In general, it will take four to six hours for your stomach to digest food. However, it can take between 2 to 5 days for food to move through the intestines and exit the body. You can't speed up ...

Digestion and gut health begin the moment we take a bite of our food. Enzymes in our saliva break down carbohydrates, and as the food moves down the esophagus, it enters the stomach where acids and ...

Using new technology, researchers at UC Davis and Stanford University are able to study microbes and metabolism in different parts of the human digestive system for the first time. (Getty Images) Most ...

Eating bananas regularly is a powerful strategy for gut health due to their unique fiber composition. The primary benefit ...

You’ve spent good money on organic produce, grass-fed meats, and probiotic-rich foods. You’ve ditched the processed junk, maybe even gone gluten-free or tried the latest gut-healing diet. Yet somehow, ...

If not for the digestive system, everything we ate or drank, would come down straight into your poop. The digestive system, as the BBC describes, is an astonishing food factory where magic unfolds. As ...

Increased consumption of teas rich in catechins is associated with reduced risk of stomach, colon and other gastrointestinal cancers. However, the effects of digestion on the anticancer activity of ...