How Your Body Knows That You’ve Got A Full Belly Of Food [WATCH]
Whether you’re going six rounds at the local buffet, or baked out of your mind while chowing down on Chuck E. Cheese, you’ve probably felt the filling sensation of utter gluttony at least once in your life.
When you’ve got a full belly, it actually takes a complex network between your brain and body to ensure that you halt before things get really ugly.
TED-Ed, the education branch of the online talks media magnate, created an education program on how our mind and gut work together to scream that enough is enough. While there’s a separate link to the full lesson, TED-Ed has a brief video on the subject which you can take a look at above.
The informative clip breaks down how everything from nerves on/near our stomach, hormones in our body, and impulses in our brain and nervous system come together to monitor our food intake. Signals can be sent to halt our eating when we go too far, or to start up again when we require nourishment once more.
It’s a pretty intriguing and complex system, and we all should definitely be glad it works. As we’ve seen in the past, if we never stop chowing down, it could result in some painful consequences.
