2006-11-08 01:27:37 · 13 answers · asked by dek 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I understand i haven't eaten, thus, I'm hungry. But what changes in the body (when I'm hungry) to signal a pain?
2006-11-08 01:38:56 · update #1
Maybe becuase you have a tendancy to each 4 steaks and 5 potatoes in the one sitting!
2006-11-08 01:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by rebeccakelly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digestion of food in your stomach involves the secretion of a number of enzymes many of which work in acidic conditions . Hydrochloric acid is also secreted to maintain the acidic conditions for the enzymes to work. Wheh you are hungry, you are low on food and the acidic content of your stomach start working on your stomach wall 'digesting if you like'. This is why it hurts.
When you chew gum for instance, your salivary glands secrete more enzymes, your whole digestive system gets a signal that more food is coming, these acidic enzymes are secreted more. If no food comes in, they 'attack' your stomach wall.
This is the same principle with having a big meal just before you go to bed and waking up extremely hungry.
These acids are powerful, stomach ulcers are a good example of how much damage they can do!!
2006-11-08 10:21:31 · answer #2 · answered by Chinwe A 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because everyone receives different stimuli in different ways... depending on how your body adjusted itself as you were growing up.
If your body subconsciously associates the feeling of the empty stomach movements as pain.... then it will hurt.
The only cure for that is to try and dissociate that association.... and convince yourself that its not pain... that it just means you're hungry. That should fix the issue.
2006-11-08 09:30:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how often you eat. If you have changed your eating paterns then this could be one of the reasons. Another reason could be is your need filling it up. You're just eating enough to say that you have eaten.
2006-11-08 09:39:47 · answer #4 · answered by no.#1 Mom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because your stomach acid begins to digest your stomach. All the growling is the noise from this. Of course your stomach can handle the acid... but only for so long! Chewing chewing gum makes it worse also.
2006-11-08 09:31:02 · answer #5 · answered by tera_the_giga_dragon_bytes 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think its the same reason it makes noise, its something to do with the acid in your stomach turning over!! Its more scientific then that but I heard somethin like that before!1
2006-11-08 09:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gas pains. Makes the tummy growl.
2006-11-08 09:29:43 · answer #7 · answered by robert m 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because you haven't eaten!
2006-11-08 09:29:29 · answer #8 · answered by mayoroflondon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it can't speak to you to ask you to feed it.....don't let yourself get that hungry it's the start of an eating disorder...
2006-11-08 09:32:21 · answer #9 · answered by twinsters 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's your body's way of telling you to eat soon.
2006-11-08 09:29:46 · answer #10 · answered by mark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋