Digestion consumes half of a day's energy: The concept of energy efficiency

About half of the body's daily energy expenditure is used for digestion.

Masuru's practice is one meal a day. He eats only at night. He basically does not eat in the morning and afternoon.

There are various reasons, but a representative one is not putting food in the stomach. In other words, not using energy for digestion. About half of a day's energy consumption is used for digestion in the first place.

Considering that, the dynamic of eating a massive amount and having half of that energy diverted to digestion is quite poor in terms of efficiency. Therefore, the mindset becomes wanting to minimize that as much as possible.

── The post-meal brain fog goes away

What is cited as a real experience is this change: the time period when the head feels foggy and sleepy after lunch disappears.

As a result, you get a full day to use. Rather than saving time, it's a matter of increasing the available bandwidth within the day.

Another premise is the view of internal organs as consumables. If they are consumables, wouldn't they last longer if used as little as possible? This is just my own hypothesis, though.

The required amount changes depending on age.

When you are young, you use up a lot of energy, and it's also necessary for growth. As long as you're a child, it's fine to eat four or five meals a day and just keep growing.

However, once you reach a certain age, you no longer need that much energy. Even so, you keep eating the same amount, which is why you gain weight.

Even the format of having three meals a day is quite recent in history. Originally, people didn't eat that much. In fact, you could say that today's habits are excessive and a strange anomaly.

You won't know the impact unless you take it to extremes.

Perhaps the most applicable part of this episode is not the content of the meals, but the methodology of this experiment.

Wanting to bring about a fresh shift in perspective, I broke away from my habit of living mainly on fats for over a decade, switched to a vegetarian diet a few years ago, and kept it up for about three to six months.

── The result was, "Nothing changed."

To arrive at this conclusion, I pushed things to the extreme.

No matter how you look at it, eating a balanced diet is the right thing to do. Without exception, everyone I’ve ever shared a meal with has said, "Just eat both normally." I understand that, but I'm daring to go all-in on just one side.

The reason is simple: without taking it to extremes, verification is impossible. If you maintain a balance, you cannot tell what is having what effect.

And the reason for switching back was also practical. Since there were no particular changes to the body, there was no longer any motivation to keep eating things they didn't even like. They had held faint hopes of reaching some sort of state close to enlightenment regarding how they connected during meditation and changes in daily consciousness, but it became clear there were no special changes. When eating out, choices for all-vegetable meals were few, and salads were treated merely as side dishes. Of course, continuing it for a few more years might have brought some effects, but they decided to return to eating meat for now.

The dietary content itself varies greatly in suitability depending on one's constitution and lifestyle. What is introduced here is merely a personal example and is not recommended as a method suitable for everyone. If you have chronic conditions or concerns about your physical health, you should consult a medical professional.

Two perspectives can be drawn from this. One is to incorporate the perspective of how much of your energy is being spent on what. The other is that if you want to know the impact, rather than changing things halfway, you should swing them to the extreme once.

You can figure out how to balance after you know the extent of the swing.

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