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Have you ever had a "gut-wrenching" experience? Do certain situations make you "feel nauseous"? Have you ever felt "butterflies" in your stomach? We use these expressions to describe emotional reactions because the gastrointestinal tract is sensitive to emotion. Anger, anxiety, sadness, elation: all of these emotions and many others can trigger symptoms in the gut.