KNIVES OUT; A Movie I Can't Recover From.

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Good evening everyone just want to share a little experience I had or rather share a discovery from the movie I watched titled Knives out

The film was actually about a wealthy man that died and investigations were actually made to discover who killed the man. While on the investigation I discovered a young girl by name Marta in the film that keeps throwing up each time she lies. Marta is like Pinocchio, but instead of lies elongating her nose as in the case of Pinocchio, they make her vomit.
Well in the movie she said she pukes each time she lies, and I was so curious to find out what that actually meant, so I had to go online searching for it. And below are my little discoveries about the word Puke

Meaning:-
Puke can refer to literal vomiting, but it just as often describes how something makes us feel. While puke isn't considered offensive, it may be considered impolite when people are eating.

Synonyms:-
vomit, throw up, retch, cough up, bring up, regurgitate, heave, gag, be sick, get sick, chunder, chuck up, hurl, spew, do the technicolor yawn, keck, honk, sick up, boke, spit up, barf, upchuck, toss one's cookies, blow chunks.
Some one that pukes is called puker or a vomiter.

Now on researching I discovered that when ones body enters this extreme anxiety state and goes into sort of a fight-or-flight response, it results in a surge of hormones, and those hormones can absolutely cause gastrointestinal symptoms.

Now Dr. Margolis says. “So, you know, lying, I’ve never really heard of that or seen it in real life, but certainly under anxiety-provoking conditions, if someone was to be extremely anxious about lying, certainly they could get gastrointestinal side effects as a result of all of these things.”
Dr. Margolis also said that, “There’s a lot of work done that the brain and the gut communicate to each other, and there are highways of communication that happen regularly.”

If one may ask why does the brain care about honesty? Here is the answer; As social animals, our reputation is paramount.
Consequently, most people work very hard to maintain an image of trustworthiness and integrity.
Knowing that dishonesty risks irrevocable damage to one’s reputation, lying is an inherently stressful activity. When we engage in deceit, our respiratory and heart rates increase, we start to sweat, our mouth goes dry, and our voice can shake. Some of these physiological effects form the basis of the classic lie-detector (polygraph) test.

People vary in their ability to tell a lie due, in part, to differences in the brain. To take an extreme example, sociopaths lack empathy and therefore do not exhibit a typical physiological response when lying. Liars can also pass a polygraph if trained to stay calm during the test. Similarly, innocent people may fail the test merely because they are anxious about being hooked up to the intimidating equipment. For these reasons, the accuracy of polygraph testing is heavily contested.

In contrast, brain imaging studies are proving to be much more informative for learning about the body’s response to lying. Symptoms of anxiety arise because lying activates the limbic system in the brain, the same area that initiates the “fight or flight” response that is triggered during other stresses. When people are being honest, this area of the brain shows minimal activity. But when telling a lie, it lights up like a fireworks display. An honest brain is relaxed, while a dishonest brain is frantic.

Short-term and long-term effects of lying on health and well-being

Two doctors were recently questioned about Marta’s peculiar reaction to lying. Speaking to Fast Company, gastroenterologist Kara Gross Margolis of the Columbia University Medical Center stated that she has never seen a patient that suffers from chronic vomiting after lying. Nor has David A. Johnson, a gastroenterologist at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Speaking to Slate, Johnson said, "Never, at least in my 42 years of experience, has it [chronic vomiting] been brought up that it was specifically around a lie."

However, both experts mention the so-called gut-brain axis as a plausible mechanism behind a regurgitative reflex. The gut-brain axis refers to the two-way communication that takes place between these two bodily systems, explaining why we sometimes get butterflies in our stomach when nervous. Kara Gross Margolis admits that “significant anxiety can lead to nausea and vomiting,” opening the door for such a condition to exist in someone who is constantly worried.

In addition to short-term stress and discomfort, living a dishonest life would seem to take a toll on health. According to a 2015 review article, constant lying is associated with an array of negative health outcomes including high blood pressure, increased heart rate, vasoconstriction, and elevated stress hormones in the blood.

Other studies suggest that long-term effects could be minimal since it appears that we get more comfortable with lying the more we do it. In other words, we develop an unsettling tolerance to being devious.

Brain imaging experiments conducted by Tali Sharot at University College London show that the brain adapts to dishonest behavior. Participants showed reduced activity in their limbic system as they told more lies, supporting the idea that each lie makes lying easier. In addition, the findings support the adage that small acts of dishonesty can escalate into larger ones. If true, Marta’s tendency to vomit after lying could diminish over time as her brain adapts to being dishonest.
So after my much research I discovered that one can puke when actually telling lies, but later when the brain is use to dishonesty the individual doesn't puke or vomit again because the body system is now used to dishonesty.

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Well its was really nice researching on this, I have learnt a whole lot, if you would want to learn more, please click on the links below, I am sure it will definitely go a long way to help.

References:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90435565/we-asked-an-expert-if-that-stomach-turning-condition-in-knives-out-actually-exists

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pleased-meet-me/202001/the-truth-about-lying-and-what-it-does-the-body

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Nice piece and a good reasearch. Thanks.

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