How can the human body process such huge quantities of calories? Like, if I normally eat 2,200 calories a day and one day decide to eat 20,000 calories how could my body not be overloaded and let most of those calories get pooped out?
I think it would make sense if I slowly increased it or increased it for a long time, but if I went out tomorrow and slammed 15 candy bars and 5 burgers how could my body be like, “okay, 20k calories coming right up”?
In: Biology
You can in fact eat so much your stomach explodes and you die. This has happened a few times, although it’s extremely rare.
As long as you don’t do that, your stomach will hold the food until the rest of the digestive system is ready for it.
And no, you’re bodies not going to throw away calories. It’s made for survival in hunter gatherer days when long periods of famine were common. It needs to store every calorie it can possibly get so you can survive those starvation times. Modern food production is not something it is suited for.
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