PremiumOpinionOpinion byTrisha PasrichaWashington Post·10 Sep, 2026 01:00 AM6 mins to readDr Trisha Pasricha is a physician and scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.Physiologically speaking, “gut feelings” are neurochemical signals that lead to a change in your stomach’s electrical rhythm. Photo / Getty ImagesI often get strong gut feelings when I meet a new person. Where do these come from – and are they a real thing?
You meet someone at a party and want to like them, but something feels off. It’s hard to pinpoint what it is, but you just get
