Our ability to keep carrying on is what makes us unique. Most animals will get so tired that their body literally shuts down and they can’t proceed any further. Early humans used this to their advantage when hunting.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
your body is designed to keep going at all costs because we used to run around and chase things evolutionarily. iirc your body will start to digest your muscles in any sort of attempt to just keep going for a little longer
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Qwel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The body is not designed to keep effort going at all costs. You will be informed when you have a cramp, because you should slow down and wait it out before continuing. The whole point of pain is to react to broken stuff, usually by stopping using it.
It will however keep life going at all costs, sometimes digesting replaceable muscles into energy for non-replaceable elements. But it’s more about starvation resistance than about chasing. It could also be the case if we were a specie of static filter feeders
A lot of the human body has been affected by long walks and runs, and we do have (well, not me in particular) over-average stamina developped presumably for hunting. It’s just the specific exemple of muscle digestion that I’m going after here
this knowledge comes from, uh… idk :3