A common vitamin found in everyday foods may play a role in how often people go to the bathroom, according to a large new study. Researchers found evidence that vitamin B1, also known as thiamine, is ...

Drinking hot water in the morning is a practice used in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda to "wake up" the digestive system.

Brain cells are increasingly being found outside the brain, and now researchers have identified specific neurons in the abdomen that control some aspects of digestion. Not all brain cells are found in ...

For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion. The finding, reported in the journal Nature, ...

Various nerves control bladder and bowel function, including the spinal cord, cauda equina, pudendal nerves, and the enteric nervous system, a nerve network in the walls of the digestive tract. These ...

Silent dehydration often hides behind everyday symptoms like fatigue, headaches, dry skin, dark urine, constipation, sugar ...