Chloe Melas Wants You to Talk About Your Gut
The NBC News correspondent was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2012 and told almost no one. On November 10 she publishes The Girl's Guide to Guts, written with Judy Batalion, about the parts of bowel disease women are rarely told.
Oct 30What do you think @heidiklum’s costume actually is?
with @robnunneryRob Nunnery has 19 pro pickleball titles, Crohn’s disease and, since January, a permanent colostomy.Oct 29
Oct 28Can rectal cancer be treated without surgery, chemo or radiation? For some patients, yes, and since October 19 it is an FDA-approved treatment.
Oct 28If you have ever felt rough the day after Halloween, a doctor wrote it up in 1992.
Oct 27Matthew McConaughey got on a New York subway to defend the morning poop. Your colon would like a word. It agrees.
Oct 26Everyone reads the protein on a Real Good tortilla. We read the third circle.
with @goodmoodbrewofficial and @autumncalabreseA can of Good Mood Brew’s Blueberry Lemon Matcha turns around to a label that reads like a prebiotic soda.Oct 25
Oct 25If you drink a ginger shot for your immune system, the research has bad news.
Colitis Took Hannah Witton’s Colon in an Emergency. She Put the Stoma on Camera.
A flare of the ulcerative colitis she has had since childhood put Hannah Witton in hospital for four weeks in…
Celiac Disease Found Gabby Hemond in Lockdown. She Went Looking for Her People.
In April 2020, in the first weeks of lockdown and the last weeks of college, a blood test told Gabby…
IBS Made Lottie Drynan Hide Her Stomach. Now She Teaches Self-Esteem in Schools.
For years Lottie Drynan checked her stomach in the mirror every morning and asked whether she was bloated. Then she…
Dr Carlton Thomas Made Anal Health Easy to Ask About. In 2022 He Took On Mpox.
In May 2022 a San Diego gastroenterologist who had spent two years answering questions about anal and rectal health on…
Matthew McConaughey Praises the Morning Poop. Waking Triples Colon Activity.
On a New York subway car, the actor gave SubwayTakes his case for the morning bathroom visit. The colon research…
The Tortilla Built for Protein Quietly Packs Nearly Half a Day’s Fiber.
Real Good Foods took its high-protein, low-carb playbook out of the freezer and into a flour tortilla this year, and…
Matcha Just Joined the Fiber Boom. Good Mood Brew Put 6 Grams of It in a Can.
Autumn Calabrese built a career on portion containers and a gut-health program before she put her name on a can.…
The Lunchbox PB&J Grows Up. Jams Baked Whole Grain Into the White Bread.
Jams built the lunchbox PB&J for the protein era and got it into Walmart, Target and a deal with the…
A Motion-Sickness Pill Cut Wegovy Vomiting by 27%, Half Its Early Result
Vanda says its pill NEREUS (tradipitant), already approved for motion sickness, cut vomiting after a hard 1 mg semaglutide dose…
CagriSema Averaged 25% Weight Loss in Women. Its Trial Found Gut Effects in 80%
Novo’s next weight-loss shot pairs two gut hormones that both slow the stomach. A new analysis put the average loss…
A Menopause Study Found Excess Bloating in Two of Three Women, at Every Stage
Researchers tracking more than 1,800 Canadian women aged 40 to 60 found bloating and gas were the most common gut…
UEG Week in Barcelona Tied More Antibiotic Courses to Higher Odds of IBS at 24
Europe’s gut doctors are meeting in Barcelona through Tuesday. We read the study releases UEG issued over its first three…
Hyrox Now Has a Rule About Bodily Fluids. In Hard Training, Bowel Leaks Are Common, and Mostly Gas
Hyrox added a bodily-fluids clause to its rulebook two days after its Beijing race, and the internet made it a…
Jade Thirlwall Can’t Burp. What “No-Burp Syndrome” Is, and the Honest Answer to Her Question About Botox and Her Voice
The Little Mix singer says she has never been able to burp, and wants the throat Botox but worries about…
Why Beer Gives You Diarrhea and Liquor Doesn’t
Oktoberfest pours 6.5 million litres a year in one-litre mugs, and the morning-after question has a folk answer that is…
“Halloween Diarrhea” Is a Real Medical Paper. Here’s the Candy It Describes.
A 1992 paper named the sorbitol trick; Hershey has already announced twenty Halloween products and the “better-for-you” candy is on…
A Rare Salmonella Is Back in Raw Oysters, This Time Traced to One Virginia River
Federal investigators count 27 people in 12 states sick with Salmonella Telelkebir in an outbreak linked to raw oysters from…
Lidl Recalls a Coffee Gelato for Listeria. Keeping It Frozen Won’t Make It Safe.
One lot of Gelatelli Coffee & Vanilla Gelato sold at Lidl US stores in nine states and Washington, D.C. is…
Yes, Diarrhea Can Be Sexually Transmitted. It Is Called Shigella, and We Read the Numbers Behind This Week’s Headlines
The phrase in this week’s headlines is real, and so is the bacterium behind it. We read the CDC’s April…
The Frozen Berry E. coli Recall Just Reached Trader Joe’s. Here’s Every Lot Code to Check
On October 2, the supplier behind this summer’s frozen blueberry outbreak added six more lots to its recall: five sold…
What 25 Hours Without Food or Water Does to Your Gut, and Why the Break-Fast Bagel Hits So Hard
Yom Kippur begins at sundown on September 20, and the questions arrive on schedule: why the headache, why the bathroom…
How to Not Poop During a Marathon, According to the Research
Djokovic threw up his way out of the US Open and said it has been every match this year; Berlin,…
Let Loose’s SH*T Shoes: How a Disco Pump Became Gut Health’s Smartest Object
The $69 seven-inch platforms you are forbidden to walk in sold out a size in their first week, and the…
Chicory Coffee and Your Gut: The 12-Gram Problem
The caffeine-free “gut coffee” rose 2,600% on TikTok in a single month, and unusually for a wellness trend, there is…
Why the Dining Hall Does That to Your Stomach, Per Actual Science
Every August the dorm-bathroom confessionals return, and underneath the bit is a question nobody credible has answered. One university actually…
Gut Bacteria That Cannot Survive Open Air Are Passed Between Individuals
A bacterium that dies on contact with air cannot have drifted across a gap. Finding the same one in two…
What Moving to a City Does to the Gut Microbiome, Across Ten Communities
The familiar version says city living thins out the gut microbiome, everywhere, the same way. A survey of 575 people…
CAG-170: The Gut Bacteria That Keep Turning Up in Healthy People
Nobody has ever grown it in a laboratory. It is known only as the 170th cluster of genes that rise…
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