Some medications may disrupt the “good” bacteria in your gut microbiome, potentially affecting your digestive and overall health.

Antibiotics are not always needed, especially for viral infections. Improper use can harm the body and disturb gut health.

Advances in medicine and technology have made humankind less worried about serious ailments. Many have become complacent, knowing that these illnesses have corresponding treatment options.What people ...

More and more, it may seem that the answer to common health quandaries leads to a single culprit: our guts. The gut microbiome – the ecosystem of bacteria and other tiny organisms that live in our ...

For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ancestors that serves no real purpose. That view is now outdated. A ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A growing body of research suggests that the gut microbiome may influence the hormonal and metabolic disruptions seen in PCOS. Scientists now propose that postbiotics, bioactive ...