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Health: Why You Hear Funny Sounds In Your Stomach When You Are Hungry by mustyhboy(m): 11:15pm On May 11, 2015
Today I found out why your stomach growls
when you are hungry.

Generally speaking stomach growling, or as the
Greeks named it and Doctors call it today
“borborygmi” (which is an onomatopoeia), is the
noise created during rhythmic muscle
contractions in your stomach and intestines.

Your digestive system is one big long tube that
goes from your mouth to your butt, with a lot of
interesting biological machinery in-between.

How the body gets food through this long tube is
accomplished via waves of muscle contractions,
called “peristalsis”, that run a few inches at a
time all down your digestive track. These waves
of muscle contractions also serve to mix and
churn foods, liquids, and digestive juices
together. The resulting cocktail is called
“chyme”....

These waves of contractions are really not too
dissimilar to how your heart beat works, creating
fluctuation of electrical potential in the smooth
muscle cells, which causes the muscle to
contract in a rhythmic fashion- in this case,
called the “Basic Electrical Rhythm” or BER.

This rhythm is about 3 times per minute in the
stomach, and 12 times per minute in the small
intestines. The sound you are hearing when your
stomach and intestines make noise are the result
of these muscular contractions mixing and
moving the chyme along, as well as pushing any
resultant air through your system.

So why does your stomach seem to growl more
when you are hungry? When your stomach and
intestines are empty, it triggers a reflexive
generation of waves along your stomach and
intestine muscles that trigger contractions, even
though there isn’t really much of anything in your
stomach that needs moved along.

These are
meant to clear out all of your stomach contents,
including the mucus, any remaining food,
bacteria, etc. It’s your body’s way of doing a
little house cleaning, making sure no food or
other matter is accumulating anywhere along
your stomach or intestines. It’s typically this
that you are hearing when you’re hungry.

You might be asking yourself, “Well if my
stomach is doing these contractions even when
I’m full, moving food along, why don’t I hear them
all the time?”

To answer that, think of the stomach as hot
water bottle. When it is full and you slosh the
contents around, there is little to no noise,
depending on just how full it is. The less you
have in it, the more noise the sloshing makes.

This is pretty much exactly what is going on with
the stomach only the muscles lining the walls of
your stomach and intestines are doing the
sloshing as they push the contents of your
stomach and intestines towards your derriere.

So how does one avoid stomach growling when,
say, you are in a quiet classroom taking a test in
school or a quiet open office space?

The best tip of course is to eat something. But
to do this relatively continually without over
eating, one needs to eat a series of small meals
throughout the day instead of a few large ones.
This is also in fact better for you anyways. So
probably the best way to go.

For those of us who stick to the few “big meals”
way of eating though, in order to avoid the
sometimes embarrassing growling, I’ll share two
tricks of my own device; though I’m sure many
others out their have discovered these. Both
tricks amount to accomplishing the same thing,
but in two different ways.

The first trick is, when you feel a growl coming
on, to take something like a pencil and quite
literally push it hard into your stomach area
(eraser end first of course).

If you push it hard enough, it will literally
compress a part of your stomach, giving it much
less space to slosh or even stopping it from
being able to slosh at all temporarily.

I’ve found just pushing on the stomach area with
your hand, tends to not work as well. Something
small and thin like your finger or a pencil, seems
to work better; probably to do with focusing on a
small surface area and specifically on your actual stomach instead of just pushing your upper belly
with your hand which also pushes some of your
other organs, so less effective.

The second trick is, when you feel a stomach
growl coming on about 10 or 15 seconds before,
take a really deep breath; as deep as you can.
Then hold your breath until you feel the growl
sensation pass.

This effectively does the same thing as the
previous method, but from the inside with your
lungs expanded pushing down on your stomach
and compressing it so that it can’t slosh things
about.

The “pencil method” works better, but this is a
pretty reliable backup and is hands free.

If anybody else has any good tips they’ve figured
out on stopping stomach growling in potentially
embarrassing situations when you can’t get food
or if anybody’s used my above two methods in
the past.

feel free to share and comment below.

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Re: Health: Why You Hear Funny Sounds In Your Stomach When You Are Hungry by siegfried99(m): 11:18pm On May 11, 2015
Ok grin
Re: Health: Why You Hear Funny Sounds In Your Stomach When You Are Hungry by Pinkiedearie(f): 11:23pm On May 11, 2015
Thanks...Op
Re: Health: Why You Hear Funny Sounds In Your Stomach When You Are Hungry by ciskenn(m): 11:56pm On May 11, 2015
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