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| Is there a biological explanation behind the everyday expression about how extreme fear may cause the loss of bowel control? |
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| the sympathetic nervous system is responsible. in a time of fear, At the same time it sends a signal to your stomach to stop its contractions, and to your small intestines to stop peristalis, your sympathetic nervous system is actually stimulating muscular movement in your large intestine. |
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| Hoe is the irritable bowel syndrome related to the experience of stress? |
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| What kind of stress causes weight gain? What type of stressors result in weight loss? |
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| What happens to the digestive process under stress? |
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| Loss of appetite or you could be hyperphagic which means you eat more and digestion halts in immediate short term stressful situations |
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| What causal factors other than stress account for most instances of gradually developing duodenal ulcers? |
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