Why skipping lunch could make you a liability: Hunger affects the fight-or-flight reflex and triggers 'risky behaviour'
Why skipping lunch could make you a liability: Hunger affects the fight-or-flight reflex and triggers 'risky behaviour' Hunger alters the natural fight or flight reflex Makes people more likely to take financial risks People who take decisions on an empty stomach are more likely to take risks People who take decisions on an empty stomach are more likely to take risks, according to a new study. Scientists claim that being hungry shifts decision making between different parts of the brain, altering the natural fight or flight reflex shared by many animals. By temporarily disabling the ‘mushroom body’, an area of an insect’s brain used for learning and making decisions, scientists found that flies showed no reaction to carbon dioxide and carried on as normal when they were hungry even though carbon dioxide was present. Being hungry shifts decision making between different parts of the brain, altering the natural fight or flight reflex However, flies that had been fed avoided areas of carbon dioxide, which suggested the inherited instincts in other areas of the brain were controlling their decision-making.
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