The time it takes for ingested food to travel through the human gut - also called transit time - affects the amount of harmful degradation products produced along the way. This means that transit time ...

Your digestive system isn’t just processing your lunch – it’s running a sophisticated intelligence operation that could save your life by detecting diseases years before they show up anywhere else in ...

Millions of neurons in the gastrointestinal tract coordinate their activity to generate the muscle contractions that propel waste through the last leg of the digestive system, according to a study of ...

For decades, medical understanding of Parkinson’s disease focused exclusively on the brain, specifically the death of dopamine-producing neurons that control movement. This narrow view shaped ...

The stomach contains something called the pylorus, which connects the stomach to the duodenum. The duodenum is the first section of the small intestine. Together, the pylorus and duodenum play an ...

In recent years, Americans have grown more aware of gut health, with gastrointestinal-friendly products such as fermented goods or probiotics increasingly in vogue. Digestive health was a $40 billion ...

When meals are taken late at night, the body is not in an optimal state to process food effectively, which can have both ...