Stomach bloating: Experts advise incorporating a certain hormone to reduce symptoms how – Express

New research published inThe Journal of Physiologyfound that oxytocin, known as the love hormone, plays an important role in stress' disruption of digestion including bloating, discomfort, nausea, and diarrhoea.

Stress is known to disrupt gastrointestinal functions and causes a delay in how quickly food leaves the stomach.

This delay in gastric emptying causes bloating, discomfort, and nausea and further perpetuates colon transit, which causes diarrhoea.

Researchers found that oxytocin, an anti-stress hormone, is released from the hypothalamus in the brain which acts to counteract the effects of stress.

For a long time, the actions of oxytocin were believed to occur due to its release into the blood with only minor effects on the nerves within the brain that regulate gastrointestinal functions.

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