The sympathetic system is the “fight or flight” component, and directs energy and blood to skeletal muscle and other organs that will need the energy and in turn directs energies away from the gastrointestinal tract.Thus in the digestive system, it slows things down by slowing peristalsis, closing valves and sphincters, and decreasing blood flow to the digestive tract

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