How often you poop may influence more than whether you’re uncomfortably bloated. The frequency may also affect your gut microbiome and risk of chronic disease, a new study has found. Gut bacteria that ...

On a special episode (first released on March 27, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: We eat for a variety of reasons, most importantly to sustain life. Unsurprisingly, the decisions we make about what we ...

SEATTLE – Everybody poops, but not every day. New research by the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) suggests bowel movement frequency is linked to long-term health. An ISB-led research team examined ...

(CNN) — How often you poop may influence more than whether you’re uncomfortably bloated. The frequency may also affect your gut microbiome and risk of chronic disease, a new study has found. Gut ...

A study published in Cell Reports Medicine delves into the intricate relationship between bowel movement frequency (BMF), blood metabolites, and kidney function within a healthy cohort. It offers a ...

Doctors have long used the guideline of three bowel movements per week up to three per day as normal, based on surveys of thousands of healthy people with no gut diseases, or medications affecting ...

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