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While the human body contains roughly 30 to 40 trillion human cells, the intestines alone harbor about 100 trillion bacterial cells.

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought on Temu, forcing surgeons to remove tissue from his intestines, doctors said on Friday.

A new study from MIT suggests that eating foods rich in the amino acid cysteine could help the small intestine renew and repair itself.

The term caecal contents refers to the material found inside the caecum, a pouch located at the beginning of the large intestine.

The liver generates more than 100 types of bile acids, which travel through the intestines to help digest fats.