Surely more than once he has put you in a bind.That sudden sound in the stomach, that cheeky purr that twists your guts at the least appropriate time: an elevator, a meeting, at the cinema, or simply, when everyone is casually silent...why does it happen to us, what causes that biological protest of our stomach?
When our stomach roars
They sound like the water that escapes from the pipes when we shower, right? Somehow, and even if you do not believe it, it is almost the same mechanism: this sound is caused by the movement of the intestines when they drive food through them.It always occurs twice, when we are hungry and when we are doing digestion.
Curiously, it is precisely when we are hungry that we tend to protest more at our intestines, when the sound is louder.Therefore, we must put aside the responsibility of only the stomach responsible for such impudence.There are also the peristaltic movements of our intestines, these small pipes through which the food passes.It is they who through these movements obtain the nutrients, knead, mix and pour chemical compounds to be able to do the digestion.A cluster of chemical processes where it is usual to release gases and air as a sound bubble.
But there is still more.When the stomach is empty, after two hours hormones emerge that make us wake up the sensation of hunger, thus stimulating the nerves of the stomach that make a signal to the brain, so that in this way the contraction of the muscles of its walls begins, in order to collect the remains that may remain of the previous meals both in the stomach itself and in the intestines.
These contractions generate sounds, and they will do it every 10 or 20 minutes for every hour until we sit down again to a tasty dish, or that we fool it with a snack to hang out and "cheat on hunger". Add also that the reason why they sound more intense when we have an empty stomach, is precisely because the intestines are hollow and the sound obviously spreads better.Just smell, see or imagine something we want to devour, and, instantly...our guts will start to "roar."
Image : Bruce Tuten
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