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4 Physical Conditions That Can Make You Feel Continuous Hunger

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Food is essential for the development and sustainability of our bodies, so we must eat it every day. However, if you eat, and after a few hours you feel hungry again, it’s a sign of some health conditions.

An abnormal appetite for food is medically known as polyphagia, and this calls for medical intervention.

So, In this article on EKO HOT BLOG, we would be looking at some physical conditions that can cause continuous hunger.

1. Stress

When you are going through a period of emotional or physical stress, your body secretes the hydrocortisone hormone, which increases your appetite for food. Your body’s system craves food as a means to shut down the area of your brain that makes you feel stressed.

2. Side effects to certain drugs

If you are using some particular medicines, especially if it’s a medicine that requires food to work in your body, you will feel hungry after a few hours of eating.

3. Lack of Sleep

If you’ve undergone a series of sleepless nights, the secretion of an endocrine gland that regulates hunger in your body won’t function properly. This is why some people who haven’t slept very well usually eat a lot. Sometimes they have an uncontrollable appetite for fatty foods due to fatigue.

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4. Pregnancy

A pregnant woman will have to eat a lot of food almost every few hours after eating because her fetus also draws nourishment from what she eats.

It’s normal for a pregnant woman to feel hungry all the time.

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