It’s not true right? I refuse to believe that all of the effort I put in to become starvation proof is based on a lie…
The article says that with full starvation it doesn’t change much because some vital organs will not be able to use your fat, but rather the proteins from your muscles, including your heart, until it fails. But if you somehow have partial starvation with some protein intake, then you may outlive a skinnier person.
My initial shower thought was if someone very muscular would outlive someone less muscular, I found this article and not one precisely on my thought. But I guess it does imply that. I am still wondering if having more muscles could also make you starve faster because your basic metabolism would require more energy?I am still wondering if having more muscles could also make you starve faster because your basic metabolism would require more energy?
A recent video by Kurtzgesagt has lead me to believe that having lots of muscle doesn’t increase your basal metabolic rate very much. It’s a myth. It’s using your muscles that burns more energy. Simply maintaining extra muscle doesn’t burn all that many extra calories.
I would venture that having extra muscle would mean it would take longer for you to starve.
The problem is that your body doesn’t selectively consume muscle. If your body is starving, it will break down your heart and your biceps regardless of how big either is.
Wouldn’t a bigger influx of energy from non-essential muscles somehow reduce the speed at which essential muscles are consumed?
This whole discussion makes me hungry tbh. I guess the real answer is to always have loads of food in the cupboard (just in case). Lucky - due to watching too many zombie apocalypse movies, combined with living in a not entirely stable country - I do.
So, I was kind of wondering about this concept a few weeks ago. On the 19th of November I had a small stroke and was in the hospital for 3 days. While there, for the first 40 hours I was not allowed to eat or drink due to them not knowing if my ability to swallow had been effected. I need to get and eval form Physical Therapy first. In that 40 hours I lost nearly 12 lbs. I’ve always been a pretty big guy, was up to 468 lbs in 2019, but have since lost quite a bit and upon admission was down to 291. Since getting out and coming home, I’ve started intermittent fasting, which will help with what caused the stroke as well (diabetes). Now if I can just figure out how to pay this $200,000 hospital bill. lol.
That hospital bill sucks, but I’m glad you’re home and doing (relatively) well.
I was never a big guy, 205 at my heaviest, but a recent illness has knocked 25lbs off me in a month.
NOW I get what people mean when they say “I’m cold,” and it’s only 40°F out.
