How to Handle a Rumbling Stomach

8 main reasons

Hunger: You smell delicious food and immediately have a rumbling in your stomach. Your brain signals your stomach to produce the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin, which causes your intestines and stomach to contract. This is what causes the rumbling sounds.

• Overeating: Food, liquid, and digestive juices mix with the air we breathe in. Together, they pass through the digestive tract, causing the rumbling sound. This most often occurs when we overeat.

• Liquid after eating: Drinking too much makes it harder to produce gastric juice and impairs digestion.

• Lack of fluids: Water saturates the body with moisture, cleanses it, and prevents unpleasant sounds in the stomach.

• Eating foods that cause gas: Some foods are hard to digest and cause flatulence and rumbling....