Sometimes I get the feeling of hunger, but when I wait it out without eating, the painful feeling subsides. Why does this feeling of hunger go away without actually eating anything? Obviously I eventually get hungry again and eat, but I’m wondering why this brief feeling of “okay-ness” occurs.
In: Biology
Its interesting right?
We’ve often thought the hunger response is an indication that we need to feed but it’s more complicated than that.
How do we know? Because if we needed to feed and we didn’t, all sorts of things would start to go wrong….but very often they don’t.
This indicates that hunger may be a learned pattern. That at certain times of the day we experience these feelings of hunger but really we’re just used to eating at those times.
If you ever get into exploring fasting you’ll realize that all those signals our body sends us, are really not as true as we once thought they were.
Our bodies are quite amazing and can go long periods of time without any food at all, far longer than most even realize.
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