The other persistent myth of starvation mode is that it causes our basal metabolism to decrease severely and our bodies to shut down. This response, if it were a fact, would also be highly disadvantageous to survival of the human species. If periodic starvation caused our metabolism to decrease, then we would have less energy to hunt or gather food. With less energy, we would be less likely to get food. So, another day passes, and we become even weaker, making us even less likely to get food—a vicious and unsurvivable cycle. It’s stupid. There are, in fact, no species of animal, humans
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