If you've eaten and your stomach is still growling or making noises then it can be caused by gas buildup in your stomach or your stomach is just slowly digesting the food.
It's normal to get stomach growling and stomach noises even when you've eaten and are not hungry.
To stop your stomach from making noises try drinking more water, ginger tea, eat more slowly, avoid over eating, limit gas producing foods and chew more slowly and walk after you eat.
To speed up digestion before bed you can drink some ginger tea.
The ginger tea can help your digestion speed up and work more quickly and so you can sleep much better after eating.
It's also best to not eat any food within 30 minutes of going to sleep.
Your digestion does slow down at night while you sleep but you still digest food when sleeping.
Also consider taking probiotics or eating foods with probiotics such sauerkraut.
Kombucha can help with digestion since Kombucha contains probiotics which help improve digestion and digestive health.
Probiotics are good live bacteria that helps with gut health so you can have improved digestion.
Yes digestion of food is slower at night than during the day.
At night your digestion slows down because your Gastric Emptying is slowed down during REM sleep.
Full digestion of food after eating takes between 6 hours to 8 hours for the food to be digested and then be pooped out through your bowels.
The stomach digests the food and then sends the waste through your intestines and bowels where the waste product of the food is then pooped out eventually.
Your stomach acid digests the food.
Food does still digest when laying down but the food when lying down doesn't digest as good or fast as it does when sitting up or standing up.
Our bodies were made to digest the food we eat while we are in an upright position and laying down right after eating can lead to digestion issues and indigestion.
So it's best to wait 30 minutes to an hour after eating before laying down to allow your body to digest food properly.
If you lay down too soon after eating then you can have heartburn and indigestion issues.
But your body still does digest some food while you're laying down but your body should be in the upright position to get most of the food digested before laying down.