Early humans lived as hunter-gatherers to survive and were active only at certain times of the day to obtain their food. With hunger for a long time, stress would occur in their bodies, and that stress would slow down their daily burning energy. In fact, the nutritional models that have emerged and are constantly talked about are based on this.
Now, let's talk about this subject a little bit about what the body was like before and how it is now when it is starving for a long time.
Early humans consumed an average of 750 grams of protein per day and were physically larger. When they started to move to a settled life, that's when they started to change.
With the change of fauna and flora, that is, animals and plants, and with the transition of humans to a settled life, the human species began to get protein from plants. We can give the development and consumption of dried legumes as an example here.
Long-term fasting at these levels, as I said, puts the body in a healthy state of stress, keeps the metabolic rate low and the burning energy decreases. Burning energy is the energy a person burns during the day's vital events and activity level. If the energy burned is less than the energy taken, we start to gain weight. In other words, what we consume is too much and the body turns everything excess into fat. Let's look at it with a simple and straightforward logic, if we stay hungry for a long time, the body spends what it has to spend and starts to burn the extra fat it turns into fat and we start to lose weight.
So this slimming means "let me stay hungry for a long time, do not consume anything and lose weight". Is it simple enough to say '?
We now have points that differ from before. Social, cultural, psychological, genetic, socioeconomic, changing lifestyles, the world becoming less natural, etc.
Therefore, it would not be healthy to make complete comparisons and ignore today's conditions.
We should compare ourselves to the present according to these situations and not starve ourselves unconsciously. You ask why? Look at it this way; Currently, the recommended healthy amount of protein per kilogram of weight per day is 1 gram. Considering that the first humans consumed 750 grams, I think we already understood the fact that we are not the same. Then, the month of Ramadan we are currently in? A question that comes to mind is whether it is healthy or unhealthy to stay hungry for a long time while fasting.
Let's first examine what is happening in our body. We have had our sahur and after eating, we have an insulin hormone that rises with carbohydrates and proteins. The insulin hormone simply reduces the rising blood sugar to a moderate level and stimulates the production of proteins in the body. This blood sugar rise occurs with carbohydrates. It has its greatest effect within 2 hours after having our sahur meal, and then, when we look at the simple logic, our insulin hormone begins to decrease with the decrease in blood sugar.
Come on, there is a 15-hour fast afterwards! In this fasting state, there is no longer any sugar left in the body and the body slowly starts to burn fat.
Of course, it doesn't just burn fat. In the body that has been fasting for a long time and for a certain period of time, a process called autophagy occurs in which it eats/destroys the damaged parts of the cells, which are the basic structure of the body. In 2016, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, discovered this magnificent phenomenon. We can say that a magnificent cleansing takes place in the body with a quality and long-lasting fast.
Such wonderful events take place in the body all day long and now we come to iftar. If we protect ourselves and control ourselves right here, we will create a super state of health. You know, it is always mentioned that let's detox for 2-3 days and cleanse the body of toxins. Of course, such a thing is not possible with such a practice for 2-3 days, but it is possible with hunger. Of course, if we eat healthy and adequately and control ourselves at iftar tables.
Otherwise, the blood sugar I mentioned will suddenly skyrocket and the insulin hormone will be secreted more than ever before. Let's also add this information: Another function of insulin is to convert the carbohydrates taken into fat.
We took extra carbohydrates, ate a lot of pita / bread, then ate dessert, and insulin and blood sugar reached high levels. Normally, 30-40% of the carbohydrates consumed are converted into fat by insulin. Well, if even the amount of sugar (carbohydrate) you consume turns into fat, you will gain more weight when you secrete too much insulin. Isn't it possible that you won't? Let's think about this carefully and see what we are doing to ourselves. Stay healthy.
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