You may understand the respiratory and digestive systems as separate entities but, in many ways, the two are intimately connected. For example, breathing provides oxygen to help your digestive tract ...

The best time to take digestive enzymes is usually within the first few bites of a meal, Dr. Bedford says. “You want the enzymes to be mixed in with the food as digestion begins,” he says. (In the ...

Sometimes your stomach needs a gentle reset, and I’ve learned that the most healing foods are often the simplest ones. After ...

Your liver is essential to your good health. The liver is an important part of the digestive system. It performs more than 300 different function in the human body. Learn more about the liver.

When it comes to gut health, one of the most important, and also overlooked, is gut transit time. This factor determines how long food takes to travel through the digestive tract. Although there are ...

Stomach cancer presents many nutritional challenges. Here are some tips to help you manage symptoms and boost nutrition during treatment and after surgery. Stomach cancer is the fifth most common type ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...