How come when we go a couple hours without eating in the day, we feel hungry, but we can sleep the whole night without waking up from hunger?

Question

How come when we go a couple hours without eating in the day, we feel hungry, but we can sleep the whole night without waking up from hunger?

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Answer 1

Speak fir yourself, if I don’t eat within a certain time before I go to bed, I wake up in the middle of the night hungry.

But yeah, I can’t be sure about this, but I’d wager it has something to do with the sleep itself, as in, your hunger is suppressed by the biological process we call sleep. Notice that you when you wake up, you are hungry. The feeling is just suppressed during sleep.