Whether stress affects digestion
Health / / December 19, 2019
Layfhaker learned a gastroenterologist Anna Jurkiewicz why before the exams and interviews do not want to eat.
For some people, stress stomach ache, someone just a piece will not go into the throat. Reactions are different, and we asked the experts, why it happens and how our stomach is associated with feelings.
Anna Jurkiewicz
Gastroenterologist. Author blog about nutrition and health of the digestive system.
What is stress? For some it is a passage in the subway, for someone - a flight in an airplane. In any case, the gastrointestinal tract somehow respond to the excitement of the action of the autonomic nervous system.
The autonomic nervous system is responsible for the internal organs, it functions autonomously and continuously. The power of thought, we can not affect the bowel, stomach and other organs. Therefore, whether we like it or not, in response to the experiences produced by stress hormones, like adrenaline.
Under his influence, the muscles of the gastrointestinal tract relaxes, slows motility, sphincters reduced. Here you have one of the explanations for pain in the right upper quadrant after stress: in this area are projected bile ducts with their sphincters, which are sensitive not only to errors in
foodBut also to stress.As for the digestive system, the stress at the time under the influence of all those same hormones switched mode "fight or flight". The main flow of blood goes to the heart, brain, muscles, so if something happens to have time to escape or fight back. In this situation, the gastrointestinal tract does not receive adequate blood supply, thus slowing down the process of digestion.
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