We know that people respond differently to different food products, and that glucose responses change in individuals depending on what they eat. Because the small intestine is the region of the ...

Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD Small intestine cancer is a rare cancer that develops in the tissues of the small ...

What drew you into gut microbiome research? I work with people who suffer from functional gastrointestinal disorders and have a myriad of symptoms, many which change over time. These diseases are ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

If not for the villi, the small intestine would need to be more than two mileslong to do its job of absorbing nutrients from food. About 1kg (2Ib) of bacteria live in the gut. And up to 400 types ...

A new study from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen increases our knowledge ...

The food additive carrageenan (E 407) can be responsible for the development of chronic inflammatory bowel disease, ulcers, and increased blood sugar levels in animals. DZD researchers have now ...

This is true of both our respiratory and our digestive systems. The tissue shown here is from the small intestine of a mouse; the blue spots are goblet cells, which produce protective mucus. All the ...

They found increased permeability of the small intestine, most likely due to intestinal inflammation. The food additive carrageenan (E 407) can be responsible for the development of chronic ...