Pooping a lot during your period is common. It’s typically related to your changing hormones. Your menstrual cycle can also affect the smell and texture of your stool. Oh yeah — period poop is totally ...

Do you find yourself overwhelmed by stress, parenting challenges, trauma, anxiety, or grief, and feel like you’re struggling to manage difficult situations? If so, you are not alone, and there is help ...

Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...

Jenna Demmer is a writer and editor that specializes in health. She has covered many topics including infectious diseases, women's health, mental health, sleep, and more. She has written for more than ...

When you pour a glass of wine or you crack open a beer, you know the alcohol will affect your brain and maybe your mood. But it also affects your digestive tract. How much alcohol you drink and even ...

Sweet-smelling stool can be a sign of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection, a bacterial infection that often develops after antibiotic use disrupts the normal gut ecosystem. C. diff infection ...

It may be the stinkiest debate of the year. A Hyrox athlete has divided the internet after losing control of her bowels mid-race and refusing to stop, raising questions about whether she should have ...

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries. By K. R. Callaway An extremely well-preserved bird feather from the age of ...

Every sport eventually gets a national scandal. For cycling there was doping. For football there was Deflategate. And for Hyrox, a fitness race that asks you to use equipment thousands of strangers ...