When you get nervous or anxious, and get the ‘butterfly’s’ in your stomach feeling, what is that?

Question

When you get nervous or anxious, and get the ‘butterfly’s’ in your stomach feeling, what is that?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Adrenaline. It’s the same feeling you would get just before skydiving, or when confronted by a wild bear. It gets your heart pumping faster, increase sensitivity in your extremities, displacement of blood, extra utilization of oxygen for increased brain function, etc. Adrenaline.