Constipation happens to nearly everyone at some point, but chronic constipation becomes more common with age. Defined as having constipation symptoms for three months or longer, chronic constipation ...

Sticky poop is often the result of a high-fat diet, but sometimes, a health condition can be the cause. Being aware of the consistency of your stool is an important step in maintaining healthy ...

Foul-smelling stool on its own is usually not a sign of cancer. Generally, it comes from diet or harmless digestive issues.

The study shows that the faecal metabolome – the collection of molecules, or ‘metabolites,’ in stool produced when the gut and its resident microbes break down the food we eat – can capture the ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Grey poop can be caused by liver issues or gallstones blocking bile flow.It's important to ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough method to track diet using stool metagenomic data. Developed by researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), the new method, called MEDI ...

Traces of sweet potato, peanut, chili peppers, papaya, and more were found in coprolite samples from Puerto Rico. The study looked at the coprolites from two pre-Columbian cultures called the Huecoid ...