AN ODE TO THE
LIFE MEANS
AND WHY THIS TERM IS OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD.
A perhaps somewhat philosophical perspective
Or: Why it seems strange to call some things that are eaten "food"
In my opinion, there are two ways to feel hunger:
- The body needs one or more nutrients
- You have recently eaten something very starchy, which in turn has led to an (excessive) release of insulin, resulting in a lowered blood sugar level
If you listen carefully to yourself, you will notice that the two circumstances may even coincide.
A theoretical assumption: our body needs manganese. A trace element that is required for a number of enzymes - such as superoxide dismutase (SOD). It expresses this need through hunger.
We respond to this hunger by eating something, such as a nice salad with tomatoes and cucumber, followed by spaghetti "al verdura" (with vegetables) and a nice croissant or fruit salad for dessert. All in all, what you would call a varied diet: with lots of fruit and vegetables. Just as it should be.
After a few hours of digestion, our body realizes two things:
- The desired nutrient has not been sufficiently contained in the meal
- We convert the excess starch from the "filling side dish" into fat, which we store mainly around the middle of the body for the "winter" to be on the safe side.
You don't necessarily have to have studied to realize what the consequence of this is, that we usually repeat this process several times a day...
Obesity, lack of energy, listlessness, pain, depressive moods...
...take on a completely different image against this background.
And something else is happening: you have probably already heard that our human system, which also includes our microbiome (inside us) and the holobiome (around us), contains more cells with foreign DNA than those with our own.
So we are actually more a collection of bacteria than a collection of human cells.
And these bacteria want to be fed and they communicate with us. So when we eat something containing starch, we are feeding bacteria that metabolize starch. These include a number of "bad guys" such as Klebsiella, Clostridia, etc. These in turn signal to us that they would like to have more starch, e.g. sugar.
Guess what we then get hungry for?
IS IT ALL A QUESTION OF QUANTITY?
How much can it be?
Over time, my philosophy has also led to an exciting phenomenon: Thanks to the high nutrient density and constant blood sugar levels , I rarely feel hungry anymore. I have settled down to eating only once a day on average. And within this meal, I can hardly "eat" as much money as I used to with breakfast, lunch, dinner and all the snacks throughout the day...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/270794
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