Shop Local. Gray DC Bureau. Investigate TV. The CW. My NetworkTV. Latest Newscasts. What actually causes "butterflies" in your stomach? Published: Aug. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Ideally you would want this blood to be temporarily redirected to muscles in your legs so that you can run away slightly faster.
This also causes a release of adrenaline , which both increases your heart rate to pump more blood and faster , releases huge amounts of glucose from the liver, and shunts blood away from the gut.
However, this acute shortage of blood to the gut does have side effects — slowed digestion. The muscles surrounding the stomach and intestine slow down their mixing of their partially digested contents. The blood vessels specifically in this region constrict, reducing blood flow through the gut. So why do we call it butterflies? This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Probably you get a fluttery sensation in your stomach, aka, "you feel butterflies. And the absence of these distinctly physical symptoms can be just as telling as their presence. I can recall plenty of first Internet dates that I went into optimistically he sounded perfect in his profile!
My body did the talking and my mind listened. When I reached out to scientific experts for this story, I underscored that the focus was on a new romance or a crush rather than lust or passion. The butterflies feeling is partially your body saying I'm stressed but I'm motivated to do something or see this person again.
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