The last stage of digestion is excretion. When you have bowel movements, you are removing all the material from food that your body couldn't use. Typically, your body has already removed essential ...

Knowing if our digestion is “normal” or “abnormal” can help us to know whether we need to improve our digestive health. My goal with this column is to help you better understand how to identify ...

If you notice that your stool always floats in the toilet, it could be a sign that your body isn't properly digesting ...

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A functional medicine doctor and a gastroenterologist share their checklist for what a healthy poop should look like. Does yours check these four boxes? People say that perfection is overrated.

People go to many extremes to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but generating green stool shouldn't be one of them. Your morning trip to the bathrooom revealed you may have had one too many green beers ...

We aren't walking nearly as much as usual, and a gastroenterologist says that can lead to indigestion. Here's the benefits of walking for digestion. “During quarantine our diets are very much ...