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In a resource scarce world there are several valid "control loops" for hunger that result in survivable subjects. Always being hungry for instance. I'm surpris
by 908B64B197 5y ago
In a resource scarce world there are several valid "control loops" for hunger that result in survivable subjects. Always being hungry for instance.
I'm surprised there isn't more studies on what exactly are the biochemical processes and neural input that leads to hunger. Having the body react to nutrient intuitively makes sense, since it can't really count calories but can easily detect a higher concentration of chemicals.
- jjoonathan 5y ago> can't really count calories Sure it can. Your body knows whether it's putting glucose on the shelf or taking glucose off the shelf, because it's the one doing it. It knows how many reserves it's keeping, because it's the one keeping the reserves. See: leptin, but in general the problem of reliable energy storage/retrieval is a strict superset of the energy accounting problem and yet our bodies accomplish the storage/retrieval problem with many 9s of reliability.
- maxerickson 5y agohttps://theconversation.com/chemical-messengers-how-hormones-make-us-feel-hungry-and-full-35545 https://theconversation.com/chemical-messengers-how-hormones...