What is hunger
Hunger is a doozy. There are multiple hormones fighting for supremacy and there is still a lot of unsureness about all the exact mechanisms.
A tale of hunger and ghrelin
A look into the interconnection between the feeling of hunger and its main agent: ghrelin.
Methods to deal with hunger
Hunger is good and necessary. It nudges us with the gentle voice of a nagging mother towards survival. But sometimes it can be annoyingly standing in the way of what we try to accomplish. A new diet to work on “that little extra” around the hips or a fast to activate one or another longevity-pathway.
Below are listed methods to ease the hunger-pangs for when you want to overcome the demon that stands in the way of fasts and diets.
Sleep against hunger
Hunger and sleep are as deeply intertwined as that reach for comfort food and a tired cozy day. Explore in this article the method to sleep your hunger away. In short, Low sleep quality and / or sleep duration greatly increases appetite and are considered base causes of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Exercise against hunger
Exercise is an unusual suspect when comes to reducing hunger. But it’s there, happily and effectively negating those hunger hormones with the tenacity of a woodpecker.
Caffeine against hunger
Caffeine isn’t just an effective agent against sleep. Also hunger is beaten down by the central nervous system-stimulant with the strength of if not a thousand, than at least a hundred suns.
Disclaimer
Please keep in mind that despite all progress and the readily available food of today’s age (in most areas of the world) hunger is still an important mechanism for survival. We recommend that you treat it with the respect the billions of its evolutionary history command and act responsibly.
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