Gastroenterologists share what your stool’s buoyancy can reveal about your digestion, diet, and overall health.

A little help from fiber can get things moving smoothly.

The urge to poop occurs when your rectum fills up, triggering receptors in the anus to signal the brain: go poop. The longer the stool sits in the rectum, the more water is absorbed from it, making it ...

Prunes, coffee, oats, popcorn, bananas and legumes sometimes get a bad reputation, but they can be powerful allies for ...

The next time you go number two, you should take a peek in the toilet. (You should actually be doing this after every bowel movement, doctors say.) While certain things such as blood in your poop and ...

Your body has a best time to poop, and it is often in the morning. This is linked to your internal clock and digestion. Eating breakfast and drinking coffee can help. Regular morning bowel movements ...

Scientists have found an ideal frequency.

Whether you call it poop, No. 2 or a bowel movement, it’s about time we got more comfortable talking about it. As the kids’ book taught us: Everyone Poops. Our stool can share secrets about everything ...

Throne, a startup based in Austin, has developed a toilet add-on that measures gut health through things like frequency, ...

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