T alking about bowel movements can be embarrassing. If you think something is "off" with your routine, you may not feel ...

Looking at participants’ self-reported data, researchers grouped their poop patterns into four sub-sections; constipation ...

Dr. Crystal Antoine-Pepeljugoski told The Post that it’s healthy to answer nature’s call every day or every two days, but ...

Yet, how often we poop, how long it takes to do it and what our poop looks like can actually reveal a lot about our health. We talked with three gastroenterologists about how often you should be ...

How often should you poop? It’s one of those questions that doesn’t come up in polite conversation, but everyone secretly wonders about it. From once a day to a few times a week, everyone’s ...

Scientists found that gut-healthy bacteria thrived best in the one to two bowel movements a day group. But the paper said that if left too long in the bowels, poop bacteria begin to ferment ...

A wide range of colors is usual. In infants, the main reasons for changes in stool color are age, diet, and health. The poop of newborns is almost black, while older infants tend to have yellow or ...

Poop can also be something nutritious, useful and actually eaten (again) in its own right, three researchers point out in the December issue of Animal Behaviour. Tallying just the examples from ...

it's not necessarily uncommon for your poop to change color occasionally and temporarily due to a health issue, medication side effect, or dietary cause. Grey poop or pale-colored stool is usually ...