The meaning of your poop color can tell you a lot about your diet and overall health. Normal poop color is light to dark brown, but stool comes in different colors. You might occasionally notice your ...

Everybody poops, but only some of that poop fossilizes, turning into coprolites. While ancient droppings may sound gross — after all, who wants to go digging through feces that are centuries or even ...

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer for how often you should poop, but when it comes to what color your stool should be, expert consensus is much narrower. And deviations from it can be a cause for ...

In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...

Much of the food you eat is absorbed by your digestive system, which includes your stomach and your intestines.

This is because fiber bulks up and softens your stomach contents, improving transit time through your gastrointestinal (GI) tract, explains Carolyn Newberry, MD, gastroenterologist at ...