turn off weight gain?
i was doing a little bit of thinking… and so, considering before modern times, man needed to be able to gain fat to store for the winter, but on the flip side, other times he needed to be able to process food fast for energy for hunting and such. so technically wouldn’t there be a sort of “weight gain/metabolize” bodily “switch”? or have we lost that adaptability a long time ago? (or i could be completely wrong on the whole idea) if you have any ideas, explanations, or corrections, please let me know XD
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My guess would be that because it has been such a long time since we have hunted and eaten less over winter, I would say that trait, if it existed, has been bred out.
But you can cause it yourself just by changing your eating patterns at the start of a new season. Some people still may have traces of it, being that some men are still really hairy because of our ancestors, yet in most men its been bred out.
Turn off weight gain?
the answer to your question is NO, we have not last that switch. that is the reason michael phelps can eat 12000 calories a day and not gain a single pound, and why anorexic school girls who neglect to exercise but instead want to starve themselves end up getting really fat.
The way to turn that switch to the fast metabolism/hunter gatherer side is by EXERCISING! when we exercise, we create adrenaline and other signals that tell the body to metabolize faster and to shape itself into that of an athlete. ALSO, it shapes muscle tissue and burns fat
no, there is no bodily switch to turn off weight gain, and where did you get the fact that MAN put on body fat to keep warm in the winter? those are animals…
Weight gain has as much to do with genetics as it does with your environment. We haven’t lost that adaptability, it was probably only a few hundred years ago that people still needed these adaptations to survive, and a few hundreds years is a very short amount of time in evolution.
The “switch” would be to make your body burn excess body fat, which excercise and even starvation should be suffice to do. However, genetics also plays a significant role in weight gain and loss, so these methods might not make a difference. For example, I weight about 105 pounds no matter how much or how little I eat. I haven’t gained or lost a single pound since I was maybe 12 years old. That’s just the way my genes turned out.