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10/17/2016
My Definition of “Intestinal Starvation”
If you haven’t read these articles below, please read them first.
Base Weight; The Precondition Regarding the Rebound Effect
Two Meanings to the Phrase 'Gaining Weight'
In my previous article, "Two meanings to the phrase 'gaining weight' ," I wrote that your base weight increases by the starvation mechanism -strictly speaking, intestinal starvation. I would like to explain it simply.
Of course, in order to gain weight, you need nutrition such as carbohydrates, protein, or fat.
However, it’s what happens later on...because there is a time lag between the emergence of the cause of gaining weight and the actual gaining of weight by eating.
What I mention here as “starvation” is different from the situation such as when you don't eat anything over a few days.
Definition
１．It happens when you eat and when your stomach is working.
２．It refers to the situation between meals, such as between breakfast and dinner, or lunch and late dinner, where every substance in the entire intestines from a range of seven to nine meters has been digested.(It might be small intestine only.)
３．It’s different from simple hunger in that :
(a) basically, everything, including protein, fat, and water, is digested.
(b) there is no fiber or anything close to it (※This is why it is said refined carbohydrates make you fat).
▽Over the course of evolution, humans stored nutrition inside bone/muscle/as fat in order to prepare for cases of starvation. This is because they didn’t know when they could eat the next time.
From this aspect, getting fat should be the mechanism of the body trying to store the nutrition. Then this mechanism of storing nutrition should work strongly with those who don’t eat a lot.
However, in this era with an abundance of food, it seems like those who eat a lot are obese and those that don't eat much are thin, and this tends to lead to a misunderstanding.
There is a reason for this, and it is my own theory based on my personal experience.
The question here is : "In what way do our bodies perceive starvation ?" Starvation is not decided by the amount of how much we’ve eaten, but rather, how the digestion process in the intestines proceeds.
That is to say, even if you eat a lotーmainly carbohydratesーand experiencing hunger for hours, you will be near a starvation situation.
On the other hand, even if you eat a little, if you eat a well-balanced diet, including vegetables/dairy/fat every five to seven hours, then your body won’t perceive you as being in starvation mode. When there are some undigested substances in your intestines, your body perceives them as "there is still food." In other words, your intestines decide everything.
A long time ago, our ancestors had nuts, meat, or root vegetables, and then, even if they had nothing after that for a whole day, their bodies didn’t perceive it as starvation.
On the other hand, our current bodies sometimes perceive us in starvation mode only within half a day.
It depends largely on the quality and balance of foods, and if we eat a lot of refined carbohydrates, easy-to-digest meat, or well-cooked vegetables, etc.