The transplant of older poop actually seemed to boost the health of their ovaries. Consistently, young mice that received ...

Gastroenterologists share what your stool’s buoyancy can reveal about your digestion, diet, and overall health.

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Prunes, coffee, oats, popcorn, bananas and legumes sometimes get a bad reputation, but they can be powerful allies for ...

The urge to poop occurs when your rectum fills up, triggering receptors in the anus to signal the brain: go poop. The longer the stool sits in the rectum, the more water is absorbed from it, making it ...

New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal sample. Reading time 4 minutes The bacteria that live inside our digestive ...

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Having to poop midrun happens more often than you might think (or hope). In fact, this experience is so common that there’s a term for it: runner’s diarrhea, a.k.a. runner’s trots. If you’ve had loose ...

Colon cancer in people under 50 years of age is on the rise. According to a new study published in January by the Journal of American Medical ...