Many people think constipation is merely an annoyance. Nothing could be further from the truth. The longer stool sits in your colon, the more chemicals, antibiotics and growth hormones from the food you eat get reabsorbed into your body. And we wonder why colon cancer is on the rise…

Some intestinal diseases don’t cause any pain. That doesn’t mean they’re not causing damage. And you should know the signs because these sneaky and dangerous conditions are connected to many other chronic diseases.

Most Americans don’t know that most chronic diseases begin from what we put into our body and how well it is processed to exit the body. It’s time we get back to these critical, but simple, laws of health, and learn why a healthy bowel is critical to nearly all other aspects of real health.

Pain unnerves us. It hurts. And we want to know why. Some types of pain frighten us, like chest pain. Other types are more common and we tend to put off looking into their causes, at least until we are very uncomfortable. Abdominal pain often falls into that latter category.

You may not have diabetes. But here’s something everyone eating foods from the standard western diet should know.

If you have painful inflammation of the digestive tract and you have difficulty processing foods, no one needs to tell you any more about the problems conditions like Crohn’s disease can be.

As the gluten-free revolution gains momentum, more people are discovering that gluten sensitivity — including celiac disease (an autoimmune disease caused by reaction to gluten) — lurks behind their troubling health symptoms.

What are prebiotics? They’re different from probiotics, though many people just assume they’re pretty much the same thing. Both provide beneficial actions in the gut, but it’s not a matter of getting enough of ‘either or.’ It may, however, be a matter of the future of mankind.

You know that nutrition is the predominate factor leading to good health. Food allergies are notorious for promoting inflammation in the gut that also robs you of vital nutrients. These tips can help you avoid the pitfalls of poor gut health and guide you to some testing to zero in on the source of your problem.

Before you start that diet you promised yourself this year, be sure to prime your body to make the best of it by resetting your digestive system.

There’s growing evidence that medications taken by millions of Americans are fueling the nation’s obesity epidemic by robbing you of your natural ability to burn calories on a constant basis.

Influencing nutrient absorption, immune health, hormone balance, cognitive function and more, digestive health directly affects a wide range of critical processes in the body. How does yours stand up?