Are you surprised to find out what happens when your stomach makes a growling sound?

You are probably familiar with the sensation of your stomach rumbling when you are hungry; but, are you aware of the reason why our bodies produce that sound? The solution is making individuals regret ever learning the truth.

Never again will we be able to look at our tummies rumbling in the same way.

Imagine the following scenario: it is midday, you have not yet finished eating your sandwich since you have not yet moved away from your desk or workstation, and you hear that familiar grumble emanating from your stomach. Surely, this indicates that you are hungry, right? To be sure, such is the case; yet, one physician believes that this is not the true meaning of the noise. It turns out that our bodies are really constantly creating that fairly frightening gurgling sounds on the inside; the difficulty lies in the fact that we are often unable to hear any of it.

According to the explanation provided by the physician, the rumbling sound originates from our small intestines, and it is brought on by the contraction and squeezing of your digestive system when digested food is consumed.

For what reason, however, do I hear it rumble when I am hungry?

Your stomach is not the source of the growling sound that you hear. Your intestines, more especially your small intestine, are the culprits in this case. The noises that you hear are the sounds of your gut pipes constricting and applying pressure to digested food, which is referred to as chyme, as it travels through your internal plumbing. In the human world, it is analogous to squeezing the bottom of a tube of toothpaste in order to extract the last bit of toothpaste.

The growling is not something that occurs just when you are hungry, as is often believed; rather, it occurs at all times of the day and night, and the majority of the time, you are unable to hear it unless you are listening with a stethoscope. It is normally much louder when your digestive system is empty, which indicates that you are probably overdue for a meal and there is no food there to function as a biological sound dampener. This is the reason why many believe that it indicates that you are hungry.

The food that you consume, in addition to any other symptoms that you may be experiencing, can also cause your stomach to growl more loudly. "Other things which can make this sound even louder include excessive air swallowing, stress, fizzy drinks, feeling nervous, irritable bowel syndrome."

In the event that you do experience loud stomach rumbling, sipping peppermint tea will be of assistance to you. "The menthol in that helps to relax the walls of the intestines and can alleviate pain and bloating too."

A friend me said his girlfriend's stomach growls loudly when we sleep together. She always eats before bed, so what could be the reason to why her stomach is growling so loudly at night?

I eat, and my stomach growls. I don’t eat, and my stomach growls. I only eat a little bit, my stomach growls. And if I eat a lot, my stomach growls. It’s really embarrassing. How can I prevent my stomach growling?

My stomach can’t growl but it tries to. I can feel the gas build up but instead of releasing and “growling” it stays there and becomes painful. What is wrong?

What does a stomach growl actually look like?

It isn’t really your stomach, it’s your small intestine.

We swallow a lot of air over the course of the day. Some comes back up the esophagus (burping or belching), some works its way through to the other end (flatus or farting), and most of it is just absorbed through the intestinal wall into the blood.

Abdominal growling (called borborygmus) occurs when the small intestine becomes extra active. Intestinal peristalsis causes air bubbles to pass back and forth through the liquid contents of the intestine and produce noise and abdominal vibration (Stomach rumble

It’s not usually associated with hunger. A doctor with a stethoscope can hear it just about any time; in fact, the absence of borborygmus is abnormal and may indicate serious disorders in need of medical attention, such as intestinal obstruction or ileus . Although it goes on all the time, it’s only occasionally that it’s strong enough to be heard by ear to ourselves and those nearby.

Perhaps the reason we associate it with hunger and mistakenly think it comes from an empty stomach is that noise is more random and just calls our attention to our abdomen (“stomach,” misnamed). It might make us realize it’s been quite a while since we’ve eaten, or make us think more of an empty stomach, which we had been ignoring until the borborygmus occurred.

To what extent it actually has anything to do with an empty stomach (probably not), or if so, why, seems to be one of those physiological questions for which there’s no generally agreed explanation yet.