gut health

Laxatives are having a major cultural renaissance — so much so that soaring demand for the drugs is reportedly causing a national shortage.

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A new study shows that resistant starch has an astonishing ability to help prevent a range of hereditary cancers, cutting risk by 60 percent.

Scientists in the UK say fecal microbiota transfers, aka poop transfers, made older mice reverse aging in their eyes, guts and brains.

A man drank shigella bacteria, which causes excruciating dysentary and tweeted the week-long process in stomach-churning detail.