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 ...

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

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

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

Small bowel neuroendocrine cancers start in the neuroendocrine cells of the small bowel. Neuroendocrine cancers are a group of cancers that develop in cells of the neuroendocrine system. You might ...