Remember the last time you pooped, stood up, turned around, and carefully took note of your log’s shape and texture?… No? Can’t recall? Well, according to gastroenterologists, you might want to start.

GLP-1 medications can alter bowel movements, with constipation and diarrhea being the most common side effects. These drugs slow digestion to help control appetite, which can lead to changes in stool ...

Forget checking your Oura ring data. If you really want insight into your health, you should check out your poop. Even if you don’t go to the lengths of mailing your excrement to a team of scientists ...

Enterobius vermicularis, or pinworm, eggs. A parasite found in stool. Once upon a time, in a cave just north of Durango, Mexico, someone took a poop. In fact, it was quite a few someones, and these ...

In the wake of massive, peaceful “No Kings” protests against him and his polices, President Donald Trump responded like a mad king, disgracing the office he holds by posting an AI video showing him ...

"Ghost poop" is a bowel movement that seemingly disappears without a trace after you flush the toilet. There’s no sign of it either in the toilet paper that you used to wipe your butt or in the toilet ...

You could be flushing money down the toilet. The GoodNature Program offers donors the chance to help others and cash in on their crap, literally. Through the company’s stool donation program, poop is ...

If you're one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you've found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big ...

Much of the food you eat is absorbed by your digestive system, which includes your stomach and your intestines. But some of what you eat makes it all the way through those twists and turns and comes ...

Forget the fictional miseries of prestige TV’s one percent; in the documentary, Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, Netflix delivers a stomach-churning tale of a luxury escape gone wrong that’s all the more ...

Move over, Marie Kondo, there’s a new approach to decluttering that’s taking over social media. It’s a little juvenile, and more than a little gross, but it’s sparking joy for people who are ...

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. If coffee is a regular part of your diet, ...