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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Even when it comes to body functions, some subjects are as universally relevant yet hardly discussed as bowel movements aka your poop schedule. Everyone poops, and while it is a natural and essential ...

Recent research has uncovered how bowel movement frequency can serve as a vital indicator of digestive and overall health. While it is often an overlooked topic in health discussions, the frequency of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Study assessed more than 112,000 individuals. Constipated participants had significantly worse cognition, equal ...