by Kourtney A. Moses

Here’s a “Golden Niblet.” Why do you feel hunger sensations? Is it that you’re greedy? Is it that your body likes to keep itself on a timely ingestion schedule, or is it all just in your head? Well, yeah, it’s all in your head. That’s right, you’re bat-crap crazy. Deal with it!😂 No. Hunger Pains start in your head, but there is a logical reason.

When the human brain is running low on fuel, it sends a hormone, ghrelin, to the stomach that says, “Hey, digest something. I need some energy up here.” If there is not enough food in the stomach to digest, the acids from your stomach start beating up against the stomach’s walls. This causes a hunger sensation, or what some call Hunger Pain.

Humans do not respond well to discomfort. Therefore, we are triggered to do whatever we must to make discomfort cease. In order to make the Hunger Pains stop, we eat something. After we eat, the stomach begins, immediately, digesting the food, and the brain is fed its requested energy. Once that occurs, the brain is at full capacity to better captain the rest of your body.

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