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What causes our stomach to growl?
Stomach growling occurs when the
stomach receives signals from your brain to begin digestion but the stomach is
empty. Your brain might sense you're running low on energy (glucose) or even
seeing or smelling something you want to eat can get things going. The motion
of the stomach muscles begins, but the organ is hollow. The movement of the
muscles mixing the acids of the stomach in the hollow space of the stomach
produces vibrations we hear as growling, or rumbling, or gurgling.
The obvious solution is to eat, but this is not
always practical. Because your body responds to things that you do daily I
suspect that people who eat on very regular schedules may be more susceptible
to this problem. For example if the stomach receives food at noon every day
(like fifth grade students), then the body will expect food at noon, whether
food is present or not.
So what does the large intestine do to the undigested
food?
The undigested food enters the large intestine as a liquid paste. In the large intestine water is removed from
the liquid paste turning what is left into solid waste. Remember, liquid paste
to solid waste. The solid waste then collects in the rectum at the end of the
large intestine and will finally leave the body through an opening called the
anus.
Stomach growling occurs when the
stomach receives signals from your brain to begin digestion but the stomach is
empty. Your brain might sense you're running low on energy (glucose) or even
seeing or smelling something you want to eat can get things going. The motion
of the stomach muscles begins, but the organ is hollow. The movement of the
muscles mixing the acids of the stomach in the hollow space of the stomach
produces vibrations we hear as growling, or rumbling, or gurgling.
The obvious solution is to eat, but this is not
always practical. Because your body responds to things that you do daily I
suspect that people who eat on very regular schedules may be more susceptible
to this problem. For example if the stomach receives food at noon every day
(like fifth grade students), then the body will expect food at noon, whether
food is present or not.
So what does the large intestine do to the undigested
food?
The undigested food enters the large intestine as a liquid paste. In the large intestine water is removed from
the liquid paste turning what is left into solid waste. Remember, liquid paste
to solid waste. The solid waste then collects in the rectum at the end of the
large intestine and will finally leave the body through an opening called the
anus.