Experts weigh in on the best supplementals to help to break down protein, fats, and carbohydrates into simpler compounds that ...

Probiotic supplements aren't regulated and contain a wide spectrum of bacterial species. Here's some reasons why you haven't ...

For a general pick-me-up, registered dietitian and author of The Everything Easy Pre-Diabetes Cookbook, Lauren Harris-Pincus, ...

The digestive system is essential to helping your body break down food so that it can adequately retrieve nutrients and vitamins while also getting rid of waste. It’s composed of the following organs: ...

If you have these common digestive symptoms, drinking less may help. By Alice Callahan When we published an article last year about the various ways alcohol might change your gut microbiome, the ...

One of the telltale signs of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) — a condition in which the pancreas fails to produce enough digestive enzymes — are loose, oily stools. But some people with EPI ...

Carrageenan is a food additive derived from red seaweed used to thicken and stabilize processed foods. While its degraded form, poligeenan, increases cancer risk, carrageenan does not. Carrageenan is ...

Everyone has bacteria in their gut. They play a key part in digestion. But these bacteria live mostly in your large intestine, or colon, not your small intestine. When too many of the wrong kind of ...