Animal protein is highly variable but comes with the protective effect of satiety. And we shouldn’t ignore the protective power of the incretin effect. The slowing of gastric motility increases satiety so that we feel more full and therefore eat less at the next meal, or even skip a meal altogether to allow ourselves “time to digest.” This behavior is instinctive. When children are not hungry, they will not eat. Wild animals also show the same restraint. But we’ve trained ourselves to ignore our own feelings of satiety so that we will eat when the time comes, whether we are hungry or not.
