Introduction In the past, doctors didn’t start cautioning their patients to get their yearly colonoscopy until age 50 or up. But today, that kind of thinking is being drastically reconsidered. This is because colon cancer is very much on the rise in much younger populations and is being seen more and more in the 20-35-year age group and 35-45-year age groups. The death rate from colon cancer is sharply increasing in the 20- 54-year age…
Crohn’s disease is a chronic, debilitating, as yet incurable inflammatory bowel disease that can cause lesions and inflammation of the gut and bowels. Patients with Crohn’s disease typically experience stomach pain, severe diarrhea, nutritional deficiencies, fatigue, and weight loss. Crohn’s disease affects everyone differently, attacking different areas of the long digestive tract. Unfortunately, the inflammation Crohn’s disease causes to develop in the body spreads from the intestinal tract to the bowel tissue and can lead…
Do you give your digestive system as much credit as it deserves? Every ounce of energy that your body uses comes from the tireless work of your complex gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Being such an integral part of the human body, it’s important to understand that the digestive system is susceptible to a number of different diseases. Even though between 60 to 70 million people are affected by a digestive system disease, it’s something that’s rarely…