Clear, research-informed reads on how your gut works and how to take better care of it.
It happens to a lot of travelers, it has been measured, and the usual explanation is dehydration.
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Almost no teenager eats enough fiber, and TikTok wants you to fix that by tonight.
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You can have a bowel movement every single day and still meet the medical definition of constipation.
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Plenty of people get stomach trouble from energy drinks, and the explanations for why don't agree with each other.
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These drugs work by changing what your stomach does, and the trial that tested one of them in teenagers wrote down what that felt like.
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Berberine gets called nature's Ozempic on TikTok, and the comparison starts in your gut.
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One of Google's suggestions for "do detox teas" is "what toxins does detox tea remove." A group of young scientists asked the companies.
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Your stomach doesn't work the same at 10 p.m. as it does at 8 a.m., and researchers have fed people late dinners to find out what that does.
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In 1984, a doctor drank a beaker of bacteria to prove a point about ulcers.
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Cleveland Clinic calls a side stitch "a painful spasm of your diaphragm." Researchers have caught people in the middle of one and checked.
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Mastic gum, probiotics, and broccoli sprouts all get sold as a way to clear H. pylori, and each of them has been put in a trial against the bacteria.
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One Stanford study is behind every post telling you to eat more kimchi, and only 18 people in it ate the fermented food.
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