In a recent study published in Nutrition, researchers investigated whether a high-refined carbohydrate (HC) diet and associated metabolic alterations could cause small intestinal dysregulation.

How much guts does it take to survive? Nature supplies man with an average 25 feet, four-fifths of it in the small intestine (comprising the duodenum, ileum and jejunum). Through the small intestine’s ...

For several years surgeons of the Mayo Clinic “have been becoming more & more fearful of operating on the keen, nervous, active, hard-living, ‘go-getting’, sales-manager type of man” who comes to them ...

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Mice fed a diet high in fat, cholesterol and calories, akin to the Western diet, had higher measures of blood lipids associated with elevated levels of inflammation, a new study finds. Mice fed a diet ...

The gut microbiome is an important ecosystem of microbes that lives in each one of us, and its strength affects our overall health. However, the small intestine is an underappreciated part of the gut ...

In order to know the adaptive changes of small intestine regions (duodenum, and proximal, medial and distal jejunumileum) due to the reproductive stage (virgin, pregnancy and lactation), the weight, ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Yassen Abbas, Hailey Sze, Christiana Skarlatopoulou, Ashley A. Spreen, Elizabeth M. Boazak, William R. Thelin, and Tomasz Kostrzewski which was ...

Surgery for a rare gut problem in infancy caused this woman to develop a calcified stone decades later. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Enteral feeding, also called tube feeding, is a method of feeding that provides nutrition and calories when a person can’t chew or swallow. This generally involves providing nutrition through a tube ...