Caz
Repeat Offender
My stomach is rumbling a fair bit at the moment, and I've spoken to a few other people who say the same. So I thought I'd share my knowledge with you guys.
It's called Borborygmus (which almost sounds like the sound my stomach makes!) and is caused by the fact that my stomach is practically empty. Gas is produced in the stomach from the digestion of the food that you've eaten. The walls of the stomach contract to squish up the food inside it to aid with digestion. As the walls contract it pushes that gas through the contents of your stomach, which will be fairly liquid because of digestion. With Cambridge Diet it's basically all liquid, which makes it worse, but because there's no or little food there, there's nothing to dampen down the sound. So the answer is, it always happens, but you hear it more when there's no food inside your stomach.
So that kind of brings up the question of if there's no food to move around, why does my stomach still sound like the rumblings of the Loch Ness Monster?? It's because our bodies naturally respond to the desire for food with preparing the stomach for what it thinks you're about to go and eat. So I guess the reason that it's happening more on this diet is because my desire our food is higher because we don't get any! But as it's a reflex response, as we carry on with this diet and desire food less, or get more used to not having food, our stomachs will actually be trained not to expect certain meals or meals at certain times, get used to the smaller intake as it shrinks, and so it'll be less noisy!
It's called Borborygmus (which almost sounds like the sound my stomach makes!) and is caused by the fact that my stomach is practically empty. Gas is produced in the stomach from the digestion of the food that you've eaten. The walls of the stomach contract to squish up the food inside it to aid with digestion. As the walls contract it pushes that gas through the contents of your stomach, which will be fairly liquid because of digestion. With Cambridge Diet it's basically all liquid, which makes it worse, but because there's no or little food there, there's nothing to dampen down the sound. So the answer is, it always happens, but you hear it more when there's no food inside your stomach.
So that kind of brings up the question of if there's no food to move around, why does my stomach still sound like the rumblings of the Loch Ness Monster?? It's because our bodies naturally respond to the desire for food with preparing the stomach for what it thinks you're about to go and eat. So I guess the reason that it's happening more on this diet is because my desire our food is higher because we don't get any! But as it's a reflex response, as we carry on with this diet and desire food less, or get more used to not having food, our stomachs will actually be trained not to expect certain meals or meals at certain times, get used to the smaller intake as it shrinks, and so it'll be less noisy!
Anyone know?
