When baseline cortisol is chronically elevated from stress, overtraining, or caloric restriction without adequate recovery that rise happens too early and too steeply
This evolutionary mechanism essentially tells your body to travel to a different food source, and by the time your appetite returns, you'll be somewhere else
Would be curious to see a similar long term persistence study specifically in diabetes
This model circumvented the confounding impact of gastric emptying, which exhibits a wide inter-individual variation in both healthy individuals and those with type 2 diabetes [29,30,31]
Reasons some people prefer plant-based options: Lighter textures that are easier to finish Softer, blended formats that don't feel heavy Flexible portion sizes that fit smaller appetites When meals feel smaller, protein that feels lighter is more likely to be eaten instead of skipped