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Why Your Stomach Growls Without Hunger
Why Your Stomach Growls Without HungerStomach growling is not a hunger-only alarm. After meals it is often peristalsis mixing food, liquid, and air. When the gut is emptier the same motion sounds louder, and during fasting the hormone motilin helps drive a cleanup wave called the migrating motor complex.
Duration: 5:48
- Cleveland Clinic — Motilin
- stomach-with-christine-lee-md- StatPearls — Gastrointestinal hormones (motilin)
- is-borborygmi-1942951- WebMD — Why does my stomach growl?
- my.clevelandclinic.org
- verywellhealth.com
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