Colonic irrigation cleanses the colon and helps remove harmful toxins from the body. The procedure is performed at such facilities as spas. This typically involves a practitioner administering an ...

Colonic stent placement as a bridge to surgery shows similar survival to emergency resection while reducing stoma rates in obstructive colorectal cancer.

Medically reviewed by Sonal Kumar, MD Key Takeaways Colonics are meant to remove toxins and improve health, but may not be ...

A team led by clinicians and engineers has wrapped the plant-derived polyphenol pterostilbene (PSB) into prebiotic ...

Figure 1: Colonic transit time correlates to gut microbial diversity and composition. Figure 2: Identified urinary metabolites associated with colonic transit time. Enterolactone-glucuronide, a ...

Irrigating your colon doesn’t sound pleasant, but practitioners claim it can provide numerous health benefits like improving digestion and weight loss. However, doing a colon cleanse doesn’t come ...

Figure 1: A defined strategy for deriving colonic organoids from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Figure 2: Global gene-expression analysis of hESC-derived COs or SIOs. In summary, we established a ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Colonic polyp' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The medication(s ...

Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway that leads to increased insulin production. While their previous work ...

Ever wonder what it's like to get a colonic? The author of this article got one, and she tells it all. Because the writer's job is to write about what he or she knows, it's sometimes necessary in this ...

It had been a steady passage from alternative to mainstream for colonic irrigation – but that could change after researchers have rubbished the treatment’s benefits, and cautioned about its side ...

Michael Perrine has lead the sort of life that should be made into a movie, or at least TV biopic. As a teenager, he turned to cheap alcohol to self-medicate his anxiety. He was drunk every day. One ...