Dr. Martin Picard

And if you eat food, now you need to masticate.

You need to have peristalsis.

You need to have gastric acidification movement, secreting digestive enzymes, maybe some bile.

The orchestration of digestion is pretty expensive.

It's like 10%, 15% of your daily energy budget.

So that's 10%, 15% of your daily energy budget.

If you're running a limit, it's a lot.

Yes.

And I agree.

The body is wise.

Animals who don't have a very other non-human animals, like your dogs, they don't have a mind to distract them from living in alignment with their energetic states.

So when they're sick, the immune system, just the amount of the part of your budget that gets consumed by the immune system expands, right?

So this energy, this extra energy needs to be stolen from somewhere because you can't eat more to have infinite energy.

So where is that energy coming from?

So not contracting your muscles because you feel in pain is a good way.

Not having to thermoregulate because you cover up, another way to conserve energy.

And then stopping to care about stuff, like becoming asocial and apathic and all of those features of sickness behavior or energy conserving strategies.

And not eating.

If you can...

have like free 10, 15% of your energy.