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In reply to the discussion: Yoga teacher found alive after going missing 2 weeks ago in Hawaii forest [View all]forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)20. The appetite will shut off after a day or two.
It's a natural mechanism when the body slows metabolism and converts to using fat reserves for emergency nutrition.
https://neurogum.com/blogs/thinktank/why-don-t-you-feel-hungry-after-not-eating-for-a-long-time
What you will find is that you dont feel particularly hungry even after not eating for a while. This is most obvious when fasting. You may feel hungry initially. However, after a while, those hunger pangs start to disappear. It looks like adrenaline plays a role there.
What adrenaline does is drive a process called lipolysis. This is the process your body undertakes when it wants to break down your fat reserves to give itself some energy. Lipolysis also prevents you from burning through your muscle when you dont eat for a while.
[...] there would be periods where early humans just couldnt access food. Maybe there was a predator roaming around that everybody needed to hide from. Or, the time of year meant less food.
Thats where lipolysis probably started kicking in for those early humans. Their bodies would burn through their fat reserves so that they could keep going during lean periods. The elimination of hunger pangs that comes from this would distract from the issue and ensure the human could focus on getting food rather than how much he or she needed food.
What adrenaline does is drive a process called lipolysis. This is the process your body undertakes when it wants to break down your fat reserves to give itself some energy. Lipolysis also prevents you from burning through your muscle when you dont eat for a while.
[...] there would be periods where early humans just couldnt access food. Maybe there was a predator roaming around that everybody needed to hide from. Or, the time of year meant less food.
Thats where lipolysis probably started kicking in for those early humans. Their bodies would burn through their fat reserves so that they could keep going during lean periods. The elimination of hunger pangs that comes from this would distract from the issue and ensure the human could focus on getting food rather than how much he or she needed food.
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Yoga teacher found alive after going missing 2 weeks ago in Hawaii forest [View all]
Crabby Appleton
May 2019
OP
She had shoes the first few days only. I don't know how she lost them. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#18
Yes. Further, you have a good chance of getting out to the ocean where you'd be more visible.
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#22
A guy got lost for about six weeks down in Puerto Rico when I was working there.
bluedigger
May 2019
#12
"She was several miles above Twin Falls, over in deep H'aiku, way off the beaten track."
Cal Carpenter
May 2019
#15
Thick vegetation impedes travel. Every hiker knows that. Many ways to lose a shoe.
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2019
#26
A different article said there was a flash flood that occurred washing away her sandals
wishstar
May 2019
#36
According to the film clip, she'd been wearing sandals. If she tumbled down a steep incline, the
NBachers
May 2019
#28