

He said: “I turned $10,000 into $112,000. But I lost it all and then ended up $2,000 in the red. My life was a mess; I really needed to wake up and do something.”

Crypto trading is the act of speculating on cryptocurrency price movements or buying and selling the underlying digital assets through an exchange, aiming to generate a profit from market fluctuations.

However because cryptocurrencies are highly volatile asset classes, trading them does come with a significant financial risk for those involved.

In 2022 Tyler moved to Puerto Rico, which is a legal tax haven for US citizens with zero tax on capital gains.

He turned his life around and lives in a luxury neighbourhood where he says homes start at $2.5m. He claims he is now a millionaire from crypto.

Sharing trading tips with his 1.8M followers on Instagram, he also boasts driving a Ram TRX, which he bought brand new for $100,000.

He shares pictures with private jets and boasts about his new luxury lifestyle.

He explained: “In my neighbourhood, you can’t find a house for under two-and-a-half million dollars.

“There was nobody that was willing to finance me because I had brand new, fresh money. So I had to pretty much buy my house in cash.

“I wanted a cool car, so I got a Ram TRX, which cost $100,000. I had to buy that in cash too.”

He has been able to buy his mum a Birkin handbag worth $30,000 and jewellery, regularly sending his dad and grandfather to front-row sporting events which can cost an eye-watering $6,000.

His older brother now works for him, while his younger sister also helps with the business alongside university.

Tyler said: “Looking back at everything now with a clear head, it’s obvious that all they wanted from me was that I was going to be safe and well off for myself.

“Now that they see that I love life and I’m doing great on my own, it’s a great relationship. We have no issues.”

Identical twins are always up to some crazy stuff so it’s no surprise when you bring two sets together that something magical can happen.

While some identical twins focus on training up their bodies in different ways to see who benefits more, or undergoing different diets, some are more focused on finding love.

And that’s exactly what happened when Camille and Kennerly Kitt, best known as The Harp Twins, met fellow selfsame siblings Dromil and Dromal Volfgang back in 2019.

Both sets of twins are big on social media and known for their musical talents but it was only earlier this year that they actually confirmed they had gotten married, despite the nuptials taking place all the way back in 2022.

The sisters were already masters of the harp strings but they quickly pulled on the heart strings of the two brothers, who waited in line to meet them at a concert, before presenting them with a drawing of them both.

Camille told Today: “It’s one of those things where when you know, you know.”

After the four of them became close and slowly gravitated towards one or the other, things became romantic, with the drum-playing Volfgang twins joining the Kitt’s on their tour, leaving construction behind so they could build a new life together.

Eventually, Camille married Dromil, while Kennerly married Dromal and they all celebrated four years of marriage together earlier this year.

Kennerly said: “You just naturally gravitate toward someone and their soul.”

Sticking with doing thing in pairs, the two couples married on February 22, 2022 at 2.22pm, but they kept the marriage ceremony a secret for several years, with only close family and friends in attendance.

They knew that their marriage would attract a lot of attention, not just because they have a huge amount of followers on social media, and they wanted to avoid the questions that naturally arise when two sets of twins marry each other.

“Some people are like, ‘That’s weird,’” Dromal says. “We’re like, ‘Well, maybe you’re weird.’”

Speaking about the relationship with his brother, Dromil said that ‘no matter what’, they’ve always ‘had each other’s backs’ and they’re only likely to get closer now they’ve welcomed two more into their family.

He added: “There’s a natural tendency of non-twins to not understand or approve of a really close relationship.”

However, there’s no doubting it’s a little strange to both be proposed to at the same moment using identical rings, but clearly they were on board with it.

“We’re all best friends,” Kennerly concluded, “So we have our twin and our spouse and their twin. It’s just really the best of all worlds.”

As long as there aren’t any mix ups should kids come into the question, everything should turn out alright.