There’s actually a scientific word for the noises your stomach makes. Since your stomach is empty, those gas and air pockets make a lot more noise that you hear as stomach growling. The stomach muscle contractions also help to make you hungry, so you eat more food that your body needs. This process cleans up any food that was missed earlier. A couple of hours after you eat, your stomach sends signals to your brain to get your digestive system muscles working again. That’s probably why we associate stomach growling with being hungry. When your stomach is empty, though, these sounds are much easier to hear. That’s because the food absorbs some of the sound. They’re not as loud when you have food in your stomach. It is these pockets of gas and air that make the sounds you know as stomach growling. Gas and air bubbles also get into the mixture. And it happens at all sorts of times - not just when you’re hungry!Īs the muscles of your digestive system push food through the digestion process, the food gets broken down to be used by your body. It’s just a friendly reminder that your body is always working to keep you in tip-top shape.Īlthough it might sound like growling coming from a throat, that rumbling and grumbling you hear comes from the stomach and the small intestine. Everyone’s stomach growls, gurgles, grumbles or rumbles from time to time. Do you really need your stomach to chime in with groans and weird sounds? Probably not! So why does it do that? What’s up with that? You probably already knew you were getting hungry. When a stomach starts growling, it can sometimes be loud enough for the whole class to hear! Has your stomach ever started growling so loud that it seemed like it wanted to ask the teacher a question? Perhaps it wanted to ask, “ When is lunch?” In fact, it may start distracting the whole class. You’re trying hard to pay attention, but your stomach starts distracting you. It’s a couple of hours since you had breakfast.
Does this sound familiar? You’re sitting in class in the middle of the morning.
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