hey august could u remind me of that thing where if you don't eat your stomach thinks you can't so it hides the hunger or something? ( ˘ ³˘)♥ ( ˘ ³˘)♥ ( ˘ ³˘)♥ asking for a friend <3 (also because that's interesting and i want to refresh my memory)
oh yeah i love talking weird brain stuff
so i dont like have the Sources for it but basically ur brain inherited a bunch of survival mechanisms from early ancestors that it’s never gotten rid of bc they’re still pretty useful today y’know?
and one of those is that sometimes you’re in high stress situations where you Can’t do normal self-car-y stuff, like if you’re being chased or hunted or smth
and since the brain Assumes that you want to care for the body, if you chose to ignore its signals that you need to eat (like rumbling stomach) that ur in a position where u Can Not eat, bc it doesn’t really think you’d do that on purpose
so it kinda just stops sending hunger signals? it tucks away appetite and stuff because it figures bothering you when you’re clearly in a stressful/no-food-around situation isn’t going to do any good
eventually this ends, either because you’ve reached a point where you Really need to eat or because you do eat and your brain goes ‘well!!! food is here!!!!! appetite return!!!!’ and Bam hunger again