Love literally goes through the stomach. Or better said, through the intestines, because intestinal bacteria influence the mood. Or have [...]

The intestine can digest much more than "just" food: A network of around 100 million nerve cells runs through the entire gastrointestinal tract and [...]

Bubbling, growling, mumbling: Stomach and intestines like to make themselves noticeable. How does this actually happen, and are particularly loud [...]

"Stress hits the stomach": You've probably experienced the real effects of that saying yourself. The entire digestive tract is closely [...]

In everyday life, everyone comes into contact with a multitude of pathogens. It is the task of your body's own [...]

"You are what you eat", "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", "Eat yourself healthy" – nutrition and the [...]

Your immune system must perform at its best every day. While most people's defenses do their job reliably, other people [...]

Actually the immune system is very resistant. However, it occasionally happens that it is unable to fight off pathogens that [...]

The human immune system is extremely complex – it therefore takes several years for it to fully develop. At the [...]

At the beginning of their lives, babies are still protected by maternal antibodies. This protection slowly decreases during the first [...]