A teenager who had been trying to lose weight in time for her amateur Muay Thai fight died after trying a weight-loss strategy called "water-loading." Jessica Jackson, 18, who was also known as Jessica Lindsay, was in the middle of a six-day water-loading process.
This involves drinking a significant amount of water and then switching down to none in order to dehydrate the body. The inquest at West Australian Coroner’s Court heard that on the day of her weigh-in in November 2017, Ms Lindsay spent hours training at a Muay Thai Gym.
She did not have any water intake that day and was running in a sweatsuit and beanie hat when she collapsed in the car park.
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