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A gurgling , rumbling stomach does n’t always mean that you ’re hungry . It just means yourdigestive(die - JES - tiv ) organisation is trying to do its job , move nutrient through your body and getting thenutrients(NEW - tree - ents ) that give you energy and help you produce . As your dead body take in these nutrients and gets disembarrass of intellectual nourishment permissive waste , though , your stomach empty out and often seems to get noisy !
Yourgastrointestinal(gas - tro - in - TES - Sn - uhl ) nerve pathway plays a big role in make a motion food through your body . It ’s a kind of long tube that consort from your mouth ( where the food goes in ) to your anus ( where the stern comes out ) . Along the way , the food passes through your stomach . A grumble tum intend the muscles in your abdomen and diminished intestine are squeezing together to push food , liquidity , and petrol through your gastrointestinal tract . That grumble gets a lot louder when your stomach is mostly empty .
When the muscles in your venter and small intestines are campaign everything along after a big meal , all the nutrient packed inside muffle the phone . But if it ’s been a while since you ’ve corrode , most of that food is go . alternatively , your belly and intestines contain mostly air and only a trivial liquid and food . So when the muscle of the venter and small intestine squeeze , those gurgling flatulence and liquid inside your empty stomach are easier to listen .
Watch thisD News videoof a doctor using a pliant bag , a tube , and some water to establish ( or show ) how an empty stomach piddle noise .
