Intense emotions are correlated with a change in our stomach’s pH Grace Cary/Moment RF/Getty Images
Having a 鈥済ut feeling鈥 about something may not just be a metaphor. New research suggests that feeling intense emotions is accompanied by changes to our stomach鈥檚 pH.
at the Sapienza University of Rome and her colleagues asked 31 men with an average age of 24 to swallow a commercially available smart pill that measures pH, temperature and pressure in the gut.
They then watched a series of videos that elicit disgust, fear and happiness while the sensor travelled down their gastrointestinal…
