Do you crash when you go too long without eating, lose energy and become “hangry?” Hanger, (hunger plus anger) is that explosive combination of low blood sugar and irrepressible irritability that turns a normally nice person into a multi-headed hydra. People joke about being hangry, but when it happens regularly, it means your body and brain are in a perpetual state of alarm. This constant stress raises inflammation and accelerates degeneration of the brain. In other words, being chronically hangry ages you too fast. How being hangry ages your body too fast The low blood sugar that … [Read more...]