Competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi retires amid health concerns: I no longer feel hunger [Video]

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Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi has announced his retirement in a new Netflix documentary in which the six-time winner of the famous Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest revealed that he no longer has an appetite.

Kobayashi, 46, opened up about his health concerns in the film “Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut.” He estimated that over the course of his 20-year career, he has eaten around 10,000 hot dogs.

Takeru Kobayashi of Japan sits in exhaustion after downing 44 hot dogs at the annual hot dog eating contest at Coney Island July 4, 2003 in New York City. Kobayashi, who set a world record of 50 1/2 hot dogs in last years contest, asily won again this year. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

“I hear people say they’re hungry, and they look very happy after they’ve eaten,” Kobayashi …