It can take six hours for the small intestine to do its job. The nutrients are sucked from the inner surface of the small ...

When you have short bowel syndrome, a large part of your small intestine is either removed or damaged and doesn’t work. The small intestine is the part of your digestive tract that absorbs most ...

The Mediterranean diet is rich in two sources of fiber. Your body processes soluble fiber into a healthful gel in the gut; ...

Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine. In ...