MedStar Health Blog

The liver is your largest internal organ, and it performs a range of vital functions, including: Filtering and cleaning your blood of waste products and toxins. Creating bile, ...

Recurring upset stomach? Battling a bloated gut all too often? Diarrhea affecting daily life? Celiac disease could be the cause. An estimated 2 million people in the U.S. live with this chronic diges...

Living with Crohn’s disease can feel like a rollercoaster. Some days, your symptoms may be quiet or barely noticeable. Other days, they can come back suddenly and hit hard. These periods are called f...

If you’ve been feeling bloated, tired, or dealing with an upset stomach after eating foods like bread or pasta, you might have started to wonder, “Could it be gluten?” For many peop...

You might be used to thinking of bacteria as bad, but your gastrointestinal tract is actually home to trillions of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that aid in digestion, support your immune...

This article was written by Hilary Hancock BSN, RN, CWON.   From the day we’re born, or at least the day we’re potty trained, we come to expect that using the toilet is a fact of lif...