Supplement Costs and Gym Fees are 'Completely Free (￥0)'. The Overwhelming 'Cost-Effectiveness (ROI)' and Medical Cost Reduction Impact of Chewing

How much cost do we pay every day “to become healthy”? Expensive monthly membership fees for personal gyms, foreign-made protein powders, the latest organic vegetables, and supplements for gut health. If you seriously continue these, an expenditure of tens to hundreds of thousands of yen a month will disappear in the blink of an eye.

However, only a very few people truly obtain a return (ROI: Return on Investment) commensurate with these investments. In fact, in dieting and the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases (metabolic syndrome), there exists an evasion-class hacking tool that is the most powerful, has immediate effect, and has an “initial investment of completely zero yen.” That is the interface you unconsciously operate every day, the “exercise of the jaw muscles (chewing).”

The Economics of “Abnormal Cost-Effectiveness” Produced by Chewing

The cost-effectiveness of “chewing well” stands out compared to any other health intervention (dietary restrictions/aerobic exercise).

1. Manufacturing “Homegrown Hormones” Without Relying on Supplements

“GLP-1 receptor agonists (commonly known as weight loss drugs)” prescribed at diet clinics are very expensive and come with the risk of side effects. However, the human body is equipped from the design stage with a factory that produces the ingredients of this expensive drug (GLP-1) from the intestines for “free.”

• The operating switch of that factory is precisely the physical stimulation of “taking time to crush hard things” (secretion mechanism related to E14). Just by biting down until it becomes completely paste-like for every bite at 3 meals a day, you can procure your own “satiety hormone” equivalent to or greater than saving tens of thousands of yen in drug costs every month.

2. Burning “Several Kilograms of Fat a Year” Without Going to the Gym

Calorie consumption through exercise (such as jogging) has the drawback of poor time-effectiveness (time performance) and a high risk of frustration.

• In contrast, chewing forcefully raises “Diet-Induced Thermogenesis (DIT)” (E03). In experimental data comparing fast eating and slow eating (chewing well), even with a meal of the same calories, postprandial energy consumption significantly increases when chewed. This “difference of several tens of kilocalories per meal” is equivalent to calories for several kilograms of fat if continued for 3 meals a day over a whole year. In other words, even without going to a gym that costs 10,000 yen a month, just chewing has the same economic value as obtaining a “constitution where fat burns on its own.”

Chewing as a “Medical Cost Reduction Hack” at the National Level

When expanding the perspective from the individual’s wallet to the nation’s medical expenses (national health insurance), the economic impact of chewing becomes even more tremendous (epidemiological model related to E06).

Lifestyle-related diseases (metabolic syndrome) such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are the biggest factors bankrupting the national finances. However, campaigns to “reduce calories” or “walk” have reached their limits because they demand the strong willpower (cost) of individuals.

What if we could use policy to slightly increase the “hardness (texture)” of bread and bento boxes sold at convenience stores and supermarkets, and design a food environment where all citizens “have no choice but to chew just 10 more times than now”?

• A dramatic suppression of blood sugar spikes due to a decrease in eating speed.
• A decrease in total calorie intake at the national level due to the normalization of the satiety center.
• A delay in the risk of developing dementia due to increased blood flow to the brain.

Just by slightly changing the utilization rate setting (tuning) of a “device that anyone can use for free every day (jaws and teeth),” it harbors the potential to blow away medical and nursing care costs on the scale of hundreds of billions to trillions of yen. You do not need to “add (buy) something” to obtain health. It is enough to fully operate the strongest asset you are equipped with as standard, “chewing power,” starting today.