This past year held many enlightening revelations, particularly about how and why we poop. Check out our favorites here. New Year’s might just be my favorite time of the year. Apart from swanky NYE ...

How often you poop is highly personal, but there is a range that’s considered “normal.” Now, research suggests that the range should be a little narrower than doctors previously thought—and that how ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Here at Health, we wanted to get to the bottom of ...

A person’s rectum, which is usually around 20 centimeters (cm) long, can hold up to 300 milliliters (mL) of feces before someone typically feels an urge to poop. However, research suggests that the ...