Results for Digestive & Liver

People often wonder how one can maintain a healthy liver to avoid the complications associated with chronic fatty liver disease. Research…

Scientists across the globe have long studied the link between the brain and the digestive system. Previous studies have tied brain networks and how they influence the gastrointestinal tract or vice versa. Food has a unique effect on humans as food tastes or flavors often dictate food-seeking behaviors. So is the palate the only thing that controls food choices among humans?

A low-carb diet can help you lose weight or manage a health condition, but it isn't without risks. When you restrict carbohydrates, you eat fewer refined sugars and flours -- which is a good thing. It can often mean you're eating fewer fiber-rich foods, too, such as whole grains and fibrous veggies and fruits. ...

Scientists are becoming increasingly certain that all the stuff we put through our digestive system is making a major impact on our state of mind.

Yes, you can have your cake and eat it, too! Improved digestive nutrition enables better health when you make better, not perfect, choices more often. Aiming for perfect will make you perfectly stressed, which will challenge digestion further, and as such be perfectly unhelpful and unhealthy. Here are six suggestions to help clients get optimal digestion and absorption up and running:
Move more. The body’s digestive tract is a series of muscles whose ongoing movement enables better digestion.

Conditions that affect the spinal cord may affect the gastrointestinal tract. Learn more.

AIM FloraFood® contains three essential, friendly bacteria that support a healthy intestinal tract and a well-functioning digestive system. Did you know friendly bacteria can also benefit weight lo…

For patients with liver disease, getting another acute disease such as hepatitis or influenza may be more serious than for people without liver disease.

Can your liver survive the snacks you munch on? Dutch research shows that if you snack on the wrong foods, you both damage your liver and expand your waistline.

Dr. Caroline Apovian discusses whether fat or carbohydrate overfeeding is more likely to lead to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.