Why does our tummy grumble when we are hungry?!
Question: First off, your stomach doesn't have the enzymes to digest fats. Triglycerides are stored in your cells and are metabolized in your cells.
What is happening is that when you are hungry, you think about, and anticipate food. Your brain recognizes this, and releases hormones that prepare your stomach for food. Your stomach responds by contracting (as it would when there is food in it) and when there is no food, what you hear is a grumbling sound.
Also, your stomach doesn't literally "eat itself." The enzymes that are in your stomach are activated by the acids that are secreted in your stomach once food is in there. If your enzymes ate away at your stomach lining consistently, you would be in BIG trouble.
Answers: First off, your stomach doesn't have the enzymes to digest fats. Triglycerides are stored in your cells and are metabolized in your cells.
What is happening is that when you are hungry, you think about, and anticipate food. Your brain recognizes this, and releases hormones that prepare your stomach for food. Your stomach responds by contracting (as it would when there is food in it) and when there is no food, what you hear is a grumbling sound.
Also, your stomach doesn't literally "eat itself." The enzymes that are in your stomach are activated by the acids that are secreted in your stomach once food is in there. If your enzymes ate away at your stomach lining consistently, you would be in BIG trouble.
I think it's because it's the sound of the stomach starting to digest stored fat.
it is because the digestive enymes in your stomach are eating the mucus that line you stomach and it makes that grumble noise you hear because its eating itself
i read a science book once, and it said that the sound is your intestines rubbing togeather. lol.