On Stress - Ep. 140
Next Level Human
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What Is the Starvation Response?
The way to think about the way the metabolism works regarding stress is almost like vival soft ware. So whenever, let's say, if we run into any of any of these stresses, starvation, injury, infection, rejection, anything like that, then a particular soft ware programme is run to try to get the metabolism back to balance. And so in a very real sense, i like to think about this as that any time the metabolism runs into stress, real or perceived, even if it's not starvation, it will oftentimes institute the starvation response. The more calories it could get at each meal, the better off the metablism would be in terms of starvation response.
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