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

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 ...

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

A little help from fiber can get things moving smoothly.

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

If we’re being totally honest here, most people are a little obsessed with poop. It makes sense. While talking about poop is considered taboo in pop culture, it’s a consistent activity in your ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. It may not come up in everyday conversation, but ...