What is causing the feeling around your stomach that happens when cringing or stressing out?
In: Biology
Your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight system) is designed to draw blood away from your less vital organs (including your stomach) to instead fuel your brain and limbs in the event that you threatened and need to move. The sensation you are feeling is the nerves in your stomach reacting to the limited oxygen supply you’re getting and the constriction of blood vessels in your stomach as the rest of your body hogs the blood.
Unfortunately, your body can’t tell apart social stress from life-or-death fights, so everything that makes you anxious can set off those feelings in your gut.
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