Examining gut health from a different angle, Flinders University’s Associate Professor Robyn Meech is looking at what can trigger colon cancer – and she believes bile acids may provide a significant ...

Bile acid is a liquid substance your liver produces to aid in food digestion. Your body usually releases bile at the correct levels based on the food you eat. But sometimes your body produces too much ...

Could bile acids--the fat-dissolving juices churned out by the liver and gallbladder--also play a role in immunity and inflammation? The answer appears to be yes, according to two separate Harvard ...

Bile is a greenish-yellow liquid made and released by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. It aids in the digestion of food and fluids by breaking down fats into fatty acids. Your body then takes ...

From coffee to protein bars to olive oil, people make many decisions every day about how they fuel their bodies. However, colorectal cancer risk typically is not front of mind when choosing what to ...

A research team has made further progress in the treatment of intestinal inflammation. A study shows that the semi-synthetic bile acid NorUDCA inhibits in the intestine the formation of ...

Bile is a digestive fluid produced by the liver to help in the digestion of fat and absorption of nutrients. However, if you experience reflux (the flow of stomach contents into the esophagus), you ...

Metabolites—small molecules within cells, biofluids, tissues or organisms—play an integral role in various diseases, and ...

In medicine, treatment goals set by physicians might differ from patient priorities. Although normalisation of laboratory parameters is a target supported by outcomes data, patient perspectives ...

Forget what you know about bile because that's about to change, thanks to a new discovery. Forget what you know about bile because that's about to change, thanks to a new discovery made by Michigan ...