Gastric Emptying

Process Gastrointestinal

How fast the stomach passes food on. Incretin drugs slow it, which is what makes a smaller meal feel like enough, and also what causes the nausea and the fullness that will not clear.

Relationships

2 connections

Gastric Emptying reduces risk of

Nausea

The dose-limiting side effect of every incretin drug. It comes from the same delayed gastric emptying that produces the appetite drop, so it is not separable from the mechanism, only titratable.

Gastric Emptying stimulates

Appetite

Hunger drive. Some compounds raise it sharply and others kill it, and either can decide whether a diet phase works.

Beyond this page

Gastric Emptying also connects to 2 entries in the applied modules, covering supplements, compounds, hormones and food sources. Those carry the mechanism and the evidence tier behind each link, and they are part of client coaching.

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