10 Unbelievable Details Surrounding Jon Brower Minnoch, The Heaviest Man On Earth

6 /10 Feet In The Ground

Life wasn’t easy for Brower. His weight made it hard for him to do everything, and he needed people to help him do everything in his regular routines constantly.

Unfortunately, those routines were also often cut short due to the frequency of his hospital visits, almost all of them caused by his weight. In addition, he had no formal education for reasons unknown and couldn’t work or live alone.

5 /10 Opposites Attract

Jon did his best to live normally as he wanted. In 1978 he married a woman named Jeannette, who stayed with him until his death years later.

They even had two children together, overcoming the most significant difference between them, that he was over a thousand pounds at the time, and she was just barely over 100 as a full-grown adult woman.

They broke another world record as the couple with the most significant weight difference in history.

4 /10 Overcoming The Odds

After his first significant hospitalization, Jon was put on a strict calorie-restriction diet for 20 months.

During that point, he acquired a record for the most weight ever lost at the time through natural methods when he dropped over 900 pounds.

The significance of his weight loss allowed him to lead the everyday life he wanted. While still overweight by a lot, he was in far better shape than before.

3 /10 Getting On With Things

At some point after his significant weight loss, aside from starting a family, he gained employment as a Seattle taxi driver.

However, once he was back in control of his life, he resumed some of his old habits and put on some of the weight he lost.

He went from 476 pounds to almost 800. He lived the rest of his life without major complications until one last trip to the hospital sealed his fate.

2 /10 The Bigger They Are

Jon died in 1983 at the age of 41 due to his edema. The strain on his organs and his body due to the excessive weight were too much to counteract.

Due to the nature of the edema throughout his body, there was no easy way to just surgically remove the weight either since it wasn’t necessarily fat that was weighing him down.

It was incurable. Treatment officially stopped just two years before his death. When he died, he had a BMI of 105.3.

1` /10 A Heavy Loss

Jon Brower did the impossible, then relapsed into the unfortunately improbable. His story and condition are still relevant today as obesity is among the most widespread medical conditions globally and has been for decades.

There are whole programs dedicated to showing people with perplexing cases of obesity that are too large and heavy to move from their homes or even move their arms to their faces anymore. However, there are surprising stories of recovery for such people.

Brower’s weight loss record was broken by a man who weighed less than him at his peak but lost half of his massive weight in just six months thanks to medical practices and programs, allowing him to walk for the first time in five years.

It’s proof that hard work can make all the difference, but one mistake can set up a lifetime of regret.