When it comes to intestines, it sure seems like two are better than one. I asked my friend Franck Carbonero why that is. He’s a microbiologist at Washington State University. He studies the bacteria ...

The gut microbiome is an important ecosystem of microbes that lives in each one of us, and its strength affects our overall health. However, the small intestine is an underappreciated part of the gut ...

The digestive system is like a big food factory inside our bodies. Its job is to break down the food we eat into smaller pieces so that our bodies can absorb the nutrients from the food to help us ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Dr. Alexander Lake, Gastroenterologist at AdventHealth, joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to emphasize the vital importance of the small intestine in digesting food and how its ...

Microbiome research to date has been much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. How much can be said about an elephant by examining just its tail? Researchers have studied what is most ...

The US humorist Christopher Morley once described the human body as “an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”. He wasn’t wrong: from our cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to our guts and urinary ...