Why does our stomach growl when were hungry?

Answer 1

It is letting in water.

Answer 2

Growling happens when your stomach walls squeeze together in an attempt to mix and digest food and there's no food there. Gases and digestive juices slosh around in your empty stomach and before you know it - borborygmi.

Hunger really has nothing to do with an empty stomach but, instead, is a product of certain nutrients missing in the blood. Our brains contain a "hunger center," which functions as an accelerator, or as a brake, for our stomachs and intestines. Once necessary nutrients are lacking from the blood, the dinner bell is rung, and the stomach and intestines come rumbling.

The active stomach and intestine aren't picky as to what foods will satisfy them, and will grab anything they can. It is the role of the appetite to rein them in, and to ensure that the growling duo are satisfied, but with a healthy balance of the proper nutrients.

That is where your common sense comes in. And NOT a good time to go grocery shopping. Stay away from the chips!

Answer 3

Dr. Dean: Of course, you know that your intestines are constantly propelling food and liquid through your intestines. This is called peristalsis.

I once did a story that had to do with knowing when to burp a baby. I used my son, Aaron, as a prop. You shake the kid, which is not a good idea, but if you shake a child and hear gurgling noises, they need to be burped.

Here is another example: If you take a quart of milk in a plastic container and you shake it and it?s full, it?s not very loud. But if you pour out half of the milk and shake it, it?s very loud. This is because the air interface would be liquid, and this allows the liquid to make a lot of noise. If you shake a bottle that?s completely full, you don?t hear any noise at all. So if your intestines were completely full of liquid and matter, and the stomach and intestines were doing their jobs, you really wouldn?t hear very much at all.

You have long intestines, and anything you?ve eaten in the last 24 hours, or even longer, could be in those intestines. So what you had to eat, how much air you swallowed, and when you ate is probably the critical factor. A lot of carbonated beverages or beer and swallowing air and things like that would add a lot of air to your intestines, along with the food. The gurgling sound comes from that.

That does not mean that there aren?t diseases that would cause this. There are a few diseases that will increase this, but I think you would have a sore tummy, you?d be sick, or you?d know something was up. The medical word for this is borborygmi; it?s the sound that you intestines make.

Answer 4

That's how stomachs talk to each other. If you were another stomach, you would hear the growling stomach say to it's owner, "feed me, or your large intestine is going to pay!" Simultaneously, you would growl together to share a snicker.

Answer 5

wen u eat ur body turns all that into gastric juices. then it passes thru ur intestines. if u havn eatin, theres no juices, jus bubbles, mostly gas bubbles [don worry fart gas isn stinky til it leaves the body]. the sound of the bubbles movin thru ur intestines creates that sound, so its not that ur hungry [altho u prolly r becuase it takes a few hours to digest food so if its empty u havn eatin for that long] its jus tellin u ur stomach is empty. short adn sweet. if u hav questiosn ask. ill star it so i can check agin. thnx!

Answer 6

it is just air travelling up from the intestines, since there is no food in the stomach, it can't stop it from "growling"

Answer 7

It's growling cuz it's mad for not having food. Feed it, make it happy, and it won't growl any more.

Answer 8

It is essentially empty. There are folds in the stomach called rugae...and these folds rub together causing the "growling" sounds.

Answer 9

That is your stomach moving food into the intestines.

Answer 10

Cause it's a jungle in there and when the Lion King is hungry............

Answer 11

Because your stomach can't talk to you!