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If worms show up in the toilet, the cleanse worked. If they don't, one company's FAQ told buyers it was working anyway, because "70% of parasites are microscopic."

The claim that you're more bacteria than human shows up everywhere, including on two US government websites that don't agree with each other.

If you've just been told you have irritable bowel syndrome, this is the plain version of what that means.

In a survey of high school football players, about one in seven took an anti-inflammatory every single day. Twenty-three trials have asked whether that does anything for performance.

Google ties skipping breakfast to your heart, your brain, your metabolism, and your cholesterol. It skips your stomach.

Poppi paid $8.9 million to settle a lawsuit over calling its soda "gut healthy," and it had run its own study on the drink before that.

Rats and mice can't throw up at all. You can, and the order to do it doesn't come from your stomach.

The sperm and egg that made you carried no bacteria, so every one of the trillions in your gut right now came from somewhere else.

Surgery to take out the colon stops ulcerative colitis from ever coming back. The UK's national colitis charity still says there's no cure.

The burn after a dose isn't random. Ibuprofen does something very specific to the lining of your stomach, whether or not you ate first.

Each of these five has a big following and at least one trial that tested it.

The warning on the bag says "excess consumption may have a laxative effect," and it never says how much is excess.