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🗓️ 14 August 2024
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Have you ever noticed your tummy sometimes makes a little grumbly rumbly sound when it’s time for a snack? What’s up with that? We asked Dr. Lily Dara to help us find the answer.
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0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
0:05.3 | Moment of um. |
0:11.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Barry, and I'm a speck of black pepper. |
0:18.0 | I have the best job in the entire world, seasoning your food. |
0:27.0 | My buddies and I live inside a pepper shaker on your kitchen table, waiting for the day that you decide to sprinkle us on a delicious meal. |
0:35.0 | Lots of nights, when the rest of my pepper buds are snoozen, I lay awake and imagine what kind of food I'll get to season someday. |
0:45.0 | Spicy Kimchi ramen, scrambled eggs, |
0:50.0 | Caesar salad, the possibilities are endless. But sometimes I get a little impatient. Like I can |
1:00.5 | hear your Tommy rumbling from across the room and I think come on just grab a meal and sprinkle me on it |
1:07.4 | I know you're hungry I mean I think a rumbly tummy means you're hungry, right? |
1:13.0 | Huh, why does it do that anyway? |
1:16.0 | Rosemary was just asking about this. |
1:20.0 | Hi, my name is Rosemary, and I'm from Dallas, Texas. My question is, why does your stomach |
1:26.1 | rumble when you're hungry? Hi, I'm Lily Dara. I am a gastrantroologist and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. and bowel and liver and pancreous disorders. So basically if you have a tummy ache or if you have |
1:54.6 | diarrhea or liver disease and you'd come to a gastronautologist. So to start off you have to understand what the GI system, the stomach and the intestines do. |
2:07.2 | Basically their job is to get all the good stuff out of food, what we call nutrients, |
2:11.5 | so that we can grow stronger and we can remain healthy. |
2:15.0 | In order to do that once you eat the food, the stomach and the intestines have to move around |
2:21.0 | and squeeze the food and turn it into smaller pieces. |
2:24.7 | Imagine you're holding a cracker in the palm of your hand, and when you make a fist, |
2:28.3 | you squeeze your hand muscles to break that cracker into pieces. |
2:32.1 | The stomach is basically like a balloon made up of muscles, and that's what it does. |
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