Did you know that April was in 1997 designated IBS Awareness month by the International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD)? The purpose is to not only raise awareness about the disorder but to also show people suffering from IBS that they are not alone....
The discovery of antibiotics in the 1920s was a great milestone in medicine saving the lives of billions of people suffering from a variety of bacterial diseases. Unfortunately, it's become a common practice nowadays to overuse antibiotics even in instances when they...
About 1.5–2 kg of bacteria resides in the human gastrointestinal tract. It is estimated that there are more intestinal bacteria than there are cells in the body. The dominant bacterial species in the colon are bifidobacteria and bacteroids while the flora of the small...
