Most people don’t often talk about their bowel habits, but how often we go to the bathroom can actually reveal a lot about how our digestive system is working. When the gut doesn’t move things along ...

Scientists studying genetic data from over a quarter million people have uncovered new clues about what controls how fast the gut moves. They identified multiple DNA regions linked to bowel movement ...

DNA variations tied to vitamin B1 processing help explain why higher thiamine intake is linked to more frequent bowel movements in many people.

SEATTLE – Everybody poops, but not every day. New research by the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) suggests bowel movement frequency is linked to long-term health. An ISB-led research team examined ...

On a special episode (first released on March 27, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: We eat for a variety of reasons, most importantly to sustain life. Unsurprisingly, the decisions we make about what we ...

Get ready—we need to talk about something a bit, um, off-color right now. “Poop!” says Parsley Health nutritionist Adrienne Dowd, with enough enthusiasm to warrant an exclamation point. “It’s ...