As the longest part of your digestive tract, the small intestine is responsible for assisting with digestion, waste removal, and the absorption of nutrients. Stretching as much as 20 feet ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Dumping syndrome is a collection of symptoms that happens when food is dumped too ...

The large intestine is wider than the small intestine. But it’s much shorter – about 5 feet long when stretched out. This part of digestion is slower. It can take 3 days. That’s because ...

The saliva and the gastric juices help break it down. But that process of digestion is really completed in the small intestine. The small intestine then absorbs all of those broken-down nutrients. It ...

SIBO is when bacteria that normally live in your colon start growing too much in your small intestine. Diagnosing SIBO is tricky. There’s no perfect test, and symptoms like bloating and gas can ...

Digestion begins before you even open your ... enzymes that break down the food until it slides down into the small intestine, then the large intestine and finally, one to three days after eating ...